Pass rate
87.6%
Above average — 3.1 pts behind the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 5,563 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £20–£53
2020 Ford Galaxy MOT pass rate
- 2020
- 2 trims combined
- typical 33,252 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
35.4% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 91.9% pass
- Avoid 2004 66.2% pass
Across the 24 years on record, a spread of 25.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 86.0%
- Typical mileage
- 33k mi
The 2020 Ford Galaxy MOT pass rate is 87.6% of its MOT tests — 3.1 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 35.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Ford Galaxy does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.8× the national share
Tyres make up 35.4% of everything recorded on the 2020 Ford Galaxy, against 19.8% nationally — 15.6 points above. Check all four tyres yourself, including the inner shoulders, and look at the date stamp — a tyre can pass on tread and still be six years old.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 90.7%; this one manages 87.6% — 3.1 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 64% 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 Ford Galaxy first registered in 2020 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2020 Ford Galaxy compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 3.1 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 86.0%. The median 2020 Ford Galaxy in this dataset had covered 33,252 mi.
100% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Diesel, which passed 87.6% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 88.0% of the time, April–September 87.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp not working on dipped beam", noted on 2.12% of tests.
- 5,563 recorded tests behind this page.
- 87.6% overall pass rate, 86.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Ford Galaxy, the average is 76.8% — best year 2023 (91.9%), worst 2004 (66.2%).
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
- 5,563
- Typical mileage (median)
- 33,252 mi
- Make and model
- Ford Galaxy
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
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 Galaxy MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 77% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (100% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Galaxy
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 1,422 | 87.7% |
| East of England | 701 | 89.2% |
| North West | 607 | 85.3% |
| South West | 507 | 89.5% |
| East Midlands | 423 | 87.2% |
| West Midlands | 415 | 89.9% |
| Yorkshire | 410 | 86.1% |
| Scotland | 407 | 83.5% |
| London | 325 | 88.0% |
| Wales | 201 | 86.1% |
| North East | 145 | 92.4% |
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 2020 Galaxy
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 2020 Galaxy
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 2.1% of tests
“headlamp not working on dipped beam”
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 brakes 1.4% 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.
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Check the wipers and washers 1.4% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
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 2020 Galaxy through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £20–£53 — and 64% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £20–£53
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 64%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 5,563 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 Galaxy, side by side
24 model years on record, from 2000 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 66.2% to 91.9% — a spread of 25.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 68.8% component mounting prescribed…
- 2001 68.3% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2002 68.8% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2003 68.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2004 66.2% component mounting prescribed…
- 2005 67.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2006 68.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 70.5% position lamp with a multiple…
- 2008 71.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 72.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 73.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 73.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 73.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 74.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 74.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 78.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 86.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 86.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 87.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2019 86.6% headlamp not working on dipped…
- 2020 87.6%headlamp not working on dipped…
- 2021 84.1% headlamp not working on dipped…
- 2022 88.3% headlamp not working on dipped…
- 2023 91.9% headlamp not working on dipped…
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 2020 Ford Galaxy 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 2020 cars with a similar record
- Land Rover Discovery 87.7%
- Mercedes-Benz E 87.7%
- Dacia Duster Essential 87.7%
- Polestar Polestar 87.7%
- Audi A3 E-Tron 87.4%
- Toyota Hilux 87.8%
Closest pass rates among 2020 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 2020 Ford Galaxy 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 4,628 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 | 1,643 | 35.40% | 19.76% | +15.64 |
| Brakes | 1,229 | 26.50% | 20.89% | +5.61 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 625 | 13.50% | 12.21% | +1.29 |
| Non-component advisories | 375 | 8.10% | 4.18% | +3.92 |
| Visibility | 311 | 6.70% | 4.97% | +1.73 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 145 | 3.10% | 5.52% | −2.42 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 101 | 2.20% | 1.76% | +0.44 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 77 | 1.70% | 0.82% | +0.88 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 71 | 1.50% | 5.57% | −4.07 |
| Suspension | 51 | 1.10% | 20.98% | −19.88 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.1% | £5–25 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.6% | £5–25 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.4% | £18–45 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.4% | £8–22 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.3% | £8–22 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.3% | £3–12 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.3% | £80–200 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.1% | £5–20 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.97% | £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 | 18.7% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 13.3% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 3.9% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.6% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.5% | £20–80 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.3% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 2,416 | 90.2% | 19,040 mi |
| 30-60k | 2,240 | 85.6% | 42,780 mi |
| 60-90k | 686 | 85.1% | 71,529 mi |
| 90-120k | 142 | 86.6% | 101,662 mi |
| 120k+ | 78 | 87.2% | 147,088 mi |
Source: 5,563 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.
2020 Galaxy MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Ford Galaxy?
87.6% of the 5,563 2020 Ford Galaxy tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 86.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Ford Galaxy?
The three most recorded items are headlamp not working on dipped beam (2.12%), headlamp not working on dipped beam (1.60%), brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (1.42%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Ford Galaxy MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 90.2% of the time, falling to 87.2% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Ford Galaxy in this dataset had covered 33,252 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2020 Ford Galaxy?
Diesel: 87.6% pass rate across 5,538 tests. Petrol: 87.0% pass rate across 23 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2020 Ford Galaxy MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 88.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 87.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.