Pass rate
96.4%
Above average — 1.6 pts ahead of the 94.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,975 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £30–£75
2023 Volkswagen Multivan MOT pass rate
- 2023
- People carrier
- 2 trims combined
- typical 39,040 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
52.2% 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 2024 98.1% pass
- Avoid 2002 67.3% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 30.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 96.4%
- Typical mileage
- 39k mi
The 2023 Volkswagen Multivan MOT pass rate is 96.4% of its MOT tests — 1.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 52.2% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.6× the national share
Tyres make up 52.2% of everything recorded on the 2023 Volkswagen Multivan, against 19.8% nationally — 32.4 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.
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 Multivan first registered in 2023 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2023 Volkswagen Multivan compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 94.8%, so this figure is 1.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 96.4%. The median 2023 Volkswagen Multivan in this dataset had covered 39,040 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 95.5% of the time, April–September 97.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp aim too high", noted on 2.43% of tests.
- 1,975 recorded tests behind this page.
- 96.4% overall pass rate, 96.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Volkswagen Multivan, the average is 94.5% — best year 2024 (98.1%), worst 2002 (67.3%).
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
- 1,975
- Typical mileage (median)
- 39,040 mi
- Make and model
- Volkswagen Multivan
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Headlight Alignment
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Multivan MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 63% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Volkswagen Multivan is most common
Across all Multivan model years on record (2000–2024): 1,874 Volkswagen Multivan cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 3,278 tests. Hayes (UB) has the most, with 569 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hayes (UB) | 569 | 97.5% |
| 2 | London (N) | 341 | 94.3% |
| 3 | London (E) | 261 | 98.3% |
| 4 | London (NW) | 139 | 96.6% |
| 5 | Slough (SL) | 23 | 100.0% |
| 6 | Bristol (BS) | 18 | — |
| 7 | Birmingham (B) | 18 | — |
| 8 | Hounslow (TW) | 15 | — |
| 9 | Exeter (EX) | 13 | — |
| 10 | Romford (RM) | 13 | — |
| 11 | Reading (RG) | 13 | — |
| 12 | Sheffield (S) | 13 | — |
| 13 | Guildford (GU) | 12 | — |
| 14 | Croydon (CR) | 12 | — |
| 15 | Nottingham (NG) | 12 | — |
| 16 | Crawley (RH) | 12 | — |
| 17 | Northampton (NN) | 12 | — |
| 18 | Derby (DE) | 11 | — |
| 19 | Cardiff (CF) | 11 | — |
| 20 | Leicester (LE) | 10 | — |
The twenty areas with the most Volkswagen Multivan cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the Multivan
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 1,014 | 97.4% |
| London | 918 | 95.3% |
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 2023 Multivan
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 2023 Multivan
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 2.4% of tests
“headlamp aim too high”
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 0.8% 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.
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Check the windscreen 0.7% 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 2023 Multivan through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £30–£75 — and 29% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £30–£75
- 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
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 29%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,975 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 Multivan, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2000 to 2024. Across them the pass rate runs from 67.3% to 98.1% — a spread of 30.8 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 72.3% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2001 72.6% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2002 67.3% position lamp not working
- 2022 92.2% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2023 96.4%headlamp aim too high
- 2024 98.1% headlamp aim too high
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 2023 Volkswagen Multivan 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 2023 people carriers with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2023 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 2023 Volkswagen Multivan 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 425 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 | 222 | 52.20% | 19.76% | +32.44 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 73 | 17.20% | 12.21% | +4.99 |
| Visibility | 43 | 10.10% | 4.97% | +5.13 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 21 | 4.90% | 0.82% | +4.08 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 17 | 4.00% | 5.52% | −1.52 |
| Brakes | 16 | 3.80% | 20.89% | −17.09 |
| Suspension | 14 | 3.30% | 20.98% | −17.68 |
| Non-component advisories | 12 | 2.80% | 4.18% | −1.38 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 6 | 1.40% | 5.57% | −4.17 |
| Road Wheels | 1 | 0.20% | 0.75% | −0.55 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 2.4% | £30–80 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.81% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.71% | £80–200 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.66% | £30–80 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Major | 0.66% | £5–15 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.61% | £3–12 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 0.61% | £3–12 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Rectified | 0.61% | £45–95 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Rectified | 0.35% | £5–15 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.20% | £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 | 8.6% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 0.56% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 0.51% | £18–45 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 0.46% | £30–75 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 0.35% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 0.30% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 704 | 98.4% | 18,254 mi |
| 30-60k | 832 | 95.8% | 44,301 mi |
| 60-90k | 378 | 95.0% | 71,394 mi |
| 90-120k | 53 | 92.5% | 101,865 mi |
| 120k+ | 7 | 71.4% | 129,001 mi |
Source: 1,975 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.
2023 Multivan MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2023 Volkswagen Multivan?
96.4% of the 1,975 2023 Volkswagen Multivan tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 94.8% for cars first used in 2023. First-attempt pass rate: 96.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2023 Volkswagen Multivan?
The three most recorded items are headlamp aim too high (2.43%), tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (0.81%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (0.71%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2023 Volkswagen Multivan MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 98.4% of the time, falling to 71.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2023 Volkswagen Multivan in this dataset had covered 39,040 mi.
Does the season affect the 2023 Volkswagen Multivan MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 95.5% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 97.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.