MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Peugeot 208 MOT pass rate
The Peugeot 208 passed 74.05% of its 174,636 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 3.3 percentage points worse than average.
How the Peugeot 208 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 208 grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 716 | 87.43% |
| 6–10 years | 101,787 | 78.23% |
| 11 years and over | 72,123 | 68.02% |
The Peugeot 208 drops 19.4 percentage points between its early years and the 11-plus bracket, which is a steep decline. On an older example, the MOT history is worth reading closely before you buy.
Why the Peugeot 208 fails its MOT
Across every Peugeot 208 that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment, accounting for 19.43% 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 | 19.43% | 21,588 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 17.33% | 19,254 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 14.77% | 16,410 |
| Suspension | 14.38% | 15,979 |
| Brakes | 12.56% | 13,960 |
| Tyres | 12.56% | 13,954 |
How the Peugeot 208 compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Peugeot 208 sits 447th of 651 models in this data , and 21st of the 37 Peugeot models covered . Peugeot as a whole averaged 73.31%, so this model runs 0.7 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Peugeot 208
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Peugeot 208 came to its 2025 test at 62,623 miles and 9.7 years old. Most examples tested were petrol, though 20.27% 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 208
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 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
- Peugeot 2008 74.87% pass rate · 96,216 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Ford Focus 74.62% pass rate
- Ford Transit 74.63% pass rate
- Volkswagen Polo 73.12% pass rate
- Nissan Qashqai 73.5% pass rate
- Nissan Juke 74.48% pass rate
- Volkswagen Transporter 72.88% 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.