Pass rate
76.8%
Around average — 1.8 pts behind the 78.6% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 237 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £28–£71
2013 Vauxhall Insig MOT pass rate
- 2013
- typical 115,738 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
25.0% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2012 81.8% pass
- Avoid 2015 75.3% pass
Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 6.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 70.9%
- Typical mileage
- 116k mi
The 2013 Vauxhall Insig MOT pass rate is 76.8% of its MOT tests — 1.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 25.0% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Vauxhall Insig does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Fewer problems with brakes
Brakes are 13.3% of this car’s recorded faults, against 20.9% nationally — the mirror image of the usual story on a car of this age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 33% 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.
- Based on a small sample. 237 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
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 Insig compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 78.6%, so this figure is 1.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 70.9%. The median 2013 Vauxhall Insig in this dataset had covered 115,738 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 77.2% of the time, April–September 76.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Coil spring fractured or broken", noted on 6.75% of tests.
- 237 recorded tests behind this page.
- 76.8% overall pass rate, 70.9% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Vauxhall Insig, the average is 77.2% — best year 2012 (81.8%), worst 2015 (75.3%).
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
- 237
- Typical mileage (median)
- 115,738 mi
- Make and model
- Vauxhall Insig
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Coil Spring
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Insig MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 64% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Insig
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 42 | 76.2% |
| North East | 33 | 84.8% |
| North West | 32 | 78.1% |
| West Midlands | 29 | 72.4% |
| Yorkshire | 29 | 75.9% |
| Wales | 24 | 75.0% |
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 Insig
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 Insig
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 6.8% 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 6.3% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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 3.8% 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 2013 Insig through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £28–£71 — and 33% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £28–£71
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 33%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 237 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 Insig, side by side
4 model years on record, from 2011 to 2015. Across them the pass rate runs from 75.3% to 81.8% — a spread of 6.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2011 76.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 81.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2013 76.8%coil spring fractured or broken
- 2015 75.3% malfunction indicator lamp…
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 Insig 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
- Mazda Cx-5 76.8%
- Suzuki SX4 76.7%
- Alfa Romeo Giulietta 76.7%
- Fiat 500 76.9%
- Peugeot 508 76.9%
- Volkswagen Jetta 76.9%
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 Insig 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 432 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 109 | 25.00% | 20.98% | +4.02 |
| Tyres | 102 | 23.40% | 19.76% | +3.64 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 64 | 14.70% | 12.21% | +2.49 |
| Brakes | 58 | 13.30% | 20.89% | −7.59 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 41 | 9.40% | 5.52% | +3.88 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 20 | 4.60% | 5.57% | −0.97 |
| Visibility | 15 | 3.40% | 4.97% | −1.57 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 12 | 2.80% | 1.76% | +1.04 |
| Non-component advisories | 7 | 1.60% | 4.18% | −2.58 |
| Steering | 4 | 0.90% | 2.57% | −1.67 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 6.8% | £25–65 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 6.3% | £5–20 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.8% | £80–200 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 3.4% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 2.5% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.1% | £5–25 |
| Position lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.1% | £5–25 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.7% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.7% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.7% | £30–80 |
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 | 21.5% | £45–95 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 12.2% | £200–700 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 11.8% | £180–450 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 8.0% | £40–150 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 7.2% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 6.8% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 11 | 72.7% | 46,889 mi |
| 60-90k | 37 | 78.4% | 78,797 mi |
| 90-120k | 81 | 75.3% | 105,649 mi |
| 120k+ | 106 | 78.3% | 144,568 mi |
Source: 237 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 Insig MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2013 Vauxhall Insig?
76.8% of the 237 2013 Vauxhall Insig tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 78.6% for cars first used in 2013. First-attempt pass rate: 70.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2013 Vauxhall Insig?
The three most recorded items are coil spring fractured or broken (6.75%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (6.33%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.80%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2013 Vauxhall Insig MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 72.7% of the time, falling to 78.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2013 Vauxhall Insig in this dataset had covered 115,738 mi.
Does the season affect the 2013 Vauxhall Insig MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 77.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 76.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.