MOT pass rate · 2025 data
MG 5 Excite MOT pass rate
The MG 5 Excite passed 85.97% of its 3,563 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 8.7 percentage points better than average.
How the MG 5 Excite 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 MG 5 Excite grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 3,551 | 85.95% |
Why the MG 5 Excite fails its MOT
Across every MG 5 Excite that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment, accounting for 39.47% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 39.47% | 405 |
| Tyres | 30.21% | 310 |
| Suspension | 21.15% | 217 |
| Visibility | 3.61% | 37 |
| Brakes | 2.92% | 30 |
| Road Wheels | 0.68% | 7 |
How the MG 5 Excite compares
Ranked on pass rate, the MG 5 Excite sits 206th of 651 models in this data , and 6th of the 11 MG models covered . MG as a whole averaged 86.03%, so this model runs level with its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used MG 5 Excite
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average MG 5 Excite came to its 2025 test at 52,877 miles and 3.4 years old. Most examples tested were electric.
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 MG 5 Excite
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
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- MG TF 73.68% pass rate · 8,625 tests
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Models with a similar pass rate
- Hyundai Tucson 85.88% pass rate
- Toyota Prius 86.68% pass rate
- Tesla Model 85.2% pass rate
- Toyota Corolla 84.79% pass rate
- Audi Q5 86.09% pass rate
- BMW X1 85.23% 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.