MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Suzuki Wagon-R+ MOT pass rate
The Suzuki Wagon-R+ passed 63.5% of its 6,287 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 13.8 percentage points worse than average.
How the Suzuki Wagon-R+ 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 Wagon-R+ grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 11 years and over | 6,287 | 63.5% |
Why the Suzuki Wagon-R+ fails its MOT
Across every Suzuki Wagon-R+ that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was suspension, accounting for 21.65% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 21.65% | 1,555 |
| Brakes | 20.36% | 1,462 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 15.1% | 1,084 |
| Tyres | 10.5% | 754 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 10.15% | 729 |
| Visibility | 6.84% | 491 |
How the Suzuki Wagon-R+ compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Suzuki Wagon-R+ sits 601st of 651 models in this data , and 13th of the 13 Suzuki models covered . Suzuki as a whole averaged 79.76%, so this model runs 16.3 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Suzuki Wagon-R+
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Suzuki Wagon-R+ came to its 2025 test at 75,972 miles and 21.5 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 Wagon-R+
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 Alto 74.05% pass rate · 45,465 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
Models with a similar pass rate
- Renault Clio 62.96% pass rate
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- Fiat Punto 63.87% pass rate
- Volkswagen Beetle 64.47% pass rate
- Peugeot 206 62.71% 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.