Pass rate
74.4%
Below average — 11.6 pts behind the 86.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 86 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £27–£84
2017 Great Wall Steed MOT pass rate
- 2017
- typical 54,244 mi
Only 86 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.
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Most common fault
Brakes
27.7% 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 2015 75.7% pass
- Avoid 2012 69.8% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 5.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 68.1%
- Typical mileage
- 54k mi
The 2017 Great Wall Steed MOT pass rate is 74.4% of its MOT tests — 11.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 27.7% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 1.3× the national share
Brakes make up 27.7% of everything recorded on the 2017 Great Wall Steed, against 20.9% nationally — 6.8 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 86.0%; this one manages 74.4% — 11.6 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 58% 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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How does the 2017 Great Wall Steed compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 86.0%, so this figure is 11.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 68.1%. The median 2017 Great Wall Steed in this dataset had covered 54,244 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 79.5% of the time, April–September 70.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint excessively worn", noted on 4.65% of tests.
- 86 recorded tests behind this page.
- 74.4% overall pass rate, 68.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Great Wall Steed, the average is 72.3% — best year 2015 (75.7%), worst 2012 (69.8%).
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
- 86
- Typical mileage (median)
- 54,244 mi
- Make and model
- Great Wall Steed
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Ball Joint
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Steed MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 32% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Great Wall Steed is most common
Across all Steed model years on record (2012–2017): 1,804 Great Wall Steed cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 4,168 tests. Peterborough (PE) has the most, with 71 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peterborough (PE) | 71 | 74.2% |
| 2 | Swansea (SA) | 56 | 71.3% |
| 3 | Wrexham (LL) | 56 | 72.8% |
| 4 | Cardiff (CF) | 40 | 74.7% |
| 5 | Doncaster (DN) | 38 | 70.3% |
| 6 | Nottingham (NG) | 37 | 78.1% |
| 7 | Sheffield (S) | 36 | 77.6% |
| 8 | Lincoln (LN) | 35 | 69.0% |
| 9 | Birmingham (B) | 35 | 79.4% |
| 10 | Exeter (EX) | 34 | 64.1% |
| 11 | Taunton (TA) | 33 | 62.6% |
| 12 | Newport (NP) | 33 | 68.6% |
| 13 | Gloucester (GL) | 32 | 75.0% |
| 14 | Oxford (OX) | 28 | 72.0% |
| 15 | Shrewsbury (SY) | 28 | 76.8% |
| 16 | Portsmouth (PO) | 27 | 70.0% |
| 17 | Ipswich (IP) | 27 | 80.9% |
| 18 | York (YO) | 26 | 71.2% |
| 19 | Coventry (CV) | 25 | 68.4% |
| 20 | Norwich (NR) | 24 | 65.7% |
The twenty areas with the most Great Wall Steed cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the Steed
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 17 | 64.7% |
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 Steed
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 Steed
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 4.7% of tests
“ball joint 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 lights 4.7% 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 brake pipes 4.7% of tests
“rigid brake pipes excessively corroded”
Brake pipes run under the car, usually in front of the rear wheels. Flaking or crusty metal is what fails; a light dusting of surface rust does not. Worth asking a garage to look while it is on a ramp.
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 Steed through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £27–£84 — and 58% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £27–£84
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: emissions not tested unable to be completed
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 58%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 86 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 Steed, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2012 to 2017. Across them the pass rate runs from 69.8% to 75.7% — a spread of 5.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2012 69.8% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2013 70.3% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2014 72.5% rigid brake pipes excessively…
- 2015 75.7% ball joint excessively worn
- 2016 74.1% ball joint excessively worn
- 2017 74.4%ball joint excessively worn
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 Great Wall Steed 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 cars with a similar record
- Renault Zoe 75.4%
- Fiat Talento 75.7%
- Nissan Elgrand 72.9%
- Vauxhall Combo 76.1%
- SsangYong Rodius 76.3%
- Peugeot Bipper 76.8%
Closest pass rates among 2017 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 2017 Great Wall Steed 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 155 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 | 43 | 27.70% | 20.89% | +6.81 |
| Suspension | 29 | 18.70% | 20.98% | −2.28 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 29 | 18.70% | 12.21% | +6.49 |
| Tyres | 16 | 10.30% | 19.76% | −9.46 |
| Visibility | 12 | 7.70% | 4.97% | +2.73 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 10 | 6.50% | 5.57% | +0.93 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 9 | 5.80% | 5.52% | +0.28 |
| Non-component advisories | 4 | 2.60% | 4.18% | −1.58 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 2 | 1.30% | 1.76% | −0.46 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 0.60% | 0.82% | −0.22 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 4.7% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.7% | £5–25 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 4.7% | £80–180 |
| Emissions not tested unable to be completed Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.5% | £60–250 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 3.5% | £5–25 |
| Joints excessively worn Body, chassis, structure | Major | 3.5% | £80–250 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.5% | £3–12 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.5% | £5–25 |
| Side repeaters lens defective which has no effect on emitted light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.5% | £3–15 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Rectified | 3.5% | £5–15 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 18.6% | £80–180 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 11.6% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 9.3% | £18–45 |
| Wheel bearings has excessive play Suspension | Advisory | 8.1% | £20–55 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 7.0% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 4.7% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 12 | 75.0% | 15,246 mi |
| 30-60k | 39 | 82.1% | 47,199 mi |
| 60-90k | 24 | 70.8% | 73,651 mi |
| 90-120k | 6 | 66.7% | 100,887 mi |
| 120k+ | 5 | 40.0% | 137,993 mi |
Source: 86 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 Steed MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2017 Great Wall Steed?
74.4% of the 86 2017 Great Wall Steed tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 86.0% for cars first used in 2017. First-attempt pass rate: 68.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2017 Great Wall Steed?
The three most recorded items are ball joint excessively worn (4.65%), headlamp not working on dipped beam (4.65%), rigid brake pipes excessively corroded (4.65%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2017 Great Wall Steed MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 75.0% of the time, falling to 40.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2017 Great Wall Steed in this dataset had covered 54,244 mi.
Does the season affect the 2017 Great Wall Steed MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 79.5% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 70.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.