All generations and engines together · 34,565 MOT tests in the 2025 data · typical mileage at age 7: 67k
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. 10,617 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 1.2-litre PureTech turbo petrol used across the 2017-on 5008 (and the closely related 3008, which shares the engine and platform) has a repeated pattern of carbon choking the inlet valves, with a run of reported complete engine failures well inside 100,000 miles, in some documented cases as early as 14,500-27,000 miles. Owners on Honest John describe warranty engine replacements; using the wrong oil grade has been linked to accelerating the damage. No formal recall turned up in our research, though dealers have run software updates on some early cars. A full engine replacement is a big bill, reportedly running past £5,000 in the worst documented cases on the sibling 3008.
On Mk1 (2009-2017) cars with the 1.6 HDi paired to the EGS automated manual gearbox, low-speed changes are widely described as jerky and hesitant, worst pulling away from a stop. Owners have also reported the clutch slave cylinder seals failing and contaminating the clutch, and the clutch actuator itself wearing out, a repair quoted at around £4,000. It doesn't apply to the conventional torque-converter automatic offered with the 2.0 HDi, which reviewers found noticeably smoother.
Across the 2017-2024 generation and the current model, the touchscreen system draws consistent complaints: slow to respond, cluttered menus, and on some cars the screen has gone completely blank mid-drive, needing the ignition cycled to reboot it. It's an annoyance rather than a breakdown, and there's no acknowledged fix, so budget for living with it rather than paying to cure it.
Some 5008 owners report the car intermittently stops recognising the key is inside, refusing to start or lock, in one case reported happening repeatedly on the same car with no lasting fix. This is the kind of owner-folklore fault that lines up with the model's measured MOT weak point of lights and electrics: it's intermittent and hard to pin down on a ramp, so it tends to surface as a dashboard warning or advisory rather than get properly diagnosed and fixed.
Injector failures on the 1.6 and 2.0 HDi engines come up repeatedly in owner reports, usually announcing themselves as a rough idle or a misfire. Replacement runs to roughly £1,000 per injector, and on a higher-mileage car it's not unusual for more than one to need doing close together.
The electric parking brake on Mk1 cars has a history of sticking on, refusing to release, or the switch itself failing, reported both in and out of warranty. It's more a nuisance-and-safety check than a huge bill, but a seized caliper means new calipers and sensors, not just a new switch.
Built from the two sections above.
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