61.5%
Vauxhall Meriva
Vauxhall Meriva MOT pass rate and common problems
The Vauxhall Meriva passed 61.5% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 10.8 percentage points below the 72.3% UK average. The item testers recorded most often was coil spring fractured or broken.
Checking a specific car? Its own results, advisories and recorded mileages are in a free MOT history check.
How the Meriva compares
Initial MOT tests in 2025, retests excluded. A car that failed and was repaired at the test station counts as a fail.
65.8%
Vauxhall average
72.3%
UK average, all cars
The Meriva runs 4.3 points behind the Vauxhall average. It is 13th of the 20 Vauxhall models in the data. The average Meriva arrived at its test 13.3 years old with 75,719 miles recorded.
A pass rate records whether cars met the roadworthiness standard on test day. It is not a reliability score, and part of any gap reflects how old the tested cars were.
Meriva MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Vauxhall Meriva cars aged 6 to 10 years passed 70.5% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 57.8%, a drop of 12.7 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 to 10 years | 23,489 | 70.5% | 1.8 pts below |
| 11 years and over | 57,610 | 57.8% | 14.5 pts below |
That is a steep decline with age, so the headline rate flatters older examples. The UK average of 72.3% covers cars of every age, so compare like with like.
Where Meriva failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Vauxhall Meriva cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Suspension and lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment together account for 47.4% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Meriva MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Vauxhall Meriva cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 39.7% of everything testers recorded against failed Vauxhall Meriva cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Meriva
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Suspension
Recorded most often: coil spring fractured or broken and pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn. 15.4% of failure items.
2
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: position lamp not working, headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect and stop lamp not working. 9.1% of failure items.
3
Brakes
Recorded most often: rigid brake pipes excessively corroded and brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick. 6.1% of failure items.
4
Noise, emissions and leaks
Recorded most often: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction. 3.4% of failure items.
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Vauxhall Meriva MOT FAQs
What is the Vauxhall Meriva MOT pass rate?
61.5% of Vauxhall Meriva cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 81,099 tests. That is 10.8 percentage points below the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 475th of 575 models.
What does a Vauxhall Meriva most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Vauxhall Meriva cars failing their 2025 MOT was coil spring fractured or broken, on 12.5% of failure items. Next were malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (3.4%) and position lamp not working (3.3%).
Which area causes the most Vauxhall Meriva MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was suspension at 26.6%, followed by lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 20.8%.
Do older Vauxhall Meriva cars fail their MOT more often?
Vauxhall Meriva cars aged 6 to 10 years passed 70.5% of MOT tests in 2025, against 57.8% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Vauxhall Meriva has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Vauxhall Meriva that failed in 2025. They show where the model most often needs attention, not the condition of any individual car.
How do I see a specific Vauxhall Meriva's MOT history?
Enter its registration on the free Carpeep MOT history check to see that car's own test results, failures, advisories and recorded mileages.
MOT figures are aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025: class 4 initial tests, retests excluded, with failure items from failed tests (advisories and minor defects excluded), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. MOT results describe roadworthiness at test, not mechanical reliability.