Pass rate
70.9%
Below average — 6.3 pts behind the 77.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,696 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £29–£82
2012 Chrysler Delta MOT pass rate
- 2012
- typical 90,039 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
26.4% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Part only £35–£75 for Suspension pin or bush excessively worn. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2013 75.4% pass
- Avoid 2012 70.9% pass · this year
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 4.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 61.7%
- Typical mileage
- 90k mi
The 2012 Chrysler Delta MOT pass rate is 70.9% of its MOT tests — 6.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 26.4% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.3× the national share
Suspension accounts for 26.4% of everything recorded on the 2012 Chrysler Delta, against 21.0% nationally — 5.4 points above. Ask for the front and rear suspension to be checked on a ramp before you buy — worn bushes and broken springs are cheap to look at and expensive to discover at test time.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 77.2%; this one manages 70.9% — 6.3 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 21% of this model’s typical repairs come in under £30 in parts — the failures here tend to be the kind that need a garage rather than a bulb.
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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How does the 2012 Chrysler Delta compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 77.2%, so this figure is 6.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 61.7%. The median 2012 Chrysler Delta in this dataset had covered 90,039 mi.
53% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Diesel, which passed 71.0% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 71.6% of the time, April–September 70.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Coil spring fractured or broken", noted on 8.37% of tests.
- 1,696 recorded tests behind this page.
- 70.9% overall pass rate, 61.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Chrysler Delta, the average is 71.2% — best year 2013 (75.4%), worst 2012 (70.9%).
Figures count every completed test on this vehicle-year in the dataset, including retests. See methodology for the exact definition.
This page's data
- Tests analysed
- 1,696
- Typical mileage (median)
- 90,039 mi
- Make and model
- Chrysler Delta
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Coil Spring
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Delta MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 61% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (53% of tests).
Where the Chrysler Delta is most common
Across all Delta model years on record (2011–2013): 900 Chrysler Delta cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 2,320 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 34 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birmingham (B) | 34 | 76.9% |
| 2 | Sheffield (S) | 33 | 68.4% |
| 3 | Peterborough (PE) | 24 | 72.3% |
| 4 | Edinburgh (EH) | 22 | 72.6% |
| 5 | Nottingham (NG) | 22 | 69.0% |
| 6 | Glasgow (G) | 19 | 63.8% |
| 7 | Manchester (M) | 17 | 74.4% |
| 8 | Coventry (CV) | 16 | 75.7% |
| 9 | Crawley (RH) | 15 | 74.4% |
| 10 | Northampton (NN) | 15 | 81.0% |
| 11 | Doncaster (DN) | 15 | 75.6% |
| 12 | Leicester (LE) | 14 | 73.3% |
| 13 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 14 | — |
| 14 | Gloucester (GL) | 13 | 65.7% |
| 15 | Oxford (OX) | 13 | 75.0% |
| 16 | Maidstone (ME) | 13 | 80.0% |
| 17 | Stoke On Trent (ST) | 13 | — |
| 18 | Cardiff (CF) | 12 | 61.2% |
| 19 | Wakefield (WF) | 12 | 62.2% |
| 20 | Milton Keynes (MK) | 12 | — |
The twenty areas with the most Chrysler Delta cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the Delta
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 332 | 75.3% |
| Scotland | 239 | 66.1% |
| North West | 212 | 67.5% |
| West Midlands | 174 | 71.3% |
| Yorkshire | 172 | 71.5% |
| East Midlands | 145 | 68.3% |
| East of England | 138 | 73.9% |
| South West | 94 | 71.3% |
| Wales | 82 | 69.5% |
| North East | 62 | 64.5% |
| London | 46 | 87.0% |
Regions come from the postcode area recorded at the test station. Areas on region borders are assigned to the region with the majority of their population.
What fails a 2012 Delta
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
Three checks worth doing on a 2012 Delta
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.
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Check the coil springs 8.4% of tests
“coil spring fractured or broken”
Look up inside each wheel arch with a torch, all the way round the spring. A snapped spring usually breaks at the very bottom coil, where a quick glance will not reach.
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Check the suspension joints 3.9% of tests
“ball joint excessively worn”
With the car parked on level ground, rock the top of each front wheel in and out while someone watches the suspension arm. Clunks, or rubber boots split and greasy, are what testers record here.
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Check the lights 2.5% of tests
“headlamp not working on dipped beam”
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.
Shares are the proportion of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item, so they overlap: one test can record several.
What it costs to get a 2012 Delta through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £29–£82 — and 21% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £29–£82
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 21%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,696 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 →
Every year of the Delta, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2011 to 2013. Across them the pass rate runs from 70.9% to 75.4% — a spread of 4.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2011 71.3% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2012 70.9%coil spring fractured or broken
- 2013 75.4% coil spring fractured or broken
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.
Compare the 2012 Chrysler Delta with another year
The raw pass rate mostly measures age. The year comparison adds the like-for-like figure, the mileage bands and the repair bill.
Other 2012 cars with a similar record
- Chevrolet Aveo 71.1%
- Citroen Grand C4 Picasso 71.3%
- Citroen DS3 70.4%
- Peugeot 5008 70.4%
- Nissan Navara 71.5%
- Renault Megane 70.2%
Closest pass rates among 2012 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.
The full DVSA record for the 2012 Chrysler Delta 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 10 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 4,398 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 1,167 | 26.40% | 20.98% | +5.42 |
| Brakes | 834 | 18.80% | 20.89% | −2.09 |
| Tyres | 716 | 16.20% | 19.76% | −3.56 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 357 | 8.10% | 5.57% | +2.53 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 352 | 8.00% | 12.21% | −4.21 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 325 | 7.30% | 5.52% | +1.78 |
| Non-component advisories | 248 | 5.60% | 4.18% | +1.42 |
| Steering | 167 | 3.80% | 2.57% | +1.23 |
| Visibility | 145 | 3.30% | 4.97% | −1.67 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 87 | 2.00% | 1.76% | +0.24 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 8.4% | £25–65 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.9% | £18–45 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 3.7% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.5% | £40–150 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.5% | £5–25 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.1% | £80–200 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.1% | £3–12 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.1% | £5–20 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 1.9% | £45–110 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 1.8% | £80–250 |
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.
What testers noted without failing the car
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 21.2% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 16.4% | £45–110 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 12.3% | £200–700 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 11.1% | £40–150 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 10.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 9.1% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 12 | 75.0% | 27,818 mi |
| 30-60k | 164 | 74.4% | 49,009 mi |
| 60-90k | 662 | 72.2% | 76,794 mi |
| 90-120k | 588 | 69.2% | 102,541 mi |
| 120k+ | 263 | 69.2% | 141,611 mi |
Source: 1,696 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.
2012 Delta MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2012 Chrysler Delta?
70.9% of the 1,696 2012 Chrysler Delta tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 77.2% for cars first used in 2012. First-attempt pass rate: 61.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2012 Chrysler Delta?
The three most recorded items are coil spring fractured or broken (8.37%), ball joint excessively worn (3.89%), track rod end ball joint has excessive play (3.66%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2012 Chrysler Delta MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 75.0% of the time, falling to 69.2% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2012 Chrysler Delta in this dataset had covered 90,039 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2012 Chrysler Delta?
Diesel: 71.0% pass rate across 899 tests. Petrol: 70.9% pass rate across 797 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2012 Chrysler Delta MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 71.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 70.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.