Pass rate
91.7%
Above average — 0.5 pts ahead of the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 748 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £36–£83
2021 Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate MOT pass rate
- 2021
- typical 23,733 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
53.2% 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 →
Which year to buy
- Best 2022 94.1% pass
- Avoid 2021 91.7% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 2.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 91.1%
- Typical mileage
- 24k mi
The 2021 Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate MOT pass rate is 91.7% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 53.2% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.7× the national share
Tyres make up 53.2% of everything recorded on the 2021 Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate, against 19.8% nationally — 33.4 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 12% 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 2021 Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 0.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 91.1%. The median 2021 Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate in this dataset had covered 23,733 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 76% of tests, with a 92.6% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 90.6% of the time, April–September 92.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords", noted on 2.94% of tests.
- 748 recorded tests behind this page.
- 91.7% overall pass rate, 91.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate, the average is 91.9% — best year 2022 (94.1%), worst 2021 (91.7%).
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
- 748
- Typical mileage (median)
- 23,733 mi
- Make and model
- Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Grandland X Ultimate MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 75% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (76% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Grandland X Ultimate
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 139 | 92.1% |
| North West | 92 | 98.9% |
| East of England | 88 | 85.2% |
| West Midlands | 71 | 91.5% |
| Yorkshire | 69 | 92.8% |
| East Midlands | 67 | 88.1% |
| Scotland | 58 | 89.7% |
| South West | 52 | 94.2% |
| North East | 52 | 92.3% |
| Wales | 31 | 90.3% |
| London | 29 | 93.1% |
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 2021 Grandland X Ultimate
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 2021 Grandland X Ultimate
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 1.1% of tests
“headlamp aim too low”
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 brakes 0.8% 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.
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Check the wipers and washers 0.7% 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 2021 Grandland X Ultimate through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £36–£83 — and 12% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £36–£83
- Cheapest common item: washers provides insufficient washer liquid
- £5–£15
- Dearest common item: buckle not functioning as intended
- £40–£120
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 12%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 748 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 Grandland X Ultimate, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2021 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 91.7% to 94.1% — a spread of 2.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2021 91.7%has a cut in excess of the…
- 2022 94.1% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
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 2021 Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate 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 2021 cars with a similar record
- Fiat 500X 91.7%
- Mercedes-Benz A 91.8%
- Peugeot 3008 91.8%
- Volkswagen ID3 91.8%
- Land Rover R Rover Evoque 91.8%
- SEAT Arona 91.8%
Closest pass rates among 2021 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 2021 Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate 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 495 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 | 264 | 53.20% | 19.76% | +33.44 |
| Brakes | 123 | 24.80% | 20.89% | +3.91 |
| Non-component advisories | 38 | 7.70% | 4.18% | +3.52 |
| Visibility | 24 | 4.80% | 4.97% | −0.17 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 21 | 4.20% | 12.21% | −8.01 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 9 | 1.80% | 0.82% | +0.98 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 7 | 1.40% | 5.57% | −4.17 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 4 | 0.80% | 1.76% | −0.96 |
| Suspension | 3 | 0.60% | 20.98% | −20.38 |
| Road Wheels | 2 | 0.40% | 0.75% | −0.35 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.9% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.1% | £30–80 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.80% | £18–45 |
| Buckle not functioning as intended Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 0.67% | £40–120 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.67% | £8–22 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Major | 0.40% | £45–110 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.40% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.40% | £45–95 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Major | 0.40% | £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 | 15.1% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 8.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 5.9% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.8% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 3.2% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.4% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 491 | 93.7% | 17,074 mi |
| 30-60k | 219 | 88.1% | 39,937 mi |
| 60-90k | 31 | 87.1% | 70,913 mi |
| 90-120k | 6 | 83.3% | 99,868 mi |
| 120k+ | 1 | 100.0% | 139,083 mi |
Source: 748 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.
2021 Grandland X Ultimate MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate?
91.7% of the 748 2021 Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 91.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.94%), has ply or cords exposed (1.47%), headlamp aim too low (1.07%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.7% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate in this dataset had covered 23,733 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2021 Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate?
Petrol: 92.6% pass rate across 568 tests. Diesel: 88.9% pass rate across 180 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2021 Vauxhall Grandland X Ultimate MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 90.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 92.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.