Pass rate
78.6%
Around average — 4.6 pts ahead of the 74.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,973 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £41–£106
2009 Daihatsu Terios MOT pass rate
- 2009
- typical 83,415 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
33.3% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2009 78.6% pass · this year
- Avoid 2004 64.9% pass
Across the 10 years on record, a spread of 13.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 74.1%
- Typical mileage
- 83k mi
The 2009 Daihatsu Terios MOT pass rate is 78.6% of its MOT tests — 4.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 33.3% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Daihatsu Terios does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.6× the national share
Suspension accounts for 33.3% of everything recorded on the 2009 Daihatsu Terios, against 21.0% nationally — 12.3 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.
- Beats its own age and mileage. Once you allow for how old and how far these cars have been driven, the expected pass rate is 74.0% and this one manages 78.6% — 4.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 34% 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 2009 Daihatsu Terios compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 74.0%, so this figure is 4.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 74.1%. The median 2009 Daihatsu Terios in this dataset had covered 83,415 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 78.0% of the time, April–September 79.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 4.51% of tests.
- 1,973 recorded tests behind this page.
- 78.6% overall pass rate, 74.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Daihatsu Terios, the average is 72.5% — best year 2009 (78.6%), worst 2004 (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
- 1,973
- Typical mileage (median)
- 83,415 mi
- Make and model
- Daihatsu Terios
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Ball Joint
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Terios MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 61% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Terios
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South West | 381 | 76.6% |
| South East | 322 | 85.4% |
| Yorkshire | 207 | 78.3% |
| Wales | 187 | 75.4% |
| North West | 181 | 79.0% |
| West Midlands | 154 | 75.3% |
| East of England | 154 | 84.4% |
| Scotland | 136 | 66.2% |
| East Midlands | 125 | 83.2% |
| North East | 92 | 73.9% |
| London | 34 | 88.2% |
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 2009 Terios
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 2009 Terios
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 suspension joints 4.5% 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 corrosion 2.9% 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 lights 2.7% 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 2009 Terios through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £41–£106 — and 34% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £41–£106
- 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
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 34%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,973 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 Terios, side by side
10 model years on record, from 2000 to 2009. Across them the pass rate runs from 64.9% to 78.6% — a spread of 13.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 65.7% component mounting prescribed…
- 2001 66.5% component mounting prescribed…
- 2002 65.4% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2003 66.1% component mounting prescribed…
- 2004 64.9% component mounting prescribed…
- 2005 67.7% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2006 71.5% component mounting prescribed…
- 2007 73.0% component mounting prescribed…
- 2008 75.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2009 78.6%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 2009 Daihatsu Terios 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 2009 cars with a similar record
- BMW 123 78.6%
- Honda Cr-V 78.7%
- BMW 116 78.4%
- Smart Mcc Fortwo Cabriolet 78.4%
- Mercedes-Benz Ml 78.3%
- Toyota YARIS 78.9%
Closest pass rates among 2009 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 2009 Daihatsu Terios 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 4,787 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 | 1,606 | 33.30% | 20.98% | +12.32 |
| Brakes | 958 | 19.90% | 20.89% | −0.99 |
| Tyres | 540 | 11.20% | 19.76% | −8.56 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 497 | 10.30% | 5.57% | +4.73 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 463 | 9.60% | 12.21% | −2.61 |
| Non-component advisories | 258 | 5.40% | 4.18% | +1.22 |
| Visibility | 182 | 3.80% | 4.97% | −1.17 |
| Steering | 173 | 3.60% | 2.57% | +1.03 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 72 | 1.50% | 5.52% | −4.02 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 38 | 0.80% | 0.82% | −0.02 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 4.5% | £18–45 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 3.2% | £18–45 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 2.9% | £180–450 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.7% | £5–25 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.3% | £80–200 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.1% | £5–25 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 2.1% | £60–150 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 2.0% | £8–22 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.0% | £5–20 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.9% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 14.8% | £45–95 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 13.7% | £25–65 |
| Linkage pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 12.7% | £40–150 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 12.4% | £40–150 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 9.3% | £80–180 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.3% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 65 | 93.8% | 23,088 mi |
| 30-60k | 384 | 85.7% | 47,497 mi |
| 60-90k | 686 | 80.2% | 74,959 mi |
| 90-120k | 478 | 75.1% | 103,822 mi |
| 120k+ | 355 | 69.9% | 143,590 mi |
Source: 1,973 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.
2009 Terios MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2009 Daihatsu Terios?
78.6% of the 1,973 2009 Daihatsu Terios tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 74.0% for cars first used in 2009. First-attempt pass rate: 74.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2009 Daihatsu Terios?
The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (4.51%), track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt (3.24%), component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (2.94%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2009 Daihatsu Terios MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.8% of the time, falling to 69.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2009 Daihatsu Terios in this dataset had covered 83,415 mi.
Does the season affect the 2009 Daihatsu Terios MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 78.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 79.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.