Pass rate
82.8%
Around average — 1.2 pts behind the 84.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 87 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £52–£165
2016 Ford Tourneo Custom MOT pass rate
- 2016
- People carrier
- typical 83,946 mi
Only 87 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
27.0% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Which year to buy
- Best 2025 100.0% pass
- Avoid 2015 78.7% pass
Across the 11 years on record, a spread of 21.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 79.2%
- Typical mileage
- 84k mi
The 2016 Ford Tourneo Custom MOT pass rate is 82.8% of its MOT tests — 1.2 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 27.0% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Ford Tourneo Custom does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 1.3× the national share
Brakes make up 27.0% of everything recorded on the 2016 Ford Tourneo Custom, against 20.9% nationally — 6.1 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
- 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. 87 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 2016 Ford Tourneo Custom compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 84.0%, so this figure is 1.2 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 79.2%. The median 2016 Ford Tourneo Custom in this dataset had covered 83,946 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 82.4% of the time, April–September 83.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt", noted on 4.60% of tests.
- 87 recorded tests behind this page.
- 82.8% overall pass rate, 79.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Ford Tourneo Custom, the average is 86.9% — best year 2025 (100.0%), worst 2015 (78.7%).
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
- 87
- Typical mileage (median)
- 83,946 mi
- Make and model
- Ford Tourneo Custom
- 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 Custom MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 58% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Tourneo Custom
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| North West | 19 | 78.9% |
| South East | 18 | 88.9% |
| West Midlands | 17 | 82.4% |
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 Custom
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 Custom
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 suspension joints 4.6% of tests
“pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn”
With the car parked on level ground, rock the top of each front wheel in and out while someone watches the suspension arm. Clunks, or rubber boots split and greasy, are what testers record here.
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Check the suspension 2.3% of tests
“engine mounting condition damaged or deteriorated resulting in excessive movement”
Bounce each corner and listen for a knock over a rough surface at low speed. Most suspension failures announce themselves weeks before the test.
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Check the lights 2.3% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps”
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.
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 Custom through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £52–£165 — and 24% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £52–£165
- Cheapest common item: washers provides insufficient washer liquid
- £5–£15
- Dearest common item: engine mounting condition damaged or…
- £200–£700
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 24%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 87 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 Custom, side by side
11 model years on record, from 2015 to 2025. Across them the pass rate runs from 78.7% to 100.0% — a spread of 21.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2015 78.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 82.8%joints constant velocity boot…
- 2017 83.7% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2018 85.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 88.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 86.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 85.7% wipers does not clear the…
- 2022 87.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2023 92.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2024 98.3% srs malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2025 100.0% windscreen damaged but not…
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 Custom 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 Custom 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 146 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 | 40 | 27.00% | 20.89% | +6.11 |
| Suspension | 39 | 26.40% | 20.98% | +5.42 |
| Tyres | 22 | 14.90% | 19.76% | −4.86 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 11 | 7.40% | 12.21% | −4.81 |
| Non-component advisories | 9 | 6.10% | 4.18% | +1.92 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 8 | 5.40% | 5.57% | −0.17 |
| Visibility | 7 | 4.70% | 4.97% | −0.27 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 4 | 2.70% | 5.52% | −2.82 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 4 | 2.70% | 0.82% | +1.88 |
| Steering | 2 | 1.40% | 2.57% | −1.17 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 4.6% | £80–250 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 4.6% | £40–150 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 3.5% | £18–45 |
| Engine mounting condition damaged or deteriorated resulting in excessive movement Body, chassis, structure | Major | 2.3% | £200–700 |
| Linkage pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.3% | £40–150 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 2.3% | £5–20 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.3% | £5–20 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 2.3% | £45–95 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Rectified | 2.3% | £5–15 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.3% | £80–200 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 17.2% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 16.1% | £45–110 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 12.6% | £80–180 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 12.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 9.2% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 8.1% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 3 | 100.0% | 25,624 mi |
| 30-60k | 26 | 80.8% | 47,610 mi |
| 60-90k | 18 | 83.3% | 75,631 mi |
| 90-120k | 15 | 66.7% | 104,761 mi |
| 120k+ | 21 | 90.5% | 222,301 mi |
Source: 87 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 Custom MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2016 Ford Tourneo Custom?
82.8% of the 87 2016 Ford Tourneo Custom tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 84.0% for cars first used in 2016. First-attempt pass rate: 79.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2016 Ford Tourneo Custom?
The three most recorded items are joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (4.60%), pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (4.60%), ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (3.45%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2016 Ford Tourneo Custom MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 90.5% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2016 Ford Tourneo Custom in this dataset had covered 83,946 mi.
Does the season affect the 2016 Ford Tourneo Custom MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 82.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 83.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.