Pass rate
68.4%
Below average — 4.6 pts behind the 73.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 98 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £25–£71
2007 Citroen Grand C4 Picasso MOT pass rate
- 2007
- typical 106,088 mi
Only 98 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.
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
23.8% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Part only £6–£18 for Registration plate lamp inoperative (multiple lamps). What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2015 75.8% pass
- Avoid 2008 67.2% pass
Across the 9 years on record, a spread of 8.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 55.7%
- Typical mileage
- 106k mi
The 2007 Citroen Grand C4 Picasso MOT pass rate is 68.4% of its MOT tests — 4.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 23.8% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Citroen Grand C4 Picasso does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.9× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 23.8% of everything recorded on the 2007 Citroen Grand C4 Picasso, against 12.2% nationally — 11.6 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 73.0%; this one manages 68.4% — 4.6 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 61% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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 2007 Citroen Grand C4 Picasso compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.0%, so this figure is 4.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 55.7%. The median 2007 Citroen Grand C4 Picasso in this dataset had covered 106,088 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 77% of tests, with a 69.3% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 66.7% of the time, April–September 70.5%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 15.31% of tests.
- 98 recorded tests behind this page.
- 68.4% overall pass rate, 55.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Citroen Grand C4 Picasso, the average is 69.6% — best year 2015 (75.8%), worst 2008 (67.2%).
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
- 98
- Typical mileage (median)
- 106,088 mi
- Make and model
- Citroen Grand C4 Picasso
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Grand C4 Picasso MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 60% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (77% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Grand C4 Picasso
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| East of England | 17 | 64.7% |
| South East | 16 | 75.0% |
| West Midlands | 16 | 68.8% |
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 2007 Grand C4 Picasso
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 2007 Grand C4 Picasso
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 15.3% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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 wipers and washers 5.1% of tests
“washers not working”
Run the wipers with the screen wet: they should clear it in one sweep without smearing or juddering. Top the washer bottle up and check both jets hit the screen.
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Check the windscreen 5.1% 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 2007 Grand C4 Picasso through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £25–£71 — and 61% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £25–£71
- Cheapest common item: washers not working
- £5–£15
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot split or…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 61%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 98 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 Grand C4 Picasso, side by side
9 model years on record, from 2007 to 2015. Across them the pass rate runs from 67.2% to 75.8% — a spread of 8.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2007 68.4%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 67.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 68.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 69.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 70.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 71.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 73.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 74.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 75.8% 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 2007 Citroen Grand C4 Picasso 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 2007 cars with a similar record
- Nissan X-Trail 68.5%
- Renault Modus 68.5%
- Nissan Pathfinder 68.5%
- Renault Laguna 68.5%
- Hyundai Matrix 68.3%
- Renault Megane 68.2%
Closest pass rates among 2007 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 2007 Citroen Grand C4 Picasso 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 298 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 | 71 | 23.80% | 12.21% | +11.59 |
| Brakes | 67 | 22.50% | 20.89% | +1.61 |
| Suspension | 41 | 13.80% | 20.98% | −7.18 |
| Tyres | 38 | 12.80% | 19.76% | −6.96 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 30 | 10.10% | 5.57% | +4.53 |
| Visibility | 28 | 9.40% | 4.97% | +4.43 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 13 | 4.40% | 5.52% | −1.12 |
| Non-component advisories | 8 | 2.70% | 4.18% | −1.48 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1 | 0.30% | 1.76% | −1.46 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 0.30% | 0.82% | −0.52 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 15.3% | £5–20 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 7.1% | £5–25 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 6.1% | £5–25 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 5.1% | £30–80 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 5.1% | £80–250 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 5.1% | £45–110 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Major | 5.1% | £5–15 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 5.1% | £80–200 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 5.1% | £8–22 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 4.1% | £45–95 |
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 | 22.4% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 21.4% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 18.4% | £45–110 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 14.3% | £40–150 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 8.2% | £200–700 |
| Flexible brake hoses ferrule excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 6.1% | £25–70 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60-90k | 22 | 68.2% | 79,264 mi |
| 90-120k | 44 | 68.2% | 104,876 mi |
| 120k+ | 30 | 70.0% | 140,011 mi |
Source: 98 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.
2007 Grand C4 Picasso MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2007 Citroen Grand C4 Picasso?
68.4% of the 98 2007 Citroen Grand C4 Picasso tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.0% for cars first used in 2007. First-attempt pass rate: 55.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2007 Citroen Grand C4 Picasso?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (15.31%), position lamp not working (7.14%), headlamp lens slightly defective (6.12%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2007 Citroen Grand C4 Picasso MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 68.2% of the time, falling to 70.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2007 Citroen Grand C4 Picasso in this dataset had covered 106,088 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2007 Citroen Grand C4 Picasso?
Diesel: 69.3% pass rate across 75 tests. Petrol: 65.2% pass rate across 23 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2007 Citroen Grand C4 Picasso MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 66.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 70.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.