Pass rate
79.0%
Around average — 6.6 pts ahead of the 72.4% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 62 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £34–£89
2005 Iveco motorhome MOT pass rate
- 2005
- Motorhome
- 5 trims combined
- typical 94,196 mi
Only 62 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
Lamps & electrics
22.2% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Part only £6–£18 for Registration plate lamp inoperative (multiple lamps). What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2007 85.7% pass
- Avoid 2004 68.8% pass
Across the 7 years on record, a spread of 16.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 76.4%
- Typical mileage
- 94k mi
The 2005 Iveco motorhome MOT pass rate is 79.0% of its MOT tests — 6.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 22.2% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.8× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 22.2% of everything recorded on the 2005 Iveco Motorhome, against 12.2% nationally — 10.0 points above. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- Beats its own age and mileage. Once you allow for how old and how far these motorhomes have been driven, the expected pass rate is 72.4% and this one manages 79.0% — 6.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- 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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Every Iveco motorhome first registered in 2005 is combined here — 5 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2005 Iveco motorhome compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.4%, so this figure is 6.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 76.4%. The median 2005 Iveco motorhome in this dataset had covered 94,196 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 4.84% of tests.
- 62 recorded tests behind this page.
- 79.0% overall pass rate, 76.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Iveco motorhome, the average is 74.6% — best year 2007 (85.7%), worst 2004 (68.8%).
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
- 62
- Typical mileage (median)
- 94,196 mi
- Make and model
- Iveco Motorhome
- 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 Motorhome MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 56% so small gaps stay visible.
What fails a 2005 Motorhome
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 2005 Motorhome
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 4.8% of tests
“ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated”
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 corrosion 4.8% 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 lights 4.8% of tests
“position lamp not working”
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 2005 Motorhome through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £34–£89 — and 58% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £34–£89
- 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
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 58%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 62 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 Motorhome, side by side
7 model years on record, from 2000 to 2007. Across them the pass rate runs from 68.8% to 85.7% — a spread of 16.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 72.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2001 70.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2002 73.3% battery(ies) insecure but not…
- 2003 78.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2004 68.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 79.0%ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2007 85.7% rear fog lamp not working
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 2005 Iveco Motorhome 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 2005 motorhomes with a similar record
- Fiat Motorhome 79.2%
- Ford Motorhome 78.8%
- Auto Trail Motorhome 78.7%
- Renault Motorhome 77.8%
- Ci Motorhome Motorhome 76.9%
- Mercedes-Benz Motorhome 81.2%
Closest pass rates among 2005 motorhomes with at least 150 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. Full rankings: best motorhomes and worst motorhomes for MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2005 Iveco Motorhome 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 157 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 35 | 22.20% | 12.21% | +9.99 |
| Brakes | 33 | 20.90% | 20.89% | +0.01 |
| Suspension | 32 | 20.30% | 20.98% | −0.68 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 20 | 12.70% | 5.57% | +7.13 |
| Steering | 10 | 6.30% | 2.57% | +3.73 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 7 | 4.40% | 5.52% | −1.12 |
| Visibility | 7 | 4.40% | 4.97% | −0.57 |
| Tyres | 6 | 3.80% | 19.76% | −15.96 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 5 | 3.20% | 1.76% | +1.44 |
| Non-component advisories | 2 | 1.30% | 4.18% | −2.88 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 4.8% | £18–45 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 4.8% | £180–450 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 4.8% | £5–25 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.8% | £3–15 |
| Anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an ABS fault Brakes | Major | 3.2% | £3–15 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 3.2% | £18–45 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.2% | £60–140 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.2% | £5–25 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.2% | £5–20 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) throwing direct white light to the rear Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.2% | £5–20 |
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 | 11.3% | £80–180 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 9.7% | £40–150 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 8.1% | £18–45 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 8.1% | £200–700 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 8.1% | £30–75 |
| Chassis condition corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 6.5% | £180–450 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 6 | 83.3% | 23,504 mi |
| 30-60k | 10 | 90.0% | 47,129 mi |
| 60-90k | 12 | 83.3% | 81,012 mi |
| 90-120k | 17 | 64.7% | 104,094 mi |
| 120k+ | 14 | 85.7% | 179,798 mi |
Source: 62 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.
2005 Motorhome MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2005 Iveco motorhome?
79.0% of the 62 2005 Iveco motorhome tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.4% for cars first used in 2005. First-attempt pass rate: 76.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2005 Iveco motorhome?
The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (4.84%), component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (4.84%), position lamp not working (4.84%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2005 Iveco motorhome MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 83.3% of the time, falling to 85.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2005 Iveco motorhome in this dataset had covered 94,196 mi.