All generations and engines together · 17,556 MOT tests in the 2025 data · typical mileage at age 7: 78k
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. 3,182 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.
On manual diesel 508s the dual-mass flywheel and clutch can wear out well before you'd expect. Honest John's reader reports include one failing at 3 years 5 months old for a £1,600 bill, and another needing clutch and flywheel work at just 18 months and 28,000 miles. It shows as a rattle or shudder through the clutch pedal at idle, or the clutch slipping under load. No TSB or recall, and dealers have not treated it as a routine warranty item.
The EGC automated manual, and the separate clutch pack in the Hybrid4, wear faster than a normal manual clutch. One Hybrid4 needed a replacement at 68,000 miles. It feels like hesitation or a flare in revs between changes, worse in slow traffic. Doesn't apply to the plain manual or the later EAT6/EAT8 torque-converter automatics.
Like most diesels of this era, the HDi engines can block their particulate filter on cars used mainly for short runs, triggering a warning light and needing a forced regeneration, which Honest John puts at around £213 a time if a garage has to do it. The 1.6 HDi seems particularly sensitive to fuel quality and short trips. This is a running-pattern problem rather than a build fault, and there's no recall for it.
Owners report the front suspension arm bushes wearing early, one 2.2 HDi GT at just 30,000 miles, which drags down the inner tyre shoulder fast, in one case needing rear tyres replaced every 4,000 miles. There are separate reports of rear dampers failing within the warranty period too. This tracks with the measured MOT data for this model, where suspension is the standout signature fault against the class, so the owner folklore and the numbers are pointing the same way here.
HDi diesel injectors can develop electrical faults that bring on fuel pressure errors and limp-home mode. In at least one case Peugeot insisted on replacing the whole fuel system rather than a single injector, pushing the bill into four figures, on a car at 72,000 miles. Poor-quality diesel appears to make it worse. No TSB found, and dealer response has been inconsistent.
The current (2018-on) car's 10-inch touchscreen has been criticised in press testing for laggy responses, patchy DAB reception, and CarPlay/Android Auto that drops out or won't connect, plus the map view vanishing whenever you touch the climate or seat controls. Earlier (2011-2018) cars had their own electrical gripes: a 'gong' chime warning of a failing 12V battery, wiper motors burning out on some fleet cars, and the old RT6 sat-nav unit failing outright, around £1,800 to replace. Owners disagree on how much of this counts as a real fault versus fiddly software.
Built from the two sections above.
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