Pass rate
73.6%
Below average — 0.5 pts ahead of the 73.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 87 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £60–£169
2008 Peugeot 607 MOT pass rate
- 2008
- typical 115,330 mi
Only 87 tests of this exact model and year are in the DVSA data, below the 100 we ask for before a page goes in the index. The figures are still shown, because they are the only ones there are.
Most common fault
Suspension
25.2% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2005 81.5% pass
- Avoid 2003 66.9% pass
Across the 7 years on record, a spread of 14.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 67.1%
- Typical mileage
- 115k mi
The 2008 Peugeot 607 MOT pass rate is 73.6% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 25.2% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Peugeot 607 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Fewer problems with tyres
Tyres are 10.6% of this car’s recorded faults, against 19.8% nationally — the mirror image of the usual story on a car of this age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 25% 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. 87 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 2008 Peugeot 607 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.1%, so this figure is 0.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 67.1%. The median 2008 Peugeot 607 in this dataset had covered 115,330 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 69.6% of the time, April–September 80.6%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated", noted on 6.90% of tests.
- 87 recorded tests behind this page.
- 73.6% overall pass rate, 67.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Peugeot 607, the average is 74.8% — best year 2005 (81.5%), worst 2003 (66.9%).
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
- 87
- Typical mileage (median)
- 115,330 mi
- Make and model
- Peugeot 607
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Body Panel Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the 607 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 63% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the 607
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South West | 18 | 77.8% |
| West Midlands | 15 | 66.7% |
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 2008 607
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 2008 607
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 5.8% 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 corrosion 4.6% of tests
“sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened”
Look under the sills, around the jacking points and where the suspension mounts meet the body. Flaking, holed or crumbly metal fails; a brown stain on sound metal does not.
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Check the windscreen 3.5% 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 2008 607 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £60–£169 — and 25% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £60–£169
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: sub-frame corroded
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 25%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 87 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 607, side by side
7 model years on record, from 2002 to 2008. Across them the pass rate runs from 66.9% to 81.5% — a spread of 14.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2002 74.4% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2003 66.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2004 73.1% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2005 81.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2006 80.5% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2007 76.1% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2008 73.6%joints constant velocity boot…
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 2008 Peugeot 607 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 2008 cars with a similar record
- Volkswagen Golf 73.6%
- Honda Jazz 73.7%
- Hyundai Getz 73.4%
- Mercedes-Benz Clk 73.8%
- Mercedes-Benz Vito 73.9%
- Ford Focus 73.2%
Closest pass rates among 2008 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 2008 Peugeot 607 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 212 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 | 55 | 25.20% | 20.98% | +4.22 |
| Brakes | 43 | 19.70% | 20.89% | −1.19 |
| Tyres | 23 | 10.60% | 19.76% | −9.16 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 18 | 8.30% | 12.21% | −3.91 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 17 | 7.80% | 5.57% | +2.23 |
| Steering | 14 | 6.40% | 2.57% | +3.83 |
| Non-component advisories | 13 | 6.00% | 4.18% | +1.82 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 12 | 5.50% | 5.52% | −0.02 |
| Visibility | 12 | 5.50% | 4.97% | +0.53 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 5 | 2.30% | 1.76% | +0.54 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 6.9% | £80–250 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 5.8% | £80–250 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.8% | £5–20 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.6% | £5–25 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Major | 4.6% | £180–450 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 3.5% | £60–150 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.5% | £80–200 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 2.3% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.3% | £18–45 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 2.3% | £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 | 16.1% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 14.9% | £18–45 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 14.9% | £180–450 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Advisory | 10.3% | £60–150 |
| Suspension arm corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 9.2% | £35–85 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 8.1% | £200–700 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 8 | 75.0% | 48,588 mi |
| 60-90k | 14 | 71.4% | 76,868 mi |
| 90-120k | 26 | 73.1% | 106,098 mi |
| 120k+ | 34 | 73.5% | 165,135 mi |
Source: 87 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.
2008 607 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2008 Peugeot 607?
73.6% of the 87 2008 Peugeot 607 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.1% for cars first used in 2008. First-attempt pass rate: 67.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2008 Peugeot 607?
The three most recorded items are joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (6.90%), joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (5.75%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (5.75%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2008 Peugeot 607 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 75.0% of the time, falling to 73.5% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2008 Peugeot 607 in this dataset had covered 115,330 mi.
Does the season affect the 2008 Peugeot 607 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 69.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 80.6%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.