Pass rate
72.1%
Below average — 0.1 pts behind the 72.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 784 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £48–£120
2004 Iveco Daily MOT pass rate
- 2004
- Van
- 17 trims combined
- typical 129,968 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Brakes
27.6% 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 2020 94.6% pass
- Avoid 2000 62.9% pass
Across the 23 years on record, a spread of 31.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 65.5%
- Typical mileage
- 130k mi
The 2004 Iveco Daily MOT pass rate is 72.1% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 27.6% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Body & chassis: 2.8× the national share
Body & chassis accounts for 15.5% of everything recorded on the 2004 Iveco Daily, against 5.6% nationally — 9.9 points above. Brakes are still the single largest share at 27.6%, but at 20.9% nationally that one is ordinary. Look underneath for corrosion near the jacking points and suspension mounts; surface rust is normal, flaking metal is not.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 34% 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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Every Iveco Daily first registered in 2004 is combined here — 17 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2004 Iveco Daily compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.2%, so this figure is 0.1 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 65.5%. The median 2004 Iveco Daily in this dataset had covered 129,968 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 71.4% of the time, April–September 72.5%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 7.78% of tests.
- 784 recorded tests behind this page.
- 72.1% overall pass rate, 65.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Iveco Daily, the average is 75.9% — best year 2020 (94.6%), worst 2000 (62.9%).
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
- 784
- Typical mileage (median)
- 129,968 mi
- Make and model
- Iveco Daily
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
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 Daily MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 61% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Iveco Daily is most common
Across all Daily model years on record (2000–2022): 5,929 Iveco Daily cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 12,963 tests. Bristol (BS) has the most, with 177 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 | Bristol (BS) | 177 | 72.5% |
| 2 | Sheffield (S) | 172 | 82.3% |
| 3 | Exeter (EX) | 162 | 71.1% |
| 4 | Peterborough (PE) | 149 | 80.0% |
| 5 | Birmingham (B) | 130 | 80.6% |
| 6 | Swansea (SA) | 120 | 68.1% |
| 7 | Gloucester (GL) | 115 | 68.1% |
| 8 | Doncaster (DN) | 115 | 86.8% |
| 9 | Portsmouth (PO) | 114 | 70.9% |
| 10 | Cardiff (CF) | 112 | 73.3% |
| 11 | Chelmsford (CM) | 112 | 93.3% |
| 12 | Derby (DE) | 108 | 86.5% |
| 13 | Brighton (BN) | 104 | 70.9% |
| 14 | Southampton (SO) | 100 | 80.3% |
| 15 | Nottingham (NG) | 97 | 77.8% |
| 16 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 92 | 78.3% |
| 17 | Newport (NP) | 90 | 76.1% |
| 18 | Plymouth (PL) | 89 | 65.6% |
| 19 | Ashford (TN) | 87 | 74.3% |
| 20 | Poole (BH) | 85 | 73.2% |
The twenty areas with the most Iveco Daily 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 Daily
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South West | 197 | 60.9% |
| South East | 97 | 78.4% |
| Yorkshire | 82 | 70.7% |
| North West | 80 | 76.3% |
| Wales | 77 | 75.3% |
| West Midlands | 72 | 75.0% |
| East Midlands | 61 | 75.4% |
| East of England | 50 | 84.0% |
| North East | 44 | 65.9% |
| Scotland | 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 2004 Daily
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 2004 Daily
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 7.8% 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 4.6% 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 battery 3.8% of tests
“battery(ies) insecure”
Check the battery is secure and its terminals are clean and tight — a loose battery is a fail on its own, and a weak one shows up as slow cranking on a cold morning.
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 2004 Daily through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £48–£120 — and 34% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £48–£120
- Cheapest common item: rear fog lamp not working
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: component mounting prescribed areas…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 34%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 784 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 Daily, side by side
23 model years on record, from 2000 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 62.9% to 94.6% — a spread of 31.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 62.9% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2001 68.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2002 68.1% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2003 67.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2004 72.1%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 69.8% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2006 72.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 72.1% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2008 72.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 76.4% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2010 75.4% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2011 76.1% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2012 79.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2013 73.5% service brake performance…
- 2014 82.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2015 81.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 84.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 85.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 86.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2019 89.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2020 94.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 88.2% wipers does not clear the…
- 2022 88.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
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 2004 Iveco Daily 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 2004 vans with a similar record
- Volkswagen Caddy 71.9%
- Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 72.9%
- Volkswagen Transporter 71.0%
- Ford Transit 70.3%
- Citroen Berlingo 70.2%
- Peugeot Partner 69.7%
Closest pass rates among 2004 vans with at least 1,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. Full rankings: best vans and worst vans for MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2004 Iveco Daily 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 2,559 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 | 716 | 27.60% | 20.89% | +6.71 |
| Suspension | 498 | 19.20% | 20.98% | −1.78 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 427 | 16.50% | 12.21% | +4.29 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 402 | 15.50% | 5.57% | +9.93 |
| Tyres | 154 | 5.90% | 19.76% | −13.86 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 130 | 5.00% | 5.52% | −0.52 |
| Visibility | 105 | 4.00% | 4.97% | −0.97 |
| Steering | 51 | 2.00% | 2.57% | −0.57 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 43 | 1.70% | 1.76% | −0.06 |
| Non-component advisories | 33 | 1.30% | 4.18% | −2.88 |
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 | 7.8% | £5–20 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 5.7% | £45–110 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 4.6% | £80–200 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.0% | £3–15 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.8% | £60–140 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 3.8% | £80–180 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 3.7% | £18–45 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 3.6% | £60–150 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 3.2% | £180–450 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.1% | £5–25 |
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 | 21.4% | £80–180 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 11.7% | £45–110 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 11.7% | £200–700 |
| Chassis condition corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 10.8% | £180–450 |
| Integral vehicle structure condition corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 9.9% | £180–450 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 8.8% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 10 | 80.0% | 28,700 mi |
| 30-60k | 79 | 78.5% | 48,381 mi |
| 60-90k | 101 | 74.3% | 75,675 mi |
| 90-120k | 137 | 75.2% | 102,247 mi |
| 120k+ | 420 | 69.5% | 174,395 mi |
Source: 784 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.
2004 Daily MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2004 Iveco Daily?
72.1% of the 784 2004 Iveco Daily tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.2% for cars first used in 2004. First-attempt pass rate: 65.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2004 Iveco Daily?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (7.78%), rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements (5.74%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (4.59%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2004 Iveco Daily MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 80.0% of the time, falling to 69.5% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2004 Iveco Daily in this dataset had covered 129,968 mi.
Does the season affect the 2004 Iveco Daily MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 71.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 72.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.