MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Isuzu Trooper MOT pass rate
The Isuzu Trooper passed 67.89% of its 1,881 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 9.4 percentage points worse than average.
How the Isuzu Trooper holds up with age
Every car fails the MOT more often as it gets older. What matters when you are buying is how steeply that happens for this particular model. These are the 2025 pass rates for the Isuzu Trooper grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 6–10 years | 1 | 100% |
| 11 years and over | 1,880 | 67.87% |
Why the Isuzu Trooper fails its MOT
Across every Isuzu Trooper that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was body, chassis, structure, accounting for 21.93% of all recorded failure items. These are the areas worth having checked before you buy, and worth budgeting for on an older example.
| Failure area | Share of failure items | Recorded items |
|---|---|---|
| Body, chassis, structure | 21.93% | 608 |
| Brakes | 21.82% | 605 |
| Suspension | 19.83% | 550 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 14.82% | 411 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 5.81% | 161 |
| Visibility | 4.87% | 135 |
How the Isuzu Trooper compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Isuzu Trooper sits 555th of 651 models in this data , and 2nd of the 3 Isuzu models covered . Isuzu as a whole averaged 74.38%, so this model runs 6.5 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Isuzu Trooper
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Isuzu Trooper came to its 2025 test at 140,221 miles and 25 years old. Most examples tested were diesel.
The useful check is the individual car's own MOT record: how many times it has failed, what for, and whether advisories keep reappearing. A recurring advisory on corrosion, suspension or brakes tells you far more than a model-wide average, and a mileage that does not move consistently between tests is a warning in itself.
Check a specific Isuzu Trooper
Run the registration through a free MOT history check to see that car's test results, advisories and recorded mileages. For the risks an MOT never covers — outstanding finance, insurance write-off records, stolen markers and ownership history — a full car history check brings them together in one £15 report.
Also useful: mileage check · write-off check · free car check
Other Isuzu models
- Isuzu D-MAX 76.2% pass rate · 33,978 tests
- Isuzu Rodeo 62.45% pass rate · 4,173 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Citroen C4 68.83% pass rate
- Vauxhall Meriva 67.78% pass rate
- Hyundai IX35 68.93% pass rate
- Ford Fusion 67.91% pass rate
- Fiat Doblo 69.04% pass rate
- Vauxhall Agila 66.97% pass rate
Figures aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025, class 4 initial tests only, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Retests are excluded, so these are first-time pass rates.