Pass rate
71.9%
Below average — 1.9 pts behind the 73.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 139 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £49–£135
2000 Chrysler Pt Cruiser MOT pass rate
- 2000
- typical 89,454 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
29.4% 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 2001 73.6% pass
- Avoid 2003 68.5% pass
Across the 9 years on record, a spread of 5.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 63.2%
- Typical mileage
- 89k mi
The 2000 Chrysler Pt Cruiser MOT pass rate is 71.9% of its MOT tests — 1.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 29.4% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.4× the national share
Suspension accounts for 29.4% of everything recorded on the 2000 Chrysler Pt Cruiser, against 21.0% nationally — 8.4 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 20% 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.
- Based on a small sample. 139 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
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 2000 Chrysler Pt Cruiser compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.8%, so this figure is 1.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 63.2%. The median 2000 Chrysler Pt Cruiser in this dataset had covered 89,454 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 74.7% of the time, April–September 68.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect", noted on 5.04% of tests.
- 139 recorded tests behind this page.
- 71.9% overall pass rate, 63.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Chrysler Pt Cruiser, the average is 69.9% — best year 2001 (73.6%), worst 2003 (68.5%).
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
- 139
- Typical mileage (median)
- 89,454 mi
- Make and model
- Chrysler Pt Cruiser
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Headlight Alignment
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Pt Cruiser MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 53% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Chrysler Pt Cruiser is most common
Across all Pt Cruiser model years on record (2000–2008): 3,041 Chrysler Pt Cruiser cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 7,710 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 90 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) | 90 | 75.7% |
| 2 | Peterborough (PE) | 79 | 71.2% |
| 3 | Portsmouth (PO) | 74 | 66.5% |
| 4 | Norwich (NR) | 67 | 66.3% |
| 5 | Poole (BH) | 63 | 62.9% |
| 6 | Exeter (EX) | 58 | 61.3% |
| 7 | Ashford (TN) | 54 | 71.9% |
| 8 | Nottingham (NG) | 54 | 69.7% |
| 9 | Ipswich (IP) | 54 | 72.9% |
| 10 | Sheffield (S) | 50 | 72.4% |
| 11 | Maidstone (ME) | 50 | 78.3% |
| 12 | Brighton (BN) | 48 | 63.2% |
| 13 | Bristol (BS) | 46 | 64.7% |
| 14 | Basildon (SS) | 45 | 77.7% |
| 15 | Oxford (OX) | 45 | 70.8% |
| 16 | Crawley (RH) | 45 | 71.7% |
| 17 | Chelmsford (CM) | 44 | 81.3% |
| 18 | London (SE) | 43 | 74.3% |
| 19 | Leicester (LE) | 42 | 78.6% |
| 20 | Southampton (SO) | 41 | 69.5% |
The twenty areas with the most Chrysler Pt Cruiser 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 Pt Cruiser
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 49 | 69.4% |
| East of England | 35 | 82.9% |
| West Midlands | 19 | 63.2% |
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 2000 Pt Cruiser
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 2000 Pt Cruiser
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 lights 5.0% of tests
“headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect”
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.
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Check the suspension joints 5.0% of tests
“pins and bushes pin or bush 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 windscreen 5.0% of tests
“windscreen damaged”
Check the driver’s side of the screen within the swept area for chips and cracks; anything larger than 10mm in the driver’s central view is a fail. Most chips can be resin-repaired for far less than a new screen.
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 2000 Pt Cruiser through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £49–£135 — and 20% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £49–£135
- Cheapest common item: direction indicator tell-tale inoperative
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: component mounting prescribed areas…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 40%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 20%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 139 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 Pt Cruiser, side by side
9 model years on record, from 2000 to 2008. Across them the pass rate runs from 68.5% to 73.6% — a spread of 5.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 71.9%headlamp aim projected beam image…
- 2001 73.6% headlamp aim projected beam image…
- 2002 73.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2003 68.5% headlamp aim projected beam image…
- 2004 69.0% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2005 68.7% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2006 69.0% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2007 70.8% position lamp not working
- 2008 71.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
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 2000 Chrysler Pt Cruiser 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 2000 cars with a similar record
- Vauxhall Corsa 71.9%
- Jaguar S-Type 71.9%
- Volkswagen Golf 72.0%
- Peugeot 306 72.0%
- Volkswagen Polo 71.8%
- Toyota Hilux 72.1%
Closest pass rates among 2000 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 2000 Chrysler Pt Cruiser 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 486 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 | 145 | 29.40% | 20.98% | +8.42 |
| Brakes | 111 | 22.50% | 20.89% | +1.61 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 66 | 13.40% | 12.21% | +1.19 |
| Tyres | 37 | 7.50% | 19.76% | −12.26 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 33 | 6.70% | 5.57% | +1.13 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 29 | 5.90% | 5.52% | +0.38 |
| Non-component advisories | 25 | 5.10% | 4.18% | +0.92 |
| Visibility | 19 | 3.90% | 4.97% | −1.07 |
| Steering | 16 | 3.20% | 2.57% | +0.63 |
| Road Wheels | 5 | 1.00% | 0.75% | +0.25 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 5.0% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.0% | £5–25 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 5.0% | £40–150 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 5.0% | £80–200 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 3.6% | £80–250 |
| Parking brake performance inoperative on one side Brakes | Major | 3.6% | £60–150 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 3.6% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.9% | £18–45 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 2.9% | £180–450 |
| Direction indicator tell-tale inoperative Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.9% | £3–12 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 23.0% | £40–150 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 21.6% | £80–180 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 18.0% | £25–65 |
| Non-component advisories Play in steering rack inner joint(s) Non-component advisories | Advisory | 15.1% | £120–300 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 14.4% | £200–700 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 12.2% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 3 | 66.7% | 26,248 mi |
| 30-60k | 11 | 81.8% | 45,315 mi |
| 60-90k | 56 | 69.6% | 77,098 mi |
| 90-120k | 43 | 79.1% | 103,803 mi |
| 120k+ | 26 | 61.5% | 141,202 mi |
Source: 139 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.
2000 Pt Cruiser MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2000 Chrysler Pt Cruiser?
71.9% of the 139 2000 Chrysler Pt Cruiser tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.8% for cars first used in 2000. First-attempt pass rate: 63.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2000 Chrysler Pt Cruiser?
The three most recorded items are headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect (5.04%), headlamp lens slightly defective (5.04%), pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (5.04%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2000 Chrysler Pt Cruiser MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 66.7% of the time, falling to 61.5% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2000 Chrysler Pt Cruiser in this dataset had covered 89,454 mi.
Does the season affect the 2000 Chrysler Pt Cruiser MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 74.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 68.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.