Pass rate
80.9%
Around average — 10.3 pts behind the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,977 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £35–£87
2021 Maxus E Deliver MOT pass rate
- 2021
- 2 trims combined
- typical 30,373 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
25.5% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 84.6% pass
- Avoid 2021 80.9% pass · this year
Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 3.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 77.6%
- Typical mileage
- 30k mi
The 2021 Maxus E Deliver MOT pass rate is 80.9% of its MOT tests — 10.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 25.5% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Maxus E Deliver does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.6× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 19.9% of everything recorded on the 2021 Maxus E Deliver, against 12.2% nationally — 7.7 points above. Tyres are still the single largest share at 25.5%, but at 19.8% nationally that one is ordinary. 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 91.2%; this one manages 80.9% — 10.3 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 31% 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 Maxus E Deliver first registered in 2021 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2021 Maxus E Deliver compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 10.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 77.6%. The median 2021 Maxus E Deliver in this dataset had covered 30,373 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 86.7% of the time, April–September 75.6%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 3.39% of tests.
- 1,977 recorded tests behind this page.
- 80.9% overall pass rate, 77.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Maxus E Deliver, the average is 81.9% — best year 2020 (84.6%), worst 2021 (80.9%).
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
- 1,977
- Typical mileage (median)
- 30,373 mi
- Make and model
- Maxus E Deliver
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the E Deliver MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 60% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the E Deliver
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 475 | 83.4% |
| East of England | 276 | 87.0% |
| London | 234 | 90.2% |
| South West | 164 | 79.3% |
| North West | 156 | 78.8% |
| Yorkshire | 148 | 75.0% |
| West Midlands | 133 | 71.4% |
| Scotland | 131 | 68.7% |
| East Midlands | 107 | 71.0% |
| Wales | 86 | 88.4% |
| North East | 64 | 76.6% |
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 2021 E Deliver
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 2021 E Deliver
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 windscreen 3.4% 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 tyre pressures and valves 2.8% of tests
“tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative”
Set the pressures to the figures on the door pillar, not the tyre wall, and check the valves do not hiss. A leaking valve is a two-minute fix that fails a test.
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Check the wipers and washers 2.8% of tests
“wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively”
Run the wipers with the screen wet: they should clear it in one sweep without smearing or juddering. Top the washer bottle up and check both jets hit the screen.
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 2021 E Deliver through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £35–£87 — and 31% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £35–£87
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 31%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,977 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 E Deliver, side by side
4 model years on record, from 2020 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 80.9% to 84.6% — a spread of 3.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2020 84.6% side repeaters lens defective…
- 2021 80.9%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2022 83.5% wipers does not clear the…
- 2023 84.4% stop 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 2021 Maxus E Deliver 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 2021 cars with a similar record
- Mercedes-Benz Citan 82.9%
- Vauxhall Combo 84.0%
- Ford Galaxy 84.1%
- Citroen C4 Sense + 84.8%
- Mercedes-Benz Vito 85.2%
- Tesla Model 3 Performance 85.3%
Closest pass rates among 2021 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 2021 Maxus E Deliver 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 2,398 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 | 613 | 25.50% | 19.76% | +5.74 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 478 | 19.90% | 12.21% | +7.69 |
| Brakes | 433 | 18.00% | 20.89% | −2.89 |
| Visibility | 249 | 10.40% | 4.97% | +5.43 |
| Suspension | 209 | 8.70% | 20.98% | −12.28 |
| Non-component advisories | 145 | 6.00% | 4.18% | +1.82 |
| Steering | 122 | 5.10% | 2.57% | +2.53 |
| Road Wheels | 86 | 3.60% | 0.75% | +2.85 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 48 | 2.00% | 5.57% | −3.57 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 15 | 0.60% | 1.76% | −1.16 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.4% | £80–200 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Major | 2.8% | £45–95 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 2.8% | £8–22 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 2.7% | £45–95 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.6% | £3–12 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 2.2% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.1% | £5–25 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.9% | £45–95 |
| Leaf spring fractured Suspension | Major | 1.8% | £40–150 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 1.7% | £45–110 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 9.8% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 7.3% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 5.6% | £45–110 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Advisory | 4.2% | £20–55 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 4.2% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 3.9% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 958 | 87.3% | 17,741 mi |
| 30-60k | 809 | 75.9% | 42,244 mi |
| 60-90k | 164 | 68.3% | 69,784 mi |
| 90-120k | 26 | 69.2% | 97,237 mi |
| 120k+ | 9 | 88.9% | 138,188 mi |
Source: 1,977 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.
2021 E Deliver MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Maxus E Deliver?
80.9% of the 1,977 2021 Maxus E Deliver tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 77.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Maxus E Deliver?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.39%), tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative (2.78%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (2.78%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Maxus E Deliver MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 87.3% of the time, falling to 88.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Maxus E Deliver in this dataset had covered 30,373 mi.
Does the season affect the 2021 Maxus E Deliver MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 86.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 75.6%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.