Pass rate
90.9%
Above average — 3.9 pts behind the 94.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 361 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £48–£111
2023 Mercedes-Benz V MOT pass rate
- 2023
- 3 trims combined
- typical 26,236 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
46.2% 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 2025 97.7% pass
- Avoid 2019 87.0% pass
Across the 7 years on record, a spread of 10.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 90.1%
- Typical mileage
- 26k mi
The 2023 Mercedes-Benz V MOT pass rate is 90.9% of its MOT tests — 3.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 46.2% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Mercedes-Benz V does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.3× the national share
Tyres make up 46.2% of everything recorded on the 2023 Mercedes-Benz V, against 19.8% nationally — 26.4 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 94.8%; this one manages 90.9% — 3.9 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 4% 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 Mercedes-Benz V first registered in 2023 is combined here — 3 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2023 Mercedes-Benz V compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 94.8%, so this figure is 3.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 90.1%. The median 2023 Mercedes-Benz V in this dataset had covered 26,236 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 90.4% of the time, April–September 91.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 3.60% of tests.
- 361 recorded tests behind this page.
- 90.9% overall pass rate, 90.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Mercedes-Benz V, the average is 88.5% — best year 2025 (97.7%), worst 2019 (87.0%).
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
- 361
- Typical mileage (median)
- 26,236 mi
- Make and model
- Mercedes-Benz V
- 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 V MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 77% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the V
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| East of England | 129 | 89.1% |
| South East | 80 | 90.0% |
| North West | 41 | 92.7% |
| Yorkshire | 29 | 93.1% |
| London | 23 | 95.7% |
| West Midlands | 22 | 95.5% |
| South West | 18 | 88.9% |
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 2023 V
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 2023 V
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 3.6% 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 shock absorbers 2.5% of tests
“shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak”
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.
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Check the brakes 0.8% 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 2023 V through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £48–£111 — and 4% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £48–£111
- Cheapest common item: side repeaters lens defective
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 4%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 361 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 V, side by side
7 model years on record, from 2019 to 2025. Across them the pass rate runs from 87.0% to 97.7% — a spread of 10.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 87.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 87.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 87.7% shock absorbers has a serious…
- 2022 89.1% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2023 90.9%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2024 94.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2025 97.7% srs malfunction indicator lamp…
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 2023 Mercedes-Benz V 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 2023 cars with a similar record
- Tesla Model Y 92.9%
- Polestar Polestar 94.6%
- Kia Niro 95.5%
- Toyota Corolla 95.7%
- Ford Puma 96.5%
- Levc Tx 97.0%
Closest pass rates among 2023 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 2023 Mercedes-Benz V 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 184 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 | 85 | 46.20% | 19.76% | +26.44 |
| Brakes | 39 | 21.20% | 20.89% | +0.31 |
| Suspension | 33 | 17.90% | 20.98% | −3.08 |
| Visibility | 15 | 8.20% | 4.97% | +3.23 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 4 | 2.20% | 12.21% | −10.01 |
| Non-component advisories | 3 | 1.60% | 4.18% | −2.58 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 2 | 1.10% | 1.76% | −0.66 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 0.50% | 5.57% | −5.07 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1 | 0.50% | 5.52% | −5.02 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 0.50% | 0.82% | −0.32 |
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 | 3.6% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.8% | £45–95 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 2.5% | £30–75 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.83% | £18–45 |
| Side repeaters lens defective which has no effect on emitted light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.55% | £3–15 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.55% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Major | 0.55% | £45–95 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 0.28% | £18–45 |
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 | 8.3% | £45–95 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 5.3% | £30–75 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 4.7% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 3.0% | £45–110 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 3.0% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 3.0% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 200 | 90.0% | 14,729 mi |
| 30-60k | 96 | 92.7% | 42,070 mi |
| 60-90k | 25 | 88.0% | 76,872 mi |
| 90-120k | 21 | 85.7% | 100,946 mi |
| 120k+ | 6 | 100.0% | 165,535 mi |
Source: 361 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.
2023 V MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2023 Mercedes-Benz V?
90.9% of the 361 2023 Mercedes-Benz V tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 94.8% for cars first used in 2023. First-attempt pass rate: 90.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2023 Mercedes-Benz V?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.60%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.77%), shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak (2.49%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2023 Mercedes-Benz V MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 90.0% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2023 Mercedes-Benz V in this dataset had covered 26,236 mi.
Does the season affect the 2023 Mercedes-Benz V MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 90.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 91.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.