Pass rate
89.4%
Above average — 2.6 pts behind the 92.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 521 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £30–£80
2022 Volkswagen Crafter MOT pass rate
- 2022
- Van
- 3 trims combined
- typical 33,678 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
26.7% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2021 91.2% pass
- Avoid 2007 73.2% pass
Across the 17 years on record, a spread of 18 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 88.5%
- Typical mileage
- 34k mi
The 2022 Volkswagen Crafter MOT pass rate is 89.4% of its MOT tests — 2.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 26.7% 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 14.7% of everything recorded on the 2022 Volkswagen Crafter, against 5.0% nationally — 9.7 points above. Tyres are still the single largest share at 26.7%, 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.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 55% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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 2022 is combined here — 3 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2022 Volkswagen Crafter compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 92.0%, so this figure is 2.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 88.5%. The median 2022 Volkswagen Crafter in this dataset had covered 33,678 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 87.4% of the time, April–September 91.6%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 2.50% of tests.
- 521 recorded tests behind this page.
- 89.4% overall pass rate, 88.5% 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
- 521
- Typical mileage (median)
- 33,678 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 69% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Crafter
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 88 | 93.2% |
| Yorkshire | 65 | 92.3% |
| Scotland | 61 | 86.9% |
| South West | 52 | 92.3% |
| North West | 50 | 86.0% |
| East of England | 47 | 83.0% |
| Wales | 46 | 91.3% |
| East Midlands | 43 | 88.4% |
| North East | 42 | 81.0% |
| West Midlands | 26 | 100.0% |
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 2022 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 2022 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 2.5% 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 2.3% 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 1.9% 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 Crafter through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £30–£80 — and 55% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £30–£80
- 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
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 55%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 521 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 2022 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 2022 vans with a similar record
- Ford Transit Courier 88.2%
- Renault Master 90.7%
- Ford Transit 90.9%
- Toyota Proace 87.3%
- Ford Transit Custom 86.1%
- Peugeot Boxer 92.9%
Closest pass rates among 2022 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 2022 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 289 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 | 78 | 26.70% | 19.76% | +6.94 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 53 | 18.20% | 12.21% | +5.99 |
| Brakes | 45 | 15.40% | 20.89% | −5.49 |
| Visibility | 43 | 14.70% | 4.97% | +9.73 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 29 | 9.90% | 5.52% | +4.38 |
| Non-component advisories | 15 | 5.10% | 4.18% | +0.92 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 13 | 4.50% | 5.57% | −1.07 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 5 | 1.70% | 1.76% | −0.06 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 5 | 1.70% | 0.82% | +0.88 |
| Suspension | 3 | 1.00% | 20.98% | −19.98 |
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 | 2.5% | £80–200 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.3% | £3–12 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.9% | £8–22 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.7% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.1% | £18–45 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 1.1% | £80–250 |
| Mirrors slightly damaged Visibility | Minor | 0.96% | £3–15 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.96% | £3–15 |
| Rear reflectors defective or damaged by up to 50% of the reflecting surface Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.96% | £5–25 |
| Position lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.77% | £5–25 |
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 | 7.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 3.5% | £18–45 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 2.5% | £200–700 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 1.9% | £45–110 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 1.5% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 232 | 93.1% | 16,726 mi |
| 30-60k | 163 | 87.7% | 41,959 mi |
| 60-90k | 74 | 87.8% | 73,679 mi |
| 90-120k | 35 | 77.1% | 102,192 mi |
| 120k+ | 17 | 88.2% | 143,307 mi |
Source: 521 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 Crafter MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2022 Volkswagen Crafter?
89.4% of the 521 2022 Volkswagen Crafter tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 92.0% for cars first used in 2022. First-attempt pass rate: 88.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2022 Volkswagen Crafter?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.50%), malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (2.30%), wipers blade defective (1.92%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2022 Volkswagen Crafter MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.1% of the time, falling to 88.2% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2022 Volkswagen Crafter in this dataset had covered 33,678 mi.
Does the season affect the 2022 Volkswagen Crafter MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 87.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 91.6%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.