MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Volvo C70 MOT pass rate
The Volvo C70 passed 65.92% of its 6,848 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 11.4 percentage points worse than average.
How the Volvo C70 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 Volvo C70 grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 6–10 years | 1 | 0% |
| 11 years and over | 6,847 | 65.93% |
Why the Volvo C70 fails its MOT
Across every Volvo C70 that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was suspension, accounting for 23.07% 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 | 23.07% | 1,511 |
| Brakes | 18.03% | 1,181 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 17.97% | 1,177 |
| Tyres | 13.71% | 898 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 10.64% | 697 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 4.64% | 304 |
How the Volvo C70 compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Volvo C70 sits 578th of 651 models in this data , and 14th of the 17 Volvo models covered . Volvo as a whole averaged 78.37%, so this model runs 12.5 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Volvo C70
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Volvo C70 came to its 2025 test at 96,917 miles and 17.9 years old. Most examples tested were petrol, though 48.61% 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 Volvo C70
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 Volvo models
- Volvo XC60 82.51% pass rate · 108,847 tests
- Volvo V40 75.14% pass rate · 97,256 tests
- Volvo XC40 91.46% pass rate · 84,677 tests
- Volvo XC90 79.29% pass rate · 70,524 tests
- Volvo V70 70.32% pass rate · 37,976 tests
- Volvo V60 79.65% pass rate · 35,045 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Vauxhall Agila 66.97% pass rate
- Nissan NV200 64.79% pass rate
- Renault Twingo 66.24% pass rate
- Alfa Romeo Mito 66.26% pass rate
- SEAT Altea 66.25% pass rate
- Nissan Almera 65.5% 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.