All generations and engines together · 133,902 MOT tests in the 2025 data · typical mileage at age 7: 53k
Split by first-registration year. Cars registered in a changeover year can belong to either generation.
Computed from DVSA MOT results, all of Great Britain, 2025. Nothing here is opinion.
Share of tests where each item was recorded. The dark tick is the class average across all tracked models; bars are scaled within each group.
The rows that judge the model rather than its keeper. 64,917 tests in this band.
Tyres, pads and stone chips say more about how the car was driven and maintained than about how it was built.
Owner folklore from forums and the motoring press. Most of it never shows up in an MOT, which is why this section exists at all.
The three-cylinder 1.2 PureTech petrol, fitted across most of the 2008 range from 2013 on, has a well-documented habit of wearing its timing chain and oil seals early, and in a smaller number of cases shedding a spark plug tip into the cylinder. Owners report a rattle on cold start, misfiring on a hill, or a sudden loss of power anywhere from 18,000 miles to well over 100,000. Peugeot extended the warranty on affected PureTech engines to help owners with the bigger repairs, but a full engine replacement outside that cover can run into several thousand pounds.
A recurring complaint is bubbling and rust breaking through the lacquer on the standard alloy wheels, sometimes within a couple of years of the car being new. It's cosmetic rather than structural, and dealers have been known to reject it as a warranty claim, leaving the owner to pay for refurbishment. The measured corrosion fault picked up in the MOT data for this segment is usually the more serious, structural kind, but the wheel corrosion is the version buyers actually notice and complain about day to day, so it's worth treating as the visible end of the same reputation.
Some owners of manual, stop-start-equipped 2008s report the clutch going noisy or slipping well before it should, in a few reported cases within the first year or two and under 20,000 miles. It isn't officially acknowledged as a fault, and Peugeot generally treats it as wear and tear once the car is out of its first year, but the pattern of early failures, often on cars doing lots of short journeys, comes up repeatedly enough to be worth checking. A replacement clutch kit fitted typically runs to £500-900.
BlueHDi diesel 2008s can throw up AdBlue or SCR system warning lights, sometimes down to a pressurisation fault in the tank or dosing system, occasionally appearing well before the car has covered much distance. It doesn't always mean an immediate limp mode, but it needs sorting before the AdBlue runs dry and the car refuses to start. Diagnosis plus a sensor or pump replacement can cost anywhere from roughly £200 to £600 depending what's at fault.
The infotainment touchscreen, especially on i-Cockpit-equipped cars, is widely described as slow to respond, with swipe animations that seem designed to hide how long the system takes to think. For most owners it's an annoyance rather than a functional failure, though full freezes or an unresponsive screen are reported more often on higher-spec cars with more features hung off the same unit. There's no recall for it, and dealer software updates are hit and miss at actually fixing it.
The eight-speed automatic can feel jerky and overly keen on the throttle at low speed, and the hybrid's six-speed dual-clutch unit has been described as clunky when it swaps between electric and petrol power in traffic. It's a driving characteristic rather than something that breaks, so it won't throw a fault code, but it catches out buyers expecting a smoother automatic. Worth a proper low-speed test drive, including a reverse park, before deciding.
Built from the two sections above.
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