Pass rate
69.2%
Below average — 3.9 pts behind the 73.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 91 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £60–£172
2008 Ford Tourneo Connect MOT pass rate
- 2008
- People carrier
- typical 127,010 mi
Only 91 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.
Most common fault
Brakes
20.0% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Part only £25–£55 for Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 91.2% pass
- Avoid 2006 62.4% pass
Across the 19 years on record, a spread of 28.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 57.6%
- Typical mileage
- 127k mi
The 2008 Ford Tourneo Connect MOT pass rate is 69.2% of its MOT tests — 3.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 20.0% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Ford Tourneo Connect does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Falls short of its own age and mileage
Like-for-like, people carriers this age and mileage expect about 73.1%; this one manages 69.2% — 3.9 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 24% of this model’s typical repairs come in under £30 in parts — the failures here tend to be the kind that need a garage rather than a bulb.
- Based on a small sample. 91 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 2008 Ford Tourneo Connect compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.1%, so this figure is 3.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 57.6%. The median 2008 Ford Tourneo Connect in this dataset had covered 127,010 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 61.3% of the time, April–September 73.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated", noted on 9.89% of tests.
- 91 recorded tests behind this page.
- 69.2% overall pass rate, 57.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Ford Tourneo Connect, the average is 84.6% — best year 2023 (91.2%), worst 2006 (62.4%).
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
- 91
- Typical mileage (median)
- 127,010 mi
- Make and model
- Ford Tourneo Connect
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Body Panel Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Tourneo Connect MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 55% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Tourneo Connect
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| East Midlands | 18 | 61.1% |
| East of England | 18 | 72.2% |
| North West | 16 | 68.8% |
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 2008 Tourneo Connect
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 2008 Tourneo Connect
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 8.8% 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 corrosion 4.4% of tests
“component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength”
Look under the sills, around the jacking points and where the suspension mounts meet the body. Flaking, holed or crumbly metal fails; a brown stain on sound metal does not.
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Check the windscreen 4.4% 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.
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 2008 Tourneo Connect through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £60–£172 — and 24% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £60–£172
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: component mounting prescribed areas…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 40%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 24%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 91 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 Tourneo Connect, side by side
19 model years on record, from 2003 to 2024. Across them the pass rate runs from 62.4% to 91.2% — a spread of 28.8 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2003 67.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2004 70.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 64.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 62.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 64.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 69.2%joints constant velocity boot…
- 2009 78.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2010 69.4% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2014 78.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2015 80.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 85.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 86.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 86.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 85.7% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2020 86.3% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2021 87.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2022 87.4% has ply or cords exposed
- 2023 91.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2024 89.6% headlamp aim projected beam image…
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 2008 Ford Tourneo Connect 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 2008 people carriers with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2008 people carriers with at least 200 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. Full rankings: best people carriers and worst people carriers.
The full DVSA record for the 2008 Ford Tourneo Connect 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 304 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 62 | 20.00% | 20.89% | −0.89 |
| Suspension | 61 | 19.70% | 20.98% | −1.28 |
| Tyres | 48 | 15.50% | 19.76% | −4.26 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 31 | 10.00% | 5.52% | +4.48 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 30 | 9.70% | 5.57% | +4.13 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 25 | 8.10% | 12.21% | −4.11 |
| Non-component advisories | 15 | 4.80% | 4.18% | +0.62 |
| Visibility | 13 | 4.20% | 4.97% | −0.77 |
| Steering | 11 | 3.50% | 2.57% | +0.93 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 8 | 2.60% | 1.76% | +0.84 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 9.9% | £80–250 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 9.9% | £80–250 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 8.8% | £5–20 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 4.4% | £180–450 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.4% | £3–12 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 4.4% | £80–200 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 3.3% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.3% | £40–150 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 3.3% | £80–180 |
| Wheel bearings rough when rotated Suspension | Major | 3.3% | £20–55 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 30.8% | £200–700 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 25.3% | £80–180 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 24.2% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 13.2% | £45–95 |
| Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 11.0% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 9.9% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 3 | 100.0% | 50,512 mi |
| 60-90k | 9 | 77.8% | 72,369 mi |
| 90-120k | 29 | 69.0% | 104,841 mi |
| 120k+ | 47 | 63.8% | 160,572 mi |
Source: 91 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.
2008 Tourneo Connect MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2008 Ford Tourneo Connect?
69.2% of the 91 2008 Ford Tourneo Connect tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.1% for cars first used in 2008. First-attempt pass rate: 57.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2008 Ford Tourneo Connect?
The three most recorded items are joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (9.89%), joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (9.89%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (8.79%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2008 Ford Tourneo Connect MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 63.8% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2008 Ford Tourneo Connect in this dataset had covered 127,010 mi.
Does the season affect the 2008 Ford Tourneo Connect MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 61.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 73.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.