Citroen C15 — MOT statistics 2024

The Citroen C15 failed 49.39% of 1,059 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 135.6 (100 = expected for its age profile). This van fails its MOT about 36% more often than expected for its age. Small sample — treat with care.

Age-adjusted peer: Nissan Primastar (index 131.4) — the two published results are 4.2 index points apart.

Citroen C15 common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment stand out at 83.1 per 100 tests, against 49.8 per 100 tests across UK vans and pickups of the same ages.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

family vs national — matched to UK vans and pickups of the same ages — top component groups, per 100 tests. Legend: This family · National avg. Combined labels: family / national average. A gap here reflects how these vehicles are driven, used and maintained as well as how they were built — an MOT defect is a test outcome, not a breakdown.

Named defects ranked by how much more often they appear than the national average — not by raw rate.

Citroen C15 MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Suspension is highest at 44.7 per 100 tests; Non-component advisories are lowest at 9.0 per 100 tests — the gap is 35.7 per 100 tests.

higher bar = flagged more oftenadvisory items per 100 initial tests

Advisories are wear the tester noted but didn't fail — what will need money soon.

If a van like this fails, does it fail again?

A failure rate does not say whether a failure is a one-off or the start of something. This follows the same vehicles into their next ordinary MOT a year later — retests after a repair are excluded, because they follow a failure by definition. 2019-2024.

A failed test lowers next year's chance of failing again by 6.3 percentage points. The failure most likely to come back is steering — 47.1% of those vehicles fail again next year. Some of this is the vehicle and some is the owner: a car that was let go once tends to be let go again. One caveat: a car that fails may be sold or scrapped rather than tested again, so these figures describe the vehicles that came back.

Adjusted for how much these are actually driven

The headline index adjusts for the fleet's age. Wear, though, follows mileage: a three-year-old taxi and a three-year-old garage queen sit in the same age band. These two rows compare every van with vehicles of the same age, and then with vehicles of the same age and the same annual mileage, 2019-2024, on 7,362 tests. Both stand on the six-year corpus so they are measured on identical data — compare them with each other, not with the headline index above, which is measured on 2024 alone.

Split by how much each van is driven. This is a split by annual mileage, not by body type — the MOT record does not say whether a van is a conversion. Within each band the index compares with vehicles of the same age driven as much.

Mileage changes little here (+0.4 points): this fleet is driven about as much as the vehicles it is compared with. One limit to keep in mind: mileage is partly a result of how often a car breaks down — one that spends weeks in the workshop covers fewer miles — so the mileage-matched figure can understate a real weakness. Tests with no usable odometer reading are left out of it.

How the Citroen C15 compares with cars of its own age and size

Not against the whole fleet — against other light commercials tested at the same age, 2019-2024.

Raw first-time failure rates within each age, so fleet age cannot flatter either side. A positive difference means this model fails more often than its own class at that age.

How does the Citroen C15 perform as it gets older?

The C15 at age 20 stands out at 47.4%, against 41.0% for all vehicles of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart axes: van age, years · failure-rate scale 0–51%.

Takeaway: solid line: this family; dashed: all cars.

How dangerous are Citroen C15 MOT failures?

Major defects stand out at 202.9 per 100 tests, against 52.8 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Chart values: Minor 28.5 · Major 202.8 · Dangerous 20.0.

Per 100 tests on this family. National average: Minor 14.2 · Major 52.8 · Dangerous 11.2 per 100.

Does the month of a Citroen C15 MOT matter?

Jan is highest at 55.7%; Aug is lowest at 47.6% — the gap is 8.1 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart scale: 27%–57%.

bars: Citroen C15 · dashed: all class-4 cars

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 8.1 percentage points — noticeable seasonality. Seasonality partly reflects registration-date clustering, not weather.

Before reading the shape: most of it is not about cars. Britain changes its registration plates twice a year, and 18.9% of these cars were first registered in March with another17.1% in September — 36% in two months against the 17% an even spread would give. An MOT falls due three years after first registration, so the buying calendar becomes the testing calendar. That shapes how many cars are tested each month — not how often they fail: the busiest months here are not the worst ones, so read the failure line on its own and the volume behind it separately.

Citroen C15 average mileage by age

At age 20+, the middle half of C15s runs from 66,089 miles to 109,105 miles, against 84,851 miles as the median.

further right = more milesmedian is the typical car; band is p25–p75

Does high mileage mean more Citroen C15 MOT failures at the same age?

Within the same age group, split by odometer (2024 MOTs), so this separates wear from age: at ages 15+, 36.6% of those with 40,000–70,000 miles failed first time versus 52.4% of those with 100,000–140,000 miles.No clear mileage gap inside this age group, among cars still being tested.

line: median · band: middle half of the fleet (p25–p75)

A typical 20+-year-old C15 has ~84,851 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history. This typical figure blends two different lives: working vans that cover many miles and motorhome conversions that cover very few, so judge a camper against other campers and a working van against other working vans.

Where in Britain the Citroen C15 fails its MOT most

Torquay area is highest at 68.2%; Birmingham area is lowest at 30.4% — the gap is 37.8 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Every dot is a postcode area — size = how many were tested there, colour = share failing. These figures are not age-adjusted: coastal and rural areas often run older fleets and salted roads, so higher raw fail rates do not automatically mean a worse local stock of this model.

Map labels: Scotland · N. England · Wales · London · S. West.

How many miles does a Citroen C15 last?

100,000+ miles stands out at 39.1%.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Of 8,074 tests of this family with a usable odometer in 2024, 39.1% had reached 100k miles. This is a cross-section of cars still presenting for MOT, not a full birth cohort.

Citroen C15 faults that come together

Emissions & leaks + Seatbelts & SRS stand out at 4.04×, against 1.00× if the faults were independent.

above 1.0× = more than expectedbelow 1.0× = less

Defects in «Brakes» and «Suspension» appear together 2.24× more often than chance (814 co-occurrences in the same test; lift≥1.3, n≥500).

Lift = how many times more often both groups appear on the same test than if independent. A pair is listed from 5 tests with both faults; the lift is shown from 20, and called above chance only when its 95% interval excludes 1 (see rough estimates).

Citroen C15 MOT repair costs

The MOT-failure repair budget per test runs from £266.70 to £506.73, against £54.85 for the test itself.

bigger number = costs morepounds per test, MOT-failing faults only

Multiply how often each component fails on this model by what that repair usually costs, and you get the amount an owner should expect to budget per test for MOT-failing faults only — roughly £267 to £507, on top of the test fee itself. It is a budgeting figure, not a quote: the spread between a set of pads and a set of discs is most of the range.

Prices are modal quotes from a hand-kept catalogue of published UK garage guides — we do not scrape the booking sites, their terms forbid it, so this list is short and updated by hand with a source and date against each line. Each line prices one typical repair in that group, not a full remedy, and only groups our catalogue actually covers are counted. The contrast worth noticing is the second card: the legal maximum for the test has been £54.85 since 2010, while the repairs it uncovers have followed inflation the whole time.

For scale from a different direction: Warrantywise, which sees used-car warranty claims rather than test failures, puts the average claim at £2,052 across the ten highest-claim models it ranks and £539 for Honda, the lowest-claim make in its index (Warrantywise index 2026, 1.6 million claims, cars aged 3–15). Those sit an order of magnitude above the figures in this table, and the gap is the point: a warranty claim is a gearbox or an engine, which almost never fails an MOT, while the faults that do fail one are corrosion, lamps and tyres, which no warranty pays for. The two numbers answer different questions and neither replaces the other.

Citroen C15 rust problems: where they corrode

Age-standardised corrosion susceptibility stands out at 11.35×, against 1.00× for the national age-standardised rate.

above 1.0× = rusts more than averagebelow 1.0× = rusts less

This Citroen C15 fails on corrosion far more often than average once age is held constant, and its owners live in areas that are about typical for the models we publish.

Corrosion is the one failure mode that is as much about geography as about the car. We keep the two apart on purpose: a model can look rusty simply because it is popular in Scotland, and a model can look clean simply because it is bought in Surrey. Blending them into a single score would hide which of the two is doing the work.

Exposure is this model's tests weighted by an area corrosion index built from frost days, salt load and distance to the coast — the composite validated at r = 0.42 against corrosion defects we actually record. It is published as a rank, not a raw score, because every mainstream model skews towards low-corrosion areas for the simple reason that most of Britain's cars are in the south. Susceptibility is standardised to the national age profile, so an old fleet does not get labelled a rusty model.

Does a Citroen C15 advisory become a failure?

Body, chassis, structure are highest at 31.2%; Noise, emissions and leaks are lowest at 3.1% — the gap is 28.0 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

chance the same component fails at the next MOT, given an advisory now

This is the question an advisory note actually raises, and it needs six years of test history to answer. We followed the same vehicles from one MOT to the next across 2019–2024 and measured how often a component that was merely advised came back as a genuine failure at the next test.

Read it as a budgeting horizon, not a prophecy: the most likely component above turns into a failure for about 31 in 100 cars, and the median gap is 12.1 months and roughly 1,196 miles. The rest were repaired, sold, scrapped, or simply held. Rows with fewer than 500 tracked advisories are not shown.

What will fail next on a Citroen C15?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment after a failure at age 12-14 are highest at 43.6%; Body, chassis, structure after a passed at age 12-14 are lowest at 9.4% — the gap is 34.2 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

The same chains, cut differently: given a car's age and how its last test went, which component most often causes trouble at the following one.

The pattern that repeats across every family: a failure at one test roughly doubles the chance of a failure on the same component at the next one, and an advisory sits about half-way between a clean pass and a failure. Age bands in years; probabilities are per car, not per defect item.

Citroen C15 ownership: what six years of MOTs show

The ten-day re-test pass rate is highest at 71.9%; The later re-test pass rate is lowest at 12.2% — the gap is 59.7 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Failing is usually a same-week event, not a disaster. Of 2,503 failures followed through to their re-test, 15.86% were repaired and passed the same day and 71.91% within ten days; the median gap is 3 days. 9,964 defect items were cleared in the process.

Per mile driven, not per year. Dividing failures by the miles that actually went onto the odometers between consecutive tests gives 1.699 failures per 10,000 miles, on a median of 1,181 miles a year across 1,592 chains. This is the number to compare between models — an annual rate quietly rewards cars that barely leave the drive.

Two populations hide inside one model. 26.96% of these cars strung together three or more tests with nothing recorded at all, while 41.28% carried the same advisory three times or more — the same fault, noted, ignored, noted again. When you buy used you are buying one of those two histories, and the MOT record shows which.

Odometer anomalies: 3.731% of 1,608 chains show a reading lower than the previous test, with a median drop of 40,718 miles. We call this an anomaly and not fraud on purpose — instrument swaps, imports, unit mix-ups and keying errors all land in the same bucket. Obvious typos (drops under 100 miles or over 90% of the reading) are already excluded.

Citroen C15 safety recalls and how to check yours

DVSA recall campaigns stand out at 2.

bigger number = more recorded casescompare like-for-like scope, not sample size alone

recall campaigns launched per year

DVSA lists 2 safety recall campaigns for the Citroen C15, covering roughly 6,958 vehicles in total. A recall is the manufacturer fixing a fault for free, so an open recall on your car costs nothing to clear.

Counter-intuitive, and measured on our own data: across the 25 families published here, more recalls go with a lower MOT Risk Index (r = −0.52). Heavily recalled models are not worse cars in the test bay — an active manufacturer removes the fault before it becomes an MOT failure.

Check whether a specific car has an outstanding recall — free, by registration — at DVSA's recall service. Source: DVSA vehicle safety recalls (check-vehicle-recalls.service.gov.uk), OGL.

Citroen C15 MOT: quick answers

Citroen C15 MOT Risk Index stands out at 135.6, against 100 for a car with the same age profile.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

What is the Citroen C15 first-time MOT pass rate?

50.61% of first attempts passed in 2024 (1,059 tests). This is the first-time figure: retests after repair are excluded. Basis: first-time, excluding retests.

Why does this number differ from other sites?

Other sites often report a pass rate that includes retests or counts all attempts. Our 49.39% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 1,059 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 135.6 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Citroen C15 with other cars

Renault Clio is highest at 136.1; Talbot Express is lowest at 135.4 — the gap is 0.7 points.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

Same brand

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Similar risk

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By area

Citroen C15 MOT failure rate by postcode area

By failure group

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