Pass rate
77.7%
Around average — 2.5 pts behind the 80.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,712 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £50–£143
2014 Vauxhall Ampera MOT pass rate
- 2014
- typical 83,347 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
26.2% 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
- 72.6%
- Typical mileage
- 83k mi
The 2014 Vauxhall Ampera MOT pass rate is 77.7% of its MOT tests — 2.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 26.2% 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 26.2% of everything recorded on the 2014 Vauxhall Ampera, against 19.8% nationally — 6.4 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 26% 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.
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 2014 Vauxhall Ampera compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 80.2%, so this figure is 2.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 72.6%. The median 2014 Vauxhall Ampera in this dataset had covered 83,347 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 77.6% of the time, April–September 77.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated", noted on 7.65% of tests.
- 1,712 recorded tests behind this page.
- 77.7% overall pass rate, 72.6% 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
- 1,712
- Typical mileage (median)
- 83,347 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 63% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Ampera
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 437 | 77.3% |
| South West | 202 | 74.3% |
| North West | 191 | 77.5% |
| West Midlands | 191 | 83.8% |
| East of England | 186 | 78.0% |
| East Midlands | 132 | 75.8% |
| London | 101 | 81.2% |
| Yorkshire | 91 | 81.3% |
| Scotland | 80 | 67.5% |
| North East | 58 | 79.3% |
| Wales | 43 | 76.7% |
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 2014 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 2014 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 coil springs 3.0% 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 lights 3.0% 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 windscreen 2.8% 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.
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 2014 Ampera through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £50–£143 — and 26% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £50–£143
- 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
- 26%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,712 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 2014 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 2014 cars with a similar record
- Citroen C3 77.7%
- Kia Sorento 77.7%
- Nissan Qashqai 77.8%
- Mitsubishi L200 77.8%
- Ford Grand C-Max 77.8%
- Peugeot 208 77.6%
Closest pass rates among 2014 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 2014 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 2,572 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 | 675 | 26.20% | 19.76% | +6.44 |
| Brakes | 645 | 25.00% | 20.89% | +4.11 |
| Suspension | 315 | 12.20% | 20.98% | −8.78 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 285 | 11.00% | 12.21% | −1.21 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 262 | 10.20% | 5.57% | +4.63 |
| Non-component advisories | 136 | 5.30% | 4.18% | +1.12 |
| Visibility | 110 | 4.30% | 4.97% | −0.67 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 95 | 3.70% | 5.52% | −1.82 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 32 | 1.20% | 1.76% | −0.56 |
| Road Wheels | 17 | 0.70% | 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 | 7.7% | £80–250 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 4.9% | £80–250 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 3.0% | £25–65 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.0% | £3–12 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.8% | £5–20 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.8% | £80–200 |
| Side repeaters not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.5% | £5–25 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.4% | £45–95 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Major | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 21.0% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 16.1% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 10.9% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.1% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 3.5% | £45–95 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 2.9% | £180–450 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 43 | 88.4% | 22,695 mi |
| 30-60k | 318 | 83.6% | 46,961 mi |
| 60-90k | 638 | 77.6% | 75,303 mi |
| 90-120k | 444 | 76.1% | 104,068 mi |
| 120k+ | 269 | 71.7% | 143,977 mi |
Source: 1,712 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.
2014 Ampera MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2014 Vauxhall Ampera?
77.7% of the 1,712 2014 Vauxhall Ampera tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 80.2% for cars first used in 2014. First-attempt pass rate: 72.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2014 Vauxhall Ampera?
The three most recorded items are joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (7.65%), joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (4.91%), coil spring fractured or broken (2.98%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2014 Vauxhall Ampera MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 88.4% of the time, falling to 71.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2014 Vauxhall Ampera in this dataset had covered 83,347 mi.
Does the season affect the 2014 Vauxhall Ampera MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 77.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 77.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.