Pass rate
71.2%
Below average — 2.8 pts behind the 74.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 27,547 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £34–£90
2009 Suzuki motorhome MOT pass rate
- 2009
- Motorhome
- typical 86,224 mi
This is a generic motorhome filing record rather than a named converter, so there is no manufacturer to compare against. The test figures are real and included in our totals.
Most common fault
Suspension
30.8% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Part only £35–£75 for Suspension pin or bush excessively worn. What fitting it takes →
8.8 pts down across model years — 9.7% in 2005, 0.9% in 2017.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 98.5% pass
- Avoid 2005 68.4% pass
Across the 23 years on record, a spread of 30.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 61.3%
- Typical mileage
- 86k mi
The 2009 Suzuki motorhome MOT pass rate is 71.2% of its MOT tests — 2.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 30.8% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Suzuki motorhome does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.5× the national share
Suspension accounts for 30.8% of everything recorded on the 2009 Suzuki Motorhome, against 21.0% nationally — 9.8 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 31% 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 2009 Suzuki motorhome compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 74.0%, so this figure is 2.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 61.3%. The median 2009 Suzuki motorhome in this dataset had covered 86,224 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 95% of tests, with a 71.3% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 71.3% of the time, April–September 71.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint excessively worn", noted on 6.29% of tests.
- 27,547 recorded tests behind this page.
- 71.2% overall pass rate, 61.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Suzuki motorhome, the average is 82.6% — best year 2023 (98.5%), worst 2005 (68.4%).
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
- 27,547
- Typical mileage (median)
- 86,224 mi
- Make and model
- Suzuki Motorhome
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Ball Joint
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Motorhome MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 58% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (95% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Motorhome
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 4,828 | 74.2% |
| Yorkshire | 3,428 | 70.4% |
| South West | 3,409 | 67.7% |
| North West | 2,671 | 70.8% |
| East of England | 2,625 | 74.6% |
| West Midlands | 2,489 | 72.9% |
| Wales | 2,045 | 68.4% |
| Scotland | 1,737 | 66.0% |
| North East | 1,713 | 68.2% |
| East Midlands | 1,658 | 71.6% |
| London | 944 | 79.7% |
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 2009 Motorhome
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 2009 Motorhome
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 suspension joints 6.3% 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 lights 5.2% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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 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 2009 Motorhome through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £34–£90 — and 31% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £34–£90
- 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
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 31%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 27,547 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 Motorhome, side by side
23 model years on record, from 2000 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 68.4% to 98.5% — a spread of 30.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 73.1% component mounting prescribed…
- 2001 71.7% component mounting prescribed…
- 2002 72.6% service brake imbalance across an…
- 2003 73.1% component mounting prescribed…
- 2005 68.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 68.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 69.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 70.0% ball joint excessively worn
- 2009 71.2%ball joint excessively worn
- 2010 73.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 78.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 81.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 82.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 84.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 86.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 87.8% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2017 88.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 90.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 92.4% wipers does not clear the…
- 2020 94.5% wipers blade defective
- 2021 94.9% wipers blade defective
- 2022 95.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2023 98.5% wipers blade defective
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 2009 Suzuki Motorhome 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 2009 motorhomes with a similar record
- Jeep Motorhome 67.3%
- Volkswagen Motorhome 79.4%
- Volkswagen California 80.5%
- Ci Motorhome Motorhome 82.6%
- Fiat Motorhome 86.5%
- Ford Motorhome 86.7%
Closest pass rates among 2009 motorhomes with at least 150 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. Full rankings: best motorhomes and worst motorhomes for MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2009 Suzuki Motorhome 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 78,248 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 | 24,405 | 30.80% | 20.98% | +9.82 |
| Brakes | 21,442 | 27.10% | 20.89% | +6.21 |
| Tyres | 9,929 | 12.50% | 19.76% | −7.26 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 7,454 | 9.40% | 12.21% | −2.81 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 4,071 | 5.10% | 5.57% | −0.47 |
| Visibility | 3,150 | 4.00% | 4.97% | −0.97 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2,934 | 3.70% | 5.52% | −1.82 |
| Non-component advisories | 2,914 | 3.70% | 4.18% | −0.48 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 992 | 1.30% | 1.76% | −0.46 |
| Steering | 957 | 1.20% | 2.57% | −1.37 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 6.3% | £18–45 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.2% | £5–20 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.2% | £5–25 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 4.1% | £40–150 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 4.0% | £45–110 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 3.9% | £60–150 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.8% | £80–200 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 3.2% | £25–65 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.9% | £3–12 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 2.8% | £80–180 |
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 | 24.7% | £80–180 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 21.6% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 16.0% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 12.2% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 9.7% | £45–110 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 9.7% | £25–65 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 801 | 84.0% | 21,912 mi |
| 30-60k | 4,516 | 75.9% | 48,028 mi |
| 60-90k | 9,749 | 72.0% | 75,616 mi |
| 90-120k | 8,526 | 68.7% | 103,588 mi |
| 120k+ | 3,934 | 66.9% | 138,224 mi |
Source: 27,547 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.
2009 Motorhome MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2009 Suzuki motorhome?
71.2% of the 27,547 2009 Suzuki motorhome tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 74.0% for cars first used in 2009. First-attempt pass rate: 61.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2009 Suzuki motorhome?
The three most recorded items are ball joint excessively worn (6.29%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (5.21%), position lamp not working (4.23%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2009 Suzuki motorhome MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 84.0% of the time, falling to 66.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2009 Suzuki motorhome in this dataset had covered 86,224 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2009 Suzuki motorhome?
Petrol: 71.3% pass rate across 26,045 tests. Diesel: 69.7% pass rate across 1,497 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2009 Suzuki motorhome MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 71.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 71.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.