Pass rate
94.6%
Above average — 8.6 pts ahead of the 86.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 167 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £32–£83
2017 Knaus motorhome MOT pass rate
- 2017
- Motorhome
- 5 trims combined
- typical 21,080 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
31.7% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tyre has a tear. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2018 95.3% pass
- Avoid 2015 91.3% pass
Across the 5 years on record, a spread of 4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 94.3%
- Typical mileage
- 21k mi
The 2017 Knaus motorhome MOT pass rate is 94.6% of its MOT tests — 8.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 31.7% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Knaus motorhome does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.6× the national share
Tyres make up 31.7% of everything recorded on the 2017 Knaus Motorhome, against 19.8% nationally — 11.9 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.
- 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 86.0% and this one manages 94.6% — 8.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 167 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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Every Knaus motorhome first registered in 2017 is combined here — 5 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2017 Knaus motorhome compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 86.0%, so this figure is 8.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 94.3%. The median 2017 Knaus motorhome in this dataset had covered 21,080 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 95.8% of the time, April–September 93.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Outline marker lamp not working", noted on 1.20% of tests.
- 167 recorded tests behind this page.
- 94.6% overall pass rate, 94.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Knaus motorhome, the average is 93.4% — best year 2018 (95.3%), worst 2015 (91.3%).
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
- 167
- Typical mileage (median)
- 21,080 mi
- Make and model
- Knaus Motorhome
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Motorhome MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 80% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Motorhome
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| North West | 26 | 92.3% |
| East Midlands | 25 | 96.0% |
| South East | 24 | 95.8% |
| East of England | 22 | 100.0% |
| West Midlands | 19 | 89.5% |
| South West | 16 | 87.5% |
| Yorkshire | 15 | 100.0% |
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 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 2017 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 lights 1.2% of tests
“outline marker 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.
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Check the windscreen 1.2% 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 brakes 0.6% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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 Motorhome through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £32–£83 — and 36% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £32–£83
- Cheapest common item: srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 36%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 167 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
5 model years on record, from 2015 to 2019. Across them the pass rate runs from 91.3% to 95.3% — a spread of 4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2015 91.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 93.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 94.6%outline marker lamp not working
- 2018 95.3% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2019 92.2% mirrors slightly damaged
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 Knaus 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 2017 motorhomes with a similar record
- Mercedes-Benz Motorhome 95.0%
- Fiat Motorhome 93.3%
- Ford Motorhome 93.1%
- Peugeot Motorhome 93.0%
- Chausson Motorhome 92.1%
- Hymer Motorhome 89.4%
Closest pass rates among 2017 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 2017 Knaus Motorhome 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 6 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 60 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 | 19 | 31.70% | 19.76% | +11.94 |
| Brakes | 17 | 28.30% | 20.89% | +7.41 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 9 | 15.00% | 12.21% | +2.79 |
| Suspension | 7 | 11.70% | 20.98% | −9.28 |
| Visibility | 5 | 8.30% | 4.97% | +3.33 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 3 | 5.00% | 0.82% | +4.18 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outline marker lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.2% | £3–15 |
| Service brake performance efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 1.2% | £60–150 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 1.2% | £3–12 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.2% | £80–200 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.60% | £18–45 |
| Electrical wiring insecure Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.60% | £5–25 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.60% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too far to the right Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.60% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.60% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.60% | £30–80 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 5.4% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 3.6% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 3.6% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 1.8% | £40–150 |
| Service brake performance excessively fluctuating Brakes | Advisory | 1.8% | £60–150 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 1.2% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 120 | 96.7% | 18,526 mi |
| 30-60k | 44 | 88.6% | 40,993 mi |
| 60-90k | 3 | 100.0% | 64,490 mi |
Source: 167 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 Motorhome MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2017 Knaus motorhome?
94.6% of the 167 2017 Knaus motorhome tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 86.0% for cars first used in 2017. First-attempt pass rate: 94.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2017 Knaus motorhome?
The three most recorded items are outline marker lamp not working (1.20%), service brake performance efficiency below requirements (1.20%), srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault (1.20%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2017 Knaus motorhome MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 96.7% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2017 Knaus motorhome in this dataset had covered 21,080 mi.
Does the season affect the 2017 Knaus motorhome MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 95.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 93.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.