MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Peugeot 205 MOT pass rate
The Peugeot 205 passed 75.76% of its 3,268 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 1.5 percentage points worse than average.
How the Peugeot 205 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 Peugeot 205 grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 6–10 years | 1 | 0% |
| 11 years and over | 3,267 | 75.79% |
Why the Peugeot 205 fails its MOT
Across every Peugeot 205 that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment, accounting for 26.44% 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 | 26.44% | 776 |
| Brakes | 23.99% | 704 |
| Suspension | 14.41% | 423 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 9.98% | 293 |
| Visibility | 7.67% | 225 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 7.39% | 217 |
How the Peugeot 205 compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Peugeot 205 sits 410th of 651 models in this data , and 17th of the 37 Peugeot models covered . Peugeot as a whole averaged 73.31%, so this model runs 2.5 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Peugeot 205
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Peugeot 205 came to its 2025 test at 107,692 miles and 34.4 years old. Most examples tested were petrol, though 18.02% 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 Peugeot 205
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 Peugeot models
- Peugeot 208 74.05% pass rate · 174,636 tests
- Peugeot Partner 71.88% pass rate · 148,677 tests
- Peugeot 308 69.7% pass rate · 120,083 tests
- Peugeot 3008 73.64% pass rate · 119,658 tests
- Peugeot 207 60.19% pass rate · 112,654 tests
- Peugeot 107 69.3% pass rate · 107,102 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Ford Focus 74.62% pass rate
- Ford Transit 74.63% pass rate
- Citroen C3 74.75% pass rate
- Skoda Fabia 75.71% pass rate
- Kia Picanto 76.85% pass rate
- Volkswagen Passat 75.9% 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.