Pass rate
73.2%
Below average — 0.7 pts ahead of the 72.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 314 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £20–£57
2006 Mitsubishi Outlander MOT pass rate
- 2006
- typical 95,935 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
32.8% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Part only £35–£75 for Suspension pin or bush excessively worn. What fitting it takes →
7.7 pts down across model years — 8.4% in 2007, 0.7% in 2020.
Which year to buy
- Best 2019 90.9% pass
- Avoid 2007 68.1% pass
Across the 19 years on record, a spread of 22.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 65.7%
- Typical mileage
- 96k mi
The 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander MOT pass rate is 73.2% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 32.8% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Mitsubishi Outlander does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.6× the national share
Suspension accounts for 32.8% of everything recorded on the 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander, against 21.0% nationally — 11.8 points above. Ask for the front and rear suspension to be checked on a ramp before you buy — worn bushes and broken springs are cheap to look at and expensive to discover at test time.
- Based on a small sample. 314 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 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.5%, so this figure is 0.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 65.7%. The median 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander in this dataset had covered 95,935 mi.
94% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 73.8% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 72.5% of the time, April–September 74.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 11.46% of tests.
- 314 recorded tests behind this page.
- 73.2% overall pass rate, 65.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Mitsubishi Outlander, the average is 83.7% — best year 2019 (90.9%), worst 2007 (68.1%).
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
- 314
- Typical mileage (median)
- 95,935 mi
- Make and model
- Mitsubishi Outlander
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Outlander MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 59% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (94% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Outlander
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 90 | 72.2% |
| East of England | 48 | 72.9% |
| South West | 47 | 63.8% |
| West Midlands | 28 | 75.0% |
| North West | 23 | 82.6% |
| Wales | 19 | 63.2% |
| London | 18 | 88.9% |
| Yorkshire | 18 | 83.3% |
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 2006 Outlander
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 2006 Outlander
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 11.5% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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 6.4% of tests
“pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn”
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 battery 4.5% of tests
“battery(ies) insecure”
Check the battery is secure and its terminals are clean and tight — a loose battery is a fail on its own, and a weak one shows up as slow cranking on a cold morning.
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 2006 Outlander through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £20–£57 — and 37% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £20–£57
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: pins
- £40–£150
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 37%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 314 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 Outlander, side by side
19 model years on record, from 2003 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 68.1% to 90.9% — a spread of 22.8 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2003 70.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2004 68.7% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2005 69.4% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2006 73.2%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 68.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 69.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 70.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2010 71.8% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2011 73.9% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2012 75.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2013 76.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2014 79.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 82.6% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2016 85.8% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2017 87.7% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2018 89.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 90.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 90.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 89.7% windscreen damaged but not…
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 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander 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 2006 cars with a similar record
- Nissan Almera 73.2%
- Saab 9-3 73.3%
- Volkswagen Jetta 73.3%
- Hyundai Amica 73.1%
- Volkswagen Eos 73.0%
- Volvo S40 73.5%
Closest pass rates among 2006 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 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander 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 1,317 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 | 433 | 32.80% | 20.98% | +11.82 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 187 | 14.10% | 12.21% | +1.89 |
| Brakes | 156 | 11.80% | 20.89% | −9.09 |
| Tyres | 132 | 10.00% | 19.76% | −9.76 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 118 | 8.90% | 5.57% | +3.33 |
| Steering | 105 | 7.90% | 2.57% | +5.33 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 89 | 6.70% | 5.52% | +1.18 |
| Non-component advisories | 49 | 3.70% | 4.18% | −0.48 |
| Visibility | 35 | 2.60% | 4.97% | −2.37 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 13 | 1.00% | 1.76% | −0.76 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 11.5% | £5–20 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 7.3% | £5–25 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 6.4% | £40–150 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 6.0% | £18–45 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 6.0% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 5.1% | £30–80 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 5.1% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 4.8% | £18–45 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 4.5% | £60–140 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 3.8% | £8–22 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 35.0% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 23.3% | £45–95 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 18.1% | £200–700 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 17.2% | £180–450 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 16.2% | £45–110 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 15.0% | £45–120 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 4 | 75.0% | 19,419 mi |
| 30-60k | 32 | 81.3% | 48,089 mi |
| 60-90k | 89 | 76.4% | 77,481 mi |
| 90-120k | 128 | 71.9% | 102,862 mi |
| 120k+ | 61 | 67.2% | 150,239 mi |
Source: 314 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.
2006 Outlander MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander?
73.2% of the 314 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.5% for cars first used in 2006. First-attempt pass rate: 65.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (11.46%), headlamp lens slightly defective (7.32%), pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (6.37%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 75.0% of the time, falling to 67.2% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander in this dataset had covered 95,935 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander?
Petrol: 73.8% pass rate across 294 tests. Diesel: 60.0% pass rate across 15 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 72.5% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 74.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.