Pass rate
71.7%
Below average — 1.6 pts behind the 73.3% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 982 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £77–£205
2001 Suzuki Carry MOT pass rate
- 2001
- typical 86,031 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
23.1% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2013 92.7% pass
- Avoid 2000 69.2% pass
Across the 14 years on record, a spread of 23.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 63.8%
- Typical mileage
- 86k mi
The 2001 Suzuki Carry MOT pass rate is 71.7% of its MOT tests — 1.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 23.1% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Body & chassis: 2.3× the national share
Body & chassis accounts for 12.9% of everything recorded on the 2001 Suzuki Carry, against 5.6% nationally — 7.3 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 23.1%, 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 27% 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.
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 2001 Suzuki Carry compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.3%, so this figure is 1.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 63.8%. The median 2001 Suzuki Carry in this dataset had covered 86,031 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 70.7% of the time, April–September 72.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength", noted on 9.27% of tests.
- 982 recorded tests behind this page.
- 71.7% overall pass rate, 63.8% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Suzuki Carry, the average is 71.7% — best year 2013 (92.7%), worst 2000 (69.2%).
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
- 982
- Typical mileage (median)
- 86,031 mi
- Make and model
- Suzuki Carry
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Corrosion Welding Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Carry MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 56% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Suzuki Carry is most common
Across all Carry model years on record (2000–2013): 5,080 Suzuki Carry cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 13,976 tests. Portsmouth (PO) has the most, with 212 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 | Portsmouth (PO) | 212 | 70.2% |
| 2 | Brighton (BN) | 164 | 66.3% |
| 3 | Bristol (BS) | 146 | 64.1% |
| 4 | Birmingham (B) | 135 | 84.9% |
| 5 | Exeter (EX) | 132 | 66.0% |
| 6 | Plymouth (PL) | 118 | 64.9% |
| 7 | Poole (BH) | 115 | 66.4% |
| 8 | Newton Abbot (TQ) | 94 | 63.2% |
| 9 | Ashford (TN) | 94 | 72.8% |
| 10 | Norwich (NR) | 87 | 70.0% |
| 11 | Nottingham (NG) | 84 | 71.1% |
| 12 | Southampton (SO) | 83 | 69.7% |
| 13 | Yeovil (BA) | 81 | 69.0% |
| 14 | Sheffield (S) | 79 | 70.2% |
| 15 | Truro (TR) | 78 | 59.3% |
| 16 | Kingston upon Thames (KT) | 77 | 76.3% |
| 17 | Taunton (TA) | 76 | 68.5% |
| 18 | Swansea (SA) | 72 | 68.4% |
| 19 | Leicester (LE) | 72 | 78.7% |
| 20 | Crawley (RH) | 71 | 75.3% |
The twenty areas with the most Suzuki Carry 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 Carry
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 324 | 73.5% |
| South West | 228 | 64.0% |
| East of England | 80 | 73.8% |
| West Midlands | 69 | 71.0% |
| East Midlands | 53 | 77.4% |
| North West | 53 | 71.7% |
| London | 52 | 88.5% |
| Yorkshire | 49 | 81.6% |
| Wales | 36 | 61.1% |
| Scotland | 23 | 60.9% |
| North East | 15 | 73.3% |
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 2001 Carry
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 2001 Carry
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 corrosion 9.3% of tests
“component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength”
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 suspension joints 5.0% of tests
“ball joint excessively worn”
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 exhaust and emissions 4.1% of tests
“catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits”
Listen for a blow at idle and have someone rev it gently. Then look at the tailpipe smoke: blue is oil, white when warm is coolant, black is over-fuelling. Any of those and the emissions test is the least of it.
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 2001 Carry through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £77–£205 — and 27% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £77–£205
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- 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
- 27%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 982 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 Carry, side by side
14 model years on record, from 2000 to 2013. Across them the pass rate runs from 69.2% to 92.7% — a spread of 23.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 69.2% component mounting prescribed…
- 2001 71.7%component mounting prescribed…
- 2002 71.0% component mounting prescribed…
- 2003 70.5% component mounting prescribed…
- 2004 71.2% component mounting prescribed…
- 2005 71.7% component mounting prescribed…
- 2006 73.5% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2007 75.9% rear fog lamp not working
- 2008 83.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2009 82.0% position lamp not working
- 2010 92.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2011 84.3% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2012 88.2% ball joint dust cover no longer…
- 2013 92.7% rear fog lamp missing
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 2001 Suzuki Carry 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 2001 cars with a similar record
- Volkswagen Polo 71.8%
- Skoda Octavia 71.8%
- Renault Megane Scenic 71.8%
- Volvo V70 71.6%
- Skoda Fabia 71.5%
- Vauxhall Zafira 71.5%
Closest pass rates among 2001 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 2001 Suzuki Carry 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 2,833 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 | 665 | 23.10% | 20.98% | +2.12 |
| Brakes | 439 | 15.30% | 20.89% | −5.59 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 370 | 12.90% | 5.57% | +7.33 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 349 | 12.10% | 12.21% | −0.11 |
| Tyres | 323 | 11.20% | 19.76% | −8.56 |
| Non-component advisories | 222 | 7.70% | 4.18% | +3.52 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 201 | 7.00% | 5.52% | +1.48 |
| Visibility | 115 | 4.00% | 4.97% | −0.97 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 91 | 3.20% | 1.76% | +1.44 |
| Steering | 58 | 2.00% | 2.57% | −0.57 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 9.3% | £180–450 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 5.0% | £18–45 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 4.1% | £60–250 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Major | 3.6% | £45–120 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.6% | £80–200 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.9% | £5–25 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.6% | £3–12 |
| Integral vehicle structure condition corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced Body, chassis, structure | Major | 2.5% | £180–450 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.5% | £5–20 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 2.4% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Non-component advisories Play in steering rack inner joint(s) Non-component advisories | Advisory | 19.4% | £120–300 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 18.3% | £45–95 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 15.9% | £80–180 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 12.8% | £40–150 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 9.8% | £45–95 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Advisory | 9.6% | £180–450 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 24 | 87.5% | 22,239 mi |
| 30-60k | 150 | 74.7% | 48,830 mi |
| 60-90k | 360 | 72.8% | 74,052 mi |
| 90-120k | 266 | 71.8% | 102,675 mi |
| 120k+ | 182 | 64.8% | 149,347 mi |
Source: 982 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.
2001 Carry MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2001 Suzuki Carry?
71.7% of the 982 2001 Suzuki Carry tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.3% for cars first used in 2001. First-attempt pass rate: 63.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2001 Suzuki Carry?
The three most recorded items are component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (9.27%), ball joint excessively worn (4.99%), catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits (4.07%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2001 Suzuki Carry MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 87.5% of the time, falling to 64.8% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2001 Suzuki Carry in this dataset had covered 86,031 mi.
Does the season affect the 2001 Suzuki Carry MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 70.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 72.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.