Pass rate
89.5%
Above average — 2.5 pts behind the 92.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 190 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £36–£86
2022 Volkswagen Caravelle MOT pass rate
- 2022
- People carrier
- typical 26,961 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
36.0% 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 →
2.2 pts up across model years — 5.1% in 2000, 7.3% in 2021.
Which year to buy
- Best 2022 89.5% pass · this year
- Avoid 2000 69.7% pass
Across the 23 years on record, a spread of 19.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 88.4%
- Typical mileage
- 27k mi
The 2022 Volkswagen Caravelle MOT pass rate is 89.5% of its MOT tests — 2.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 36.0% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Volkswagen Caravelle does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.8× the national share
Tyres make up 36.0% of everything recorded on the 2022 Volkswagen Caravelle, against 19.8% nationally — 16.2 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 29% 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. 190 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 2022 Volkswagen Caravelle compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 92.0%, 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 88.4%. The median 2022 Volkswagen Caravelle in this dataset had covered 26,961 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 92.1% of the time, April–September 86.5%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 3.16% of tests.
- 190 recorded tests behind this page.
- 89.5% overall pass rate, 88.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Volkswagen Caravelle, the average is 77.2% — best year 2022 (89.5%), worst 2000 (69.7%).
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
- 190
- Typical mileage (median)
- 26,961 mi
- Make and model
- Volkswagen Caravelle
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Caravelle MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 67% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Caravelle
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 38 | 86.8% |
| North West | 24 | 95.8% |
| South West | 24 | 87.5% |
| West Midlands | 22 | 90.9% |
| Yorkshire | 20 | 90.0% |
| East Midlands | 17 | 88.2% |
| East of England | 16 | 87.5% |
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 2022 Caravelle
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 2022 Caravelle
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 windscreen 3.2% 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.
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Check the lights 2.6% 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 wipers and washers 2.6% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
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 2022 Caravelle through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £36–£86 — and 29% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £36–£86
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 29%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 190 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 Caravelle, side by side
23 model years on record, from 2000 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 69.7% to 89.5% — a spread of 19.8 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 69.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2001 72.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2002 72.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2003 71.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2004 71.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 70.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 71.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 72.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 72.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 74.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 76.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 77.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 79.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 80.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 79.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 79.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 80.5% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2017 82.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 83.7% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2019 85.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 87.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 86.7% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2022 89.5%windscreen damaged but not…
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 2022 Volkswagen Caravelle 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 2022 people carriers with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2022 people carriers with at least 200 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. Full rankings: best people carriers and worst people carriers.
The full DVSA record for the 2022 Volkswagen Caravelle 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 9 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 114 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 | 41 | 36.00% | 19.76% | +16.24 |
| Brakes | 26 | 22.80% | 20.89% | +1.91 |
| Visibility | 15 | 13.20% | 4.97% | +8.23 |
| Non-component advisories | 12 | 10.50% | 4.18% | +6.32 |
| Suspension | 10 | 8.80% | 20.98% | −12.18 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 5 | 4.40% | 5.52% | −1.12 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 2 | 1.80% | 12.21% | −10.41 |
| Steering | 2 | 1.80% | 2.57% | −0.77 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 0.90% | 0.82% | +0.08 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.2% | £80–200 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 2.6% | £45–95 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.6% | £3–12 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 2.6% | £8–22 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 2.1% | £30–75 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Flexible brake hoses slightly chafed Brakes | Minor | 1.1% | £25–70 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency less than 50% of the required value Brakes | Major | 1.1% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.53% | £18–45 |
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 | 11.1% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 6.8% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 2.6% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.6% | £20–80 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.1% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Passenger seat(s) missing at time of test Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.6% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 107 | 92.5% | 18,612 mi |
| 30-60k | 79 | 86.1% | 38,240 mi |
| 60-90k | 4 | 75.0% | 66,680 mi |
Source: 190 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.
2022 Caravelle MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2022 Volkswagen Caravelle?
89.5% of the 190 2022 Volkswagen Caravelle tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 92.0% for cars first used in 2022. First-attempt pass rate: 88.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2022 Volkswagen Caravelle?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.16%), has ply or cords exposed (2.63%), malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (2.63%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2022 Volkswagen Caravelle MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.5% of the time, falling to 75.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2022 Volkswagen Caravelle in this dataset had covered 26,961 mi.
Does the season affect the 2022 Volkswagen Caravelle MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 92.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 86.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.