MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Suzuki Alto MOT pass rate
The Suzuki Alto passed 74.05% of its 45,465 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 Suzuki Alto 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 Suzuki Alto grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 4 | 100% |
| 6–10 years | 1,791 | 77.33% |
| 11 years and over | 43,670 | 73.91% |
The Suzuki Alto drops 26.1 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 Suzuki Alto fails its MOT
Across every Suzuki Alto that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment, accounting for 24.41% 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 | 24.41% | 7,980 |
| Brakes | 21.23% | 6,941 |
| Suspension | 20% | 6,539 |
| Tyres | 11.39% | 3,724 |
| Visibility | 8.6% | 2,812 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 6.92% | 2,262 |
How the Suzuki Alto compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Suzuki Alto sits 447th of 651 models in this data , and 9th of the 13 Suzuki models covered . Suzuki as a whole averaged 79.76%, so this model runs 5.7 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Suzuki Alto
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Suzuki Alto came to its 2025 test at 62,266 miles and 13.1 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 Suzuki Alto
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 Suzuki models
- Suzuki Swift 79.46% pass rate · 134,434 tests
- Suzuki Vitara 89.5% pass rate · 71,010 tests
- Suzuki SX4 76.56% pass rate · 41,284 tests
- Suzuki Ignis 84.78% pass rate · 30,481 tests
- Suzuki Celerio 88.53% pass rate · 27,263 tests
- Suzuki Jimny 74.48% pass rate · 23,408 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.