Pass rate
70.3%
Below average — 1.9 pts behind the 72.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,285 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £50–£137
2004 Daihatsu Charade MOT pass rate
- 2004
- typical 59,889 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
33.8% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2005 72.6% pass
- Avoid 2000 64.9% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 7.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 62.0%
- Typical mileage
- 60k mi
The 2004 Daihatsu Charade MOT pass rate is 70.3% of its MOT tests — 1.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 33.8% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.6× the national share
Suspension accounts for 33.8% of everything recorded on the 2004 Daihatsu Charade, against 21.0% nationally — 12.8 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 25% 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 2004 Daihatsu Charade compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.2%, 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 62.0%. The median 2004 Daihatsu Charade in this dataset had covered 59,889 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 69.6% of the time, April–September 71.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated", noted on 9.49% of tests.
- 1,285 recorded tests behind this page.
- 70.3% overall pass rate, 62.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Daihatsu Charade, the average is 71.2% — best year 2005 (72.6%), worst 2000 (64.9%).
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
- 1,285
- Typical mileage (median)
- 59,889 mi
- Make and model
- Daihatsu Charade
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Body Panel Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Charade MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 52% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Daihatsu Charade is most common
Across all Charade model years on record (2000–2007): 1,681 Daihatsu Charade cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 4,337 tests. Brighton (BN) has the most, with 76 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 | Brighton (BN) | 76 | 67.9% |
| 2 | Birmingham (B) | 61 | 72.9% |
| 3 | Portsmouth (PO) | 52 | 66.5% |
| 4 | Bristol (BS) | 52 | 69.2% |
| 5 | Taunton (TA) | 40 | 70.8% |
| 6 | Norwich (NR) | 38 | 67.2% |
| 7 | Peterborough (PE) | 38 | 71.3% |
| 8 | Sheffield (S) | 36 | 72.0% |
| 9 | Exeter (EX) | 33 | 66.3% |
| 10 | Plymouth (PL) | 29 | 64.5% |
| 11 | Reading (RG) | 29 | 72.9% |
| 12 | Canterbury (CT) | 27 | 66.3% |
| 13 | Gloucester (GL) | 26 | 72.1% |
| 14 | Ashford (TN) | 26 | 74.6% |
| 15 | Nottingham (NG) | 25 | 60.0% |
| 16 | London (SE) | 25 | 72.1% |
| 17 | Ipswich (IP) | 24 | 63.5% |
| 18 | Guildford (GU) | 24 | 67.3% |
| 19 | Derby (DE) | 23 | 75.4% |
| 20 | Leicester (LE) | 23 | 70.0% |
The twenty areas with the most Daihatsu Charade 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 Charade
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 306 | 71.9% |
| South West | 300 | 68.7% |
| East of England | 148 | 71.6% |
| West Midlands | 98 | 69.4% |
| Yorkshire | 93 | 73.1% |
| North West | 91 | 69.2% |
| London | 83 | 78.3% |
| East Midlands | 60 | 68.3% |
| Wales | 53 | 64.2% |
| North East | 28 | 64.3% |
| Scotland | 25 | 56.0% |
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 2004 Charade
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 2004 Charade
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 6.8% 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 suspension joints 6.5% 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.
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Check the lights 5.1% of tests
“headlamp lens slightly defective”
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 2004 Charade through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £50–£137 — and 25% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £50–£137
- Cheapest common item: wipers does not clear the windscreen…
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: component mounting prescribed areas…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 25%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,285 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 Charade, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2000 to 2007. Across them the pass rate runs from 64.9% to 72.6% — a spread of 7.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 64.9% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2003 71.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2004 70.3%joints constant velocity boot…
- 2005 72.6% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2006 71.7% ball joint excessively worn
- 2007 70.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
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 2004 Daihatsu Charade 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 2004 cars with a similar record
- Skoda Fabia 70.3%
- SEAT Ibiza 70.2%
- Hyundai Santa Fe 70.2%
- Vauxhall Zafira 70.5%
- Ford Mondeo 70.1%
- Rover 75 70.1%
Closest pass rates among 2004 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 2004 Daihatsu Charade 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 3,712 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 | 1,262 | 33.80% | 20.98% | +12.82 |
| Brakes | 602 | 16.10% | 20.89% | −4.79 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 464 | 12.40% | 5.57% | +6.83 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 395 | 10.60% | 12.21% | −1.61 |
| Tyres | 373 | 10.00% | 19.76% | −9.76 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 188 | 5.00% | 5.52% | −0.52 |
| Visibility | 165 | 4.40% | 4.97% | −0.57 |
| Non-component advisories | 130 | 3.50% | 4.18% | −0.68 |
| Steering | 90 | 2.40% | 2.57% | −0.17 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 43 | 1.20% | 1.76% | −0.56 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 9.5% | £80–250 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 6.8% | £180–450 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 6.5% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 6.2% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.1% | £5–25 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 4.2% | £8–22 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Major | 4.0% | £45–120 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 3.4% | £8–22 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 2.8% | £18–45 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 2.6% | £18–45 |
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 | 17.0% | £40–150 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 13.2% | £80–180 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 13.0% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 11.4% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 10.0% | £45–110 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 9.7% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 111 | 82.9% | 21,963 mi |
| 30-60k | 535 | 71.4% | 46,873 mi |
| 60-90k | 458 | 67.7% | 73,179 mi |
| 90-120k | 156 | 66.7% | 101,663 mi |
| 120k+ | 25 | 60.0% | 152,974 mi |
Source: 1,285 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.
2004 Charade MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2004 Daihatsu Charade?
70.3% of the 1,285 2004 Daihatsu Charade tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.2% for cars first used in 2004. First-attempt pass rate: 62.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2004 Daihatsu Charade?
The three most recorded items are joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (9.49%), component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (6.77%), ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (6.54%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2004 Daihatsu Charade MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 82.9% of the time, falling to 60.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2004 Daihatsu Charade in this dataset had covered 59,889 mi.
Does the season affect the 2004 Daihatsu Charade MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 69.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 71.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.