Pass rate
84.0%
Around average — 3.9 pts behind the 87.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 4,958 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £32–£100
2018 Peugeot Horizon MOT pass rate
- 2018
- typical 24,549 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
21.7% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2021 89.2% pass
- Avoid 2013 75.5% pass
Across the 10 years on record, a spread of 13.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 81.2%
- Typical mileage
- 25k mi
The 2018 Peugeot Horizon MOT pass rate is 84.0% of its MOT tests — 3.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 21.7% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Peugeot Horizon does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.7× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 20.3% of everything recorded on the 2018 Peugeot Horizon, against 12.2% nationally — 8.1 points above. Tyres are still the single largest share at 21.7%, but at 19.8% 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 87.9%; this one manages 84.0% — 3.9 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
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 2018 Peugeot Horizon compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 87.9%, so this figure is 3.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 81.2%. The median 2018 Peugeot Horizon in this dataset had covered 24,549 mi.
94% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Diesel, which passed 84.0% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 83.8% of the time, April–September 84.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt", noted on 3.79% of tests.
- 4,958 recorded tests behind this page.
- 84.0% overall pass rate, 81.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Peugeot Horizon, the average is 81.3% — best year 2021 (89.2%), worst 2013 (75.5%).
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
- 4,958
- Typical mileage (median)
- 24,549 mi
- Make and model
- Peugeot Horizon
- 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 Horizon MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 70% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (94% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Horizon
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 847 | 79.3% |
| South East | 680 | 86.8% |
| Yorkshire | 592 | 86.0% |
| West Midlands | 586 | 87.0% |
| North West | 519 | 84.8% |
| South West | 438 | 82.2% |
| East of England | 393 | 84.7% |
| East Midlands | 387 | 84.2% |
| Wales | 245 | 84.9% |
| North East | 200 | 78.5% |
| London | 71 | 87.3% |
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 2018 Horizon
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 2018 Horizon
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 2.0% 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 horn 1.7% of tests
“horn not working”
Press it. That is the whole check, and a surprising number of cars fail on it.
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Check the coil springs 1.5% 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.
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 2018 Horizon through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £32–£100 — and 54% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £32–£100
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot split or…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 54%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 4,958 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 Horizon, side by side
10 model years on record, from 2012 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 75.5% to 89.2% — a spread of 13.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2012 76.2% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2013 75.5% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2014 78.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2015 80.2% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2016 81.2% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2017 83.5% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2018 84.0%joints constant velocity boot…
- 2019 87.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2020 88.6% wipers does not clear the…
- 2021 89.2% wipers does not clear the…
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 2018 Peugeot Horizon 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 2018 cars with a similar record
- Tesla Model X 84.0%
- MG Zs 83.9%
- Dacia Logan 83.9%
- SEAT Toledo 84.1%
- Vauxhall Mokka 84.2%
- Vauxhall Adam 84.2%
Closest pass rates among 2018 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 2018 Peugeot Horizon 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 5,359 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 | 1,166 | 21.70% | 19.76% | +1.94 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1,094 | 20.30% | 12.21% | +8.09 |
| Suspension | 869 | 16.10% | 20.98% | −4.88 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 693 | 12.90% | 5.57% | +7.33 |
| Brakes | 689 | 12.80% | 20.89% | −8.09 |
| Visibility | 284 | 5.30% | 4.97% | +0.33 |
| Non-component advisories | 256 | 4.80% | 4.18% | +0.62 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 233 | 4.30% | 5.52% | −1.22 |
| Steering | 40 | 0.70% | 2.57% | −1.87 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 35 | 0.70% | 0.82% | −0.12 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 3.8% | £80–250 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.0% | £5–20 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.8% | £3–12 |
| Horn not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.7% | £8–25 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 1.7% | £80–250 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 1.5% | £25–65 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.4% | £3–12 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.1% | £5–25 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.1% | £5–25 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.0% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 11.3% | £45–95 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 10.5% | £25–65 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 7.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.5% | £18–45 |
| Exhaust system system insecure Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 3.6% | £45–120 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 2.9% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 2,901 | 86.1% | 15,911 mi |
| 30-60k | 1,180 | 82.3% | 41,520 mi |
| 60-90k | 405 | 81.2% | 73,609 mi |
| 90-120k | 223 | 78.5% | 103,011 mi |
| 120k+ | 246 | 78.0% | 154,320 mi |
Source: 4,958 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.
2018 Horizon MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2018 Peugeot Horizon?
84.0% of the 4,958 2018 Peugeot Horizon tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 87.9% for cars first used in 2018. First-attempt pass rate: 81.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2018 Peugeot Horizon?
The three most recorded items are joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (3.79%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (2.04%), stop lamp not working (1.82%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2018 Peugeot Horizon MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 86.1% of the time, falling to 78.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2018 Peugeot Horizon in this dataset had covered 24,549 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2018 Peugeot Horizon?
Diesel: 84.0% pass rate across 4,659 tests. Petrol: 85.3% pass rate across 299 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2018 Peugeot Horizon MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 83.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 84.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.