Pass rate
93.6%
Above average — 1.2 pts behind the 94.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 188 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £42–£114
2023 Peugeot 308 MOT pass rate
- 2023
- 5 trims combined
- typical 24,995 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
34.2% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tyre has a tear. What fitting it takes →
4.9 pts down across model years — 6.0% in 2007, 1.1% in 2022.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 93.6% pass · this year
- Avoid 2007 66.7% pass
Across the 17 years on record, a spread of 26.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 93.2%
- Typical mileage
- 25k mi
The 2023 Peugeot 308 MOT pass rate is 93.6% of its MOT tests — 1.2 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 34.2% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Peugeot 308 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.7× the national share
Tyres make up 34.2% of everything recorded on the 2023 Peugeot 308, against 19.8% nationally — 14.4 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 0% 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.
- Based on a small sample. 188 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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Every Peugeot 308 first registered in 2023 is combined here — 5 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2023 Peugeot 308 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 94.8%, so this figure is 1.2 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 93.2%. The median 2023 Peugeot 308 in this dataset had covered 24,995 mi.
67% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 92.9% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 92.8% of the time, April–September 96.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp aim too low", noted on 2.66% of tests.
- 188 recorded tests behind this page.
- 93.6% overall pass rate, 93.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Peugeot 308, the average is 77.0% — best year 2023 (93.6%), worst 2007 (66.7%).
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
- 188
- Typical mileage (median)
- 24,995 mi
- Make and model
- Peugeot 308
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Headlight Alignment
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the 308 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 83% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (67% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the 308
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 35 | 91.4% |
| Scotland | 25 | 92.0% |
| North West | 23 | 91.3% |
| West Midlands | 22 | 95.5% |
| East of England | 20 | 95.0% |
| Yorkshire | 19 | 94.7% |
| South West | 16 | 93.8% |
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 308
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 308
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 2.7% of tests
“headlamp aim too low”
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 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 suspension joints 0.5% of tests
“ball joint 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.
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 308 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £42–£114 — and 0% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £42–£114
- Cheapest common item: ball joint excessively worn
- £18–£45
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 0%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 188 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 308, side by side
17 model years on record, from 2007 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 66.7% to 93.6% — a spread of 26.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2007 66.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 68.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 69.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 71.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 73.9% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2012 74.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 74.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 76.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 79.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 80.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 82.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 84.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2019 88.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2020 90.9% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 91.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2022 92.1% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2023 93.6%headlamp aim too low
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 Peugeot 308 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%
- Mercedes-Benz Eqe 96.5%
- Ford Puma 96.5%
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 Peugeot 308 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 9 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 73 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 | 25 | 34.20% | 19.76% | +14.44 |
| Brakes | 17 | 23.30% | 20.89% | +2.41 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 7 | 9.60% | 12.21% | −2.61 |
| Non-component advisories | 7 | 9.60% | 4.18% | +5.42 |
| Visibility | 6 | 8.20% | 4.97% | +3.23 |
| Road Wheels | 4 | 5.50% | 0.75% | +4.75 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 3 | 4.10% | 5.52% | −1.42 |
| Suspension | 2 | 2.70% | 20.98% | −18.28 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 2 | 2.70% | 5.57% | −2.87 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 2.7% | £30–80 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.1% | £80–200 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 0.53% | £18–45 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.53% | £18–45 |
| Brake pads worn down to wear indicator Brakes | Major | 0.53% | £18–45 |
| Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds default limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.53% | £60–250 |
| Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content at idle exceeds manufacturer's specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.53% | £60–250 |
| Exhaust system system insecure Body, chassis, structure | Rectified | 0.53% | £45–120 |
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 | 4.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.3% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 3.2% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.7% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.7% | £45–95 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Advisory | 2.1% | £20–55 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 113 | 94.7% | 17,232 mi |
| 30-60k | 67 | 91.0% | 39,536 mi |
| 60-90k | 5 | 100.0% | 69,288 mi |
| 90-120k | 3 | 100.0% | 100,426 mi |
Source: 188 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 308 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2023 Peugeot 308?
93.6% of the 188 2023 Peugeot 308 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 94.8% for cars first used in 2023. First-attempt pass rate: 93.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2023 Peugeot 308?
The three most recorded items are headlamp aim too low (2.66%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.06%), has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure (1.06%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2023 Peugeot 308 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.7% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2023 Peugeot 308 in this dataset had covered 24,995 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2023 Peugeot 308?
Petrol: 92.9% pass rate across 126 tests. Diesel: 95.7% pass rate across 46 tests. Hybrid: 93.8% pass rate across 16 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2023 Peugeot 308 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 92.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 96.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.