Pass rate
79.4%
Around average — 5.4 pts ahead of the 74.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 175 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £23–£63
2009 Volkswagen motorhome MOT pass rate
- 2009
- Motorhome
- 4 trims combined
- typical 43,826 mi
This is a generic motorhome filing record rather than a named converter, so there is no manufacturer to compare against. The test figures are real and included in our totals.
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
17.6% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Which year to buy
- Best 2002 83.3% pass
- Avoid 2015 71.2% pass
Across the 16 years on record, a spread of 12.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 75.9%
- Typical mileage
- 44k mi
The 2009 Volkswagen motorhome MOT pass rate is 79.4% of its MOT tests — 5.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 17.6% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Volkswagen motorhome does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Steering: 3.7× the national share
Steering accounts for 9.4% of everything recorded on the 2009 Volkswagen Motorhome, against 2.6% nationally — 6.8 points above. Lamps & electrics are still the single largest share at 17.6%, but at 12.2% nationally that one is ordinary. Ask for the steering to be checked for play with the wheels on the ground, not on a jack.
- Beats its own age and mileage. Once you allow for how old and how far these motorhomes have been driven, the expected pass rate is 74.0% and this one manages 79.4% — 5.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 58% 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 motorhome first registered in 2009 is combined here — 4 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2009 Volkswagen motorhome compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 74.0%, so this figure is 5.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 75.9%. The median 2009 Volkswagen motorhome in this dataset had covered 43,826 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 86% of tests, with a 78.1% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 78.3% of the time, April–September 80.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Rear fog lamp not working", noted on 2.86% of tests.
- 175 recorded tests behind this page.
- 79.4% overall pass rate, 75.9% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Volkswagen motorhome, the average is 78.1% — best year 2002 (83.3%), worst 2015 (71.2%).
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
- 175
- Typical mileage (median)
- 43,826 mi
- Make and model
- Volkswagen Motorhome
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Motorhome MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 56% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (86% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Motorhome
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 46 | 87.0% |
| South West | 44 | 70.5% |
| East of England | 33 | 84.8% |
| Yorkshire | 15 | 73.3% |
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 2009 Motorhome
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 2009 Motorhome
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 2.9% of tests
“rear fog lamp not working”
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 2.9% 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.
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Check the suspension joints 2.3% of tests
“ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt”
With the car parked on level ground, rock the top of each front wheel in and out while someone watches the suspension arm. Clunks, or rubber boots split and greasy, are what testers record here.
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 2009 Motorhome through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £23–£63 — and 58% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £23–£63
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp with a multiple light source up to…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: steering box leaking oil
- £60–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 58%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 175 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 Motorhome, side by side
16 model years on record, from 2000 to 2015. Across them the pass rate runs from 71.2% to 83.3% — a spread of 12.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 83.3% component mounting prescribed…
- 2001 79.6% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2002 83.3% switch faulty
- 2003 80.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2004 73.5% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2005 74.3% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2006 72.3% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2007 80.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2008 79.7% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2009 79.4%rear fog lamp not working
- 2010 80.0% exhaust system has a major leak…
- 2011 79.8% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2012 80.9% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2013 77.3% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2014 78.2% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2015 71.2% rear fog lamp not working
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 2009 Volkswagen Motorhome 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 2009 motorhomes with a similar record
- Ci Motorhome Motorhome 82.6%
- Fiat Motorhome 86.5%
- Ford Motorhome 86.7%
- Suzuki Motorhome 71.2%
- Jeep Motorhome 67.3%
Closest pass rates among 2009 motorhomes with at least 150 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. Full rankings: best motorhomes and worst motorhomes for MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2009 Volkswagen Motorhome 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 238 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 43 | 17.60% | 12.21% | +5.39 |
| Brakes | 39 | 16.00% | 20.89% | −4.89 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 30 | 12.30% | 5.57% | +6.73 |
| Tyres | 28 | 11.50% | 19.76% | −8.26 |
| Suspension | 26 | 10.70% | 20.98% | −10.28 |
| Visibility | 23 | 9.40% | 4.97% | +4.43 |
| Steering | 23 | 9.40% | 2.57% | +6.83 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 10 | 4.10% | 5.52% | −1.42 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 10 | 4.10% | 1.76% | +2.34 |
| Non-component advisories | 6 | 2.50% | 4.18% | −1.68 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.9% | £3–15 |
| Stop lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.9% | £3–12 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 2.9% | £8–22 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 2.3% | £18–45 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Major | 2.3% | £5–15 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Major | 1.7% | £45–120 |
| Individual direction indicators not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.7% | £3–12 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 1.7% | £45–110 |
| Steering box leaking oil Steering | Minor | 1.7% | £60–200 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.7% | £80–200 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 5.7% | £45–95 |
| Registration plates inscription illegible Identification of the vehicle | Advisory | 5.7% | £20–80 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 5.1% | £45–110 |
| Steering box has excessive free play detected at the steering wheel (steering box fitted) Steering | Advisory | 5.1% | £60–200 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 4.0% | £45–95 |
| Wheel bearings has excessive play Suspension | Advisory | 4.0% | £20–55 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 42 | 83.3% | 17,723 mi |
| 30-60k | 88 | 79.5% | 43,885 mi |
| 60-90k | 25 | 80.0% | 68,820 mi |
| 90-120k | 6 | 83.3% | 94,624 mi |
| 120k+ | 14 | 64.3% | 150,782 mi |
Source: 175 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.
2009 Motorhome MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2009 Volkswagen motorhome?
79.4% of the 175 2009 Volkswagen motorhome tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 74.0% for cars first used in 2009. First-attempt pass rate: 75.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2009 Volkswagen motorhome?
The three most recorded items are rear fog lamp not working (2.86%), stop lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning (2.86%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (2.86%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2009 Volkswagen motorhome MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 83.3% of the time, falling to 64.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2009 Volkswagen motorhome in this dataset had covered 43,826 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2009 Volkswagen motorhome?
Petrol: 78.1% pass rate across 151 tests. Diesel: 87.5% pass rate across 24 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2009 Volkswagen motorhome MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 78.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 80.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.