Pass rate
87.4%
Above average — 2.1 pts behind the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 16,011 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £20–£50
2019 Vauxhall Adam MOT pass rate
- 2019
- typical 25,470 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
30.1% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
1.3 pts down across model years — 5.1% in 2013, 3.8% in 2019.
Which year to buy
- Best 2019 87.4% pass · this year
- Avoid 2013 76.6% pass
Across the 8 years on record, a spread of 10.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 85.7%
- Typical mileage
- 25k mi
The 2019 Vauxhall Adam MOT pass rate is 87.4% of its MOT tests — 2.1 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 30.1% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Vauxhall Adam does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.5× the national share
Tyres make up 30.1% of everything recorded on the 2019 Vauxhall Adam, against 19.8% nationally — 10.3 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.
- 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 2019 Vauxhall Adam compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 89.5%, so this figure is 2.1 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 85.7%. The median 2019 Vauxhall Adam in this dataset had covered 25,470 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 87.0% of the time, April–September 87.6%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively", noted on 2.79% of tests.
- 16,011 recorded tests behind this page.
- 87.4% overall pass rate, 85.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Vauxhall Adam, the average is 79.4% — best year 2019 (87.4%), worst 2013 (76.6%).
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
- 16,011
- Typical mileage (median)
- 25,470 mi
- Make and model
- Vauxhall Adam
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Wiper Blade
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Adam MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 63% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Adam
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 3,495 | 82.9% |
| North West | 2,343 | 88.0% |
| South East | 1,629 | 89.6% |
| East of England | 1,381 | 89.3% |
| Yorkshire | 1,373 | 89.4% |
| West Midlands | 1,359 | 89.8% |
| North East | 1,291 | 89.2% |
| East Midlands | 1,004 | 87.0% |
| Wales | 955 | 86.1% |
| South West | 929 | 87.8% |
| London | 252 | 89.7% |
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 2019 Adam
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 2019 Adam
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 wipers and washers 2.8% 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.
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Check the shock absorbers 2.7% 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.
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Check the brakes 1.0% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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 2019 Adam through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £20–£50 — and 55% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £20–£50
- Cheapest common item: washers not working
- £5–£15
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 55%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 16,011 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 Adam, side by side
8 model years on record, from 2012 to 2019. Across them the pass rate runs from 76.6% to 87.4% — a spread of 10.8 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2012 79.0% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2013 76.6% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2014 76.7% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2015 78.4% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2016 79.2% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2017 81.2% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2018 84.2% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2019 87.4%wipers does not clear the…
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 2019 Vauxhall Adam 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 2019 cars with a similar record
- Dacia Sandero 87.5%
- Renault Kadjar 87.5%
- Skoda Superb 87.5%
- Land Rover Discovery 87.6%
- Jaguar Xe 87.6%
- Ford Mustang 87.6%
Closest pass rates among 2019 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 2019 Vauxhall Adam 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 13,860 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 | 4,203 | 30.10% | 19.76% | +10.34 |
| Suspension | 2,939 | 21.10% | 20.98% | +0.12 |
| Brakes | 2,864 | 20.50% | 20.89% | −0.39 |
| Visibility | 1,617 | 11.60% | 4.97% | +6.63 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1,082 | 7.80% | 12.21% | −4.41 |
| Non-component advisories | 676 | 4.80% | 4.18% | +0.62 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 153 | 1.10% | 5.52% | −4.42 |
| Steering | 118 | 0.80% | 2.57% | −1.77 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 111 | 0.80% | 1.76% | −0.96 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 97 | 0.70% | 5.57% | −4.87 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 2.8% | £8–22 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 2.7% | £30–75 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.7% | £8–22 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.7% | £8–22 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.0% | £18–45 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Major | 0.99% | £5–15 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 0.98% | £25–65 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.87% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.79% | £80–200 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Rectified | 0.69% | £5–15 |
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 | 10.3% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 9.8% | £45–95 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 7.3% | £30–75 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 6.2% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 5.1% | £45–110 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 3.9% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 9,912 | 90.3% | 18,504 mi |
| 30-60k | 5,596 | 83.0% | 40,062 mi |
| 60-90k | 454 | 77.8% | 68,206 mi |
| 90-120k | 40 | 75.0% | 99,257 mi |
| 120k+ | 7 | 71.4% | 129,256 mi |
Source: 16,011 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.
2019 Adam MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2019 Vauxhall Adam?
87.4% of the 16,011 2019 Vauxhall Adam tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 89.5% for cars first used in 2019. First-attempt pass rate: 85.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2019 Vauxhall Adam?
The three most recorded items are wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (2.79%), shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak (2.68%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.72%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2019 Vauxhall Adam MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 90.3% of the time, falling to 71.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2019 Vauxhall Adam in this dataset had covered 25,470 mi.
Does the season affect the 2019 Vauxhall Adam MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 87.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 87.6%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.