Pass rate
75.6%
Around average — 2.3 pts ahead of the 73.3% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 78 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £49–£139
2001 Suzuki Liana MOT pass rate
- 2001
- typical 72,308 mi
Only 78 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
Suspension
31.4% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2001 75.6% pass · this year
- Avoid 2008 66.0% pass
Across the 8 years on record, a spread of 9.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 69.8%
- Typical mileage
- 72k mi
The 2001 Suzuki Liana MOT pass rate is 75.6% of its MOT tests — 2.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 31.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Suzuki Liana does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.5× the national share
Suspension accounts for 31.4% of everything recorded on the 2001 Suzuki Liana, against 21.0% nationally — 10.4 points above. Ask for the front and rear suspension to be checked on a ramp before you buy — worn bushes and broken springs are cheap to look at and expensive to discover at test time.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 26% 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. 78 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 2001 Suzuki Liana compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.3%, 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 69.8%. The median 2001 Suzuki Liana in this dataset had covered 72,308 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 81.8% of the time, April–September 71.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp lens slightly defective", noted on 10.26% of tests.
- 78 recorded tests behind this page.
- 75.6% overall pass rate, 69.8% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Suzuki Liana, the average is 69.5% — best year 2001 (75.6%), worst 2008 (66.0%).
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
- 78
- Typical mileage (median)
- 72,308 mi
- Make and model
- Suzuki Liana
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Headlight Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Liana MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 55% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Liana
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 23 | 87.0% |
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 2001 Liana
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 Liana
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 10.3% 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 7.7% 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 corrosion 5.1% 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.
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 Liana through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £49–£139 — and 26% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £49–£139
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: component mounting prescribed areas…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 26%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 78 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 Liana, side by side
8 model years on record, from 2001 to 2008. Across them the pass rate runs from 66.0% to 75.6% — a spread of 9.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2001 75.6%headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2002 69.3% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2003 67.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2004 70.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2005 67.7% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2006 70.5% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2007 71.1% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2008 66.0% pins and bushes pin or bush…
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 Liana 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
- Toyota RAV4 75.6%
- Mazda Mx-5 75.5%
- Toyota Avensis 75.4%
- Saab 9-3 75.8%
- Vauxhall Vectra 75.3%
- Toyota Rav-4 75.1%
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 Liana 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 261 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 | 83 | 31.40% | 20.98% | +10.42 |
| Brakes | 47 | 17.80% | 20.89% | −3.09 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 35 | 13.30% | 12.21% | +1.09 |
| Tyres | 23 | 8.70% | 19.76% | −11.06 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 20 | 7.60% | 5.57% | +2.03 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 15 | 5.70% | 5.52% | +0.18 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 14 | 5.30% | 1.76% | +3.54 |
| Non-component advisories | 11 | 4.20% | 4.18% | +0.02 |
| Visibility | 10 | 3.80% | 4.97% | −1.17 |
| Steering | 3 | 1.10% | 2.57% | −1.47 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 10.3% | £5–25 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 7.7% | £18–45 |
| Service brake imbalance across an axle Brakes | Major | 6.4% | £45–110 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 5.1% | £180–450 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 5.1% | £80–250 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 3.9% | £18–45 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.9% | £60–250 |
| Hand lever has insufficient reserve travel Brakes | Major | 3.9% | £45–110 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 3.9% | £80–250 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 3.9% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 21.8% | £80–180 |
| Registration plates inscription illegible Identification of the vehicle | Advisory | 17.9% | £20–80 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 17.9% | £180–450 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 16.7% | £45–95 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 15.4% | £25–65 |
| Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 15.4% | £5–25 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 4 | 100.0% | 26,062 mi |
| 30-60k | 19 | 73.7% | 40,243 mi |
| 60-90k | 23 | 82.6% | 71,014 mi |
| 90-120k | 10 | 80.0% | 101,317 mi |
| 120k+ | 22 | 63.6% | 143,978 mi |
Source: 78 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 Liana MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2001 Suzuki Liana?
75.6% of the 78 2001 Suzuki Liana tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.3% for cars first used in 2001. First-attempt pass rate: 69.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2001 Suzuki Liana?
The three most recorded items are headlamp lens slightly defective (10.26%), ball joint excessively worn (7.69%), service brake imbalance across an axle (6.41%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2001 Suzuki Liana MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 63.6% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2001 Suzuki Liana in this dataset had covered 72,308 mi.
Does the season affect the 2001 Suzuki Liana MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 81.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 71.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.