Pass rate
98.1%
Above average — 1.7 pts ahead of the 96.4% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 635 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £33–£82
2024 Volkswagen Multivan MOT pass rate
- 2024
- People carrier
- 2 trims combined
- typical 26,988 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
46.0% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2024 98.1% pass · this year
- Avoid 2002 67.3% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 30.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 98.1%
- Typical mileage
- 27k mi
The 2024 Volkswagen Multivan MOT pass rate is 98.1% of its MOT tests — 1.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 46.0% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.3× the national share
Tyres make up 46.0% of everything recorded on the 2024 Volkswagen Multivan, against 19.8% nationally — 26.2 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 18% 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 2024 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2024 Volkswagen Multivan compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 96.4%, so this figure is 1.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 98.1%. The median 2024 Volkswagen Multivan in this dataset had covered 26,988 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 98.7% of the time, April–September 97.6%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp aim too high", noted on 3.46% of tests.
- 635 recorded tests behind this page.
- 98.1% overall pass rate, 98.1% 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
- 635
- Typical mileage (median)
- 26,988 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 88% 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 | 360 | 98.1% |
| London | 264 | 98.5% |
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 2024 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 2024 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 3.5% 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 tyre pressures and valves 0.8% of tests
“tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative”
Set the pressures to the figures on the door pillar, not the tyre wall, and check the valves do not hiss. A leaking valve is a two-minute fix that fails a test.
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Check the windscreen 0.8% 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 2024 Multivan through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £33–£82 — and 18% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £33–£82
- Cheapest common item: srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 18%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 635 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 2024 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 2024 people carriers with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2024 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 2024 Volkswagen Multivan 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 113 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 | 52 | 46.00% | 19.76% | +26.24 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 31 | 27.40% | 12.21% | +15.19 |
| Visibility | 15 | 13.30% | 4.97% | +8.33 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 5 | 4.40% | 0.82% | +3.58 |
| Non-component advisories | 4 | 3.50% | 4.18% | −0.68 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 3 | 2.70% | 5.52% | −2.82 |
| Suspension | 1 | 0.90% | 20.98% | −20.08 |
| Brakes | 1 | 0.90% | 20.89% | −19.99 |
| Steering | 1 | 0.90% | 2.57% | −1.67 |
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 | 3.5% | £30–80 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Rectified | 0.79% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.79% | £80–200 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.47% | £30–80 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 0.47% | £3–12 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Rectified | 0.47% | £5–15 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Major | 0.47% | £5–15 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.31% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too far to the left Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.31% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too low and too far to the left. Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.31% | £30–80 |
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 | 6.1% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 0.63% | £45–95 |
| Driver's view of an obligatory external mirror significantly affected by an obstruction Visibility | Advisory | 0.31% | £20–80 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 0.31% | £45–95 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 0.16% | £200–700 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 0.16% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 351 | 98.3% | 16,493 mi |
| 30-60k | 241 | 97.9% | 42,285 mi |
| 60-90k | 29 | 96.6% | 70,330 mi |
| 90-120k | 2 | 100.0% | 104,429 mi |
Source: 635 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.
2024 Multivan MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2024 Volkswagen Multivan?
98.1% of the 635 2024 Volkswagen Multivan tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 96.4% for cars first used in 2024. First-attempt pass rate: 98.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2024 Volkswagen Multivan?
The three most recorded items are headlamp aim too high (3.46%), tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative (0.79%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (0.79%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2024 Volkswagen Multivan MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 98.3% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2024 Volkswagen Multivan in this dataset had covered 26,988 mi.
Does the season affect the 2024 Volkswagen Multivan MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 98.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 97.6%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.