Pass rate
89.7%
Above average — 1.5 pts behind the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 919 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £31–£77
2021 Mitsubishi Outlander MOT pass rate
- 2021
- typical 33,000 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
41.0% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
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
- 88.5%
- Typical mileage
- 33k mi
The 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander MOT pass rate is 89.7% of its MOT tests — 1.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 41.0% 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
Tyres: 2.1× the national share
Tyres make up 41.0% of everything recorded on the 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander, against 19.8% nationally — 21.2 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.
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 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 1.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 88.5%. The median 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander in this dataset had covered 33,000 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Hybrid — 63% of tests, with a 89.5% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 90.5% of the time, April–September 88.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 2.83% of tests.
- 919 recorded tests behind this page.
- 89.7% overall pass rate, 88.5% 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
- 919
- Typical mileage (median)
- 33,000 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
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Outlander MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 81% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Hybrid is the most common here (63% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Outlander
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 176 | 92.6% |
| Yorkshire | 129 | 87.6% |
| Scotland | 114 | 88.6% |
| North West | 81 | 90.1% |
| South West | 76 | 81.6% |
| East of England | 72 | 91.7% |
| West Midlands | 64 | 92.2% |
| London | 61 | 96.7% |
| East Midlands | 60 | 85.0% |
| North East | 48 | 93.8% |
| Wales | 38 | 84.2% |
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 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 2021 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 windscreen 2.8% 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 wipers and washers 2.6% 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.
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Check tyre pressures and valves 1.6% 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.
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 Outlander through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £31–£77 — and 50% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £31–£77
- Cheapest common item: wipers does not clear the windscreen…
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 50%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 919 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 2021 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 2021 cars with a similar record
- Hyundai Kona Ultimate Gdi 89.7%
- Peugeot Rifter 89.7%
- Audi Q4 E-Tron 89.8%
- Kia Sportage GT-Ln Crdi 89.8%
- Mercedes-Benz Cla 89.6%
- Mercedes-Benz E 89.6%
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 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 750 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 | 309 | 41.00% | 19.76% | +21.24 |
| Brakes | 168 | 22.30% | 20.89% | +1.41 |
| Visibility | 90 | 12.00% | 4.97% | +7.03 |
| Non-component advisories | 74 | 9.80% | 4.18% | +5.62 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 59 | 7.80% | 12.21% | −4.41 |
| Suspension | 25 | 3.30% | 20.98% | −17.68 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 12 | 1.60% | 0.82% | +0.78 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 8 | 1.10% | 5.57% | −4.47 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 3 | 0.40% | 1.76% | −1.36 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2 | 0.30% | 5.52% | −5.22 |
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 | 2.8% | £80–200 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 2.6% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 2.1% | £8–22 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.0% | £45–95 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Major | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.2% | £5–25 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.76% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.65% | £5–25 |
| Headlamp aim not tested unable to be tested Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.54% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 12.3% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 9.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 7.9% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 7.3% | £18–45 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 3.5% | £20–80 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 3.0% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 412 | 89.6% | 20,348 mi |
| 30-60k | 398 | 89.2% | 42,482 mi |
| 60-90k | 87 | 92.0% | 72,986 mi |
| 90-120k | 20 | 90.0% | 100,707 mi |
| 120k+ | 2 | 100.0% | 132,811 mi |
Source: 919 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 Outlander MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander?
89.7% of the 919 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 88.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.83%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (2.61%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (2.07%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 89.6% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander in this dataset had covered 33,000 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander?
Hybrid: 89.5% pass rate across 582 tests. Petrol: 89.9% pass rate across 337 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 90.5% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 88.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.