Pass rate
80.1%
Around average — 3.9 pts behind the 84.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 4,931 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £35–£90
2016 Citroen Relay MOT pass rate
- 2016
- Van
- 5 trims combined
- typical 82,433 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Brakes
24.7% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Which year to buy
- Best 2022 91.2% pass
- Avoid 2004 66.0% pass
Across the 23 years on record, a spread of 25.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 75.9%
- Typical mileage
- 82k mi
The 2016 Citroen Relay MOT pass rate is 80.1% of its MOT tests — 3.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 24.7% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Visibility: 2.1× the national share
Visibility accounts for 10.5% of everything recorded on the 2016 Citroen Relay, against 5.0% nationally — 5.5 points above. Brakes are still the single largest share at 24.7%, but at 20.9% nationally that one is ordinary. Wipers, washers and a chip in the driver’s eyeline are the three quickest ways to fail a test that the car otherwise deserves to pass.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, vans this age and mileage expect about 84.0%; this one manages 80.1% — 3.9 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
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
Watching a Citroen Relay? Get an email when these numbers change .
Every Citroen Relay first registered in 2016 is combined here — 5 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2016 Citroen Relay compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 84.0%, so this figure is 3.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 75.9%. The median 2016 Citroen Relay in this dataset had covered 82,433 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 79.7% of the time, April–September 80.5%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 6.59% of tests.
- 4,931 recorded tests behind this page.
- 80.1% overall pass rate, 75.9% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Citroen Relay, the average is 76.0% — best year 2022 (91.2%), worst 2004 (66.0%).
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
- 4,931
- Typical mileage (median)
- 82,433 mi
- Make and model
- Citroen Relay
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Relay MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 68% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Citroen Relay is most common
Across all Relay model years on record (2000–2022): 22,037 Citroen Relay cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 53,682 tests. Sheffield (S) has the most, with 479 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 | Sheffield (S) | 479 | 80.7% |
| 2 | Exeter (EX) | 454 | 71.7% |
| 3 | Birmingham (B) | 453 | 80.5% |
| 4 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 441 | 78.4% |
| 5 | Bristol (BS) | 430 | 72.0% |
| 6 | Portsmouth (PO) | 418 | 73.5% |
| 7 | Cardiff (CF) | 394 | 72.7% |
| 8 | Doncaster (DN) | 366 | 79.4% |
| 9 | Swansea (SA) | 359 | 74.6% |
| 10 | Nottingham (NG) | 345 | 73.8% |
| 11 | Peterborough (PE) | 331 | 78.4% |
| 12 | Glasgow (G) | 329 | 76.7% |
| 13 | Plymouth (PL) | 326 | 72.1% |
| 14 | Edinburgh (EH) | 326 | 73.2% |
| 15 | Wrexham (LL) | 314 | 72.4% |
| 16 | Carlisle (CA) | 313 | 77.6% |
| 17 | Kendal (LA) | 299 | 77.4% |
| 18 | Southampton (SO) | 289 | 75.6% |
| 19 | Gloucester (GL) | 288 | 71.8% |
| 20 | Guildford (GU) | 283 | 77.1% |
The twenty areas with the most Citroen Relay 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 Relay
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 769 | 80.9% |
| South West | 758 | 77.3% |
| Scotland | 702 | 76.5% |
| North West | 615 | 81.6% |
| Yorkshire | 474 | 82.3% |
| East of England | 369 | 84.3% |
| Wales | 313 | 76.7% |
| West Midlands | 311 | 83.6% |
| North East | 287 | 78.7% |
| East Midlands | 239 | 80.8% |
| London | 92 | 88.0% |
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 2016 Relay
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 2016 Relay
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 windscreen 6.6% 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.
-
Check the lights 3.4% 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.
-
Check the wipers and washers 1.9% of tests
“wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively”
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.
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 2016 Relay through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £35–£90 — and 42% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £35–£90
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 42%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 4,931 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 Relay, side by side
23 model years on record, from 2000 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 66.0% to 91.2% — a spread of 25.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 67.5% component mounting prescribed…
- 2001 67.3% component mounting prescribed…
- 2002 66.5% component mounting prescribed…
- 2003 67.1% component mounting prescribed…
- 2004 66.0% component mounting prescribed…
- 2005 66.2% component mounting prescribed…
- 2006 68.1% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2007 68.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 71.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 71.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 74.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 74.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2012 76.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2013 76.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2014 76.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2015 78.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 80.1%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 81.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 84.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 86.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 87.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 86.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2022 91.2% windscreen damaged but not…
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 2016 Citroen Relay 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 2016 vans with a similar record
- Ford Transit 79.3%
- Ford Transit Custom 81.0%
- Volkswagen Caddy 81.1%
- Ford Transit Courier 79.0%
- Volkswagen Crafter 81.7%
- Vauxhall Movano 78.1%
Closest pass rates among 2016 vans with at least 1,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. Full rankings: best vans and worst vans for MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2016 Citroen Relay 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 7,259 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 1,811 | 24.70% | 20.89% | +3.81 |
| Suspension | 1,165 | 15.90% | 20.98% | −5.08 |
| Tyres | 1,042 | 14.20% | 19.76% | −5.56 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 991 | 13.50% | 12.21% | +1.29 |
| Visibility | 769 | 10.50% | 4.97% | +5.53 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 592 | 8.10% | 5.52% | +2.58 |
| Steering | 288 | 3.90% | 2.57% | +1.33 |
| Non-component advisories | 285 | 3.90% | 4.18% | −0.28 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 182 | 2.50% | 5.57% | −3.07 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 134 | 1.80% | 0.82% | +0.98 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 6.6% | £80–200 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 3.6% | £45–110 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.4% | £5–20 |
| Mirrors slightly damaged Visibility | Minor | 2.2% | £3–15 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.9% | £8–22 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 1.6% | £25–65 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 1.6% | £30–75 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.6% | £3–12 |
| Side repeaters lens defective which has no effect on emitted light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.5% | £3–15 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency less than 50% of the required value Brakes | Major | 1.4% | £45–110 |
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 | 9.1% | £45–95 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 8.4% | £200–700 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 7.8% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 7.1% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 6.7% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.5% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 389 | 91.0% | 21,090 mi |
| 30-60k | 1,097 | 83.0% | 46,433 mi |
| 60-90k | 1,308 | 79.0% | 75,002 mi |
| 90-120k | 1,026 | 76.7% | 103,172 mi |
| 120k+ | 1,099 | 78.1% | 157,010 mi |
Source: 4,931 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.
2016 Relay MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2016 Citroen Relay?
80.1% of the 4,931 2016 Citroen Relay tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 84.0% for cars first used in 2016. First-attempt pass rate: 75.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2016 Citroen Relay?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (6.59%), rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements (3.57%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (3.43%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2016 Citroen Relay MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.0% of the time, falling to 78.1% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2016 Citroen Relay in this dataset had covered 82,433 mi.
Does the season affect the 2016 Citroen Relay MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 79.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 80.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.