Pass rate
Above average — 1.3 pts behind the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 51 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £22–£67
Only 51 tests of this exact model and year are in the DVSA data, below the 100 we ask for before a page goes in the index. The figures are still shown, because they are the only ones there are.
Pass rate
Above average — 1.3 pts behind the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 51 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £22–£67
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
33.3% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Which year to buy
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 2 points. See every year →
The 2019 Brp Can-Am Outlander MOT pass rate is 88.2% of its MOT tests — 1.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 33.3% of what testers record.
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Brp Can-Am Outlander does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics make up 33.3% of everything recorded on the 2019 Brp Can-Am Outlander, against 12.2% nationally — 21.1 points above. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
Written from this page's own figures: fault shares against the national composition, the like-for-like pass rate, and the priced repair list. How these are worked out
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Every Brp Can-Am Outlander first registered in 2019 is combined here — 4 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
Cars of this age and mileage average 89.5%, so this figure is 1.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 89.1%. The median 2019 Brp Can-Am Outlander in this dataset had covered 2,438 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Horn not working", noted on 3.92% of tests.
Figures count every completed test on this vehicle-year in the dataset, including retests. See methodology for the exact definition.
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Horn
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 80% so small gaps stay visible.
Everything a tester recorded on this vehicle, grouped into the inspection sections that produced it. The notch on each bar is the national share, so you can see at a glance whether this car is unusual or just ordinary.
A test can record several items, so these percentages do not add up to 100%. The exact strings, with prices, are in the full DVSA record at the bottom of this page.
Before your test
These are not generic tips — they are the faults recorded most often on this exact model, rewritten as things you can check yourself. All three take about ten minutes and cost nothing.
Check the horn 3.9% of tests
“horn not working”
Press it. That is the whole check, and a surprising number of cars fail on it.
Check the lights 3.9% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps”
Switch everything on and walk round the car: both headlamps on dip and main, every indicator, both brake lights, reverse, fog and the two number-plate lamps. A bulb is a few pounds and a five-minute job.
Check the mirrors 2.0% of tests
“mirrors missing”
Make sure both door mirrors are present, intact and adjustable, and that nothing is obscuring the view through the windscreen.
Shares are the proportion of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item, so they overlap: one test can record several.
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £22–£67 — and 58% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 51 MOT tests on this vehicle. They exclude diagnostics, retest fees and garage labour where the part is a DIY fit, and they are not figures from the DVSA dataset. Older and higher-mileage examples cost more than the average. How these estimates are built → · All MOT repair costs → · Cheapest cars to put through a test →
2 model years on record, from 2019 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 88.2% to 90.2% — a spread of 2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
Colour is the pass rate on a fixed scale, so a block means the same thing on any model. Each year links to its own page with the full fault breakdown.
The raw pass rate mostly measures age. The year comparison adds the like-for-like figure, the mileage bands and the repair bill.
Closest pass rates among 2019 cars with at least 2,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. See the full rankings: best and worst MOT pass rates.
Shares of the 27 individual items recorded on this vehicle, and the same share across all cars nationally. A single test can record several items, so a row is not a percentage of tests.
| Category | Items | This car | Nationally | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 9 | 33.30% | 12.21% | +21.09 |
| Suspension | 6 | 22.20% | 20.98% | +1.22 |
| Brakes | 4 | 14.80% | 20.89% | −6.09 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 3 | 11.10% | 1.76% | +9.34 |
| Steering | 2 | 7.40% | 2.57% | +4.83 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 3.70% | 5.57% | −1.87 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1 | 3.70% | 5.52% | −1.82 |
| Visibility | 1 | 3.70% | 4.97% | −1.27 |
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horn not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.9% | £8–25 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.9% | £5–20 |
| Brake performance not tested unable to be tested Brakes | Major | 2.0% | £60–150 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.0% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.0% | £30–80 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 2.0% | £80–250 |
| Mirrors missing Visibility | Major | 2.0% | £20–80 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.0% | £5–25 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 2.0% | £5–25 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) missing in the case of a single lamp or all lamps Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.0% | £5–20 |
Severity is as recorded: Major and Dangerous fail the test outright; Minor and Advisory do not. Costs are estimates from typical UK parts prices — see how they are built.
Advisories are the early warnings — the same parts a year or two before they fail. Reading them is how you tell a car that has been maintained from one that has been patched.
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.9% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 3.9% | £18–45 |
| Steering column top bearing excessively worn Steering | Advisory | 3.9% | £60–200 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 2.0% | £45–110 |
| Linkage pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 2.0% | £40–150 |
| Shock absorbers has an excessively worn bush Suspension | Advisory | 2.0% | £30–75 |
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 50 | 88.0% | 3,613 mi |
Source: 51 recorded tests on this vehicle-year. Every row above is recomputed from the same DVSA extract as the rest of the page — see the methodology.
88.2% of the 51 2019 Brp Can-Am Outlander tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 89.5% for cars first used in 2019. First-attempt pass rate: 89.1%.
The three most recorded items are horn not working (3.92%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps (3.92%), brake performance not tested unable to be tested (1.96%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 88.0% of the time, falling to 88.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2019 Brp Can-Am Outlander in this dataset had covered 2,438 mi.