Pass rate
79.4%
Around average — 6.6 pts behind the 86.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 97 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £23–£67
2017 Toyota Granvia MOT pass rate
- 2017
- typical 74,114 mi
Only 97 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
Lamps & electrics
20.4% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Which year to buy
- Best 2000 84.2% pass
- Avoid 2009 71.0% pass
Across the 15 years on record, a spread of 13.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 76.8%
- Typical mileage
- 74k mi
The 2017 Toyota Granvia MOT pass rate is 79.4% of its MOT tests — 6.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 20.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Toyota Granvia does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.7× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 20.4% of everything recorded on the 2017 Toyota Granvia, against 12.2% nationally — 8.2 points above. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 86.0%; this one manages 79.4% — 6.6 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 60% 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 2017 Toyota Granvia compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 86.0%, so this figure is 6.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 76.8%. The median 2017 Toyota Granvia in this dataset had covered 74,114 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 87% of tests, with a 79.8% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 87.8% of the time, April–September 73.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 4.12% of tests.
- 97 recorded tests behind this page.
- 79.4% overall pass rate, 76.8% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Toyota Granvia, the average is 76.0% — best year 2000 (84.2%), worst 2009 (71.0%).
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
- 97
- Typical mileage (median)
- 74,114 mi
- Make and model
- Toyota Granvia
- 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 Granvia MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 63% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (87% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Granvia
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 28 | 89.3% |
| Yorkshire | 19 | 73.7% |
| South East | 17 | 70.6% |
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 2017 Granvia
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 2017 Granvia
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 4.1% 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 lights 4.1% of tests
“rear fog lamp not working”
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 shock absorbers 3.1% of tests
“shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak”
Press down hard on each corner of the car and let go. It should settle in one bounce; if it keeps rocking, or you can see oil weeping down a shock absorber, that is the fault a tester will find.
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 2017 Granvia through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £23–£67 — and 60% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £23–£67
- Cheapest common item: srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 60%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 97 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 Granvia, side by side
15 model years on record, from 2000 to 2017. Across them the pass rate runs from 71.0% to 84.2% — a spread of 13.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 84.2% ball joint excessively worn
- 2004 72.9% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2005 74.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 73.4% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2007 76.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 76.0% rear fog lamp not working
- 2009 71.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 75.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 78.6% rear fog lamp not working
- 2012 78.7% rear fog lamp not working
- 2013 79.7% rear fog lamp not working
- 2014 74.7% wipers does not clear the…
- 2015 79.4% rear fog lamp not working
- 2016 76.3% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2017 79.4%ball joint dust cover severely…
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 2017 Toyota Granvia 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 2017 cars with a similar record
- Fiat 500L 79.4%
- Fiat TIPO 79.5%
- SEAT Arona 79.3%
- Nissan Micra 79.6%
- SEAT Ibiza 79.7%
- Nissan Navara 79.1%
Closest pass rates among 2017 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 2017 Toyota Granvia 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 185 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 38 | 20.40% | 12.21% | +8.19 |
| Suspension | 35 | 18.80% | 20.98% | −2.18 |
| Brakes | 32 | 17.20% | 20.89% | −3.69 |
| Tyres | 26 | 14.00% | 19.76% | −5.76 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 15 | 8.10% | 5.52% | +2.58 |
| Non-component advisories | 13 | 7.00% | 4.18% | +2.82 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 11 | 5.90% | 5.57% | +0.33 |
| Visibility | 8 | 4.30% | 4.97% | −0.67 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 5 | 2.70% | 0.82% | +1.88 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 2 | 1.10% | 1.76% | −0.66 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 4.1% | £18–45 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 4.1% | £80–250 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.1% | £3–15 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 4.1% | £3–15 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 4.1% | £3–12 |
| Stop lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 4.1% | £3–12 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 3.1% | £30–75 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.1% | £80–200 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 3.1% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.1% | £5–25 |
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 | 14.4% | £45–95 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 13.4% | £18–45 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 12.4% | £200–700 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 9.3% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 7.2% | £45–110 |
| Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 7.2% | £5–25 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 26 | 80.8% | 48,647 mi |
| 60-90k | 39 | 71.8% | 73,734 mi |
| 90-120k | 27 | 85.2% | 101,906 mi |
| 120k+ | 5 | 100.0% | 134,516 mi |
Source: 97 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.
2017 Granvia MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2017 Toyota Granvia?
79.4% of the 97 2017 Toyota Granvia tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 86.0% for cars first used in 2017. First-attempt pass rate: 76.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2017 Toyota Granvia?
The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (4.12%), joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (4.12%), rear fog lamp not working (4.12%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2017 Toyota Granvia MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 80.8% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2017 Toyota Granvia in this dataset had covered 74,114 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2017 Toyota Granvia?
Petrol: 79.8% pass rate across 84 tests. Diesel: 90.0% pass rate across 10 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2017 Toyota Granvia MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 87.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 73.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.