Pass rate
76.1%
Around average — 2.3 pts ahead of the 73.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 373 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £50–£142
2000 Renault Laguna MOT pass rate
- 2000
- typical 93,180 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
25.4% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2000 76.1% pass · this year
- Avoid 2003 67.2% pass
Across the 13 years on record, a spread of 8.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 71.3%
- Typical mileage
- 93k mi
The 2000 Renault Laguna MOT pass rate is 76.1% of its MOT tests — 2.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 25.4% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Body & chassis: 2.0× the national share
Body & chassis accounts for 11.3% of everything recorded on the 2000 Renault Laguna, against 5.6% nationally — 5.7 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 25.4%, but at 21.0% nationally that one is ordinary. Look underneath for corrosion near the jacking points and suspension mounts; surface rust is normal, flaking metal is not.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 29% 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. 373 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 2000 Renault Laguna compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.8%, so this figure is 2.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 71.3%. The median 2000 Renault Laguna in this dataset had covered 93,180 mi.
95% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 75.9% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 74.2% of the time, April–September 78.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated", noted on 5.63% of tests.
- 373 recorded tests behind this page.
- 76.1% overall pass rate, 71.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Renault Laguna, the average is 70.9% — best year 2000 (76.1%), worst 2003 (67.2%).
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
- 373
- Typical mileage (median)
- 93,180 mi
- Make and model
- Renault Laguna
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
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 Laguna MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 64% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (95% of tests).
Where the Renault Laguna is most common
Across all Laguna model years on record (2000–2012): 14,030 Renault Laguna cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 36,943 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 497 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birmingham (B) | 497 | 77.8% |
| 2 | Peterborough (PE) | 349 | 72.1% |
| 3 | Sheffield (S) | 320 | 70.5% |
| 4 | Leicester (LE) | 285 | 74.7% |
| 5 | Coventry (CV) | 272 | 72.7% |
| 6 | Nottingham (NG) | 258 | 73.0% |
| 7 | Norwich (NR) | 239 | 68.8% |
| 8 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 236 | 72.2% |
| 9 | Swansea (SA) | 235 | 67.7% |
| 10 | Ipswich (IP) | 235 | 70.4% |
| 11 | Manchester (M) | 234 | 73.3% |
| 12 | Northampton (NN) | 233 | 72.4% |
| 13 | Doncaster (DN) | 223 | 69.6% |
| 14 | Portsmouth (PO) | 211 | 70.6% |
| 15 | Ashford (TN) | 206 | 70.2% |
| 16 | Exeter (EX) | 204 | 68.7% |
| 17 | Derby (DE) | 203 | 72.5% |
| 18 | Reading (RG) | 197 | 74.0% |
| 19 | Cardiff (CF) | 190 | 64.6% |
| 20 | Plymouth (PL) | 189 | 65.9% |
The twenty areas with the most Renault Laguna cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the Laguna
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 92 | 78.3% |
| South West | 66 | 71.2% |
| East of England | 53 | 79.2% |
| North West | 43 | 83.7% |
| West Midlands | 29 | 82.8% |
| Yorkshire | 24 | 66.7% |
| East Midlands | 24 | 75.0% |
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 2000 Laguna
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 2000 Laguna
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 5.1% of tests
“headlamp lens slightly defective”
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 suspension joints 4.0% of tests
“track rod end ball joint has excessive play”
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.
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Check the windscreen 3.8% 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 2000 Laguna through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £50–£142 — and 29% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £50–£142
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: component mounting prescribed areas…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 29%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 373 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 Laguna, side by side
13 model years on record, from 2000 to 2012. Across them the pass rate runs from 67.2% to 76.1% — a spread of 8.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 76.1%joints constant velocity boot…
- 2001 71.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2002 72.3% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2003 67.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2004 70.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 69.7% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2006 69.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 68.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 71.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 70.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 71.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 72.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 73.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
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 2000 Renault Laguna 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 2000 cars with a similar record
- Land Rover Discovery 75.7%
- BMW 3 Series 76.5%
- Saab 9-3 76.6%
- Toyota Corolla 76.7%
- Honda Civic 75.3%
- MG Mgf 75.0%
Closest pass rates among 2000 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 2000 Renault Laguna 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 1,228 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 | 314 | 25.40% | 20.98% | +4.42 |
| Brakes | 230 | 18.60% | 20.89% | −2.29 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 140 | 11.30% | 5.57% | +5.73 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 124 | 10.00% | 12.21% | −2.21 |
| Tyres | 120 | 9.70% | 19.76% | −10.06 |
| Steering | 85 | 6.90% | 2.57% | +4.33 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 68 | 5.50% | 5.52% | −0.02 |
| Non-component advisories | 66 | 5.30% | 4.18% | +1.12 |
| Visibility | 47 | 3.80% | 4.97% | −1.17 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 34 | 2.70% | 1.76% | +0.94 |
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 | 5.6% | £80–250 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.1% | £5–25 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 4.8% | £80–250 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 4.0% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.8% | £80–200 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.5% | £30–80 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.5% | £5–20 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 3.2% | £18–45 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 3.0% | £180–450 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 2.7% | £8–22 |
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 | 16.4% | £45–110 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 15.0% | £80–180 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 13.7% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 12.9% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Play in steering rack inner joint(s) Non-component advisories | Advisory | 12.6% | £120–300 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 12.3% | £200–700 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 8 | 75.0% | 16,216 mi |
| 30-60k | 59 | 81.4% | 46,064 mi |
| 60-90k | 106 | 80.2% | 76,476 mi |
| 90-120k | 81 | 72.8% | 103,970 mi |
| 120k+ | 116 | 72.4% | 141,670 mi |
Source: 373 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.
2000 Laguna MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2000 Renault Laguna?
76.1% of the 373 2000 Renault Laguna tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.8% for cars first used in 2000. First-attempt pass rate: 71.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2000 Renault Laguna?
The three most recorded items are joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (5.63%), headlamp lens slightly defective (5.09%), joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (4.83%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2000 Renault Laguna MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 75.0% of the time, falling to 72.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2000 Renault Laguna in this dataset had covered 93,180 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2000 Renault Laguna?
Petrol: 75.9% pass rate across 353 tests. Diesel: 80.0% pass rate across 20 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2000 Renault Laguna MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 74.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 78.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.