Pass rate
96.5%
Above average — 1.7 pts ahead of the 94.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 260 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £36–£92
2023 Suzuki Vitara MOT pass rate
- 2023
- 6 trims combined
- typical 17,624 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
37.1% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 96.5% pass · this year
- Avoid 2002 67.9% pass
Across the 22 years on record, a spread of 28.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 96.4%
- Typical mileage
- 18k mi
The 2023 Suzuki Vitara MOT pass rate is 96.5% of its MOT tests — 1.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 37.1% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Suzuki Vitara does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.9× the national share
Tyres make up 37.1% of everything recorded on the 2023 Suzuki Vitara, against 19.8% nationally — 17.3 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 35% 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. 260 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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Every Suzuki Vitara first registered in 2023 is combined here — 6 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2023 Suzuki Vitara compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 94.8%, so this figure is 1.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 96.4%. The median 2023 Suzuki Vitara in this dataset had covered 17,624 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 96.8% of the time, April–September 95.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp aim too high", noted on 1.54% of tests.
- 260 recorded tests behind this page.
- 96.5% overall pass rate, 96.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Suzuki Vitara, the average is 90.9% — best year 2023 (96.5%), worst 2002 (67.9%).
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
- 260
- Typical mileage (median)
- 17,624 mi
- Make and model
- Suzuki Vitara
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Headlight Alignment
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Vitara MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 85% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Vitara
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Yorkshire | 46 | 95.7% |
| Scotland | 32 | 100.0% |
| South East | 31 | 93.5% |
| North East | 29 | 100.0% |
| North West | 27 | 100.0% |
| South West | 25 | 88.0% |
| East Midlands | 21 | 95.2% |
| West Midlands | 20 | 95.0% |
| East of England | 15 | 100.0% |
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 2023 Vitara
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 2023 Vitara
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 1.5% of tests
“headlamp aim too high”
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 0.8% 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.
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Check the wipers and washers 0.8% of tests
“wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively”
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.
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 2023 Vitara through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £36–£92 — and 35% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £36–£92
- Cheapest common item: individual direction indicators not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: integral vehicle structure condition…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 35%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 260 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 Vitara, side by side
22 model years on record, from 2000 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 67.9% to 96.5% — a spread of 28.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 68.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2001 72.7% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2002 67.9% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2003 71.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2004 69.7% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2005 68.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2006 75.2% component mounting prescribed…
- 2007 70.4% component mounting prescribed…
- 2008 79.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 78.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 78.9% stop lamp not working
- 2011 74.0% position lamp not working
- 2012 83.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 87.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 88.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 89.6% tread depth below requirements of…
- 2018 90.9% tread depth below requirements of…
- 2019 93.2% wipers blade defective
- 2020 95.1% wipers blade defective
- 2021 96.0% wipers blade defective
- 2022 95.6% wipers blade defective
- 2023 96.5%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 2023 Suzuki Vitara 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 2023 cars with a similar record
- Mercedes-Benz Eqe 96.5%
- Ford Puma 96.5%
- Levc Tx 97.0%
- Toyota Corolla 95.7%
- Kia Niro 95.5%
- Polestar Polestar 94.6%
Closest pass rates among 2023 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 2023 Suzuki Vitara 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 8 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 62 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 | 23 | 37.10% | 19.76% | +17.34 |
| Brakes | 11 | 17.70% | 20.89% | −3.19 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 7 | 11.30% | 12.21% | −0.91 |
| Visibility | 7 | 11.30% | 4.97% | +6.33 |
| Non-component advisories | 6 | 9.70% | 4.18% | +5.52 |
| Suspension | 5 | 8.10% | 20.98% | −12.88 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 2 | 3.20% | 5.57% | −2.37 |
| Road Wheels | 1 | 1.60% | 0.75% | +0.85 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.5% | £30–80 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.77% | £80–200 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.77% | £8–22 |
| Driver's view of the road through the swept area of the windscreen significantly affected by an obstruction Visibility | Rectified | 0.38% | £80–200 |
| Individual direction indicators not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.38% | £3–12 |
| Integral vehicle structure condition inadequately repaired such that structural rigidity is significantly reduced Body, chassis, structure | Major | 0.38% | £80–250 |
| Mirrors slightly damaged Visibility | Minor | 0.38% | £3–15 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.38% | £5–25 |
| Reversing lamps lens defective such that emitted light is adversely affected Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.38% | £3–15 |
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 | 5.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 1.5% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.5% | £20–80 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 1.5% | £30–75 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Advisory | 1.1% | £60–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 214 | 97.2% | 15,564 mi |
| 30-60k | 46 | 93.5% | 39,758 mi |
Source: 260 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.
2023 Vitara MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2023 Suzuki Vitara?
96.5% of the 260 2023 Suzuki Vitara tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 94.8% for cars first used in 2023. First-attempt pass rate: 96.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2023 Suzuki Vitara?
The three most recorded items are headlamp aim too high (1.54%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.15%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (0.77%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2023 Suzuki Vitara MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 97.2% of the time, falling to 93.5% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2023 Suzuki Vitara in this dataset had covered 17,624 mi.
Does the season affect the 2023 Suzuki Vitara MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 96.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 95.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.