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Renault Captur — MOT statistics 2024

The Renault Captur failed 22.17% of 154,861 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 105.1 (100 = expected for its age profile). This car fails its MOT about 5% more often than expected for its age. But this fleet is driven far less than average: matched on annual mileage as well as age, using 2019-2024 test chains rather than 2024 alone, the figure is 108.0, on the other side of normal. Both numbers below.

MOT risk index 105.1, 95% CI 104.1–106.1 (100 = national average) 100 105.1 0 200
Index
105.1
100 = age-normal
Raw fail rate
22.17%
n = 154,861
Dangerous /100
7
national ≈11
Diesel − petrol
+10.1 pp
fail-rate gap
Rank
511 of 761
lower index = better

Age-adjusted peer: Kia Sportage (index 104.9) — the two published results are 0.2 index points apart.

Renault Captur common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Suspension stands out at 7.2 per 100 tests, against 4.9 per 100 tests across UK vehicles of the same ages.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Renault Captur 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
Suspension7.251,9284.91.47×1.47–1.49
Tyres6.949,7677.40.93×0.93–0.94
Brakes5.539,4225.11.07×1.06–1.08
Visibility5.237,0765.60.93×0.92–0.93
Lamps & electrical4.934,8975.80.84×0.82–0.84
Body & structure3.222,7241.32.54×2.48–2.55
Named defects — items per 100 initial tests, this family vs UK national average; this model measured on 717,010 tests, 2019-2024, national column 2024
What failedper 100 tests (this family)per 100 tests (UK average)ratio family / UKWhat to check
Transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot…A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc2.161.561.39×Ask the seller about: A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot missing or
Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the…Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the windscreen2.132.220.96×Check wipers, washers and windscreen chips in the driver's view
Wiper blade defectiveWiper blade defective1.161.260.92×Check wipers, washers and windscreen chips in the driver's view
Tyre cords visible or damagedA tyre cords visible or damaged1.341.630.82×Check tyre tread depth across the full width
Suspension pin, bush or joint excessively wornA suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn4.404.870.90×Listen for knocks over bumps — worn joints show up on the test
Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the…Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements3.033.590.84×Check tyre tread depth across the full width
Brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mma brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm1.522.150.71×Feel for brake judder and pulling on the test drive
Tyre seriously damagedA tyre seriously damaged1.822.540.72×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 sources1.672.830.59×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 weakened1.082.860.38×Ask the seller about: A spring or spring component fractured or seriously weakened

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

Renault Captur MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Tyres are highest at 42.9 per 100 tests; Lamps & electrical are lowest at 0.7 per 100 tests — the gap is 42.2 per 100 tests.

higher bar = flagged more oftenadvisory items per 100 initial tests

Renault Captur MOT advisories: what gets flagged — 2024 UK MOT data
Advisory rates table
GroupAdvisories per 100
Tyres42.9
Brakes20
Non-component advisories7.7
Suspension6.4
Road Wheels0.8
Lamps & electrical0.7

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

Tyres, brakes and suspension: Renault Captur against cars of the same age

AgePartRenault CapturSame age, petrol and dieselDifference
3 yearsTyres3.34.17-0.87
3 yearsBrakes1.471.77-0.30
3 yearsSuspension0.610.63-0.02
4 yearsTyres3.644.54-0.90
4 yearsBrakes2.032.43-0.40
4 yearsSuspension1.281.210.07
5 yearsTyres4.565.06-0.50
5 yearsBrakes2.983.09-0.11
5 yearsSuspension2.572.190.38
6 yearsTyres5.485.54-0.06
6 yearsBrakes4.093.810.28
6 yearsSuspension4.83.721.08
7 yearsTyres5.855.95-0.10
7 yearsBrakes4.94.550.35
7 yearsSuspension7.535.681.85
8 yearsTyres6.296.31-0.02
8 yearsBrakes5.785.380.40
8 yearsSuspension10.997.783.21

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 failed25.6%27,859
It passed18.5%443,797

A failed test raises next year's chance of failing again by 7.1 percentage points. The failure most likely to come back is body, chassis, structure — 29.4% 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 712,081 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 only99.9fails less often than expected
Age and annual mileage108.0fails more often than vehicles driven as much
Share doing under 3,000 miles a year7.4%a normal spread of use

This is the rare case where usage changes the answer, not just the number: once you compare these against vehicles driven as little, the car moves from one side of normal to the other. Read the mileage-matched figure, not the headline one. 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 Renault Captur 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.

AgeRenault CapturSame class, same ageDifferenceTests
3 years10.6%11.31%-0.72 pp114,343
4 years14%14.25%-0.25 pp121,556
5 years17.2%17.42%-0.22 pp126,070
6 years20.2%20.76%-0.56 pp111,847
7 years23.18%24.34%-1.16 pp91,060
8 years26.97%28.16%-1.19 pp71,614
9 years31.6%32.03%-0.43 pp47,098
10 years35.85%35.59%+0.25 pp24,041
11 years42.72%38.65%+4.07 pp5,730

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 Renault Captur perform as it gets older?

The Captur at age 11 stands out at 42.7%, against 33.2% for all vehicles of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

How does the Renault Captur perform as it gets older? — 2024 UK MOT data

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

Takeaway: a 10-year-old Captur has roughly a 34% chance of failing its MOT; from about age 8 it stays above the national age curve.

Data table
AgeRenault CapturAll vehiclesGap
38.7%12.4%-3.7 pp
49.8%13.1%-3.3 pp
515.8%15.1%+0.6 pp
618.2%17.5%+0.7 pp
719.4%20.2%-0.7 pp
823.4%23.3%+0.1 pp
931.0%26.5%+4.5 pp
1034.3%30.1%+4.2 pp
1142.7%33.2%+9.6 pp

Is a Renault Captur ULEZ compliant?

The share of classifiable 2024 Renault Captur MOT tests likely ULEZ compliant by first-registration date is 84.8%.

Based on 154,845 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 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 417
3–5 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 43,326
6–7 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 40,160
8 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 24,201
9 years60.3%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 22,793
10–14 years39.3%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 23,948
15–17 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
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

Renault Captur petrol vs diesel: which ages best

Diesel is highest at 28.1%; Petrol is lowest at 18.0% — the gap is 10.1 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Renault Captur petrol vs diesel: which ages best — 2024 UK MOT data
Fuel split table
FuelTests% failingGap vs best
Petrol88,34418.0%+0.0 pp
Diesel65,20128.1%+10.1 pp

Chart sample sizes: n=88k · n=65k.

How dangerous are Renault Captur MOT failures?

Major defects are well below the reference at 21.4 per 100 tests, against 52.8 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

How dangerous are Renault Captur MOT failures? — 2024 UK MOT data
Severity table
SeverityThis family /100National /100Family / national
Minor5.4214.220.38×
Major21.3852.750.41×
Dangerous7.3411.150.66×

Chart values: Minor 5.4 · Major 21.4 · Dangerous 7.3.

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

Does the month of a Renault Captur MOT matter?

Nov is highest at 21.0%; Mar is lowest at 17.8% — the gap is 3.1 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Does the month of a Renault Captur MOT matter? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart scale: 16%–33%.

bars: Renault Captur · dashed: all class-4 cars

Month-by-month table
MonthRenault CapturAll vehiclesGap
Jan20.08%31.12%-11.0 pp
Feb19.38%29.99%-10.6 pp
Mar17.84%28.26%-10.4 pp
Apr19.54%29.78%-10.2 pp
May19.72%28.79%-9.1 pp
Jun18.67%28.15%-9.5 pp
Jul20.43%29.33%-8.9 pp
Aug19.94%29.2%-9.3 pp
Sep18.43%28.19%-9.8 pp
Oct20.81%30.34%-9.5 pp
Nov20.98%30.58%-9.6 pp
Dec19.76%29.33%-9.6 pp

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 3.1 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.

Renault Captur average mileage by age

At age 8, the middle half of Capturs runs from 37,645 miles to 66,026 miles, against 50,812 miles as the median.

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

Bars: Renault Captur · dashed: all class-4 cars — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · odometer scale 0–97k mi.

Does high mileage mean more Renault Captur 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, 14.1% of those with under 40,000 miles failed first time versus 42.2% of those with over 140,000 miles.Inside this age group, higher mileage goes with more failures.

Does high mileage mean more Renault Captur MOT failures at the same age? — 2024 UK MOT data
Renault Captur: first-time failure by mileage within each age group (2024)
AgeOdometer% failing95% intervalTests
3–5<40k miles10.6%10.3–11%35,193
3–540-70k miles18.7%17.9–19.6%7,626
3–570-100k miles29.6%25.5–34%446 (rough estimate)
6–9<40k miles14.1%13.7–14.5%31,280
6–940-70k miles25.2%24.7–25.6%39,934
6–970-100k miles35.3%34.4–36.1%12,998
6–9100-140k miles42.6%40.7–44.5%2,503
6–9140k+ miles42.2%36.1–48.6%237 (rough estimate)
10–14<40k miles21.6%19.9–23.3%2,262
10–1440-70k miles32.6%31.7–33.6%9,774
10–1470-100k miles39.9%38.9–40.9%8,626
10–14100-140k miles47.7%45.9–49.5%2,913
10–14140k+ miles50.4%45.2–55.6%355 (rough estimate)

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

Mileage by age (p25 / median / p75)
Agep25Medianp75Tests
312,34218,93927,50310,137
415,93023,39433,05913,263
521,36430,04140,49619,926
626,89437,16049,43220,774
731,35543,10856,57219,386
837,64550,81266,02624,201
944,82059,66176,52422,793
1052,33768,24585,66818,218
1157,70974,79092,5035,730

A typical 8-year-old Captur has ~50,812 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the Renault Captur fails its MOT most

Kirkcaldy area is highest at 29.9%; Southend-on-Sea area is lowest at 10.9% — the gap is 18.9 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Renault Captur line: median · band: middle half of the fleet (p25–p75) — 2024 UK MOT data
Toughest areas% failingvs model overall
Kirkcaldy (KY)29.85%+10.3 pp
Dundee (DD)28.47%+8.9 pp
Motherwell (ML)27.27%+7.7 pp
Perth (PH)26.53%+7.0 pp
Edinburgh (EH)26.15%+6.6 pp
Easiest areas% failingvs model overall
Southend-on-Sea (SS)10.91%-8.6 pp
Twickenham (TW)11.24%-8.3 pp
Watford (WD)11.24%-8.3 pp
St Albans (AL)11.72%-7.8 pp
Romford (RM)12.37%-7.2 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 road-salt proxy this model fails 6.2 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.63, n=115 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest frost days this model fails 5.8 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.63, n=115 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest mot centre density this model fails 6.5 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.60, n=115 areas with ≥800 tests).

Renault Captur Why do areas differ? — 2024 UK MOT data
Values shown in the quintile chart
FactorLow QHigh QGapCorrelation
Road-salt proxy16.7%23.0%+6.3 ppr=0.63
Frost days17.4%23.2%+5.8 ppr=0.63
MOT centre density15.1%21.7%+6.6 ppr=0.60

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
Road-salt proxy (g/m²-yr)0.62911516.723.0+6.2220.5667.4
Frost days (days/year)0.62811517.423.2+5.811.637.7
MOT centre density (per 10k vehicles)0.60111515.121.7+6.558.7
Income deprivation (score)0.3299716.919.6+2.70.10.2
Urban share (0–1)-0.30311519.516.2-3.30.41
Distance to coast (km)-0.25511521.018.7-2.46.278.7
Terrain gradient (% grade)0.2266818.820.9+2.10.54

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: 12%–26% failing.

Renault Captur survival: which cars are still on the road

By age 11 is well below the reference at 4.8%, against 100.0% at the ages 4–6 reference level.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Renault Captur 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 %
3114,34395.4%10.6%
4121,556100%14%
5126,070100%17.2%
6111,84793.3%20.2%
791,06076%23.18%
871,61459.8%26.97%
947,09839.3%31.6%
1024,04120.1%35.85%
115,7304.8%42.72%

By age 11, only about 5% as many cars of this family present for MOT as at ages 4–6 (reference n≈119,824); survivors still fail at 42.7% vs 14.0% at age 4. Older cars that still appear are a selected subset — weaker ones have already left.

How many miles does a Renault Captur last?

100,000+ miles is highest at 1.9%; 150,000+ miles is lowest at 0.1% — the gap is 1.8 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

OdometerTests ≥ thresholdShare of sample
100,000+ miles13,2951.87%
150,000+ miles8140.11%

Of 712,123 tests of this family with a usable odometer in 2024, 1.9% had reached 100k miles, 0.1% had reached 150k miles. This is a cross-section of cars still presenting for MOT, not a full birth cohort.

How many years is a Renault Captur likely to last?

Bought at age 5 is highest at 3.4 years; Bought at age 10 is lowest at 0.7 years — the gap is 2.7 years.

bigger number = longer remaining lifeyears on the observed survival curve

Age nowTypical mileage (p50)Expected years left
5—3.4
8—at least 1.6
10—at least 0.7

estimateEstimate only — not a warranty: a typical 10-year-old example of this family has at least 0.7 expected years of further MOT-present life. The curve is observed only until age 11, so the true figure is likely higher.

Renault Captur faults that come together

Steering + Suspension stand out at 7.77×, against 1.00× if the faults were independent.

above 1.0× = more than expectedbelow 1.0× = less

Group AGroup BTogetherLift
SteeringSuspension6777.77×
Noise, emissions and leaksSteering556.48× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureNoise, emissions and leaks6266.27×
BrakesSteering3255.43× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSteering3275.31× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentRoad Wheels1404.89× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems2184.86× (rough estimate)
BrakesNoise, emissions and leaks6524.62×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaks6694.6×
Identification of the vehicleLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment1034.53× (rough estimate)
BrakesSuspension6,3414.38×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspension6,4664.34×
Body, chassis, structureSteering1824.3× (rough estimate)
BrakesIdentification of the vehicle924.17× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureIdentification of the vehicle654.16× (rough estimate)
Road WheelsSuspension1654.08× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleVisibility1024.02× (rough estimate)
BrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment4,0843.99×
BrakesRoad Wheels1083.89× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems243.88× (rough estimate)
BrakesTyres5,0703.82×
Identification of the vehicleTyres1123.8× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsVisibility1873.73× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSuspension7653.72×
Identification of the vehicleSuspension1193.7× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems1143.7× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSuspension2343.69× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSuspension3,7663.68×
Body, chassis, structureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment2,6703.68×
Noise, emissions and leaksVisibility5903.64×
Road WheelsTyres1353.64× (rough estimate)
BrakesSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems1583.63× (rough estimate)
SteeringTyres2883.61× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksTyres6783.6×
Road WheelsVisibility1123.51× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentVisibility3,9023.31×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentTyres4,4753.27×
Body, chassis, structureBrakes2,2823.24×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsTyres1883.23× (rough estimate)
SuspensionTyres6,0313.12×
BrakesVisibility3,5303.09×
TyresVisibility4,6123.02×
Body, chassis, structureRoad Wheels593× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureTyres2,6532.82×
SteeringVisibility1712.49× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureVisibility1,9842.45×
SuspensionVisibility4,0442.43×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSteering18too few (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleNoise, emissions and leaks17too few (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksRoad Wheels17too few (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems10too few (rough estimate)
Road WheelsSteering5too few (rough estimate)

Defects in «Steering» and «Suspension» appear together 7.77× more often than chance (677 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 Renault Captur?

Cars driven under 5,000 miles a year is well below the reference at 14.7%, against 28.9% for cars driven 8,000–12,000 miles a year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

BandFail %Tests
<5k miles/year14.69%124,923
8–12k miles/year28.94%125,061
Gap (low − normal)-14.25 pp—
By fuel and age

Diesel

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
512.5612,11323.2919,922-10.73 pp
613.4411,53927.1819,245-13.73 pp
715.5210,19830.4317,127-14.9 pp
818.528,38035.1714,277-16.65 pp
922.065,04539.669,947-17.6 pp
1026.872,21844.25,079-17.33 pp
1133.6531850.251,005-16.6 pp

Petrol

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
510.5923,96219.3412,006-8.75 pp
611.7818,56323.479,768-11.69 pp
714.0713,58627.256,694-13.18 pp
815.539,42732.384,812-16.85 pp
918.755,74535.573,019-16.83 pp
1024.822,92540.261,637-15.44 pp
1128.7690446.65523-17.89 pp

At matched ages 5–14, cars averaging under 5k miles/year fail at 14.7% vs 28.9% for 8–12k miles/year — 14.2 pp lower (n_low=124,923, n_normal=125,061). 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: 16.0% low-use vs 30.3% normal (-14.3 pp).

Which Renault Captur engine is best?

diesel 1.5–1.8 is highest at 128.1; petrol 1.0–1.2 is lowest at 63.2 — the gap is 64.9 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
petrol1.0–1.2 litre63.211.78%36,583
petrol1.2–1.5 litre71.19.04%33,402
petrolunder 1.0 litre91.917.5%288,695
diesel1.2–1.5 litre11122.99%354,791
diesel1.5–1.8 litre128.128.19%1,926 (rough estimate)

Splitting this model by fuel alone hides the thing that actually differs. Within the same badge, the diesel 1.2–1.5 runs at 111 against this model's own age norm while the petrol 1.0–1.2 runs at 63.2 — a spread of 47.8 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 Renault Captur, and the years to avoid

Build year 2013 is highest at 115.7; Build year 2020 is lowest at 82.3 — the gap is 33.4 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

Renault Captur build year vs the same model at the same age · 100 = as expected — 2024 UK MOT data
Renault Captur 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
202082.379.2–85.59.79%26,878better
201996.294–98.312.95%60,412better
201899.197.4–100.814.92%84,089no different
20178785.6–88.414.26%101,534better
201694.393.1–95.417.4%146,264better
2015107.8106.7–10923.68%137,879worse
2014110108.8–111.228.12%110,895worse
2013115.7113.6–117.834.41%35,269worse

The best build year here is 2020 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 — 7 of 8 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.

Renault Captur MOT repair costs

The MOT-failure repair budget per test runs from £34.28 to £65.13, against £54.85 for the test itself.

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

MOT repairs, budget
£34–65
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
Suspension7.2 (nat. 15.36)Suspension coil spring (single corner)£180£12.96
Brakes5.5 (nat. 11.25)Front brake pads (parts + labour, typical hatchback)£150£8.25
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment4.9 (nat. 18.09)Battery replacement (standard 12V lead-acid)£140£6.86
Tyres6.9 (nat. 8.7)Tyre (single mid-range 16" fitted)£90£6.21

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 £34 to £65, 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.

Renault Captur running costs for a fleet

Vehicles failing at age 10 stand out at 34.0%, 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
34
other cars of this model tested at age 10 in 2024
Repairs per 100
£3,428
plus £5,485 in test fees
Off the road
0d
median; 55.54% cleared same day
Failure rate and typical odometer by age
AgeFailsMedian odometerTestsGap vs age 5
38.67%18,93910,137-7.1 pp
49.81%23,39413,263-6.0 pp
515.78%30,04119,926+0.0 pp
618.16%37,16020,774+2.4 pp
719.45%43,10819,386+3.7 pp
823.43%50,81224,201+7.7 pp
931.02%59,66122,793+15.2 pp
1034.3%68,24518,218+18.5 pp
1142.72%74,7905,730+26.9 pp

The number a fleet manager needs is not the failure rate, it is the year the car starts costing more. Between cars aged 10 and cars aged 11, both tested in 2024, the failure rate of this model is 8.42 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.

Renault Captur rust problems: where they corrode

Age-standardised corrosion susceptibility is well below the reference at 0.53×, against 1.00× for the national age-standardised rate.

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

How it rusts
0.53×
0.4% of tests record a corrosion defect vs 0.77% typical — age-standardised
Salt Belt exposure
highest
percentile among the models published here, from its tests across 115 postcode areas

This Renault Captur 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 Renault Captur advisory become a failure?

Suspension is highest at 20.8%; Noise, emissions and leaks are lowest at 2.2% — the gap is 18.6 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

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

Renault Captur chance the same component fails at the next MOT, given an advisory now — 2024 UK MOT data
Renault Captur, advisory → failure conversion by component group, chained tests 2019–2024. Chart labels and rates: Suspension 20.8% · Lamps & electrical 12.3% · Brakes 9.7% · Body & chassis 9% · Steering 8.5% · Tyres 7.8% · Visibility 4.8% · Identification of the veh… 2.6%.
Advisory today → failure at the next test, with how long you have
ComponentFails next timeTypical lead timeMiles of warningAdvisories tracked
Suspension20.8%12 months6,53424,805
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment12.3%12 months7,6412,318
Brakes9.7%12 months6,57272,000
Body, chassis, structure9.0%12.1 months7,3841,189
Steering8.5%12 months5,921639
Tyres7.8%12 months6,511133,047
Visibility4.8%12 months8,291564
Identification of the vehicle2.6%12 months7,6462,604
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems2.2%12 months8,357592
Noise, emissions and leaks2.2%12 months7,191973

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 21 in 100 cars, and the median gap is 12 months and roughly 6,534 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 Renault Captur?

Suspension after a failure at age 9-11 is highest at 26.4%; Brakes after a passed at age <3 are lowest at 1.3% — the gap is 25.1 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
<3passedVisibility 4.7% · Tyres 2.6% · Brakes 1.3%56,709
<3advisoryVisibility 6.4% · Tyres 4.2% · Brakes 2.7%16,602
<3failureVisibility 5.8% · Tyres 4.3% · Brakes 2.8%8,025
3-5passedTyres 3.7% · Visibility 3.5% · Suspension 2.7%170,777
3-5advisoryTyres 6.2% · Visibility 4.8% · Brakes 4.7%79,261
3-5failureTyres 7.1% · Suspension 6.9% · Brakes 5.8%48,836
6-8passedSuspension 9.0% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 5.3% · Tyres 4.7%74,456
6-8advisorySuspension 12.1% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 7.5% · Tyres 7.1%50,945
6-8failureSuspension 18.2% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 10.9% · Tyres 9.1%43,669
9-11passedSuspension 17.9% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 9.0% · Tyres 6.0%5,104
9-11advisorySuspension 22.4% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 11.1% · Brakes 9.3%4,002
9-11failureSuspension 26.4% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 14.4% · Brakes 9.9%5,654

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.

Renault Captur ownership: what six years of MOTs show

The same-day re-test pass rate is highest at 55.5%; The later re-test pass rate is lowest at 1.4% — the gap is 54.2 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fixed same day
55.54%
of failures re-tested
Fails /10k miles
0.344
miles actually driven
Clean streaks
45.91%
3+ tests, nothing noted
Odometer anomaly
1.225%
reading went backwards

Failing is usually a same-week event, not a disaster. Of 104,552 failures followed through to their re-test, 55.54% were repaired and passed the same day and 43.09% within ten days; the median gap is 0 days. 200,843 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 0.344 failures per 10,000 miles, on a median of 5,392 miles a year across 145,090 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. 45.91% of these cars strung together three or more tests with nothing recorded at all, while 18.99% 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: 1.225% of 145,128 chains show a reading lower than the previous test, with a median drop of 12,602 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.

Renault Captur safety recalls and how to check yours

DVSA recall campaigns stand out at 9.

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

recall campaigns launched per year

Renault Captur recall campaigns launched per year — 2024 UK MOT data
Campaigns launched per year for the Renault Captur. Source: DVSA vehicle safety recalls. Chart values: 2015: 1 · 2016: 0 · 2017: 0 · 2018: 3 · 2019: 0 · 2020: 3 · 2021: 0 · 2022: 0 · 2023: 0 · 2024: 0 · 2025: 2.
Most recent safety recall campaigns for the Renault Captur
ReferenceLaunchedVehiclesConcern
R/2026/09404/12/202516,996Injection Computer Software Update
R/2025/37709/09/20257Risk of parking brake actuator failing
R/2020/12912/05/202022POSSIBLE DETACHMENT OF THE FIXED GLASS SUNROOF WHILST DRIVING
R/2020/01521/01/202039CONTACT BETWEEN THE POSITIVE ALTERNATOR WIRING AND THE ALTERNATOR CASING COULD CAUSE AN EL
R/2020/00314/01/202020THE LEFT HAND SIDE SEATBELT BUCKLE (REEL) FIXING BOLT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN SET TO CORRECT TOR
All 9 campaigns
ReferenceLaunchedBuild datesVehiclesConcern
R/2026/09404/12/202501/09/2022 – 11/07/202516,996Injection Computer Software Update
R/2025/37709/09/202512/04/2024 – 07/05/20257Risk of parking brake actuator failing
R/2020/12912/05/202021/08/2019 – 02/09/201922POSSIBLE DETACHMENT OF THE FIXED GLASS SUNROOF WHILST DRIVING
R/2020/01521/01/202008/07/2019 – 23/07/201939CONTACT BETWEEN THE POSITIVE ALTERNATOR WIRING AND THE ALTERNATOR CASING COULD CAUSE AN EL
R/2020/00314/01/202013/11/2018 – 20/12/201820THE LEFT HAND SIDE SEATBELT BUCKLE (REEL) FIXING BOLT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN SET TO CORRECT TOR
R/2018/32404/12/201820/02/2018 – 14/04/201810INCORRECT WELDING OF THE CATALYTIC CONVERTOR
R/2018/09403/04/201819DIPPED HEADLIGHT MAY FAIL TO LIGHT THE ROAD AHEAD TO SUFFICIENT LEVEL
R/2018/07720/03/201822/09/2017 – 25/09/201723FRONT WHEEL HUBS MAY CRACK
R/2015/06721/04/201501/01/2013 – 31/03/201531,320LOSS OF BRAKING EFFICIENCY

DVSA lists 9 safety recall campaigns for the Renault Captur, covering roughly 48,456 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.

Renault Captur inspection results in other countries

Netherlands APK is well below the reference at 35.2%, 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)22.17%26.01%-3.8 pp154,861
NetherlandsAPK35.2%50.8%-15.6 pp61,941
FinlandKatsastus22.7%26.3%-3.6 pp3,015
NorwayPKK26.1%33.7%-7.6 pp1,794

The verdict is consistent across every regime where the difference is clear, which is the strongest form this comparison takes: independent inspectorates, different rulebooks, same direction of travel.

What Finland fails it for — share of recorded faults
Fault areaShare
Axles, wheels and suspension52.9%
Brake systems26.4%
Steering equipment14%
Vehicle identification4.2%
Environmental hazards1.1%

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 value12,129failure
576Indicator colour wrong or not permitted5,378failure
205Tyre with insufficient tread5,246failure
516Dipped headlight incorrectly aimed3,735failure
203Tyre damaged3,067failure
AC1Tyre down to 1.6–2.5 mm of tread2,964advisory
497Number-plate light not working or missing2,152failure
391Wipers leave insufficient visibility1,585failure

Worth dwelling on how mundane the top of that list is: tyre pressure, tread depth, headlight aim. The Dutch APK records 0.764 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 Renault Captur 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.

One caveat before you read the UK row: these are raw failure rates, because no other country publishes the age detail our index needs. This model's raw UK rate looks better than the national average while its age-adjusted index is 105.1 — the fleet here is unusually young, and the raw column silently credits that. The index above is the fair comparison; this table is for reading each country against itself.

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.; Traficom — Periodic inspections of cars by model / by model and fault object 2024, CC BY 4.0; Statens vegvesen — Periodisk kjøretøykontroll (PKK) 2024, CC BY 4.0. Adapted; licences and full notice.

Renault Captur MOT: quick answers

Renault Captur MOT Risk Index stands out at 105.1, 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 Renault Captur first-time MOT pass rate?
77.83% of first attempts passed in 2024 (154,861 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 22.17% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 154,861 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 105.1 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Renault Captur with other cars

Renault Captur is highest at 105.1; Vauxhall Astra is lowest at 104.5 — the gap is 0.6 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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Same size class

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By build year

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By area

Renault Captur MOT failure rate by postcode area

By failure group

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

Inspections abroad

Renault Captur in NorwayRenault Captur in FinlandRenault Captur 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:renault-captur:dvsa-2024-v2. Full method: methodology.

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