Pass rate
91.2%
Above average — 0.0 pts in line with the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 922 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £39–£103
2021 Volkswagen Crafter MOT pass rate
- 2021
- Van
- 5 trims combined
- typical 34,834 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
25.1% 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 2021 91.2% pass · this year
- Avoid 2007 73.2% pass
Across the 17 years on record, a spread of 18 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 90.4%
- Typical mileage
- 35k mi
The 2021 Volkswagen Crafter MOT pass rate is 91.2% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 25.1% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Volkswagen Crafter does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Visibility: 3.0× the national share
Visibility accounts for 15.1% of everything recorded on the 2021 Volkswagen Crafter, against 5.0% nationally — 10.1 points above. Tyres are still the single largest share at 25.1%, but at 19.8% nationally that one is ordinary. Wipers, washers and a chip in the driver’s eyeline are the three quickest ways to fail a test that the car otherwise deserves to pass.
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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Every Volkswagen Crafter first registered in 2021 is combined here — 5 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2021 Volkswagen Crafter compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 0.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 90.4%. The median 2021 Volkswagen Crafter in this dataset had covered 34,834 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 91.9% of the time, April–September 90.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 3.90% of tests.
- 922 recorded tests behind this page.
- 91.2% overall pass rate, 90.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Volkswagen Crafter, the average is 79.7% — best year 2021 (91.2%), worst 2007 (73.2%).
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
- 922
- Typical mileage (median)
- 34,834 mi
- Make and model
- Volkswagen Crafter
- 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 Crafter MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 61% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Crafter
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 159 | 91.8% |
| South West | 133 | 93.2% |
| Yorkshire | 115 | 88.7% |
| North West | 103 | 90.3% |
| West Midlands | 99 | 86.9% |
| Scotland | 71 | 97.2% |
| East Midlands | 65 | 92.3% |
| East of England | 64 | 89.1% |
| North East | 46 | 91.3% |
| Wales | 43 | 93.0% |
| London | 24 | 91.7% |
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 2021 Crafter
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 Crafter
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 3.9% 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 1.4% 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 tyre tread 0.9% of tests
“tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm”
Check all four tyres cold, including the inner shoulder where wear hides — 1.6mm across the central three-quarters is the legal limit, and most testers fail at 1.6mm without argument.
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 Crafter through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £39–£103 — and 43% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £39–£103
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot split or…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 43%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 922 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 Crafter, side by side
17 model years on record, from 2006 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 73.2% to 91.2% — a spread of 18 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2006 73.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2007 73.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2008 73.3% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2009 74.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2010 74.3% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2011 77.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2012 75.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2013 76.5% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2014 78.8% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2015 80.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 81.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 84.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 86.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 87.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 88.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 91.2%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2022 89.4% 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 2021 Volkswagen Crafter 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 vans with a similar record
- Peugeot Expert 91.5%
- Peugeot Boxer 89.6%
- Peugeot Expert Prof 88.4%
- Fiat Ducato 94.2%
- Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 87.7%
- Ford Transit 87.6%
Closest pass rates among 2021 vans with at least 1,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. Full rankings: best vans and worst vans for MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2021 Volkswagen Crafter 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 553 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 | 140 | 25.10% | 19.76% | +5.34 |
| Brakes | 107 | 19.20% | 20.89% | −1.69 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 102 | 18.30% | 12.21% | +6.09 |
| Visibility | 84 | 15.10% | 4.97% | +10.13 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 41 | 7.40% | 5.52% | +1.88 |
| Non-component advisories | 35 | 6.30% | 4.18% | +2.12 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 20 | 3.60% | 5.57% | −1.97 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 10 | 1.80% | 0.82% | +0.98 |
| Suspension | 7 | 1.30% | 20.98% | −19.68 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 7 | 1.30% | 1.76% | −0.46 |
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 | 3.9% | £80–200 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.4% | £5–20 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.3% | £3–12 |
| Mirrors slightly damaged Visibility | Minor | 1.3% | £3–15 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.1% | £30–80 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 0.87% | £80–250 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.87% | £45–95 |
| Side repeaters not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.76% | £5–25 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.76% | £8–22 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.65% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 7.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.9% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 3.8% | £18–45 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 2.4% | £200–700 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.1% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 1.3% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 400 | 95.3% | 15,920 mi |
| 30-60k | 275 | 91.6% | 43,456 mi |
| 60-90k | 149 | 85.9% | 73,563 mi |
| 90-120k | 58 | 89.7% | 103,418 mi |
| 120k+ | 39 | 69.2% | 148,378 mi |
Source: 922 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 Crafter MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Volkswagen Crafter?
91.2% of the 922 2021 Volkswagen Crafter tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 90.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Volkswagen Crafter?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.90%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (1.41%), malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (1.30%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Volkswagen Crafter MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.3% of the time, falling to 69.2% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Volkswagen Crafter in this dataset had covered 34,834 mi.
Does the season affect the 2021 Volkswagen Crafter MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 91.9% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 90.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.