Pass rate
76.6%
Around average — 0.7 pts ahead of the 75.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 9,858 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £30–£86
2011 Peugeot 508 MOT pass rate
- 2011
- typical 121,502 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
20.9% 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 →
5.3 pts down across model years — 6.1% in 2011, 0.8% in 2020.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 100.0% pass
- Avoid 2012 76.6% pass
Across the 13 years on record, a spread of 23.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 70.6%
- Typical mileage
- 122k mi
The 2011 Peugeot 508 MOT pass rate is 76.6% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 20.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Peugeot 508 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.4× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 17.6% of everything recorded on the 2011 Peugeot 508, against 12.2% nationally — 5.4 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 20.9%, but at 21.0% nationally that one is ordinary. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
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 2011 Peugeot 508 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 75.9%, 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 70.6%. The median 2011 Peugeot 508 in this dataset had covered 121,502 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 98% of tests, with a 76.6% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 76.7% of the time, April–September 76.6%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 10.57% of tests.
- 9,858 recorded tests behind this page.
- 76.6% overall pass rate, 70.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Peugeot 508, the average is 80.2% — best year 2023 (100.0%), worst 2012 (76.6%).
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
- 9,858
- Typical mileage (median)
- 121,502 mi
- Make and model
- Peugeot 508
- 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 508 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 66% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (98% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the 508
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 1,339 | 79.5% |
| North West | 1,232 | 76.1% |
| West Midlands | 1,223 | 78.9% |
| East of England | 1,124 | 80.7% |
| Scotland | 1,023 | 72.0% |
| Yorkshire | 1,003 | 75.9% |
| South West | 996 | 72.9% |
| East Midlands | 917 | 77.5% |
| Wales | 458 | 72.1% |
| North East | 411 | 73.2% |
| London | 132 | 87.1% |
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 2011 508
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 2011 508
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 10.6% 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 coil springs 4.4% of tests
“coil spring fractured or broken”
Look up inside each wheel arch with a torch, all the way round the spring. A snapped spring usually breaks at the very bottom coil, where a quick glance will not reach.
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Check the windscreen 2.3% 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.
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 2011 508 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £30–£86 — and 41% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £30–£86
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 41%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 9,858 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 508, side by side
13 model years on record, from 2011 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 76.6% to 100.0% — a spread of 23.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2011 76.6%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 76.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 76.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 79.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 81.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 82.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 84.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 87.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2019 85.7% wipers does not clear the…
- 2020 86.0% wipers does not clear the…
- 2021 86.9% wipers does not clear the…
- 2022 88.8% wipers blade defective
- 2023 100.0% 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 2011 Peugeot 508 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 2011 cars with a similar record
- Audi A1 76.6%
- Ford Mondeo 76.6%
- Volkswagen Tiguan 76.6%
- Mitsubishi Asx 76.6%
- SEAT Alhambra 76.6%
- Vauxhall Meriva 76.5%
Closest pass rates among 2011 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 2011 Peugeot 508 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 20,564 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 | 4,343 | 20.90% | 20.98% | −0.08 |
| Brakes | 4,276 | 20.60% | 20.89% | −0.29 |
| Tyres | 3,921 | 18.90% | 19.76% | −0.86 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 3,663 | 17.60% | 12.21% | +5.39 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1,366 | 6.60% | 5.52% | +1.08 |
| Visibility | 842 | 4.00% | 4.97% | −0.97 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 696 | 3.30% | 5.57% | −2.27 |
| Non-component advisories | 671 | 3.20% | 4.18% | −0.98 |
| Steering | 463 | 2.20% | 2.57% | −0.37 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 323 | 1.60% | 1.76% | −0.16 |
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 | 10.6% | £5–20 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 4.4% | £25–65 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.3% | £80–200 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.2% | £30–80 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 2.0% | £80–250 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.0% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.9% | £45–95 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.7% | £5–20 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.5% | £18–45 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 1.5% | £80–250 |
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 | 22.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 15.2% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 12.2% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 10.3% | £40–150 |
| Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 9.1% | £18–45 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 9.0% | £200–700 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 30 | 93.3% | 21,008 mi |
| 30-60k | 361 | 87.5% | 49,478 mi |
| 60-90k | 1,430 | 79.9% | 77,247 mi |
| 90-120k | 2,948 | 77.0% | 105,918 mi |
| 120k+ | 5,076 | 74.7% | 155,679 mi |
Source: 9,858 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.
2011 508 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2011 Peugeot 508?
76.6% of the 9,858 2011 Peugeot 508 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 75.9% for cars first used in 2011. First-attempt pass rate: 70.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2011 Peugeot 508?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (10.57%), coil spring fractured or broken (4.42%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.28%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2011 Peugeot 508 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.3% of the time, falling to 74.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2011 Peugeot 508 in this dataset had covered 121,502 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2011 Peugeot 508?
Diesel: 76.6% pass rate across 9,648 tests. Petrol: 77.6% pass rate across 210 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2011 Peugeot 508 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 76.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 76.6%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.