Pass rate
68.4%
Below average — 4.9 pts behind the 73.3% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 196 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £88–£231
2001 Citroen Synergie MOT pass rate
- 2001
- typical 140,846 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
28.5% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2001 68.4% pass · this year
- Avoid 2000 64.4% pass
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 58.9%
- Typical mileage
- 141k mi
The 2001 Citroen Synergie MOT pass rate is 68.4% of its MOT tests — 4.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 28.5% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Citroen Synergie does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.4× the national share
Suspension accounts for 28.5% of everything recorded on the 2001 Citroen Synergie, against 21.0% nationally — 7.5 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 73.3%; this one manages 68.4% — 4.9 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 17% 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 2001 Citroen Synergie compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.3%, so this figure is 4.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 58.9%. The median 2001 Citroen Synergie in this dataset had covered 140,846 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 70.0% of the time, April–September 67.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength", noted on 14.29% of tests.
- 196 recorded tests behind this page.
- 68.4% overall pass rate, 58.9% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Citroen Synergie, the average is 67.1% — best year 2001 (68.4%), worst 2000 (64.4%).
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
- 196
- Typical mileage (median)
- 140,846 mi
- Make and model
- Citroen Synergie
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Corrosion Welding Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Synergie MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 0% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Synergie
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| North West | 41 | 70.7% |
| South East | 39 | 64.1% |
| West Midlands | 38 | 68.4% |
| South West | 34 | 70.6% |
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 2001 Synergie
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 2001 Synergie
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 corrosion 14.3% of tests
“component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength”
Look under the sills, around the jacking points and where the suspension mounts meet the body. Flaking, holed or crumbly metal fails; a brown stain on sound metal does not.
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Check the windscreen 7.1% 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.
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Check the suspension joints 6.1% of tests
“ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated”
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.
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 2001 Synergie through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £88–£231 — and 17% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £88–£231
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: component mounting prescribed areas…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 30%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 17%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 196 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 Synergie, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2000 to 2002. Across them the pass rate runs from 64.4% to 68.4% — a spread of 4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 64.4% component mounting prescribed…
- 2001 68.4%component mounting prescribed…
- 2002 68.2% component mounting prescribed…
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 2001 Citroen Synergie 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 2001 cars with a similar record
- MINI Mini 68.2%
- Ford Fiesta 69.0%
- Volkswagen Beetle 67.8%
- Vauxhall Corsa 69.1%
- Honda Accord 69.5%
- Peugeot 206 69.8%
Closest pass rates among 2001 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 2001 Citroen Synergie 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 716 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 | 207 | 28.50% | 20.98% | +7.52 |
| Brakes | 105 | 14.40% | 20.89% | −6.49 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 91 | 12.50% | 5.57% | +6.93 |
| Tyres | 88 | 12.10% | 19.76% | −7.66 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 68 | 9.40% | 12.21% | −2.81 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 41 | 5.60% | 5.52% | +0.08 |
| Non-component advisories | 39 | 5.40% | 4.18% | +1.22 |
| Visibility | 32 | 4.40% | 4.97% | −0.57 |
| Steering | 27 | 3.70% | 2.57% | +1.13 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 18 | 2.50% | 0.82% | +1.68 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 14.3% | £180–450 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 9.2% | £80–250 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 7.1% | £80–200 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 6.1% | £18–45 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 5.6% | £80–250 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 5.6% | £5–25 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.1% | £5–20 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Major | 3.6% | £45–120 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 3.6% | £80–180 |
| Sub-frame mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 3.6% | £180–450 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 22.4% | £25–65 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 20.9% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 17.4% | £45–95 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 16.3% | £80–180 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 15.8% | £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 | 1 | 0.0% | 12,593 mi |
| 30-60k | 4 | 50.0% | 55,111 mi |
| 60-90k | 22 | 72.7% | 75,264 mi |
| 90-120k | 14 | 64.3% | 107,260 mi |
| 120k+ | 84 | 75.0% | 174,356 mi |
Source: 196 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.
2001 Synergie MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2001 Citroen Synergie?
68.4% of the 196 2001 Citroen Synergie tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.3% for cars first used in 2001. First-attempt pass rate: 58.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2001 Citroen Synergie?
The three most recorded items are component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (14.29%), joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (9.18%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (7.14%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2001 Citroen Synergie MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 0.0% of the time, falling to 75.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2001 Citroen Synergie in this dataset had covered 140,846 mi.
Does the season affect the 2001 Citroen Synergie MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 70.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 67.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.