Pass rate
76.5%
Around average — 2.1 pts behind the 78.6% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 68 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £33–£88
2013 Ford Focus C-Max MOT pass rate
- 2013
- typical 95,342 mi
Only 68 tests of this exact model and year are in the DVSA data, below the 100 we ask for before a page goes in the index. The figures are still shown, because they are the only ones there are.
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Most common fault
Tyres
22.1% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2011 79.2% pass
- Avoid 2004 68.9% pass
Across the 10 years on record, a spread of 10.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 69.2%
- Typical mileage
- 95k mi
The 2013 Ford Focus C-Max MOT pass rate is 76.5% of its MOT tests — 2.1 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 22.1% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.7× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 21.2% of everything recorded on the 2013 Ford Focus C-Max, against 12.2% nationally — 9.0 points above. Tyres are still the single largest share at 22.1%, but at 19.8% nationally that one is ordinary. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- Based on a small sample. 68 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
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 2013 Ford Focus C-Max compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 78.6%, so this figure is 2.1 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 69.2%. The median 2013 Ford Focus C-Max in this dataset had covered 95,342 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 68% of tests, with a 76.1% pass rate.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp lens slightly defective", noted on 7.35% of tests.
- 68 recorded tests behind this page.
- 76.5% overall pass rate, 69.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Ford Focus C-Max, the average is 70.3% — best year 2011 (79.2%), worst 2004 (68.9%).
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
- 68
- Typical mileage (median)
- 95,342 mi
- Make and model
- Ford Focus C-Max
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Headlight Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Focus C-Max MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 58% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (68% of tests).
Where the Ford Focus C-Max is most common
Across all Focus C-Max model years on record (2003–2013): 21,824 Ford Focus C-Max cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 56,717 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 695 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 | Birmingham (B) | 695 | 75.1% |
| 2 | Bristol (BS) | 510 | 64.9% |
| 3 | Peterborough (PE) | 493 | 69.1% |
| 4 | Sheffield (S) | 460 | 71.9% |
| 5 | Liverpool (L) | 454 | 71.6% |
| 6 | Leicester (LE) | 450 | 71.6% |
| 7 | Brighton (BN) | 440 | 64.9% |
| 8 | Nottingham (NG) | 428 | 66.4% |
| 9 | Basildon (SS) | 428 | 77.9% |
| 10 | Portsmouth (PO) | 386 | 68.7% |
| 11 | Ipswich (IP) | 385 | 69.7% |
| 12 | Norwich (NR) | 378 | 68.9% |
| 13 | Romford (RM) | 366 | 78.7% |
| 14 | Chelmsford (CM) | 357 | 74.0% |
| 15 | Coventry (CV) | 328 | 72.7% |
| 16 | Exeter (EX) | 318 | 62.5% |
| 17 | Maidstone (ME) | 314 | 70.9% |
| 18 | Manchester (M) | 314 | 72.3% |
| 19 | Reading (RG) | 311 | 72.0% |
| 20 | Plymouth (PL) | 310 | 64.3% |
The twenty areas with the most Ford Focus C-Max 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 Focus C-Max
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| East Midlands | 17 | 64.7% |
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 2013 Focus C-Max
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 2013 Focus C-Max
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 7.3% 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.
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Check the windscreen 7.3% 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 brakes 4.4% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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 2013 Focus C-Max through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £33–£88 — and 41% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £33–£88
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 41%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 68 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 Focus C-Max, side by side
10 model years on record, from 2003 to 2013. Across them the pass rate runs from 68.9% to 79.2% — a spread of 10.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2003 70.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2004 68.9% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2005 69.5% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2006 70.1% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2007 71.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 71.7% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2009 73.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2010 73.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 79.2% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2013 76.5%headlamp lens slightly defective
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 2013 Ford Focus C-Max 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 2013 cars with a similar record
- Vauxhall Adam 76.6%
- Mitsubishi L200 76.4%
- Kia Carens 76.6%
- Suzuki SX4 76.7%
- Alfa Romeo Giulietta 76.7%
- Mazda Cx-5 76.8%
Closest pass rates among 2013 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 2013 Ford Focus C-Max 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 104 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 23 | 22.10% | 19.76% | +2.34 |
| Suspension | 22 | 21.20% | 20.98% | +0.22 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 22 | 21.20% | 12.21% | +8.99 |
| Brakes | 15 | 14.40% | 20.89% | −6.49 |
| Visibility | 7 | 6.70% | 4.97% | +1.73 |
| Non-component advisories | 6 | 5.80% | 4.18% | +1.62 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 4 | 3.80% | 5.57% | −1.77 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 3 | 2.90% | 1.76% | +1.14 |
| Steering | 1 | 1.00% | 2.57% | −1.57 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 1.00% | 0.82% | +0.18 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 7.3% | £5–25 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 7.3% | £80–200 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 4.4% | £18–45 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.4% | £5–25 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 4.4% | £5–20 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.9% | £60–140 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 2.9% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.9% | £40–150 |
| Buckle not functioning as intended Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 1.5% | £40–120 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Rectified | 1.5% | £45–95 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 13.2% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 8.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 7.3% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 7.3% | £40–150 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 5.9% | £180–450 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.4% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 6 | 66.7% | 53,746 mi |
| 60-90k | 20 | 85.0% | 74,921 mi |
| 90-120k | 26 | 76.9% | 103,707 mi |
| 120k+ | 12 | 75.0% | 141,595 mi |
Source: 68 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.
2013 Focus C-Max MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2013 Ford Focus C-Max?
76.5% of the 68 2013 Ford Focus C-Max tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 78.6% for cars first used in 2013. First-attempt pass rate: 69.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2013 Ford Focus C-Max?
The three most recorded items are headlamp lens slightly defective (7.35%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (7.35%), brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (4.41%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2013 Ford Focus C-Max MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 66.7% of the time, falling to 75.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2013 Ford Focus C-Max in this dataset had covered 95,342 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2013 Ford Focus C-Max?
Diesel: 76.1% pass rate across 46 tests. Petrol: 77.3% pass rate across 22 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.