MOT Risk Index.co.uk

Peugeot 3008 — MOT statistics 2024

The Peugeot 3008 failed 28.73% of 140,943 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 121.9 (100 = expected for its age profile). This car fails its MOT about 22% more often than expected for its age.

MOT risk index 121.9, 95% CI 120.9–122.9 (100 = national average) 100 121.9 0 200
Index
121.9
100 = age-normal
Raw fail rate
28.73%
n = 140,943
Dangerous /100
13
national ≈11
Diesel − petrol
+14.9 pp
fail-rate gap
Rank
664 of 761
lower index = better

Age-adjusted peer: Chevrolet Spark (index 122.7) — the two published results are 0.8 index points apart.

Peugeot 3008 common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment stand out at 18.0 per 100 tests, against 9.8 per 100 tests across UK vehicles of the same ages.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Peugeot 3008 common problems: what actually fails the MOT — 2024 UK MOT data

family vs national — matched to UK 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.

Component-group comparison table

Each ratio carries a 95% interval. With 6 groups compared here, roughly one apparent difference in twenty is chance alone.

GroupThis familyCases behind itUK, same agesFamily / national
Lamps & electrical18.0120,2439.81.83×1.82–1.84
Suspension10.268,3628.81.16×1.15–1.17
Brakes10.066,6857.31.38×1.36–1.38
Tyres9.563,7608.11.17×1.17–1.19
Visibility5.335,6706.30.84×0.84–0.85
Body & structure4.630,6832.51.85×1.82–1.86
Named defects — items per 100 initial tests, this family vs UK national average; this model measured on 669,497 tests, 2019-2024, national column 2024
What failedper 100 tests (this family)per 100 tests (UK average)ratio family / UKWhat to check
Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the…Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements5.463.591.52×Check tyre tread depth across the full width
Rear registration plate lamp or light source…A rear registration plate lamp or light source missing or inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources4.512.831.59×Try every light and switch — lamps are a top failure
Brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mma brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm3.422.151.59×Feel for brake judder and pulling on the test drive
Transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot…A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc2.551.561.64×Ask the seller about: A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot missing or
Stop lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of…Stop lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning2.411.501.61×Try every light and switch — lamps are a top failure
Spring or spring component fractured or seriously…A spring or spring component fractured or seriously weakened3.382.861.18×Ask the seller about: A spring or spring component fractured or seriously weakened
Lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a…A lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning2.092.091.00×Try every light and switch — lamps are a top failure
Tyre seriously damagedA tyre seriously damaged2.002.540.79×Check tyre tread depth across the full width
Aim of a headlamp is not within limits laid down…The aim of a headlamp is not within limits laid down in the requirements1.862.570.72×Try every light and switch — lamps are a top failure
Suspension pin, bush or joint excessively wornA suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn4.144.870.85×Listen for knocks over bumps — worn joints show up on the test

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

Peugeot 3008 MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Tyres are highest at 44.8 per 100 tests; Body & structure are lowest at 1.4 per 100 tests — the gap is 43.4 per 100 tests.

higher bar = flagged more oftenadvisory items per 100 initial tests

Peugeot 3008 MOT advisories: what gets flagged — 2024 UK MOT data
Advisory rates table
GroupAdvisories per 100
Tyres44.8
Brakes36.1
Suspension15.8
Non-component advisories8.6
Emissions & leaks3.2
Body & structure1.4

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

Tyres, brakes and suspension: Peugeot 3008 against cars of the same age

AgePartPeugeot 3008Same age, petrol and dieselDifference
3 yearsTyres4.754.170.58
3 yearsBrakes2.231.770.46
3 yearsSuspension0.920.630.29
4 yearsTyres4.974.540.43
4 yearsBrakes2.912.430.48
4 yearsSuspension1.621.210.41
5 yearsTyres5.355.060.29
5 yearsBrakes3.83.090.71
5 yearsSuspension2.592.190.40
6 yearsTyres5.935.540.39
6 yearsBrakes5.043.811.23
6 yearsSuspension4.463.720.74
7 yearsTyres6.765.950.81
7 yearsBrakes6.614.552.06
7 yearsSuspension6.225.680.54
8 yearsTyres7.456.311.14
8 yearsBrakes8.195.382.81
8 yearsSuspension8.77.780.92

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.

If a car 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.

After this year's testFails next yearVehicles followed
It failed38.6%39,289
It passed25.2%363,311

A failed test raises next year's chance of failing again by 13.4 percentage points. The failure most likely to come back is lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment — 41.5% 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 car with vehicles of the same age, and then with vehicles of the same age and the same annual mileage, 2019-2024, on 664,608 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.

Standardised forIndexReading
Age only118.7fails more often than expected
Age and annual mileage116.2fails more often than vehicles driven as much
Share doing under 3,000 miles a year2.6%a normal spread of use

Mileage changes little here (-2.5 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 Peugeot 3008 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.

AgePeugeot 3008Same class, same ageDifferenceTests
3 years11.52%11.3%+0.22 pp91,433
4 years13.81%14.25%-0.44 pp81,640
5 years17.81%17.41%+0.4 pp77,978
6 years23.86%20.72%+3.14 pp70,243
7 years29.41%24.27%+5.14 pp63,103
8 years34.38%28.09%+6.29 pp58,396
9 years38.67%31.96%+6.71 pp62,474
10 years42.28%35.53%+6.75 pp53,994
11 years44.7%38.6%+6.09 pp44,675
12 years46.88%41.21%+5.67 pp32,209
13 years49.58%43.26%+6.32 pp20,007
14 years52.25%45.02%+7.23 pp8,876
15 years55.83%46.31%+9.51 pp695

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 Peugeot 3008 perform as it gets older?

The 3008 at age 15 stands out at 56.1%, against 41.6% for all vehicles of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

How does the Peugeot 3008 perform as it gets older? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · failure-rate scale 0–61%.

Takeaway: a 10-year-old 3008 has roughly a 39% chance of failing its MOT; from about age 5 it stays above the national age curve.

Data table
AgePeugeot 3008All vehiclesGap
311.6%12.4%-0.8 pp
411.8%13.1%-1.3 pp
515.9%15.1%+0.8 pp
619.7%17.5%+2.2 pp
724.1%20.2%+3.9 pp
833.3%23.3%+10.0 pp
933.4%26.5%+6.8 pp
1039.0%30.1%+8.9 pp
1147.2%33.2%+14.0 pp
1245.5%35.7%+9.8 pp
1347.1%38.2%+8.9 pp
1452.0%40.4%+11.5 pp
1556.1%41.6%+14.5 pp

Is a Peugeot 3008 ULEZ compliant?

The share of classifiable 2024 Peugeot 3008 MOT tests likely ULEZ compliant by first-registration date is 65.4%.

Based on 140,791 classifiable initial MOT tests. This describes the tested fleet, not a specific car. MOT data do not record Euro class, so likely compliance is inferred from fuel and first-registration date. For the only authoritative answer, check the registration with TfL's official ULEZ checker.

higher = larger share likely compliantinferred from fuel and first-registration date; not a recorded Euro class

Age-band estimate from classifiable initial MOT tests
Vehicle age at testLikely ULEZ-compliant shareTests
Under 3 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 515
3–5 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 43,010
6–7 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 35,118
8 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 6,549
9 years37.6%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 8,007
10–14 years7.8%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 46,897
15–17 years32.2%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 695
18 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
19 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
20+ yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0

Peugeot 3008 petrol vs diesel: which ages best

Diesel is highest at 33.8%; Hybrid is lowest at 13.1% — the gap is 20.7 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Peugeot 3008 petrol vs diesel: which ages best — 2024 UK MOT data
Fuel split table
FuelTests% failingGap vs best
Diesel93,32533.8%+20.7 pp
Petrol43,27818.9%+5.8 pp
Hybrid3,52713.1%+0.0 pp

Chart sample sizes: n=93k · n=43k · n=3,527.

How dangerous are Peugeot 3008 MOT failures?

Major defects are well below the reference at 39.0 per 100 tests, against 52.8 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

How dangerous are Peugeot 3008 MOT failures? — 2024 UK MOT data
Severity table
SeverityThis family /100National /100Family / national
Minor11.4914.220.81×
Major38.9752.750.74×
Dangerous12.6511.151.13×

Chart values: Minor 11.5 · Major 39.0 · Dangerous 12.7.

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

Does the month of a Peugeot 3008 MOT matter?

Nov is highest at 30.1%; May is lowest at 26.1% — the gap is 3.9 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Does the month of a Peugeot 3008 MOT matter? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart scale: 25%–33%.

bars: Peugeot 3008 · dashed: all class-4 cars

Month-by-month table
MonthPeugeot 3008All vehiclesGap
Jan29.48%31.12%-1.6 pp
Feb28.32%29.99%-1.7 pp
Mar26.23%28.26%-2.0 pp
Apr26.44%29.78%-3.3 pp
May26.14%28.79%-2.6 pp
Jun26.29%28.15%-1.9 pp
Jul28.71%29.33%-0.6 pp
Aug29.36%29.2%+0.2 pp
Sep27.88%28.19%-0.3 pp
Oct29.53%30.34%-0.8 pp
Nov30.06%30.58%-0.5 pp
Dec29.3%29.33%-0.0 pp

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 3.9 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.

Peugeot 3008 average mileage by age

At age 8, the middle half of 3008s runs from 42,949 miles to 73,370 miles, against 57,272 miles as the median.

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

Bars: Peugeot 3008 · dashed: all class-4 cars — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · odometer scale 0–132k mi.

Does high mileage mean more Peugeot 3008 MOT failures at the same age?

Within the same age group, split by odometer (2024 MOTs), so this separates wear from age: at ages 6–9, 16% of those with under 40,000 miles failed first time versus 38.5% of those with over 140,000 miles.Inside this age group, higher mileage goes with more failures.

Does high mileage mean more Peugeot 3008 MOT failures at the same age? — 2024 UK MOT data
Peugeot 3008: first-time failure by mileage within each age group (2024)
AgeOdometer% failing95% intervalTests
3–5<40k miles11.5%11.1–11.9%28,647
3–540-70k miles17.2%16.5–17.8%12,462
3–570-100k miles20.7%18.8–22.7%1,612
3–5100-140k miles24.5%19.7–30%265 (rough estimate)
6–9<40k miles16%15.3–16.6%11,956
6–940-70k miles25.7%25.2–26.3%25,520
6–970-100k miles31.7%30.8–32.6%9,782
6–9100-140k miles37.3%35.3–39.4%2,113
6–9140k+ miles38.5%33.1–44.2%291 (rough estimate)
10–14<40k miles26.3%23.9–28.8%1,259
10–1440-70k miles35.8%34.8–36.8%9,539
10–1470-100k miles47.3%46.6–48%18,094
10–14100-140k miles51.7%50.9–52.5%14,751
10–14140k+ miles53.1%51.4–54.8%3,258
15+40-70k miles50%37.3–62.7%56 (rough estimate)
15+70-100k miles53.1%46.3–59.8%207 (rough estimate)
15+100-140k miles57.1%51.7–62.4%322 (rough estimate)
15+140k+ miles63.1%53.5–71.8%103 (rough estimate)

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

Mileage by age (p25 / median / p75)
Agep25Medianp75Tests
317,84325,69935,73112,160
421,63030,02540,21111,738
529,20439,24751,07919,112
636,39047,74361,17018,623
741,43454,05769,23116,495
842,94957,27273,3706,549
951,59466,68083,6738,007
1059,79876,65795,8448,034
1166,32584,140103,19410,702
1274,35792,415112,36710,320
1379,85598,690117,5449,850
1485,433104,318124,3688,016
1588,181105,373125,690692

A typical 8-year-old 3008 has ~57,272 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the Peugeot 3008 fails its MOT most

Dundee area is highest at 42.0%; Southend-on-Sea area is lowest at 17.9% — the gap is 24.1 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Peugeot 3008 line: median · band: middle half of the fleet (p25–p75) — 2024 UK MOT data
Toughest areas% failingvs model overall
Dundee (DD)41.98%+13.8 pp
Kirkcaldy (KY)39.15%+11.0 pp
Aberdeen (AB)37.28%+9.1 pp
Sunderland (SR)37.23%+9.1 pp
Llandrindod Wells (LD)35.85%+7.7 pp
Easiest areas% failingvs model overall
Southend-on-Sea (SS)17.91%-10.2 pp
London E (E)17.95%-10.2 pp
London NW (NW)20.61%-7.5 pp
London SW (SW)21.36%-6.8 pp
Romford (RM)21.55%-6.6 pp

Why do areas differ?

For each external factor we correlate the area fail rate with the factor across postcode areas that have ≥800 tests of this family, then compare the bottom vs top fifth (quintile) of the factor. Correlation, not causation — factors travel together (the north is colder and often poorer; urban areas are denser and less salted). Road surface condition is joined now, for the 91 English areas the DfT publishes, and it explains nothing: the correlation with suspension failures is −0.01 and with body and structure failures 0.07. Potholes wreck wheels and tyres between tests, but by the time a car reaches the bay the road it drives on leaves no measurable trace.

In areas with the highest mot centre density this model fails 6.5 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.53, n=114 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest frost days this model fails 4.5 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.49, n=114 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest road-salt proxy this model fails 5.5 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.48, n=114 areas with ≥800 tests).

Peugeot 3008 Why do areas differ? — 2024 UK MOT data
Values shown in the quintile chart
FactorLow QHigh QGapCorrelation
MOT centre density24.3%30.9%+6.6 ppr=0.53
Frost days27.0%31.5%+4.5 ppr=0.49
Road-salt proxy25.8%31.3%+5.5 ppr=0.48

Factors that only mean something combined

Some conditions are useless on their own and informative multiplied together. Frost days alone say little — Britain barely freezes. Salt tonnage alone says little — it tracks frost. Distance to the sea alone says little. Multiply the first two and divide by the third and you get an index of how hard an area attacks a car's underside, and it lines up with the corrosion defects we actually record. We built five such combinations and tested each against our own data. Three survived; two did not, and the failures are listed here on purpose — a proxy that was never checked is decoration. One survivor only survived on the second attempt: built from a crude stand-in for street parking it failed outright, and rebuilt from the census — terraced streets carrying more cars than they have driveways — it works, and carries information the salt index does not.

Composite area indicators, each tested against a defect rate we measure
CompositeBuilt fromTested againstrVerdict
Underbody corrosionfrost days × salt load ÷ (distance to coast + 1)share of tests with a corrosion defect+0.42holds (116 areas)
Tyre wearrain days × annual miles ÷ age at first tyre advisoryshare of tests failing on tyres+0.45holds (116 areas)
Overnight corrosionterraced housing × cars per household × frost daysshare with a corrosion defect+0.41holds (102 areas) — and adds signal beyond the first index
Deferred maintenancedeprivation × advisory-to-failure conversion ÷ labour ratecars repeating the same advisory−0.26fails (118 areas)
Powertrain stressengine capacity ÷ kerb weightsuspension, brake and emissions failures−0.16fails (22 models)

The deprivation result is the one worth dwelling on. The intuition that poorer areas defer repairs is strong enough that most people treat it as established. We tested it twice — once on raw failure rates (r = 0.04) and again, more fairly, on whether an advisory turns into a failure — and it did not hold any of the three times we tried it — on raw failure rates, on advisory-to-failure conversion, and again with deprivation measured properly inside each nation rather than England alone. We are closing it. What does predict local failure rates is the density of test centres, which is a statement about testing, not about cars.

All external-factor correlations (machine-readable)
Factorrn areasLow-Q fail %High-Q fail %Gap ppLow-Q factorHigh-Q factor
MOT centre density (per 10k vehicles)0.53411424.330.9+6.558.7
Frost days (days/year)0.49411427.031.5+4.511.638.1
Road-salt proxy (g/m²-yr)0.48311425.831.3+5.5221.2675.1
Urban share (0–1)-0.33211429.824.9-4.90.41
Distance to coast (km)-0.22511430.828.3-2.66.279.5
Income deprivation (score)0.1969727.029.0+2.00.10.2
Terrain gradient (% grade)0.0876728.529.5+1.00.53.7

Deprivation uses England IMD 2019 income score only (Scotland SIMD is a different scale). Salt proxy is a simplified NWSRG-style dry-salt sum from air Tmin; coastalness is distance from the area centroid to the nearest coastline.

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. Colour scale: 22%–35% failing.

Peugeot 3008 survival: which cars are still on the road

By age 15 is well below the reference at 0.9%, against 100.0% at the ages 4–6 reference level.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Peugeot 3008 survival: which cars are still on the road — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · survival vs ages 4–6 · scale 0–105%.

Survival vs fail rate by age
AgeTestsSurvival vs ages 4–6Fail %
391,433100%11.52%
481,640100%13.81%
577,978100%17.81%
670,24391.7%23.86%
763,10382.4%29.41%
858,39676.2%34.38%
962,47481.5%38.67%
1053,99470.5%42.28%
1144,67558.3%44.7%
1232,20942%46.88%
1320,00726.1%49.58%
148,87611.6%52.25%
156950.9%55.83%

By age 15, only about 1% as many cars of this family present for MOT as at ages 4–6 (reference n≈76,620); survivors still fail at 55.8% vs 13.8% at age 4. Older cars that still appear are a selected subset — weaker ones have already left.

How many miles does a Peugeot 3008 last?

100,000+ miles is highest at 11.8%; 200,000+ miles is lowest at 0.1% — the gap is 11.7 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

OdometerTests ≥ thresholdShare of sample
100,000+ miles78,50411.81%
150,000+ miles7,4231.12%
200,000+ miles7030.11%

Of 664,742 tests of this family with a usable odometer in 2024, 11.8% had reached 100k miles, 1.1% had reached 150k miles, 0.1% had reached 200k miles. This is a cross-section of cars still presenting for MOT, not a full birth cohort.

How many years is a Peugeot 3008 likely to last?

Bought at age 5 is highest at 5.9 years; Bought at age 15 is lowest at 0.5 years — the gap is 5.4 years.

bigger number = longer remaining lifeyears on the observed survival curve

Age nowTypical mileage (p50)Expected years left
5—5.9
8—4.3
10—2.5
12—at least 1.4
15—at least 0.5

estimateEstimate only — not a warranty: a typical 10-year-old example of this family has about 2.5 expected years of further MOT-present life on the 2024 survival curve. Derived from how many cars of each age still appear for test, not from a longitudinal panel.

Peugeot 3008 faults that come together

Road Wheels + Seatbelts & SRS stand out at 5.51×, against 1.00× if the faults were independent.

above 1.0× = more than expectedbelow 1.0× = less

Group AGroup BTogetherLift
Road WheelsSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems1085.51× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSteering8655.19×
Noise, emissions and leaksRoad Wheels1075.04× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems5574.93×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSteering7524.88×
SteeringSuspension4,5144.84×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems4,1904.3×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentRoad Wheels7784.25×
BrakesRoad Wheels4234.24× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSteering5,9894.16×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaks4,1763.96×
Body, chassis, structureSteering1,9843.96×
Road WheelsSteering1143.94× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsVisibility1,4973.91×
BrakesNoise, emissions and leaks2,2363.89×
Road WheelsSuspension4543.82× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureNoise, emissions and leaks1,3963.8×
BrakesSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems1,9593.69×
Road WheelsVisibility2653.68× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleVisibility1373.64× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleNoise, emissions and leaks403.6× (rough estimate)
BrakesSteering2,8013.58×
Noise, emissions and leaksSuspension2,4483.58×
Body, chassis, structureSuspension7,2983.55×
Identification of the vehicleSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems363.51× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksVisibility1,4423.48×
BrakesIdentification of the vehicle1803.45× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSuspension2,1533.41×
Identification of the vehicleLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment3233.37× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleSteering513.37× (rough estimate)
Road WheelsTyres3473.36× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspension19,5133.3×
BrakesSuspension10,4073.24×
BrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment15,8903.2×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentVisibility11,2953.16×
Body, chassis, structureIdentification of the vehicle1043.12× (rough estimate)
SteeringVisibility1,7143.03×
Body, chassis, structureRoad Wheels1923.01× (rough estimate)
BrakesTyres8,3612.99×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsTyres1,6372.98×
Body, chassis, structureSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems9992.95×
Body, chassis, structureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment9,0212.85×
Identification of the vehicleSuspension1772.85× (rough estimate)
BrakesVisibility5,4912.82×
Body, chassis, structureBrakes4,8522.81×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentTyres14,2292.77×
Noise, emissions and leaksTyres1,6442.76×
Identification of the vehicleTyres1452.68× (rough estimate)
SteeringTyres2,1662.67×
SuspensionVisibility6,0682.62×
TyresVisibility5,2062.58×
Body, chassis, structureVisibility3,0312.44×
SuspensionTyres8,0772.42×
Body, chassis, structureTyres3,6792.06×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSeat belt installation check15too few (rough estimate)
BrakesSeat belt installation check13too few (rough estimate)
Seat belt installation checkVisibility11too few (rough estimate)
Seat belt installation checkSuspension11too few (rough estimate)
Seat belt installation checkTyres10too few (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleRoad Wheels6too few (rough estimate)

Defects in «Noise, emissions and leaks» and «Steering» appear together 5.19× more often than chance (865 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).

Is low mileage better for a Peugeot 3008?

Cars driven under 5,000 miles a year is well below the reference at 21.4%, against 35.5% for cars driven 8,000–12,000 miles a year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

BandFail %Tests
<5k miles/year21.41%60,491
8–12k miles/year35.47%189,052
Gap (low − normal)-14.06 pp—
By fuel and age

Diesel

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
511.546,39720.8118,803-9.27 pp
616.886,26728.0219,920-11.13 pp
720.036,19133.4320,299-13.4 pp
823.986,23837.5421,194-13.56 pp
926.865,76342.3723,621-15.51 pp
1029.154,73846.2920,623-17.15 pp
1131.083,86449.1116,978-18.03 pp
1232.972,63351.0612,077-18.09 pp
1335.871,67053.517,242-17.64 pp
1442.4973956.232,986-13.74 pp

Petrol

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
59.285,98118.717,845-9.43 pp
610.213,66323.565,025-13.35 pp
714.532,016292,697-14.46 pp
820.7564140.751,195-20 pp
926.0370345.021,708-18.99 pp
1032.0868949.741,550-17.67 pp
1131.1666151.311,298-20.14 pp
1233.6760053.46982-19.8 pp
1338.644355.79613-17.19 pp
1445.1621761.51239-16.34 pp

At matched ages 5–14, cars averaging under 5k miles/year fail at 21.4% vs 35.5% for 8–12k miles/year — 14.1 pp lower (n_low=60,491, n_normal=189,052). In this family low annual use is associated with fewer MOT fails, not more — the ‘garage queen’ penalty is not visible in overall fail rates. Diesel alone: 23.5% low-use vs 37.5% normal (-14.0 pp).

Which Peugeot 3008 engine is best?

petrol 1.8–2.0 is highest at 105.4; diesel 1.2–1.5 is lowest at 75.0 — the gap is 30.4 points.

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

Engine bands against this model's own failure rate at the same ages
FuelCapacityvs own age normRaw fail %Tests
diesel1.2–1.5 litre7513.93%122 (rough estimate)
petrol1.0–1.2 litre85.313.81%104,762
petrol1.5–1.8 litre95.228.48%50,302
diesel1.8–2.0 litre96.530.75%55,203
diesel1.5–1.8 litre102.831.24%448,286
petrol1.8–2.0 litre105.443.98%191 (rough estimate)

Splitting this model by fuel alone hides the thing that actually differs. Within the same badge, the diesel 1.5–1.8 runs at 102.8 against this model's own age norm while the petrol 1.0–1.2 runs at 85.3 — a spread of 17.5 points between two cars that share a name.

Read this one with more care than the rest of the page. Age is held constant, but who buys which engine is not: the largest capacity in a range is often a performance or executive variant that is garaged, cherished and lightly driven, while the smallest is frequently a fleet or entry car worked hard from new. The gap below is real in the test records; how much of it is the engine and how much is the owner, this data cannot separate. Bands under 100 tests are not shown; bands under 5,000 tests are rough estimates.

Best year for a Peugeot 3008, and the years to avoid

Build year 2013 is highest at 114.3; Build year 2017 is lowest at 87.4 — the gap is 26.9 points.

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

build year vs the same model at the same age · 100 = as expected

Peugeot 3008 build year vs the same model at the same age · 100 = as expected — 2024 UK MOT data
Peugeot 3008 by build year, tests 2019–2024. Below 100 is better than the model's own age norm.
Every build year with its confidence interval
Build yearvs own age norm95% CIRaw fail %TestsVerdict
202097.493.8–10111.94%23,751no different
201999.197–101.313.77%58,230no different
201894.792.9–96.415.39%75,472better
201787.486–88.916.14%87,289better
2016111.9109.7–114.123.94%40,104worse
201597.996.2–99.725.35%49,347better
201499.197.6–100.730.31%50,231no different
2013114.3112.9–115.640.13%67,525worse
201298.196.9–99.338.22%67,569better
201196.195–97.340.65%68,632better
2010107.3106–108.548.52%59,768worse
2009109.4105.5–113.452.56%5,615worse

The best build year here is 2017 and the weakest is 2013. Comparing build years sounds simple and is not: within a single year of testing, a car's build year and its age are the same number, so a naive comparison of years is a comparison of ages wearing a disguise. Each year below is measured against the same model at the same age in other cohorts, across six years of testing — 9 of 12 years come out distinguishable from their own model's age norm.

Two limits worth knowing before you act on this. Age, test year and build year are locked together by arithmetic, so the test-year effect is taken from the observed national failure level of each year rather than estimated — it is an adjustment, not a solution.

Peugeot 3008 MOT repair costs

The MOT-failure repair budget per test runs from £67.11 to £127.51, against £54.85 for the test itself.

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

MOT repairs, budget
£67–128
per test, repairs only
The test itself
£54.85
statutory cap, unchanged since 2010
How the figure is built: chance of failing × typical price of that repair
ComponentFails per 100 testsTypical repairIts priceContribution
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment18.0 (nat. 18.09)Battery replacement (standard 12V lead-acid)£140£25.20
Suspension10.2 (nat. 15.36)Suspension coil spring (single corner)£180£18.36
Brakes10.0 (nat. 11.25)Front brake pads (parts + labour, typical hatchback)£150£15.00
Tyres9.5 (nat. 8.7)Tyre (single mid-range 16" fitted)£90£8.55

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 £67 to £128, 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.

Peugeot 3008 running costs for a fleet

Vehicles failing at age 10 stand out at 39.0%, against 16.0% at age 5, tested in the same year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fails per 100 at age 5
16
vehicles needing work
At age 10
39
other cars of this model tested at age 10 in 2024
Repairs per 100
£6,711
plus £5,485 in test fees
Off the road
1d
median; 46.94% cleared same day
Failure rate and typical odometer by age
AgeFailsMedian odometerTestsGap vs age 5
311.63%25,69912,160-4.3 pp
411.78%30,02511,738-4.1 pp
515.92%39,24719,112+0.0 pp
619.65%47,74318,623+3.7 pp
724.07%54,05716,495+8.2 pp
833.32%57,2726,549+17.4 pp
933.37%66,6808,007+17.4 pp
1039.01%76,6578,034+23.1 pp
1147.18%84,14010,702+31.3 pp
1245.47%92,41510,320+29.5 pp
1347.1%98,6909,850+31.2 pp
1451.97%104,3188,016+36.0 pp
1556.07%105,373692+40.1 pp

The number a fleet manager needs is not the failure rate, it is the year the car starts costing more. Between cars aged 7 and cars aged 8, both tested in 2024, the failure rate of this model is 9.25 percentage points higher — the steepest one-year step in this cross-section of different cars, and a natural planning point for replacement.

Repair spend uses the same modal prices as the section above, so it inherits the same limits: one typical repair per component group, not a full remedy. Downtime is the gap between the failed test and the passed re-test, which is the window a vehicle is legally off the road.

Peugeot 3008 rust problems: where they corrode

Age-standardised corrosion susceptibility is well below the reference at 0.21×, against 1.00× for the national age-standardised rate.

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

How it rusts
0.21×
0.16% of tests record a corrosion defect vs 0.77% typical — age-standardised
Salt Belt exposure
70th
percentile among the models published here, from its tests across 114 postcode areas

This Peugeot 3008 fails on corrosion much less often than average once age is held constant, and its owners live in areas that are saltier than most for the models we publish. Both point the same way and reinforce each other: it resists corrosion even though its owners live in saltier areas than most.

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 Peugeot 3008 advisory become a failure?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment are highest at 33.8%; Identification of the vehicle is lowest at 2.2% — the gap is 31.6 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

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

Peugeot 3008 chance the same component fails at the next MOT, given an advisory now — 2024 UK MOT data
Peugeot 3008, advisory → failure conversion by component group, chained tests 2019–2024. Chart labels and rates: Lamps & electrical 33.8% · Suspension 19.1% · Steering 17.6% · Brakes 11.2% · Tyres 9.4% · Body & chassis 9.3% · Visibility 6.5% · Seat belts & restraints 6%.
Advisory today → failure at the next test, with how long you have
ComponentFails next timeTypical lead timeMiles of warningAdvisories tracked
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment33.8%12 months6,8042,152
Suspension19.1%12 months7,02949,975
Steering17.5%12 months6,9383,959
Brakes11.2%12 months6,795108,914
Tyres9.4%12 months7,150131,241
Body, chassis, structure9.3%12 months6,5265,712
Visibility6.5%12 months5,623538
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems6.0%12.1 months6,1302,432
Noise, emissions and leaks5.9%12 months6,13814,479
Identification of the vehicle2.2%12 months7,4872,970

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 34 in 100 cars, and the median gap is 12 months and roughly 6,804 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 Peugeot 3008?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment after a failure at age 12-14 are highest at 35.9%; Brakes after a passed at age <3 are lowest at 2.0% — the gap is 33.9 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

Probability of each component failing at the next test, by age and last result
AgeLast testMost likely next failuresCars tracked
<3passedTyres 3.9% · Visibility 2.1% · Brakes 2.0%38,524
<3advisoryTyres 5.5% · Brakes 3.5% · Visibility 2.8%16,614
<3failureTyres 6.0% · Visibility 3.9% · Brakes 3.8%6,714
3-5passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 4.9% · Tyres 4.4% · Brakes 3.0%95,028
3-5advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 6.5% · Tyres 6.4% · Brakes 5.3%55,206
3-5failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 10.2% · Tyres 7.2% · Brakes 6.2%30,961
6-8passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 11.7% · Suspension 8.1% · Brakes 5.9%57,611
6-8advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 15.5% · Suspension 9.9% · Brakes 8.9%41,333
6-8failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 21.0% · Suspension 13.0% · Brakes 10.6%48,768
9-11passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 17.6% · Suspension 13.4% · Brakes 7.8%32,767
9-11advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 22.7% · Suspension 16.4% · Brakes 10.5%31,473
9-11failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 28.1% · Suspension 20.1% · Brakes 12.4%48,075
12-14passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 23.8% · Suspension 16.1% · Brakes 8.2%4,229
12-14advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 31.0% · Suspension 20.2% · Brakes 11.5%5,272
12-14failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 35.9% · Suspension 22.1% · Brakes 12.7%9,717

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.

Peugeot 3008 ownership: what six years of MOTs show

The ten-day re-test pass rate is highest at 51.0%; The later re-test pass rate is lowest at 2.1% — the gap is 48.9 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fixed same day
46.94%
of failures re-tested
Fails /10k miles
0.425
miles actually driven
Clean streaks
33.28%
3+ tests, nothing noted
Odometer anomaly
1.261%
reading went backwards

Failing is usually a same-week event, not a disaster. Of 137,250 failures followed through to their re-test, 46.94% were repaired and passed the same day and 51% within ten days; the median gap is 1 day. 330,052 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 0.425 failures per 10,000 miles, on a median of 6,356 miles a year across 136,290 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. 33.28% of these cars strung together three or more tests with nothing recorded at all, while 25.83% 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: 1.261% of 136,336 chains show a reading lower than the previous test, with a median drop of 27,635 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.

Peugeot 3008 safety recalls and how to check yours

DVSA recall campaigns stand out at 54.

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

recall campaigns launched per year

Peugeot 3008 recall campaigns launched per year — 2024 UK MOT data
Campaigns launched per year for the Peugeot 3008. Source: DVSA vehicle safety recalls. Chart values: 2012: 0 · 2013: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2017: 5 · 2018: 5 · 2019: 3 · 2020: 5 · 2021: 4 · 2022: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2024: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2026: 5.
Most recent safety recall campaigns for the Peugeot 3008
ReferenceLaunchedVehiclesConcern
R/2026/25603/07/2026261Wrong Tire Class in CoC
R/2026/22803/06/202610,423VSM software Interior door handles
R/2026/16124/04/20263MCU inverter
R/2025/54221/04/20262,443VSM software missing AEB telltale in case of blind camera.
R/2026/04529/01/20263Peugeot 3008 Wheel Bolt Tightening.
All 54 campaigns
ReferenceLaunchedBuild datesVehiclesConcern
R/2026/25603/07/202607/03/2025 – 16/04/2025261Wrong Tire Class in CoC
R/2026/22803/06/202609/10/2023 – 09/07/202510,423VSM software Interior door handles
R/2026/16124/04/202619/03/2026 – 20/03/20263MCU inverter
R/2025/54221/04/202628/09/2023 – 02/07/20242,443VSM software missing AEB telltale in case of blind camera.
R/2026/04529/01/202619/11/2024 – 13/06/20253Peugeot 3008 Wheel Bolt Tightening.
R/2025/52225/11/202524/07/2023 – 28/02/202513,330Ball Joint Bracket fixation.
R/2025/38208/09/202502/07/2019 – 12/10/2022934Peugeot 3008v2 508v2 Traction Battery
R/2025/34418/08/202519/06/2017 – 29/10/20201,702Emission recall – On Board Diagnostics
R/2025/27718/07/202526/07/2023 – 24/04/202513,940Peugeot Fuel Pipe
R/2025/24603/07/202511/10/2017 – 31/01/202322,401Peugeot DV5R Engines Camshaft Chain.
R/2025/05413/02/202509/02/2023 – 23/05/2024111Peugeot 308 408 3008 5008 Fuel Pipe Leakage
R/2025/04811/02/202523/09/2024 – 05/11/2024971Peugeot 3008 5008 Headrest
R/2024/49712/12/202417/07/2023 – 29/11/202413,416Peugeot 30085008 Risk of broken bolt front control arm ball joint.
R/2024/42324/10/202426/08/2024 – 03/09/2024203Peugeot 3008 Cradle Bracket
R/2024/27201/07/202412/03/2019 – 28/04/2021191Peugeot 3008508 PHEV. Traction Battery
R/2024/13513/03/202405/01/2022 – 09/12/20221,225Cross carline Engine software
R/2023/22824/07/202317/02/2023 – 03/05/2023617Affected vehicles may have been supplied with a Mode 2 (orange) charging cable that was no
R/2023/09906/04/202312/03/2019 – 12/12/20221,630Affected vehicles may face the risk of perforation of the HV battery reinforcing plate/bat
R/2023/10905/04/202312/03/2019 – 08/12/20221,693Affected vehicles may experience HV Battery overheating that may lead to a HV Battery ther
R/2023/10204/04/202312/03/2019 – 08/12/2022975Affected vehicles may experience HV Battery overheating that may lead to a HV Battery ther
R/2023/10604/04/202312/03/2019 – 08/12/20222,901Affected vehicles may experience HV Battery overheating that may lead to a HV Battery ther
R/2023/04513/12/202209/02/2017 – 01/04/2017952On the affected vehicles the operation of the brake vacuum pump may be affected by materia
R/2023/03513/12/202203/04/2017 – 28/10/202025,148On the affected vehicles the operation of the brake vacuum pump may be affected by materia
R/2022/22721/07/202208/10/2019 – 20/11/20194A HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY WHERE THERE IS A MISMATCH IN THE VOLTAGE OF THE INDIVIDUAL CELLS
R/2022/22821/07/202208/10/2019 – 20/11/20198A HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY WHERE THERE IS A MISMATCH IN THE VOLTAGE OF THE INDIVIDUAL CELLS
R/2021/08105/03/202103/05/2016 – 01/03/202161THE WELDING OF THE INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS OF THE TOW BAR MIGHT NOT MEET THE CORRECT SPECIFI
R/2021/04121/01/202110/09/2020 – 29/12/202024THE WELDING OF THE INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS OF THE TOWBAR MIGHT NOT MEET THE CORRECT SPECIFIC
R/2020/32620/01/202117/06/2013 – 01/04/201722,580THE BRAKE VACUUM PUMP MAY BE AFFECTED BY MATERIAL DETACHING FROM THE TIMING BELT
R/2020/32620/01/202117/06/2013 – 01/04/201722,580THE BRAKE VACUUM PUMP MAY BE AFFECTED BY MATERIAL DETACHING FROM THE TIMING BELT
R/2020/36608/12/202001/10/2019 – 23/12/20193ON SOME TRACTION BATTERY CELLS THE ALIGNMENT OF THE ELECTRODES MAY BE OUT OF SPECIFICATION
R/2020/33113/11/202001/04/2019 – 15/07/2019959THE FILTERING PERFORMANCE OF THE DIESEL PARTICULATE FILTER MAY NOT MEET THE REQUIRED SPECI
R/2020/24519/08/202001/10/2019 – 17/03/20205,125THE UREA INJECTOR MAY BLOCK AND LEAD TO NOx EMISSIONS GOING OUT OF REGULATORY LIMITS
R/2020/20709/07/202023/02/2015 – 13/03/201538THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT THE INTERNAL CORROSION PROTECTION OF THE SUBFRAME IS NOT DURAB
R/2020/05225/02/202012/10/2019 – 15/01/202078CERTAIN REAR SUSPENSION FIXING BOLTS MAY NOT CONFORM TO SPECIFICATION
R/2019/35218/10/201901/02/2017 – 12/04/201918,267THE CALIBRATION OF THE ENGINE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE COULD RESULT IN EMISSIONS OF NOx WHICH D
R/2019/33026/09/201925/09/2013 – 15/05/20169,218DUE TO THE CALIBRATION OF THE ENGINE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE THE NOX EMISSIONS MAY NOT COMPLY
R/2019/13626/04/201928/01/2018 – 07/05/20182,686A PLASTIC COMPONENT INSIDE THE EXHAUST LINE COULD UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS DAMAGE THE DIES
R/2018/18519/07/201827/04/2018 – 30/05/201847Engine oil gallery sealing plug incorrectly tightened
R/2018/17617/07/201831/05/2016 – 06/04/2018683Engine could overheat leading to failure
R/2018/08929/03/201815/06/2017 – 15/01/20189TIGHTENING TORQUE OF TOWBAR FIXING MAY BE TO WRONG SPECIFICATION
R/2018/03319/02/201805/04/2016 – 24/08/201712,054FUEL MAY LEAK
R/2018/04814/02/201827/01/2014 – 27/03/20151,579ENGINE MAY OVERHEAT
R/2017/33629/12/201705/04/2016 – 24/08/201712,056FUEL MAY LEAK
R/2017/34015/12/201701/10/2017 – 30/11/2017416ENGINE COMPONENT MAY NOT BE TO SPECIFICATION
R/2017/27010/10/201705/04/2016 – 17/07/20171,703STARTER MOTOR SUPPLY WIRING HARNESS MAY BECOME DAMAGED
R/2017/21506/07/201702/10/2013 – 04/04/20177,394STARTER SUPPLY WIRE MAY CHAFE
R/2017/14024/04/201715/05/2016 – 12/10/20166,768STARTER MOTOR MAY NOT OPERATE CORRECTLY
R/2016/04310/03/201621/01/2016 – 10/02/201625OIL LEAK MAY DAMAGE ENGINE
R/2015/24109/12/201503/09/2012 – 19/12/201412,833FUEL MAY LEAK
R/2014/03501/04/201405/11/2012 – 04/10/2013100DRIVERS SEAT AIRBAG MAY MALFUNCTION
R/2013/02604/03/201307/11/2012 – 21/11/201219SPOT WELDS MAY NOT HOLD
R/2013/01028/01/201309/10/2012 – 09/10/20122REAR BRAKE CALLIPER MOUNTING BOLT COULD WORK LOOSE
R/2011/01722/02/201127/10/2009 – 20/07/20102,834FUEL MAY LEAK
R/2009/11419/10/200909/06/2009 – 03/09/200919LOSS OF WINDSCREEN WIPER FUNCTION

DVSA lists 54 safety recall campaigns for the Peugeot 3008, covering roughly 255,645 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.

Peugeot 3008 inspection results in other countries

Netherlands APK is well below the reference at 44.9%, against 50.8% nationally.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Same model, different national inspection regimes
CountryTestThis model failsNational averagePositionSample
United KingdomMOT (class 4)28.73%26.01%+2.7 pp140,943
NetherlandsAPK44.9%50.8%-5.9 pp20,606
NorwayPKK33.2%33.7%-0.5 pp9,262
FinlandKatsastus28.5%26.3%+2.2 pp4,514

The countries disagree about this car, and that is worth saying out loud rather than averaging away. A model can sit above its national average in one country and below it in another because the fleets are not the same cars: different model years, different engines, different roads and salt, and inspection rules that weight components differently. Treat each row as evidence from one regime, not as a verdict.

What Finland fails it for — share of recorded faults
Fault areaShare
Axles, wheels and suspension55.2%
Brake systems16.3%
Environmental hazards14.1%
Steering equipment8.7%
Other equipment and accessories2.1%

Useful as a cross-check on the UK defect table above: the categories are named differently, but a component that dominates in both regimes is a genuine weak point of the model rather than an artefact of one country's testing style.

The exact faults Netherlands records — APK defect codes, 2024
CodeFaultRecordedType
210Tyre pressure not at the correct value4,206failure
205Tyre with insufficient tread3,147failure
497Number-plate light not working or missing1,699failure
AC1Tyre down to 1.6–2.5 mm of tread1,550advisory
516Dipped headlight incorrectly aimed1,326failure
RA2Excessive leak of other fluids865advisory
203Tyre damaged725failure
391Wipers leave insufficient visibility639failure

Worth dwelling on how mundane the top of that list is: tyre pressure, tread depth, headlight aim. The Dutch APK records 1.048 defects per inspection against a much higher national failure rate than Britain's, and the reason is not that Dutch cars are worse — it is that the two regimes draw the line between "note it" and "fail it" in different places. Codes are the RDW's own; the English wording here is our translation of the Dutch original.

Britain is not the only country that inspects every car every year, and the Peugeot 3008 is on the road in all of them. Each national regime writes its own rules, so the pass rates below are not comparable to each other — what does travel across a border is whether a model sits above or below its own country's average.

Rows with fewer than 500 inspections are not published. Sources: RDW open data — Meldingen Keuringsinstantie + Geconstateerde Gebreken + Gekentekende voertuigen (2024), CC0. Not an RDW endorsement.; Statens vegvesen — Periodisk kjøretøykontroll (PKK) 2024, CC BY 4.0; Traficom — Periodic inspections of cars by model / by model and fault object 2024, CC BY 4.0. Adapted; licences and full notice.

Peugeot 3008 MOT: quick answers

Peugeot 3008 MOT Risk Index stands out at 121.9, 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 Peugeot 3008 first-time MOT pass rate?
71.27% of first attempts passed in 2024 (140,943 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 28.73% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 140,943 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 121.9 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Peugeot 3008 with other cars

Chevrolet Spark is highest at 122.7; Seat Ibiza is lowest at 120.6 — the gap is 2.1 points.

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

Same brand

All Peugeot MOT statisticsPeugeot 208 MOT statsPeugeot Partner MOT stats

Similar risk

Ford Ranger (index 121.4)Chevrolet Spark (index 122.7)Seat Ibiza (index 120.6)

Same size class

how Hyundai Tucson compareshow Ford Transit Custom compareshow Land Rover Discovery compares

By build year

Peugeot 3008 2009Peugeot 3008 2010Peugeot 3008 2011Peugeot 3008 2012Peugeot 3008 2013Peugeot 3008 2014Peugeot 3008 2015Peugeot 3008 2016Peugeot 3008 2017Peugeot 3008 2018Peugeot 3008 2019Peugeot 3008 2020

By area

Peugeot 3008 MOT failure rate by postcode area

By failure group

Peugeot 3008 body, chassis and structure failuresPeugeot 3008 brakes failuresPeugeot 3008 vehicle identification failuresPeugeot 3008 lamps, reflectors and electrics failuresPeugeot 3008 noise, emissions and leaks failuresPeugeot 3008 road wheels failuresPeugeot 3008 seat belts and airbags failuresPeugeot 3008 steering failuresPeugeot 3008 suspension failuresPeugeot 3008 tyres failuresPeugeot 3008 visibility failures

Inspections abroad

Peugeot 3008 in NorwayPeugeot 3008 in FinlandPeugeot 3008 in the Netherlands


Data details & how to cite

Scope: class-4 vehicles (cars), initial tests only, outcomes pass / fail / fixed-on-the-spot at the station (PRS counts towards the failure rate — the defect was present at arrival). Index = observed initial failures ÷ failures expected for this fleet's exact age profile, ×100; margin of error is a 95% confidence interval. Covers ALL generations together — a 3-year-old and a 15-year-old are very different cars; a generation split is on the roadmap. Dataset release dataset_release_id=dvsa-2024-v2, frozen baseline; headline claim_id=family-stats:peugeot-3008:dvsa-2024-v2. Full method: methodology.

Cite: MOT Risk Index (2026). Peugeot 3008 MOT statistics 2024 (data release dvsa-2024-v2; downloadable dataset motriskindex-families-2024-v5, doi:10.5281/zenodo.22975051). https://motriskindex.co.uk/cars/peugeot-3008/ · Published 2026-07-30.