Pass rate
91.3%
Above average — 0.7 pts behind the 92.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 17,806 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £29–£69
2022 Peugeot 208 MOT pass rate
- 2022
- 2 trims combined
- typical 19,395 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
44.0% 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 →
2.6 pts down across model years — 6.8% in 2012, 4.2% in 2022.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 95.5% pass
- Avoid 2012 74.3% pass
Across the 12 years on record, a spread of 21.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 90.5%
- Typical mileage
- 19k mi
The 2022 Peugeot 208 MOT pass rate is 91.3% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 44.0% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Peugeot 208 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.2× the national share
Tyres make up 44.0% of everything recorded on the 2022 Peugeot 208, against 19.8% nationally — 24.2 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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Every Peugeot 208 first registered in 2022 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2022 Peugeot 208 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 92.0%, so this figure is 0.7 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 90.5%. The median 2022 Peugeot 208 in this dataset had covered 19,395 mi.
68% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 92.2% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 92.2% of the time, April–September 90.5%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords", noted on 2.09% of tests.
- 17,806 recorded tests behind this page.
- 91.3% overall pass rate, 90.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Peugeot 208, the average is 81.6% — best year 2023 (95.5%), worst 2012 (74.3%).
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
- 17,806
- Typical mileage (median)
- 19,395 mi
- Make and model
- Peugeot 208
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the 208 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 74% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (68% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the 208
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 3,350 | 90.8% |
| Scotland | 2,146 | 89.5% |
| North West | 2,029 | 93.1% |
| West Midlands | 1,919 | 93.1% |
| East of England | 1,786 | 91.3% |
| South West | 1,682 | 91.1% |
| Yorkshire | 1,491 | 90.1% |
| East Midlands | 1,328 | 92.5% |
| Wales | 822 | 89.7% |
| North East | 766 | 90.7% |
| London | 486 | 90.9% |
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 2022 208
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 2022 208
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 wipers and washers 2.0% 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 the windscreen 1.1% 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 tyre tread 0.8% of tests
“tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm”
Check all four tyres cold, including the inner shoulder where wear hides — 1.6mm across the central three-quarters is the legal limit, and most testers fail at 1.6mm without argument.
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 2022 208 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £29–£69 — and 43% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £29–£69
- 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
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 43%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 17,806 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 208, side by side
12 model years on record, from 2012 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 74.3% to 95.5% — a spread of 21.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2012 74.3% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2013 75.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 77.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 81.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 82.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 83.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 85.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2019 88.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2020 88.7% wipers does not clear the…
- 2021 90.0% wipers does not clear the…
- 2022 91.3%has a cut in excess of the…
- 2023 95.5% headlamp aim too high
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 2022 Peugeot 208 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 2022 cars with a similar record
- Kia Ceed GT-Line Isg 91.3%
- Vauxhall Grandland Ultimate 91.3%
- Fiat 500E 91.3%
- Volkswagen ID3 91.2%
- Audi E-Tron 91.2%
- BMW 420I 91.2%
Closest pass rates among 2022 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 2022 Peugeot 208 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 11,036 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 | 4,868 | 44.00% | 19.76% | +24.24 |
| Brakes | 2,481 | 22.40% | 20.89% | +1.51 |
| Visibility | 1,221 | 11.00% | 4.97% | +6.03 |
| Suspension | 877 | 7.90% | 20.98% | −13.08 |
| Non-component advisories | 686 | 6.20% | 4.18% | +2.02 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 442 | 4.00% | 12.21% | −8.21 |
| Road Wheels | 190 | 1.70% | 0.75% | +0.95 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 111 | 1.00% | 5.52% | −4.52 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 90 | 0.80% | 5.57% | −4.77 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 70 | 0.60% | 1.76% | −1.16 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.1% | £45–95 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 2.0% | £8–22 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.8% | £8–22 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.1% | £80–200 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.1% | £8–22 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.83% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.67% | £30–80 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.64% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.53% | £18–45 |
| Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 0.45% | £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 | 11.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 6.9% | £45–110 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 4.4% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.3% | £45–95 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.2% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 2.2% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 13,938 | 92.7% | 16,612 mi |
| 30-60k | 3,478 | 86.1% | 39,244 mi |
| 60-90k | 359 | 85.5% | 69,811 mi |
| 90-120k | 23 | 82.6% | 98,328 mi |
| 120k+ | 4 | 100.0% | 137,168 mi |
Source: 17,806 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.
2022 208 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2022 Peugeot 208?
91.3% of the 17,806 2022 Peugeot 208 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 92.0% for cars first used in 2022. First-attempt pass rate: 90.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2022 Peugeot 208?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.09%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.99%), wipers blade defective (1.76%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2022 Peugeot 208 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.7% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2022 Peugeot 208 in this dataset had covered 19,395 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2022 Peugeot 208?
Petrol: 92.2% pass rate across 12,183 tests. Electric: 89.2% pass rate across 4,885 tests. Diesel: 89.1% pass rate across 736 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2022 Peugeot 208 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 92.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 90.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.