Pass rate
85.2%
Above average — 1.2 pts ahead of the 84.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 8,195 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £41–£103
2016 Ford Tourneo Connect MOT pass rate
- 2016
- People carrier
- typical 67,621 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
32.2% 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 →
1.3 pts up across model years — 7.5% in 2014, 8.8% in 2022.
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
- 82.8%
- Typical mileage
- 68k mi
The 2016 Ford Tourneo Connect MOT pass rate is 85.2% of its MOT tests — 1.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 32.2% 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
Tyres: 1.6× the national share
Tyres make up 32.2% of everything recorded on the 2016 Ford Tourneo Connect, against 19.8% nationally — 12.4 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 22% 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.
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 2016 Ford Tourneo Connect compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 84.0%, so this figure is 1.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 82.8%. The median 2016 Ford Tourneo Connect in this dataset had covered 67,621 mi.
99% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Diesel, which passed 85.2% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 85.2% of the time, April–September 85.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 2.93% of tests.
- 8,195 recorded tests behind this page.
- 85.2% overall pass rate, 82.8% 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
- 8,195
- Typical mileage (median)
- 67,621 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
Windscreen
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 73% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (99% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Tourneo Connect
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 1,408 | 85.4% |
| North West | 1,039 | 86.5% |
| South West | 971 | 82.1% |
| Yorkshire | 810 | 86.5% |
| East of England | 763 | 87.8% |
| Scotland | 763 | 82.0% |
| West Midlands | 697 | 87.5% |
| East Midlands | 669 | 84.2% |
| Wales | 457 | 82.9% |
| London | 311 | 89.1% |
| North East | 307 | 84.4% |
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 2016 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 2016 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 windscreen 2.9% 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 tyre pressures and valves 1.6% of tests
“tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative”
Set the pressures to the figures on the door pillar, not the tyre wall, and check the valves do not hiss. A leaking valve is a two-minute fix that fails a test.
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Check the wipers and washers 1.5% of tests
“wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively”
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 2016 Tourneo Connect through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £41–£103 — and 22% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £41–£103
- Cheapest common item: wipers does not clear the windscreen…
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: on or after 01/01/2014 emissions exceed…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 22%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 8,195 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 2016 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 2016 people carriers with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2016 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 2016 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 8,685 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 | 2,833 | 32.20% | 19.76% | +12.44 |
| Brakes | 2,442 | 27.80% | 20.89% | +6.91 |
| Visibility | 707 | 8.00% | 4.97% | +3.03 |
| Suspension | 612 | 7.00% | 20.98% | −13.98 |
| Non-component advisories | 558 | 6.30% | 4.18% | +2.12 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 507 | 5.80% | 12.21% | −6.41 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 323 | 3.70% | 0.82% | +2.88 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 310 | 3.50% | 5.52% | −2.02 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 239 | 2.70% | 5.57% | −2.87 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 154 | 1.80% | 1.76% | +0.04 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.9% | £80–200 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Major | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.5% | £8–22 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.5% | £18–45 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.5% | £8–22 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.0% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.0% | £45–95 |
| On or after 01/01/2014 emissions exceed manufacturer's specified limit Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.81% | £60–250 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 0.77% | £18–45 |
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 | 20.0% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 12.1% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 5.6% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 5.4% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 2.9% | £45–110 |
| Webbing significantly weakened Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Advisory | 2.4% | £40–120 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 799 | 92.7% | 20,481 mi |
| 30-60k | 2,510 | 87.5% | 46,121 mi |
| 60-90k | 2,657 | 84.1% | 73,703 mi |
| 90-120k | 1,326 | 81.4% | 102,668 mi |
| 120k+ | 889 | 81.2% | 163,429 mi |
Source: 8,195 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.
2016 Tourneo Connect MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2016 Ford Tourneo Connect?
85.2% of the 8,195 2016 Ford Tourneo Connect tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 84.0% for cars first used in 2016. First-attempt pass rate: 82.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2016 Ford Tourneo Connect?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.93%), tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative (1.56%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.54%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2016 Ford Tourneo Connect MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.7% of the time, falling to 81.2% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2016 Ford Tourneo Connect in this dataset had covered 67,621 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2016 Ford Tourneo Connect?
Diesel: 85.2% pass rate across 8,106 tests. Petrol: 87.6% pass rate across 89 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2016 Ford Tourneo Connect MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 85.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 85.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.