Ford Mustang Mach-E — MOT statistics 2024

The Ford Mustang Mach-E failed 9.24% of 2,837 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 77.1 (100 = expected for its age profile). This car fails its MOT about 23% less often than expected for its age. Small sample — treat with care.

Age-adjusted peer: Mercedes-Benz M-Class (index 77.1) — the two published results are 0.0 index points apart.

Ford Mustang Mach-E common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Tyres are well below the reference at 7.6 per 100 tests, against 10.3 per 100 tests across UK electric vehicles of the same ages.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

family vs national — matched to UK electric vehicles 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.

Ford Mustang Mach-E MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Tyres are highest at 45.1 per 100 tests; Brakes are lowest at 3.8 per 100 tests — the gap is 41.3 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.

Tyres, brakes and suspension: Ford Mustang Mach-E against cars of the same age

Failing items per 100 initial tests, 2019-2024. The comparison group is every petrol or diesel car tested at the same age, so weight and drivetrain show up rather than fleet age.

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 car with vehicles of the same age, and then with vehicles of the same age and the same annual mileage, 2019-2024, on 2,932 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.

Mileage matters here: matching on how much these are driven moves the figure by 9.3 points — this fleet works harder than the vehicles it is measured against, so the age-only view penalises it — but it does not change which side of normal the car sits on. 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 Ford Mustang Mach-E compares with cars of its own age and size

Not against the whole fleet — against cars of the same size class 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 Ford Mustang Mach-E perform as it gets older?

The Mustang Mach-E at age 3 is well below the reference at 9.6%, against 12.4% for all vehicles of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart axes: car age, years · failure-rate scale 0–14%.

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

How dangerous are Ford Mustang Mach-E MOT failures?

Major defects are well below the reference at 5.1 per 100 tests, against 52.8 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Chart values: Minor 2.4 · Major 5.1 · Dangerous 5.3.

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

Does the month of a Ford Mustang Mach-E MOT matter?

Jun is highest at 12.3%; Feb is lowest at 2.1% — the gap is 10.2 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart scale: 1%–33%.

bars: Ford Mustang Mach-E · dashed: all class-4 cars

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 10.2 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.

Ford Mustang Mach-E average mileage by age

At age 3, the middle half of Mustang Mach-E models runs from 20,312 miles to 39,164 miles, against 28,712 miles as the median.

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

Does high mileage mean more Ford Mustang Mach-E MOT failures at the same age?

Within the same age group, split by odometer (2024 MOTs), so this separates wear from age: at ages 3–5, 9.3% of those with under 40,000 miles failed first time versus 16% of those with 70,000–100,000 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 3-year-old Mustang Mach-E has ~28,712 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the Ford Mustang Mach-E fails its MOT most

Too few tests in any single postcode area to name one, so this is the wider picture across 2,934 tests, 2019-2024.

Raw pass/fail rates, not age-adjusted: fleets differ by region. England is split north of Sheffield, between Sheffield and Oxford, and south of it.

Ford Mustang Mach-E faults that come together

Defects in «Tyres» and «Visibility» were seen together in 9 tests (36 pairs compared).

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).

Ford Mustang Mach-E rust problems: where they corrode

Salt-belt exposure stands out at 58th percentile, against 50th percentile as the middle of published models.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

This Ford Mustang Mach-E has too few tests to judge for corrosion 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.

Ford Mustang Mach-E safety recalls and how to check yours

DVSA recall campaigns stand out at 6.

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

recall campaigns launched per year

DVSA lists 6 safety recall campaigns for the Ford Mustang Mach-E, covering roughly 28,548 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.

Ford Mustang Mach-E technical service bulletins: what dealers are told

US market, Ford MUSTANG MACH-E, model years 2021–2022 only. A count of bulletins, not a UK failure rate.

NHTSA manufacturer communications are 347.

bigger number = more recorded dealer communicationsnot affected vehicles or confirmed faults

These are the issues the manufacturer fixes quietly: service communications sent to dealers without a public recall campaign. They show what the service network has been told even when the issue never became news.

United States · NHTSA manufacturer communications

Caveat worth stating plainly: this is NHTSA data about US-specification cars. British cars sold under the same name often use different gearboxes, engines and equipment, so a bulletin may describe a component that was never fitted here. The file counts dealer communications, not affected vehicles or confirmed failures, and it cannot tell you whether an individual UK car has the issue. A communication can carry more than one subject tag, so topic counts do not have to add up to the total. Source: NHTSA Manufacturer Communications API (US-market vehicles; queried model years 2015-2022). Licence: U.S. Government work / public domain · retrieved 2026-09-25.

Ford Mustang Mach-E owner complaints: what goes wrong

US market, Ford MUSTANG MACH-E, model years 2021–2022 only. A count of owner complaints, not a UK failure rate; NHTSA has no UK denominator.

Lamps & electrical are highest at 232; Visibility is lowest at 21 — the gap is 211.

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

Two different populations answering two different questions: the MOT records what an inspector can measure once a year, the complaint file records what annoyed or frightened an owner on the road. A component high in one column and absent from the other is the interesting case — driver-assistance and electronics dominate complaints while almost never appearing as an MOT failure item.

US owners have filed 481 complaints about the equivalent Ford Mustang Mach-E to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, including 27 that mention a crash, 1 a fire and 12 an injury. These are owner reports, not verified findings — but they are the only large public record of what drivers themselves notice, and they cover the years between MOT tests.

Caveat worth stating plainly: US-specification cars, self-selected reporters, no denominator — complaint counts scale with how many cars were sold there and how motivated owners are to file. The mechanical gap matters as much as the statistical one: American cars of the same name often carry different gearboxes, engines and equipment — automatics where Britain buys manuals — so a drivetrain complaint filed in Ohio may describe a part that was never fitted here. Read the ranking inside a model, not between models, and treat drivetrain entries with particular caution. Source: NHTSA ODI consumer complaints (US market, public domain) — US-spec vehicles, indicative only.

Ford Mustang Mach-E MOT: quick answers

Ford Mustang Mach-E MOT Risk Index is well below the reference at 77.1, 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 Ford Mustang Mach-E first-time MOT pass rate?

90.76% of first attempts passed in 2024 (2,837 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 9.24% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 2,837 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 77.1 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Ford Mustang Mach-E with other cars

Skoda Kodiaq is highest at 77.1; Fiat 124 is lowest at 76.8 — the gap is 0.3 points.

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

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