Pass rate
94.0%
Above average — 4.5 pts ahead of the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 268 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £27–£75
2019 Dethleffs motorhome MOT pass rate
- 2019
- Motorhome
- 11 trims combined
- typical 15,706 mi
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
26.8% 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 2018 97.1% pass
- Avoid 2021 90.0% pass
Across the 8 years on record, a spread of 7.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 93.7%
- Typical mileage
- 16k mi
The 2019 Dethleffs motorhome MOT pass rate is 94.0% of its MOT tests — 4.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 26.8% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Dethleffs motorhome does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Visibility: 4.3× the national share
Visibility accounts for 21.6% of everything recorded on the 2019 Dethleffs Motorhome, against 5.0% nationally — 16.6 points above. Lamps & electrics are still the single largest share at 26.8%, but at 12.2% 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.
- Beats its own age and mileage. Once you allow for how old and how far these motorhomes have been driven, the expected pass rate is 89.5% and this one manages 94.0% — 4.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 68% 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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Every Dethleffs motorhome first registered in 2019 is combined here — 11 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2019 Dethleffs motorhome compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 89.5%, so this figure is 4.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 93.7%. The median 2019 Dethleffs motorhome in this dataset had covered 15,706 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 95.1% of the time, April–September 93.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 2.99% of tests.
- 268 recorded tests behind this page.
- 94.0% overall pass rate, 93.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Dethleffs motorhome, the average is 92.6% — best year 2018 (97.1%), worst 2021 (90.0%).
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
- 268
- Typical mileage (median)
- 15,706 mi
- Make and model
- Dethleffs Motorhome
- 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 Motorhome MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 82% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Motorhome
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 54 | 96.3% |
| East of England | 52 | 86.5% |
| East Midlands | 27 | 92.6% |
| South West | 25 | 92.0% |
| Scotland | 25 | 92.0% |
| West Midlands | 22 | 100.0% |
| Wales | 20 | 100.0% |
| North West | 20 | 95.0% |
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 2019 Motorhome
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 2019 Motorhome
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 3.0% 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 windscreen 2.6% 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.
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Check the wipers and washers 1.5% 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 2019 Motorhome through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £27–£75 — and 68% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £27–£75
- Cheapest common item: srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 68%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 268 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 Motorhome, side by side
8 model years on record, from 2015 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 90.0% to 97.1% — a spread of 7.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2015 90.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 90.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 91.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 97.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2019 94.0%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2020 93.0% wipers blade defective
- 2021 90.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2022 92.5% 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 2019 Dethleffs Motorhome 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 2019 motorhomes with a similar record
- Fiat Motorhome 94.3%
- Peugeot Motorhome 94.5%
- Mobilvetta Motorhome 95.4%
- Suzuki Motorhome 92.4%
- Ford Motorhome 95.6%
- Rapido Motorhome 92.4%
Closest pass rates among 2019 motorhomes with at least 150 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. Full rankings: best motorhomes and worst motorhomes for MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2019 Dethleffs Motorhome 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 96 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 | 26 | 26.80% | 12.21% | +14.59 |
| Tyres | 23 | 23.70% | 19.76% | +3.94 |
| Visibility | 21 | 21.60% | 4.97% | +16.63 |
| Brakes | 8 | 8.20% | 20.89% | −12.69 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 4 | 4.10% | 5.57% | −1.47 |
| Non-component advisories | 4 | 4.10% | 4.18% | −0.08 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 4 | 4.10% | 0.82% | +3.28 |
| Suspension | 3 | 3.10% | 20.98% | −17.88 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2 | 2.10% | 5.52% | −3.42 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1 | 1.00% | 1.76% | −0.76 |
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 | 3.0% | £5–20 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.6% | £80–200 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 1.5% | £3–12 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.5% | £8–22 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 1.1% | £80–250 |
| Outline marker lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.1% | £3–15 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.1% | £8–22 |
| Outline marker lamp insecure Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.75% | £3–15 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 0.75% | £45–110 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Major | 0.75% | £5–15 |
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 | 3.7% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 3.0% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 1.1% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 0.75% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 237 | 94.5% | 15,129 mi |
| 30-60k | 31 | 90.3% | 36,792 mi |
Source: 268 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.
2019 Motorhome MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2019 Dethleffs motorhome?
94.0% of the 268 2019 Dethleffs motorhome tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 89.5% for cars first used in 2019. First-attempt pass rate: 93.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2019 Dethleffs motorhome?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (2.99%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.61%), srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault (1.49%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2019 Dethleffs motorhome MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.5% of the time, falling to 90.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2019 Dethleffs motorhome in this dataset had covered 15,706 mi.
Does the season affect the 2019 Dethleffs motorhome MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 95.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 93.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.