DS DS3 2016 MOT pass rate by postcode area
The DS DS3 2016 MOT pass rate by postcode area runs from 86.9% in DA down to 67.2% in DD — 19.7 points apart for the same model, the same model year and the same test. Below are all 83 postcode areas that tested enough of them to publish.
What a 19.7-point gap means
Pinned to one model year, this is not a table of old cars: every 2016 DS DS3 in the data is the same age. Over five annual MOTs the gap between the best and worst area is 1.0 extra failures — about £34–£99 in parts at this model's typical failure cost .
40 of 170 models by how far apart their best and worst postcode area are. Wider: Mitsubishi Outlander (19.8). Narrower: Peugeot 308 (19.7).
Rates are for the 2016 model year only, in areas with at least 200 tests of it. Mileage, trim and use are pooled — a city van and a motorway van are one line here. Method. Compare it with the model's full history or this exact year.
Every postcode area, worst first
| Area | Pass rate | Tests |
|---|---|---|
| DD | 67.2% | 253 |
| KY | 68.1% | 301 |
| ML | 69.1% | 391 |
| AB | 69.1% | 359 |
| EH | 70.8% | 660 |
| KA | 71.5% | 369 |
| G | 73.1% | 762 |
| SP | 73.3% | 225 |
| FK | 73.4% | 357 |
| PA | 73.4% | 252 |
| ST | 73.8% | 606 |
| NG | 73.8% | 1,069 |
| SR | 74.6% | 327 |
| FY | 74.7% | 336 |
| LS | 74.8% | 575 |
| NP | 75.2% | 725 |
| CH | 75.2% | 553 |
| CF | 75.3% | 1,259 |
| BL | 75.3% | 373 |
| LN | 75.4% | 284 |
| SA | 75.4% | 938 |
| CW | 75.5% | 318 |
| SK | 75.8% | 326 |
| CA | 75.9% | 395 |
| NN | 76.0% | 599 |
| NE | 76.0% | 1,144 |
| TF | 76.1% | 289 |
| YO | 76.3% | 493 |
| DL | 76.3% | 350 |
| OL | 76.3% | 325 |
| BA | 76.4% | 284 |
| TS | 76.5% | 486 |
| WR | 76.6% | 201 |
| SY | 76.7% | 348 |
| BD | 76.7% | 361 |
| PL | 76.8% | 531 |
| BS | 76.8% | 734 |
| MK | 77.2% | 360 |
| PO | 77.3% | 616 |
| GL | 77.3% | 418 |
| EX | 77.3% | 419 |
| WA | 77.4% | 509 |
| DH | 77.4% | 412 |
| WF | 77.5% | 489 |
| OX | 77.5% | 298 |
| DN | 77.6% | 751 |
| WN | 77.7% | 358 |
| CO | 77.7% | 247 |
| CT | 77.8% | 297 |
| M | 78.0% | 713 |
| L | 78.0% | 368 |
| SN | 78.0% | 259 |
| LE | 78.1% | 923 |
| TR | 78.1% | 247 |
| BH | 78.1% | 302 |
| LL | 78.2% | 582 |
| HU | 78.4% | 486 |
| BB | 78.5% | 475 |
| PR | 78.8% | 624 |
| SG | 79.0% | 200 |
| CV | 79.2% | 814 |
| SO | 79.3% | 353 |
| ME | 79.3% | 421 |
| CM | 79.7% | 335 |
| WS | 79.7% | 395 |
| S | 79.8% | 1,152 |
| DY | 80.0% | 436 |
| NR | 80.3% | 447 |
| GU | 80.5% | 365 |
| PE | 80.7% | 943 |
| IP | 80.9% | 304 |
| RG | 81.1% | 322 |
| TQ | 81.1% | 228 |
| DE | 81.2% | 687 |
| HP | 81.4% | 317 |
| TA | 81.5% | 276 |
| TN | 82.0% | 344 |
| BN | 82.1% | 419 |
| B | 82.2% | 1,380 |
| WV | 83.1% | 366 |
| RH | 83.7% | 264 |
| SS | 85.2% | 277 |
| DA | 86.9% | 213 |
“vs national” is against this model's own rate across all years (79.5%), not against the national rate for all cars — a number that would flatter a new model and punish an old one.
What this cannot tell you
- Which garage to use. There is no test-station field in the anonymised data, so no station is implicated by any of this — why. The station directory lists what is near you.
- That the area causes it. Cars in some areas do more short trips, see more salt, or have owners who wait for an advisory to become a failure. The test cannot separate those.
- Anything about a single car. These are rates over hundreds or thousands of tests, not a prediction for one vehicle — one car with a bad exhaust is one car with a bad exhaust.
For context, this model's best area runs 7 points above its own all-years national rate.