Pass rate
85.2%
Above average — 9.6 pts behind the 94.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 54 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £21–£55
2023 Peugeot Partner MOT pass rate
- 2023
- Van
- 2 trims combined
- typical 6,806 mi
Only 54 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
Lamps & electrics
35.3% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Part only £6–£18 for Registration plate lamp inoperative (multiple lamps). What fitting it takes →
4.2 pts down across model years — 9.8% in 2002, 5.6% in 2022.
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 86.7% pass
- Avoid 2003 68.6% pass
Across the 24 years on record, a spread of 18.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 83.0%
- Typical mileage
- 7k mi
The 2023 Peugeot Partner MOT pass rate is 85.2% of its MOT tests — 9.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 35.3% of what testers record.
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Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 2.9× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 35.3% of everything recorded on the 2023 Peugeot Partner, against 12.2% nationally — 23.1 points above. 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, vans this age and mileage expect about 94.8%; this one manages 85.2% — 9.6 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- Based on a small sample. 54 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 Partner first registered in 2023 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2023 Peugeot Partner compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 94.8%, so this figure is 9.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 83.0%. The median 2023 Peugeot Partner in this dataset had covered 6,806 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Horn not working", noted on 7.41% of tests.
- 54 recorded tests behind this page.
- 85.2% overall pass rate, 83.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Peugeot Partner, the average is 77.8% — best year 2020 (86.7%), worst 2003 (68.6%).
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
- 54
- Typical mileage (median)
- 6,806 mi
- Make and model
- Peugeot Partner
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Horn
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Partner MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 67% so small gaps stay visible.
What fails a 2023 Partner
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 Partner
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 horn 7.4% 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 lights 3.7% of tests
“headlamp aim too high”
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.
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 Partner through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £21–£55 — and 53% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £21–£55
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: service brake performance excessively…
- £60–£150
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 53%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 54 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 Partner, side by side
24 model years on record, from 2000 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 68.6% to 86.7% — a spread of 18.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 71.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2001 69.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2002 69.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2003 68.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2004 69.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 69.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 71.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 70.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 70.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 71.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 71.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 72.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 76.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 73.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 76.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 78.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 77.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 79.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 80.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2019 83.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2020 86.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2021 84.5% wipers does not clear the…
- 2022 85.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2023 85.2%horn not working
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 Partner 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 vans with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2023 vans with at least 1,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. Full rankings: best vans and worst vans for MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2023 Peugeot Partner 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 6 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 12 | 35.30% | 12.21% | +23.09 |
| Tyres | 8 | 23.50% | 19.76% | +3.74 |
| Brakes | 7 | 20.60% | 20.89% | −0.29 |
| Visibility | 4 | 11.80% | 4.97% | +6.83 |
| Non-component advisories | 2 | 5.90% | 4.18% | +1.72 |
| Road Wheels | 1 | 2.90% | 0.75% | +2.15 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horn not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 7.4% | £8–25 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 3.7% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 3.7% | £30–80 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.9% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.9% | £45–95 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.9% | £5–20 |
| Service brake performance excessively fluctuating Brakes | Major | 1.9% | £60–150 |
| Side repeaters lens defective which has no effect on emitted light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.9% | £3–15 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.9% | £3–12 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.9% | £3–12 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 9.3% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 3.7% | £45–95 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Advisory | 1.9% | £20–55 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 1.9% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 1.9% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 1.9% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 49 | 85.7% | 10,316 mi |
| 30-60k | 4 | 75.0% | 39,790 mi |
| 60-90k | 1 | 100.0% | 69,464 mi |
Source: 54 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 Partner MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2023 Peugeot Partner?
85.2% of the 54 2023 Peugeot Partner tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 94.8% for cars first used in 2023. First-attempt pass rate: 83.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2023 Peugeot Partner?
The three most recorded items are horn not working (7.41%), headlamp aim too high (3.70%), headlamp aim too low (3.70%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2023 Peugeot Partner MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 85.7% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2023 Peugeot Partner in this dataset had covered 6,806 mi.