SsangYong Musso — MOT statistics 2024

The SsangYong Musso failed 36.14% of 2,366 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 227.8 (100 = expected for its age profile). This car fails its MOT about 128% more often than expected for its age. Small sample — treat with care.

Age-adjusted peer: Nissan e-NV200 (index 186.0) — the two published results are 41.8 index points apart, so read it as the nearest published comparison of the same type, not a close match.

SsangYong Musso common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Brakes stand out at 33.2 per 100 tests, against 4.3 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.

SsangYong Musso MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Brakes are highest at 42.6 per 100 tests; Emissions & leaks are lowest at 2.9 per 100 tests — the gap is 39.7 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: SsangYong Musso 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 lowers next year's chance of failing again by 6.7 percentage points. The failure most likely to come back is lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment — 22.4% 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 7,210 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 23.6 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 SsangYong Musso 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 SsangYong Musso perform as it gets older?

The Musso at age 3 stands out at 34.8%, against 12.4% for all vehicles of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart axes: car age, years · failure-rate scale 0–44%.

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

How dangerous are SsangYong Musso MOT failures?

Major defects stand out at 71.7 per 100 tests, against 52.8 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Chart values: Minor 14.0 · Major 71.7 · Dangerous 15.5.

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

Does the month of a SsangYong Musso MOT matter?

Feb is highest at 41.5%; May is lowest at 34.9% — the gap is 6.6 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart scale: 27%–43%.

bars: SsangYong Musso · dashed: all class-4 cars

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 6.6 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.

SsangYong Musso average mileage by age

At age 8, the middle half of Mussos runs from 52,920 miles to 93,041 miles, against 69,313 miles as the median.

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

Chart axes: car age, years · odometer scale 0–98k mi.

Does high mileage mean more SsangYong Musso MOT failures at the same age?

Within the same age group, split by odometer (2024 MOTs), so this separates wear from age: at ages 3–5, 26.7% of those with under 40,000 miles failed first time versus 51.6% of those with 100,000–140,000 miles.Inside this age group, higher mileage goes with more failures.

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

A typical 8-year-old Musso has ~69,313 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the SsangYong Musso fails its MOT most

Stoke-on-Trent area is highest at 49.1%; Sheffield area is lowest at 25.6% — the gap is 23.5 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

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.

SsangYong Musso survival: which cars are still on the road

By age 8 is well below the reference at 6.2%, 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 8, only about 6% as many cars of this family present for MOT as at ages 4–6 (reference n≈1,351); survivors still fail at 45.2% vs 36.5% at age 4. Older cars that still appear are a selected subset — weaker ones have already left.

How many miles does a SsangYong Musso last?

100,000+ miles stands out at 8.3%.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Of 7,214 tests of this family with a usable odometer in 2024, 8.3% had reached 100k miles. This is a cross-section of cars still presenting for MOT, not a full birth cohort.

How many years is a SsangYong Musso likely to last?

Bought at age 5 is highest at 1.5 years; Bought at age 8 is lowest at 0.5 years — the gap is 1.0 years.

bigger number = longer remaining lifeyears on the observed survival curve

estimateObserved only until age 8. The curve does not run five years past the stated age with the share still tested under 50%, so no 'years left' number is given.

SsangYong Musso faults that come together

Brakes + Emissions & leaks stand out at 3.29×, against 1.00× if the faults were independent.

above 1.0× = more than expectedbelow 1.0× = less

Defects in «Brakes» and «Noise, emissions and leaks» appear together 3.29× more often than chance (68 co-occurrences in the same test; 78 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).

Is low mileage better for a SsangYong Musso?

Cars driven under 5,000 miles a year is well below the reference at 23.8%, against 44.4% for cars driven 8,000–12,000 miles a year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

At matched ages 5–14, cars averaging under 5k miles/year fail at 23.8% vs 44.4% for 8–12k miles/year — 20.6 pp lower (n_low=344, n_normal=852). 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: 23.8% low-use vs 44.4% normal (-20.6 pp).

Best year for a SsangYong Musso, and the years to avoid

Build year 2016 is highest at 112.2; Build year 2020 is lowest at 85.8 — the gap is 26.4 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

The best build year here is 2020 and the weakest is 2020. 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 — 1 of 5 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.

SsangYong Musso MOT repair costs

The MOT-failure repair budget per test runs from £121.43 to £230.72, 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 £121 to £231, 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.

SsangYong Musso running costs for a fleet

Vehicles failing at age 7 stand out at 41.0%, against 37.0% at age 5, 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.

SsangYong Musso rust problems: where they corrode

Age-standardised corrosion susceptibility stands out at 1.25×, against 1.00× for the national age-standardised rate.

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

This SsangYong Musso 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 SsangYong Musso advisory become a failure?

Brakes are highest at 23.6%; Tyres are lowest at 7.4% — the gap is 16.2 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

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 24 in 100 cars, and the median gap is 11.9 months and roughly 9,763 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 SsangYong Musso?

Brakes after a advisory at age 20+ are highest at 30.9%; Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment after a passed at age <3 are lowest at 10.8% — the gap is 20.2 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.

SsangYong Musso ownership: what six years of MOTs show

The ten-day re-test pass rate is highest at 63.5%; The later re-test pass rate is lowest at 6.7% — the gap is 56.8 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Failing is usually a same-week event, not a disaster. Of 2,036 failures followed through to their re-test, 29.76% were repaired and passed the same day and 63.51% within ten days; the median gap is 2 days. 5,223 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 0.406 failures per 10,000 miles, on a median of 8,165 miles a year across 1,809 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. 32.04% of these cars strung together three or more tests with nothing recorded at all, while 14.6% 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: 1.155% of 1,818 chains show a reading lower than the previous test, with a median drop of 23,946 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.

SsangYong Musso MOT: quick answers

SsangYong Musso MOT Risk Index stands out at 227.8, 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 SsangYong Musso first-time MOT pass rate?

63.86% of first attempts passed in 2024 (2,366 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 36.14% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 2,366 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 227.8 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the SsangYong Musso with other cars

Nissan NV250 is highest at 237.8; Mercedes-Benz Citan is lowest at 181.7 — the gap is 56.1 points.

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

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By build year

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By area

SsangYong Musso MOT failure rate by postcode area

By failure group

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