MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Vauxhall Agila MOT pass rate
The Vauxhall Agila passed 66.97% of its 32,740 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 10.3 percentage points worse than average.
How the Vauxhall Agila 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 Vauxhall Agila grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 6–10 years | 208 | 81.25% |
| 11 years and over | 32,532 | 66.88% |
Why the Vauxhall Agila fails its MOT
Across every Vauxhall Agila that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was suspension, accounting for 33.09% 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 | 33.09% | 9,946 |
| Brakes | 25% | 7,514 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 14.9% | 4,479 |
| Tyres | 8.55% | 2,570 |
| Visibility | 6.93% | 2,083 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 4.73% | 1,422 |
How the Vauxhall Agila compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Vauxhall Agila sits 565th of 651 models in this data , and 14th of the 20 Vauxhall models covered . Vauxhall as a whole averaged 71.99%, so this model runs 5 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Vauxhall Agila
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Vauxhall Agila came to its 2025 test at 65,855 miles and 15.3 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 Vauxhall Agila
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 Vauxhall models
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- Vauxhall Insignia 73.17% pass rate · 179,494 tests
- Vauxhall Vivaro 64.44% pass rate · 177,943 tests
- Vauxhall Zafira 69.21% pass rate · 174,447 tests
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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.