Does the Citroen C4 Grand Picasso fail the MOT on vehicle identification more than it should?

The Citroen C4 Grand Picasso records 0.14 vehicle identification failure items per 100 initial MOT tests (2019–2024), against 0.26 expected for a car of the same age mix: about as expected for its class and age (the difference is within its interval or under 0.5 items per 100 tests) (−0.12, 95% interval −0.15 to −0.08). It ranks 487 of 636 models on vehicle identification (1 = most failures above expected).

Data release dvsa-2024-v2 (24 Sep 2026) · page updated 30 Sep 2026 · all models on vehicle identification · check a Citroen C4 Grand Picasso by registration

What exactly fails on vehicle identification?

The most frequent DVSA defect wording in this group on the Citroen C4 Grand Picasso is “Number plate does not conform to the specified requirements”, recorded 65 times in 2019–2024.

Citroen C4 Grand Picasso: most frequent vehicle identification defect wordings, 2019–2024 (30+ items each)
DVSA defect wording	Items	Per 100 tests
Number plate does not conform to the specified requirements	65	0.08
Number plate inscription missing or illegible	37	0.05

Source: DVSA MOT bulk data (OGL v3.0) · Window: 2019–2024 · n = 81,192 (initial tests) · Method: failure items (major and minor) grouped by DVSA's defect tree; wordings with 30+ items · Updated: 30 Sep 2026 · Release: dvsa-2024-v2 · CSV

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Does the Citroen C4 Grand Picasso fail the MOT on vehicle identification more than it should?

What exactly fails on vehicle identification?

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