Pass rate
81.3%
Around average — 4.1 pts ahead of the 77.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 80 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £30–£89
2012 Mazda Premacy MOT pass rate
- 2012
- typical 52,302 mi
Only 80 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.
Most common fault
Suspension
23.9% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2017 84.9% pass
- Avoid 2004 64.0% pass
Across the 7 years on record, a spread of 20.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 77.3%
- Typical mileage
- 52k mi
The 2012 Mazda Premacy MOT pass rate is 81.3% of its MOT tests — 4.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 23.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Mazda Premacy does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.7× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 20.2% of everything recorded on the 2012 Mazda Premacy, against 12.2% nationally — 8.0 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 23.9%, but at 21.0% 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.
- Beats its own age and mileage. Once you allow for how old and how far these cars have been driven, the expected pass rate is 77.2% and this one manages 81.3% — 4.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 80 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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How does the 2012 Mazda Premacy compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 77.2%, so this figure is 4.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 77.3%. The median 2012 Mazda Premacy in this dataset had covered 52,302 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 83.0% of the time, April–September 78.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Position lamp not working", noted on 7.50% of tests.
- 80 recorded tests behind this page.
- 81.3% overall pass rate, 77.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Mazda Premacy, the average is 69.3% — best year 2017 (84.9%), worst 2004 (64.0%).
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
- 80
- Typical mileage (median)
- 52,302 mi
- Make and model
- Mazda Premacy
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Headlight Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Premacy MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 50% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Premacy
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 22 | 81.8% |
| East of England | 21 | 85.7% |
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 2012 Premacy
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 2012 Premacy
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 7.5% 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.
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Check the suspension joints 3.8% 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 the shock absorbers 3.8% of tests
“shock absorbers has negligible damping effect”
Press down hard on each corner of the car and let go. It should settle in one bounce; if it keeps rocking, or you can see oil weeping down a shock absorber, that is the fault a tester will find.
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 2012 Premacy through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £30–£89 — and 38% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £30–£89
- Cheapest common item: position lamp not working
- £5–£25
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 38%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 80 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 Premacy, side by side
7 model years on record, from 2000 to 2017. Across them the pass rate runs from 64.0% to 84.9% — a spread of 20.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 75.7% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2001 64.1% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2002 68.8% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2003 64.0% component mounting prescribed…
- 2004 64.0% component mounting prescribed…
- 2012 81.3%position lamp not working
- 2017 84.9% 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 2012 Mazda Premacy 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 2012 cars with a similar record
- Land Rover Discovery 81.2%
- Mercedes-Benz Slk 81.2%
- Volvo V70 81.2%
- Honda Accord 81.2%
- Land Rover Freelander 81.4%
- Land Rover Defender 81.4%
Closest pass rates among 2012 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 2012 Mazda Premacy 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 107 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 26 | 23.90% | 20.98% | +2.92 |
| Tyres | 23 | 21.10% | 19.76% | +1.34 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 22 | 20.20% | 12.21% | +7.99 |
| Brakes | 12 | 11.00% | 20.89% | −9.89 |
| Visibility | 7 | 6.40% | 4.97% | +1.43 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 6 | 5.50% | 5.57% | −0.07 |
| Non-component advisories | 4 | 3.70% | 4.18% | −0.48 |
| Steering | 3 | 2.80% | 2.57% | +0.23 |
| Road Wheels | 3 | 2.80% | 0.75% | +2.05 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1 | 0.90% | 5.52% | −4.62 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 7.5% | £5–25 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 3.8% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.8% | £5–25 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 3.8% | £80–250 |
| Shock absorbers has negligible damping effect Suspension | Major | 3.8% | £30–75 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.8% | £80–200 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Major | 2.5% | £20–55 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 2.5% | £18–45 |
| Fluid level below minimum Steering | Minor | 2.5% | £60–200 |
| Hazard warning tell-tale inoperative Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.5% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 13.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.8% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 7.5% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 7.5% | £40–150 |
| Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.0% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 3.8% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 10 | 100.0% | 17,992 mi |
| 30-60k | 37 | 86.5% | 45,033 mi |
| 60-90k | 18 | 77.8% | 74,275 mi |
| 90-120k | 12 | 58.3% | 105,668 mi |
| 120k+ | 3 | 66.7% | 133,446 mi |
Source: 80 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.
2012 Premacy MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2012 Mazda Premacy?
81.3% of the 80 2012 Mazda Premacy tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 77.2% for cars first used in 2012. First-attempt pass rate: 77.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2012 Mazda Premacy?
The three most recorded items are position lamp not working (7.50%), ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (3.75%), headlamp lens slightly defective (3.75%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2012 Mazda Premacy MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 66.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2012 Mazda Premacy in this dataset had covered 52,302 mi.
Does the season affect the 2012 Mazda Premacy MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 83.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 78.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.