Pass rate
93.1%
Above average — 7.1 pts ahead of the 86.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,008 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £14–£39
2017 Ford motorhome MOT pass rate
- 2017
- Motorhome
- 4 trims combined
- typical 21,534 mi
This is a generic motorhome filing record rather than a named converter, so there is no manufacturer to compare against. The test figures are real and included in our totals.
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
29.3% 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 2021 96.5% pass
- Avoid 2008 77.8% pass
Across the 21 years on record, a spread of 18.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 92.6%
- Typical mileage
- 22k mi
The 2017 Ford motorhome MOT pass rate is 93.1% of its MOT tests — 7.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 29.3% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Ford motorhome does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 2.4× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 29.3% of everything recorded on the 2017 Ford Motorhome, against 12.2% nationally — 17.1 points above. 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.
- 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 86.0% and this one manages 93.1% — 7.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 85% 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 motorhome first registered in 2017 is combined here — 4 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2017 Ford motorhome compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 86.0%, so this figure is 7.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 92.6%. The median 2017 Ford motorhome in this dataset had covered 21,534 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 94.9% of the time, April–September 91.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 3.77% of tests.
- 1,008 recorded tests behind this page.
- 93.1% overall pass rate, 92.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Ford motorhome, the average is 92.1% — best year 2021 (96.5%), worst 2008 (77.8%).
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
- 1,008
- Typical mileage (median)
- 21,534 mi
- Make and model
- Ford 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 73% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Motorhome
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South West | 165 | 92.1% |
| South East | 145 | 93.8% |
| North West | 143 | 92.3% |
| Scotland | 109 | 89.9% |
| West Midlands | 102 | 97.1% |
| Yorkshire | 100 | 94.0% |
| East of England | 77 | 94.8% |
| East Midlands | 69 | 91.3% |
| Wales | 44 | 88.6% |
| North East | 43 | 95.3% |
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 2017 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 2017 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 3.8% 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 1.0% 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 1.0% 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 2017 Motorhome through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £14–£39 — and 85% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £14–£39
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp with a multiple light source up to…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 85%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,008 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
21 model years on record, from 2002 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 77.8% to 96.5% — a spread of 18.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2002 84.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2003 84.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2004 83.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 78.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 81.9% service brake imbalance across an…
- 2007 81.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 77.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 86.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 79.0% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2011 81.5% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2012 84.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 86.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 89.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 86.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 91.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 93.1%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 93.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2019 95.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 95.4% headlamp aim too high
- 2021 96.5% headlamp aim too high
- 2022 95.7% headlamp aim too high
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 2017 Ford 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 2017 motorhomes with a similar record
- Peugeot Motorhome 93.0%
- Fiat Motorhome 93.3%
- Chausson Motorhome 92.1%
- Knaus Motorhome 94.6%
- Mercedes-Benz Motorhome 95.0%
- Hymer Motorhome 89.4%
Closest pass rates among 2017 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 2017 Ford 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 532 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 | 157 | 29.30% | 12.21% | +17.09 |
| Tyres | 133 | 24.90% | 19.76% | +5.14 |
| Brakes | 108 | 20.20% | 20.89% | −0.69 |
| Suspension | 53 | 9.90% | 20.98% | −11.08 |
| Visibility | 38 | 7.10% | 4.97% | +2.13 |
| Non-component advisories | 16 | 3.00% | 4.18% | −1.18 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 8 | 1.50% | 5.57% | −4.07 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 8 | 1.50% | 5.52% | −4.02 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 6 | 1.10% | 0.82% | +0.28 |
| Steering | 5 | 0.90% | 2.57% | −1.67 |
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 | 3.8% | £5–20 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.99% | £80–200 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.99% | £8–22 |
| Stop lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.89% | £3–12 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.79% | £3–12 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 0.79% | £8–22 |
| Outline marker lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.69% | £3–15 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.60% | £30–80 |
| Side repeaters not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.60% | £5–25 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.60% | £8–22 |
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 | 7.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 5.0% | £45–110 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 3.6% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 2.3% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 1.8% | £18–45 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 0.99% | £80–180 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 754 | 93.2% | 17,958 mi |
| 30-60k | 221 | 94.1% | 38,971 mi |
| 60-90k | 32 | 81.3% | 69,864 mi |
| 90-120k | 1 | 100.0% | 94,348 mi |
Source: 1,008 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.
2017 Motorhome MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2017 Ford motorhome?
93.1% of the 1,008 2017 Ford motorhome tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 86.0% for cars first used in 2017. First-attempt pass rate: 92.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2017 Ford motorhome?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (3.77%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (0.99%), wipers blade defective (0.99%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2017 Ford motorhome MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.2% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2017 Ford motorhome in this dataset had covered 21,534 mi.
Does the season affect the 2017 Ford motorhome MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 94.9% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 91.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.