Pass rate
85.7%
Above average — 3.6 pts ahead of the 82.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 12,556 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £27–£68
2015 Suzuki SX4 MOT pass rate
- 2015
- typical 64,539 mi
Most common fault
Brakes
33.1% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Part only £25–£40 for Brake pads under 1.5 mm. What fitting it takes →
1.6 pts down across model years — 3.4% in 2006, 1.8% in 2020.
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 95.4% pass
- Avoid 2006 68.7% pass
Across the 15 years on record, a spread of 26.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 83.5%
- Typical mileage
- 65k mi
The 2015 Suzuki SX4 MOT pass rate is 85.7% of its MOT tests — 3.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 33.1% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Suzuki SX4 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 1.6× the national share
Brakes make up 33.1% of everything recorded on the 2015 Suzuki Sx4, against 20.9% nationally — 12.2 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
- 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 82.1% and this one manages 85.7% — 3.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 55% 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 2015 Suzuki SX4 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 82.1%, so this figure is 3.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 83.5%. The median 2015 Suzuki SX4 in this dataset had covered 64,539 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 78% of tests, with a 86.9% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 85.2% of the time, April–September 86.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm", noted on 2.21% of tests.
- 12,556 recorded tests behind this page.
- 85.7% overall pass rate, 83.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Suzuki SX4, the average is 79.8% — best year 2020 (95.4%), worst 2006 (68.7%).
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
- 12,556
- Typical mileage (median)
- 64,539 mi
- Make and model
- Suzuki SX4
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the SX4 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 67% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (78% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the SX4
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 2,349 | 86.6% |
| Scotland | 1,542 | 82.2% |
| Yorkshire | 1,428 | 85.7% |
| South West | 1,387 | 83.6% |
| East of England | 1,301 | 89.4% |
| North West | 1,024 | 85.1% |
| West Midlands | 952 | 86.8% |
| Wales | 865 | 85.4% |
| East Midlands | 689 | 88.0% |
| North East | 634 | 83.8% |
| London | 385 | 88.8% |
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 2015 SX4
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 2015 SX4
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 tyre tread 2.2% of tests
“tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm”
Check all four tyres cold, including the inner shoulder where wear hides — 1.6mm across the central three-quarters is the legal limit, and most testers fail at 1.6mm without argument.
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Check the windscreen 1.9% 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.
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Check the lights 1.9% 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.
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 2015 SX4 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £27–£68 — and 55% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £27–£68
- 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
- 55%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 12,556 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 SX4, side by side
15 model years on record, from 2006 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 68.7% to 95.4% — a spread of 26.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2006 68.7% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2007 69.5% ball joint excessively worn
- 2008 71.5% ball joint excessively worn
- 2009 70.7% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2010 71.4% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2011 72.1% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2012 72.7% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2013 76.7% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2014 82.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 85.7%tread depth below requirements of…
- 2016 87.2% tread depth below requirements of…
- 2017 88.8% tread depth below requirements of…
- 2018 90.9% tread depth below requirements of…
- 2019 93.4% wipers blade defective
- 2020 95.4% headlamp aim too high
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 2015 Suzuki SX4 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 2015 cars with a similar record
- Land Rover Range Rover 85.7%
- Skoda Octavia 85.6%
- Land Rover Discovery 85.9%
- BMW 420 85.5%
- MINI Clubman 85.5%
- Jeep Grand Cherokee 85.5%
Closest pass rates among 2015 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 2015 Suzuki SX4 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 15,237 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 5,094 | 33.10% | 20.89% | +12.21 |
| Tyres | 4,164 | 27.10% | 19.76% | +7.34 |
| Suspension | 1,572 | 10.20% | 20.98% | −10.78 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1,275 | 8.30% | 12.21% | −3.91 |
| Non-component advisories | 1,169 | 7.60% | 4.18% | +3.42 |
| Visibility | 924 | 6.00% | 4.97% | +1.03 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 422 | 2.70% | 5.52% | −2.82 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 274 | 1.80% | 5.57% | −3.77 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 205 | 1.30% | 1.76% | −0.46 |
| Road Wheels | 138 | 0.90% | 0.75% | +0.15 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 2.2% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.9% | £80–200 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.9% | £5–20 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.3% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.3% | £8–22 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.1% | £3–12 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.0% | £18–45 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.98% | £3–12 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 0.85% | £8–22 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 0.84% | £60–150 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 18.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 9.8% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.1% | £18–45 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 6.5% | £80–180 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.2% | £45–95 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Advisory | 4.6% | £60–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 798 | 94.4% | 22,766 mi |
| 30-60k | 4,630 | 90.0% | 46,716 mi |
| 60-90k | 4,880 | 83.5% | 73,609 mi |
| 90-120k | 1,765 | 79.7% | 101,514 mi |
| 120k+ | 482 | 75.3% | 140,136 mi |
Source: 12,556 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.
2015 SX4 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2015 Suzuki SX4?
85.7% of the 12,556 2015 Suzuki SX4 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 82.1% for cars first used in 2015. First-attempt pass rate: 83.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2015 Suzuki SX4?
The three most recorded items are tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (2.21%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.93%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (1.87%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2015 Suzuki SX4 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.4% of the time, falling to 75.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2015 Suzuki SX4 in this dataset had covered 64,539 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2015 Suzuki SX4?
Petrol: 86.9% pass rate across 9,833 tests. Diesel: 81.3% pass rate across 2,723 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2015 Suzuki SX4 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 85.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 86.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.