Pass rate
90.6%
Above average — 6.6 pts ahead of the 84.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 25,080 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £24–£60
2016 Suzuki Celerio MOT pass rate
- 2016
- typical 38,483 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
33.8% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
0.6 pts down across model years — 4.5% in 2015, 3.9% in 2019.
Which year to buy
- Best 2019 94.1% pass
- Avoid 2014 84.0% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 10.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 89.7%
- Typical mileage
- 38k mi
The 2016 Suzuki Celerio MOT pass rate is 90.6% of its MOT tests — 6.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 33.8% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.7× the national share
Tyres make up 33.8% of everything recorded on the 2016 Suzuki Celerio, against 19.8% nationally — 14.0 points above. Check all four tyres yourself, including the inner shoulders, and look at the date stamp — a tyre can pass on tread and still be six years old.
- Beats its own age and mileage. Once you allow for how old and how far these cars have been driven, the expected pass rate is 84.0% and this one manages 90.6% — 6.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 63% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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 2016 Suzuki Celerio compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 84.0%, so this figure is 6.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 89.7%. The median 2016 Suzuki Celerio in this dataset had covered 38,483 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 90.1% of the time, April–September 91.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Wipers blade defective", noted on 2.03% of tests.
- 25,080 recorded tests behind this page.
- 90.6% overall pass rate, 89.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Suzuki Celerio, the average is 90.9% — best year 2019 (94.1%), worst 2014 (84.0%).
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
- 25,080
- Typical mileage (median)
- 38,483 mi
- Make and model
- Suzuki Celerio
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Wiper Blade
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Celerio MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 70% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Suzuki Celerio is most common
Across all Celerio model years on record (2014–2019): 34,650 Suzuki Celerio cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 88,112 tests. Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) has the most, with 923 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 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 923 | 89.3% |
| 2 | Swansea (SA) | 871 | 92.2% |
| 3 | Cardiff (CF) | 869 | 88.3% |
| 4 | Sheffield (S) | 804 | 92.7% |
| 5 | Peterborough (PE) | 751 | 93.8% |
| 6 | Glasgow (G) | 698 | 86.2% |
| 7 | Birmingham (B) | 692 | 91.9% |
| 8 | Bradford (BD) | 683 | 89.7% |
| 9 | Warrington (WA) | 658 | 90.2% |
| 10 | Leeds (LS) | 646 | 89.7% |
| 11 | Newport (NP) | 623 | 90.6% |
| 12 | Portsmouth (PO) | 576 | 91.9% |
| 13 | Brighton (BN) | 560 | 91.1% |
| 14 | Doncaster (DN) | 560 | 92.1% |
| 15 | Southampton (SO) | 516 | 93.7% |
| 16 | Exeter (EX) | 488 | 94.1% |
| 17 | York (YO) | 481 | 89.9% |
| 18 | Edinburgh (EH) | 481 | 86.1% |
| 19 | Nottingham (NG) | 464 | 91.5% |
| 20 | Northampton (NN) | 462 | 91.1% |
The twenty areas with the most Suzuki Celerio 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 Celerio
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 3,624 | 91.5% |
| Yorkshire | 3,530 | 90.9% |
| North West | 2,901 | 91.2% |
| South West | 2,716 | 90.9% |
| Scotland | 2,677 | 86.2% |
| Wales | 2,267 | 91.1% |
| West Midlands | 2,212 | 92.5% |
| East of England | 1,900 | 92.5% |
| North East | 1,670 | 87.4% |
| East Midlands | 1,181 | 91.8% |
| London | 402 | 92.8% |
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 2016 Celerio
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 2016 Celerio
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 wipers and washers 2.0% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
Run the wipers with the screen wet: they should clear it in one sweep without smearing or juddering. Top the washer bottle up and check both jets hit the screen.
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Check the suspension joints 1.4% of tests
“ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated”
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 1.3% 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 2016 Celerio through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £24–£60 — and 63% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £24–£60
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 63%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 25,080 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 Celerio, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2014 to 2019. Across them the pass rate runs from 84.0% to 94.1% — a spread of 10.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2014 84.0% stop lamp not working
- 2015 88.7% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2016 90.6%wipers blade defective
- 2017 91.7% wipers blade defective
- 2018 92.5% wipers does not clear the…
- 2019 94.1% 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 2016 Suzuki Celerio 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 2016 cars with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2016 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 2016 Suzuki Celerio 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 23,181 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 | 7,905 | 33.80% | 19.76% | +14.04 |
| Brakes | 7,441 | 31.80% | 20.89% | +10.91 |
| Visibility | 2,127 | 9.10% | 4.97% | +4.13 |
| Suspension | 1,998 | 8.60% | 20.98% | −12.38 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1,614 | 6.90% | 12.21% | −5.31 |
| Non-component advisories | 1,076 | 4.60% | 4.18% | +0.42 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 348 | 1.50% | 5.52% | −4.02 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 324 | 1.40% | 5.57% | −4.17 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 187 | 0.80% | 1.76% | −0.96 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 161 | 0.70% | 0.82% | −0.12 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 2.0% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.6% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.6% | £8–22 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 1.4% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.3% | £80–200 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.1% | £3–12 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 1.1% | £80–180 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.85% | £45–95 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.70% | £5–20 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.67% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 14.5% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 11.8% | £45–95 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 7.7% | £80–180 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.5% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 3.6% | £45–110 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Advisory | 2.9% | £60–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 8,557 | 94.3% | 19,657 mi |
| 30-60k | 11,421 | 90.0% | 43,324 mi |
| 60-90k | 3,948 | 86.8% | 71,349 mi |
| 90-120k | 880 | 83.1% | 100,724 mi |
| 120k+ | 234 | 78.6% | 139,777 mi |
Source: 25,080 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.
2016 Celerio MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2016 Suzuki Celerio?
90.6% of the 25,080 2016 Suzuki Celerio tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 84.0% for cars first used in 2016. First-attempt pass rate: 89.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2016 Suzuki Celerio?
The three most recorded items are wipers blade defective (2.03%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.61%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.60%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2016 Suzuki Celerio MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.3% of the time, falling to 78.6% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2016 Suzuki Celerio in this dataset had covered 38,483 mi.
Does the season affect the 2016 Suzuki Celerio MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 90.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 91.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.