Peugeot E7 — MOT statistics 2024

The Peugeot E7 failed 39.22% of 1,173 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 138.6 (100 = expected for its age profile). This car fails its MOT about 39% more often than expected for its age. Small sample — treat with care.

Age-adjusted peer: Fiat Fiorino (index 138.1) — the two published results are 0.5 index points apart.

Peugeot E7 common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment stand out at 29.8 per 100 tests, against 10.0 per 100 tests across UK vehicles of the same ages.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

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.

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

Peugeot E7 MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Brakes are highest at 21.2 per 100 tests; Body & structure are lowest at 4.4 per 100 tests — the gap is 16.8 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: Peugeot E7 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.

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.

A failed test does not clearly change next year's odds here (37.5% against 33.0%): the difference is within the margin of error. The failure most likely to come back is body, chassis, structure — 43.1% 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 car with vehicles of the same age, and then with vehicles of the same age and the same annual mileage, 2019-2024, on 6,264 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 36.3 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 Peugeot E7 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 Peugeot E7 perform as it gets older?

The E7 at age 9 stands out at 42.4%, against 26.5% for all vehicles of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart axes: car age, years · failure-rate scale 0–46%.

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

How dangerous are Peugeot E7 MOT failures?

Major defects stand out at 90.7 per 100 tests, against 52.8 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Chart values: Minor 18.5 · Major 90.7 · Dangerous 8.8.

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 E7 MOT matter?

Nov is highest at 42.2%; Sep is lowest at 32.2% — the gap is 10.0 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart scale: 27%–44%.

bars: Peugeot E7 · dashed: all class-4 cars

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 10.0 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 E7 average mileage by age

At age 8, the middle half of E7s runs from 169,876 miles to 261,962 miles, against 217,189 miles as the median.

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

Chart axes: car age, years · odometer scale 0–349k mi.

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

A typical 8-year-old E7 has ~217,189 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the Peugeot E7 fails its MOT most

Brighton area is highest at 59.1%; Liverpool area is lowest at 20.3% — the gap is 38.8 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Toughest areas	% failing	vs model overall
Brighton (BN)	59.09%	+21.1 pp
Northampton (NN)	57.76%	+19.8 pp
Chester (CH)	51.49%	+13.5 pp
Birmingham (B)	48.48%	+10.5 pp
Edinburgh (EH)	46.94%	+9.0 pp

Easiest areas	% failing	vs model overall
Liverpool (L)	20.29%	-17.7 pp
Guildford (GU)	26.62%	-11.3 pp
Glasgow (G)	28%	-10.0 pp

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: 20%–51% failing.

Peugeot E7 survival: which cars are still on the road

By age 12 is well below the reference at 17.3%, against 100.0% at the ages 4–6 reference level.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

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

By age 10, only about 73% as many cars of this family present for MOT as at ages 4–6 (reference n≈745); survivors still fail at 41.7% vs 31.7% at age 5. Older cars that still appear are a selected subset — weaker ones have already left.

How many miles does a Peugeot E7 last?

100,000+ miles is highest at 90.4%; 200,000+ miles is lowest at 50.4% — the gap is 39.9 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Of 6,274 tests of this family with a usable odometer in 2024, 90.4% had reached 100k miles, 74.3% had reached 150k miles, 50.4% 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 E7 likely to last?

Bought at age 5 is highest at 6.1 years; Bought at age 10 is lowest at 0.5 years — the gap is 5.6 years.

bigger number = longer remaining lifeyears on the observed survival curve

estimateEstimate only — not a warranty: a typical 10-year-old example of this family has at least 0.5 expected years of further MOT-present life. The curve is observed only until age 10, so the true figure is likely higher.

Peugeot E7 faults that come together

Brakes + Steering stand out at 3.35×, against 1.00× if the faults were independent.

above 1.0× = more than expectedbelow 1.0× = less

Defects in «Brakes» and «Steering» appear together 3.35× more often than chance (89 co-occurrences in the same test; 66 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).

Peugeot E7 MOT repair costs

The MOT-failure repair budget per test runs from £133.02 to £252.74, 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 £133 to £253, 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 E7 running costs for a fleet

Vehicles failing at age 10 are well below the reference at 35.0%, against 38.0% at age 8, tested in the same year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

No single year stands out as the point where this model starts costing more: the year-to-year steps in its failure rate are too small or rest on too few tests to name one (D1 rule: a step is named only with at least 2,000 tests on both sides and a jump above 3 percentage points).

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 E7 rust problems: where they corrode

Age-standardised corrosion susceptibility stands out at 1.36×, against 1.00× for the national age-standardised rate.

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

This Peugeot E7 fails on corrosion more often than average once age is held constant, and its owners live in areas that are saltier than most 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 Peugeot E7 advisory become a failure?

Brakes are highest at 16.8%; Tyres are lowest at 6.5% — the gap is 10.3 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 17 in 100 cars, and the median gap is 11.9 months and roughly 16,996 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 E7?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment after a failure at age <3 are highest at 28.6%; Suspension after a passed at age <3 is lowest at 7.2% — the gap is 21.4 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.

Peugeot E7 ownership: what six years of MOTs show

The ten-day re-test pass rate is highest at 66.3%; The later re-test pass rate is lowest at 5.0% — the gap is 61.3 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Failing is usually a same-week event, not a disaster. Of 1,831 failures followed through to their re-test, 28.67% were repaired and passed the same day and 66.3% within ten days; the median gap is 1 day. 5,768 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 0.191 failures per 10,000 miles, on a median of 20,495 miles a year across 1,051 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. 52.79% of these cars strung together three or more tests with nothing recorded at all, while 20.56% 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: 9.411% of 1,052 chains show a reading lower than the previous test, with a median drop of 115,918 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 E7 MOT: quick answers

Peugeot E7 MOT Risk Index stands out at 138.6, 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 Peugeot E7 first-time MOT pass rate?

60.78% of first attempts passed in 2024 (1,173 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 39.22% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 1,173 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 138.6 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Peugeot E7 with other cars

Citroen Spacetourer is highest at 139.2; Great Wall Steed is lowest at 138.0 — the gap is 1.2 points.

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

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Same size class

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By area

Peugeot E7 MOT failure rate by postcode area

By failure group

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