Pass rate
80.5%
Around average — 1.9 pts ahead of the 78.6% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 784 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £40–£121
2013 Vauxhall Ampera MOT pass rate
- 2013
- typical 99,367 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
26.6% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2015 82.5% pass
- Avoid 2012 76.8% pass
Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 5.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 76.5%
- Typical mileage
- 99k mi
The 2013 Vauxhall Ampera MOT pass rate is 80.5% of its MOT tests — 1.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 26.6% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Vauxhall Ampera does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.3× the national share
Tyres make up 26.6% of everything recorded on the 2013 Vauxhall Ampera, against 19.8% nationally — 6.8 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.
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 2013 Vauxhall Ampera compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 78.6%, so this figure is 1.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 76.5%. The median 2013 Vauxhall Ampera in this dataset had covered 99,367 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 79.8% of the time, April–September 81.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated", noted on 7.14% of tests.
- 784 recorded tests behind this page.
- 80.5% overall pass rate, 76.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Vauxhall Ampera, the average is 78.3% — best year 2015 (82.5%), worst 2012 (76.8%).
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
- 784
- Typical mileage (median)
- 99,367 mi
- Make and model
- Vauxhall Ampera
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Body Panel Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Ampera MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 69% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Ampera
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 193 | 81.3% |
| South West | 87 | 81.6% |
| East of England | 82 | 79.3% |
| North West | 80 | 86.3% |
| Yorkshire | 72 | 70.8% |
| West Midlands | 72 | 86.1% |
| East Midlands | 56 | 69.6% |
| Wales | 45 | 73.3% |
| London | 41 | 87.8% |
| Scotland | 40 | 87.5% |
| North East | 15 | 80.0% |
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 2013 Ampera
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 2013 Ampera
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 5.0% of tests
“malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction”
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 coil springs 3.2% of tests
“coil spring fractured or broken”
Look up inside each wheel arch with a torch, all the way round the spring. A snapped spring usually breaks at the very bottom coil, where a quick glance will not reach.
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Check the windscreen 1.7% 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 2013 Ampera through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £40–£121 — and 44% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £40–£121
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 44%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 784 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 Ampera, side by side
4 model years on record, from 2012 to 2015. Across them the pass rate runs from 76.8% to 82.5% — a spread of 5.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2012 76.8% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2013 80.5%joints constant velocity boot…
- 2014 77.7% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2015 82.5% joints constant velocity boot…
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 2013 Vauxhall Ampera 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 2013 cars with a similar record
- Volkswagen Tiguan 80.7%
- Audi Q3 80.7%
- Jaguar Xf 80.7%
- Volvo XC90 80.3%
- Volkswagen Amarok 80.3%
- Volvo V60 80.2%
Closest pass rates among 2013 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 2013 Vauxhall Ampera 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 1,132 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 | 302 | 26.60% | 19.76% | +6.84 |
| Brakes | 261 | 23.00% | 20.89% | +2.11 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 148 | 13.00% | 12.21% | +0.79 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 121 | 10.70% | 5.57% | +5.13 |
| Suspension | 113 | 9.90% | 20.98% | −11.08 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 58 | 5.10% | 5.52% | −0.42 |
| Non-component advisories | 58 | 5.10% | 4.18% | +0.92 |
| Visibility | 41 | 3.60% | 4.97% | −1.37 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 21 | 1.80% | 1.76% | +0.04 |
| Road Wheels | 9 | 0.80% | 0.75% | +0.05 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 7.1% | £80–250 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 5.0% | £3–12 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 4.8% | £80–250 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.8% | £5–20 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 3.2% | £25–65 |
| Side repeaters not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.4% | £5–25 |
| Side repeaters lens defective which has no effect on emitted light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.7% | £3–15 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.7% | £80–200 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Major | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.3% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 19.0% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 18.0% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 9.3% | £45–95 |
| Service brake performance excessively fluctuating Brakes | Advisory | 2.7% | £60–150 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 2.7% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Fuel Pipe/s corroded Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.4% | £180–450 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 9 | 100.0% | 26,603 mi |
| 30-60k | 97 | 85.6% | 48,310 mi |
| 60-90k | 194 | 83.0% | 75,067 mi |
| 90-120k | 249 | 77.9% | 103,894 mi |
| 120k+ | 234 | 78.2% | 144,982 mi |
Source: 784 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.
2013 Ampera MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2013 Vauxhall Ampera?
80.5% of the 784 2013 Vauxhall Ampera tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 78.6% for cars first used in 2013. First-attempt pass rate: 76.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2013 Vauxhall Ampera?
The three most recorded items are joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (7.14%), malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (4.97%), joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (4.85%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2013 Vauxhall Ampera MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 78.2% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2013 Vauxhall Ampera in this dataset had covered 99,367 mi.
Does the season affect the 2013 Vauxhall Ampera MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 79.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 81.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.