MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Peugeot 208 Active MOT pass rate
The Peugeot 208 Active passed 87.77% of its 3,622 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 10.5 percentage points better than average.
How the Peugeot 208 Active 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 Active grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 3,614 | 87.77% |
| 6–10 years | 7 | 85.71% |
Why the Peugeot 208 Active fails its MOT
Across every Peugeot 208 Active that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was visibility, accounting for 26.08% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Visibility | 26.08% | 271 |
| Tyres | 22.81% | 237 |
| Brakes | 18.67% | 194 |
| Suspension | 13.96% | 145 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 11.36% | 118 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2.5% | 26 |
How the Peugeot 208 Active compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Peugeot 208 Active sits 158th of 651 models in this data , and 10th of the 37 Peugeot models covered . Peugeot as a whole averaged 73.31%, so this model runs 14.5 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Peugeot 208 Active
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Peugeot 208 Active came to its 2025 test at 27,700 miles and 4.1 years old. Most examples tested were petrol.
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 Active
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
- MINI Cooper 87.98% pass rate
- Toyota Prius 86.68% pass rate
- MINI Countryman 88.41% pass rate
- Mercedes-Benz GLC 88.01% pass rate
- Vauxhall Crossland 86.74% pass rate
- Jaguar F-Pace 87.53% 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.