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Vauxhall Crossland — MOT statistics 2024

The Vauxhall Crossland failed 14.91% of 67,658 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 103.2 (100 = expected for its age profile). This car fails its MOT about 3% more often than expected for its age.

MOT risk index 103.2, 95% CI 101.3–105.1 (100 = national average) 100 103.2 0 200
Index
103.2
100 = age-normal
Raw fail rate
14.91%
n = 67,658
Dangerous /100
6
national ≈11
Diesel − petrol
+5.2 pp
fail-rate gap
Rank
490 of 761
lower index = better

Age-adjusted peer: Ford Ka (index 103.2) — the two published results are 0.0 index points apart.

Vauxhall Crossland common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Brakes stand out at 6.2 per 100 tests, against 3.1 per 100 tests across UK vehicles of the same ages.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Vauxhall Crossland 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
Brakes6.210,6143.12.01×1.97–2.05
Tyres5.39,1536.30.85×0.84–0.87
Body & structure3.55,9570.57.14×6.90–7.27
Visibility2.03,3794.90.41×0.39–0.42
Lamps & electrical1.42,3682.80.51×0.48–0.52
Emissions & leaks0.91,5720.61.41×1.36–1.50
Named defects — items per 100 initial tests, this family vs UK national average; this model measured on 171,640 tests, 2019-2024, national column 2024
What failedper 100 tests (this family)per 100 tests (UK average)ratio family / UKWhat to check
Brake disc or drum significantly and obviously wornBrake disc or drum significantly and obviously worn1.600.732.20×Feel for brake judder and pulling on the test drive
Brake disc or drum excessively weakened, insecure…Brake disc or drum excessively weakened, insecure or fractured0.570.361.57×Feel for brake judder and pulling on the test drive
Brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mma brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm2.212.151.03×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 etc1.501.560.96×Ask the seller about: A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot missing or
Exhaust system leaking or insecureExhaust system leaking or insecure1.041.160.90×Watch for smoke on a cold start — emissions failures are costly
Tyre seriously damagedA tyre seriously damaged2.342.540.92×Check tyre tread depth across the full width
Tyre cords visible or damagedA tyre cords visible or damaged1.001.630.61×Check tyre tread depth across the full width
Transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot…A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot severely deteriorated0.681.480.46×Ask the seller about: A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot severely d
Windscreen or window damaged or seriously…Windscreen or window damaged or seriously discoloured but not adversely affecting driver's view0.782.360.33×Check wipers, washers and windscreen chips in the driver's view
Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the…Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements1.533.590.43×Check tyre tread depth across the full width

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

Vauxhall Crossland MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Tyres are highest at 42.9 per 100 tests; Emissions & leaks are lowest at 1.0 per 100 tests — the gap is 41.9 per 100 tests.

higher bar = flagged more oftenadvisory items per 100 initial tests

Vauxhall Crossland MOT advisories: what gets flagged — 2024 UK MOT data
Advisory rates table
GroupAdvisories per 100
Tyres42.9
Brakes41.4
Non-component advisories6.8
Body & structure4.4
Suspension1.5
Emissions & leaks1

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

Tyres, brakes and suspension: Vauxhall Crossland against cars of the same age

AgePartVauxhall CrosslandSame age, petrol and dieselDifference
3 yearsTyres3.994.17-0.18
3 yearsBrakes3.281.771.51
3 yearsSuspension0.440.63-0.19
4 yearsTyres44.54-0.54
4 yearsBrakes3.682.431.25
4 yearsSuspension0.571.21-0.64
5 yearsTyres3.945.06-1.12
5 yearsBrakes4.433.091.34
5 yearsSuspension0.952.19-1.24
6 yearsTyres4.45.54-1.14
6 yearsBrakes5.463.811.65
6 yearsSuspension1.943.72-1.78
7 yearsTyres4.915.95-1.04
7 yearsBrakes5.584.551.03
7 yearsSuspension2.25.68-3.48

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 failed18.3%3,841
It passed13.8%91,396

A failed test raises next year's chance of failing again by 4.5 percentage points. The failure most likely to come back is visibility — 19.9% 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 171,234 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 only92.3fails less often than expected
Age and annual mileage101.0fails more often than vehicles driven as much
Share doing under 3,000 miles a year10.6%a normal spread of use

Mileage matters here: matching on how much these are driven moves the figure by 8.7 points — this fleet is driven less than the vehicles it is measured against, so the age-only view flatters 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 Vauxhall Crossland 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.

AgeVauxhall CrosslandSame class, same ageDifferenceTests
3 years11.24%10.85%+0.39 pp67,925
4 years12.12%13.9%-1.79 pp50,271
5 years15.95%17.39%-1.45 pp31,624
6 years21.7%20.62%+1.08 pp15,237
7 years24.5%23.5%+1 pp2,547

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 Vauxhall Crossland perform as it gets older?

The Crossland at age 6 stands out at 22.0%, against 17.5% for all vehicles of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

How does the Vauxhall Crossland perform as it gets older? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · failure-rate scale 0–26%.

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

Data table
AgeVauxhall CrosslandAll vehiclesGap
311.6%12.4%-0.8 pp
411.9%13.1%-1.2 pp
515.0%15.1%-0.1 pp
622.0%17.5%+4.5 pp
724.5%20.2%+4.3 pp

Is a Vauxhall Crossland ULEZ compliant?

The share of classifiable 2024 Vauxhall Crossland MOT tests likely ULEZ compliant by first-registration date is 100.0%.

Based on 67,639 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 = 898
3–5 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 51,497
6–7 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 15,244
8 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
9 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
10–14 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
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

Vauxhall Crossland petrol vs diesel: which ages best

Diesel is highest at 19.7%; Petrol is lowest at 14.5% — the gap is 5.3 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Vauxhall Crossland petrol vs diesel: which ages best — 2024 UK MOT data
Fuel split table
FuelTests% failingGap vs best
Petrol62,03014.5%+0.0 pp
Diesel5,62619.7%+5.3 pp

Chart sample sizes: n=62k · n=5,626.

How dangerous are Vauxhall Crossland MOT failures?

Major defects are well below the reference at 12.1 per 100 tests, against 52.8 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

How dangerous are Vauxhall Crossland MOT failures? — 2024 UK MOT data
Severity table
SeverityThis family /100National /100Family / national
Minor2.2914.220.16×
Major12.0552.750.23×
Dangerous6.2311.150.56×

Chart values: Minor 2.3 · Major 12.1 · Dangerous 6.2.

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

Does the month of a Vauxhall Crossland MOT matter?

Oct is highest at 14.5%; Mar is lowest at 12.2% — the gap is 2.4 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Does the month of a Vauxhall Crossland MOT matter? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart scale: 11%–33%.

bars: Vauxhall Crossland · dashed: all class-4 cars

Month-by-month table
MonthVauxhall CrosslandAll vehiclesGap
Jan12.32%31.12%-18.8 pp
Feb12.32%29.99%-17.7 pp
Mar12.18%28.26%-16.1 pp
Apr14.41%29.78%-15.4 pp
May13.51%28.79%-15.3 pp
Jun13%28.15%-15.1 pp
Jul13.67%29.33%-15.7 pp
Aug14.33%29.2%-14.9 pp
Sep13.72%28.19%-14.5 pp
Oct14.54%30.34%-15.8 pp
Nov13.91%30.58%-16.7 pp
Dec13.56%29.33%-15.8 pp

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 2.4 percentage points — booking month barely matters for this family. 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.

Vauxhall Crossland average mileage by age

At age 5, the middle half of Crosslands runs from 22,093 miles to 41,698 miles, against 31,191 miles as the median.

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

Bars: Vauxhall Crossland · dashed: all class-4 cars — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · odometer scale 0–60k mi.

Does high mileage mean more Vauxhall Crossland 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, 11.6% of those with under 40,000 miles failed first time versus 26.1% of those with 70,000–100,000 miles.Inside this age group, higher mileage goes with more failures.

Does high mileage mean more Vauxhall Crossland MOT failures at the same age? — 2024 UK MOT data
Vauxhall Crossland: first-time failure by mileage within each age group (2024)
AgeOdometer% failing95% intervalTests
3–5<40k miles11.6%11.3–11.9%39,666
3–540-70k miles16.3%15.7–17%11,334
3–570-100k miles26.1%22.2–30.3%449 (rough estimate)
6–9<40k miles18.4%17.5–19.3%7,203
6–940-70k miles25.2%24.2–26.2%6,944
6–970-100k miles31.1%28.3–34%998
6–9100-140k miles33.3%24.7–43.2%96 (rough estimate)

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

Mileage by age (p25 / median / p75)
Agep25Medianp75Tests
313,63422,17334,32916,801
417,72326,90039,47618,339
522,09331,19141,69816,357
629,55840,46052,15712,697
733,52544,58257,1202,547

A typical 5-year-old Crossland has ~31,191 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the Vauxhall Crossland fails its MOT most

Aberdeen area is highest at 24.0%; Harrogate area is lowest at 8.1% — the gap is 15.9 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Vauxhall Crossland line: median · band: middle half of the fleet (p25–p75) — 2024 UK MOT data
Toughest areas% failingvs model overall
Aberdeen (AB)23.98%+10.5 pp
Lerwick (ZE)23.33%+9.9 pp
Dundee (DD)21.4%+7.9 pp
Kirkcaldy (KY)20.56%+7.1 pp
Galashiels (TD)20.55%+7.1 pp
Easiest areas% failingvs model overall
Harrogate (HG)8.12%-5.3 pp
Bromley (BR)8.35%-5.1 pp
Worcester (WR)8.44%-5.0 pp
Twickenham (TW)8.67%-4.8 pp
Swindon (SN)8.7%-4.8 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 5.2 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.55, n=81 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest frost days this model fails 4.1 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.55, n=81 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest mot centre density this model fails 3.2 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.38, n=81 areas with ≥800 tests).

Vauxhall Crossland Why do areas differ? — 2024 UK MOT data
Values shown in the quintile chart
FactorLow QHigh QGapCorrelation
Road-salt proxy11.5%16.7%+5.2 ppr=0.55
Frost days12.1%16.2%+4.1 ppr=0.55
MOT centre density11.4%14.6%+3.2 ppr=0.38

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)0.5538111.516.7+5.2227667.8
Frost days (days/year)0.5528112.116.2+4.111.837.7
MOT centre density (per 10k vehicles)0.3838111.414.6+3.25.48.3
Terrain gradient (% grade)0.1705112.514.2+1.70.53.3
Distance to coast (km)-0.1578113.212.0-1.25.282.8
Urban share (0–1)-0.1388113.212.5-0.70.41
Income deprivation (score)0.1326712.312.9+0.60.10.2

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: 9%–20% failing.

Vauxhall Crossland survival: which cars are still on the road

By age 7 is well below the reference at 7.9%, against 100.0% at the ages 4–6 reference level.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Vauxhall Crossland 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 %
367,925100%11.24%
450,271100%12.12%
531,62497.7%15.95%
615,23747.1%21.7%
72,5477.9%24.5%

By age 7, only about 8% as many cars of this family present for MOT as at ages 4–6 (reference n≈32,377); survivors still fail at 24.5% vs 12.1% at age 4. Older cars that still appear are a selected subset — weaker ones have already left.

How many years is a Vauxhall Crossland likely to last?

Bought at age 5 stands out at 1.1 years.

bigger number = longer remaining lifeyears on the observed survival curve

Age nowTypical mileage (p50)Expected years left
5—at least 1.1

estimateObserved only until age 7. 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.

Vauxhall Crossland faults that come together

Body & structure + Steering stand out at 11.20×, against 1.00× if the faults were independent.

above 1.0× = more than expectedbelow 1.0× = less

Group AGroup BTogetherLift
Body, chassis, structureSteering8111.2× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureNoise, emissions and leaks3167.97× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems217.88× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaks1027.25× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureRoad Wheels267.25× (rough estimate)
BrakesRoad Wheels296.38× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspension795.87× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSuspension2155.67× (rough estimate)
BrakesIdentification of the vehicle245.56× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentVisibility1564.77× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment2444.41× (rough estimate)
BrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment3074.38× (rough estimate)
BrakesSteering404.36× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSuspension424.35× (rough estimate)
Road WheelsTyres204.18× (rough estimate)
BrakesTyres1,0674.05×
Body, chassis, structureBrakes7873.98×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentTyres2933.97× (rough estimate)
BrakesVisibility4333.7× (rough estimate)
BrakesSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems343.57× (rough estimate)
BrakesNoise, emissions and leaks1713.4× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksVisibility793.37× (rough estimate)
TyresVisibility3953.22× (rough estimate)
BrakesSuspension1543.2× (rough estimate)
SuspensionVisibility713.16× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems233.07× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureVisibility2682.91× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsTyres292.9× (rough estimate)
SuspensionTyres1382.73× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureTyres5232.52×
Noise, emissions and leaksTyres1212.29× (rough estimate)
SteeringSuspension19too few (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSteering19too few (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSteering17too few (rough estimate)
SteeringVisibility17too few (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleTyres17too few (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsVisibility15too few (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentRoad Wheels13too few (rough estimate)
Road WheelsVisibility12too few (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleVisibility11too few (rough estimate)
SteeringTyres11too few (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment10too few (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems9too few (rough estimate)
Road WheelsSuspension7too few (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksRoad Wheels6too few (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSuspension5too few (rough estimate)

Defects in «Brakes» and «Tyres» appear together 4.05× more often than chance (1,067 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 Vauxhall Crossland?

Cars driven under 5,000 miles a year is well below the reference at 12.5%, against 22.0% for cars driven 8,000–12,000 miles a year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

BandFail %Tests
<5k miles/year12.51%14,383
8–12k miles/year22.01%12,382
Gap (low − normal)-9.5 pp—
By fuel and age

Diesel

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
513.5151819.761,554-6.24 pp
619.8833224.461,243-4.58 pp
7345033.88183+0.12 pp

Petrol

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
510.159,12419.186,158-9.03 pp
615.223,69826.512,833-11.28 pp
718.6166129.68411-11.08 pp

At matched ages 5–14, cars averaging under 5k miles/year fail at 12.5% vs 22.0% for 8–12k miles/year — 9.5 pp lower (n_low=14,383, n_normal=12,382). 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: 13.5% low-use vs 19.8% normal (-6.2 pp).

Which Vauxhall Crossland engine is best?

diesel 1.2–1.5 is highest at 116.6; petrol 1.0–1.2 is lowest at 98.3 — the gap is 18.3 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 litre98.313.09%152,798
diesel1.5–1.8 litre111.417.15%12,217
diesel1.2–1.5 litre116.614.92%6,603

Splitting this model by fuel alone hides the thing that actually differs. Within the same badge, the diesel 1.2–1.5 runs at 116.6 against this model's own age norm while the petrol 1.0–1.2 runs at 98.3 — a spread of 18.3 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 Vauxhall Crossland, and the years to avoid

Build year 2020 is highest at 112.8; Build year 2017 is lowest at 96.6 — the gap is 16.2 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

Vauxhall Crossland build year vs the same model at the same age · 100 = as expected — 2024 UK MOT data
Vauxhall Crossland 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
2020112.8109.6–116.112.76%37,103worse
201997.194.6–99.512.31%49,416better
2018103.3101–105.615.31%51,312worse
201796.692.4–100.716.05%12,972no different

The best build year here is 2019 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 — 3 of 4 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.

Vauxhall Crossland MOT repair costs

The MOT-failure repair budget per test runs from £17.83 to £33.88, against £54.85 for the test itself.

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

MOT repairs, budget
£18–34
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
Brakes6.2 (nat. 11.25)Front brake pads (parts + labour, typical hatchback)£150£9.30
Tyres5.3 (nat. 8.7)Tyre (single mid-range 16" fitted)£90£4.77
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment1.4 (nat. 18.09)Battery replacement (standard 12V lead-acid)£140£1.96
Noise, emissions and leaks0.9 (nat. 3.67)Exhaust rear silencer£200£1.80

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 £18 to £34, 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.

Vauxhall Crossland running costs for a fleet

Vehicles failing at age 7 stand out at 24.0%, against 15.0% at age 5, tested in the same year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fails per 100 at age 5
15
vehicles needing work
At age 7
24
other cars of this model tested at age 7 in 2024
Repairs per 100
£1,783
plus £5,485 in test fees
Off the road
0d
median; 51.7% cleared same day
Failure rate and typical odometer by age
AgeFailsMedian odometerTestsGap vs age 5
311.58%22,17316,801-3.4 pp
411.92%26,90018,339-3.1 pp
515.02%31,19116,357+0.0 pp
621.96%40,46012,697+6.9 pp
724.5%44,5822,547+9.5 pp

The number a fleet manager needs is not the failure rate, it is the year the car starts costing more. Between cars aged 5 and cars aged 6, both tested in 2024, the failure rate of this model is 6.94 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.

Vauxhall Crossland rust problems: where they corrode

Age-standardised corrosion susceptibility is well below the reference at <0.1×, against 1.00× for the national age-standardised rate.

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

How it rusts
<0.1×
0.07% 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 81 postcode areas

This Vauxhall Crossland virtually never fails on corrosion 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 Vauxhall Crossland advisory become a failure?

Body, chassis, structure are highest at 12.2%; Non-component advisories are lowest at 0.0% — the gap is 12.2 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

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

Vauxhall Crossland chance the same component fails at the next MOT, given an advisory now — 2024 UK MOT data
Vauxhall Crossland, advisory → failure conversion by component group, chained tests 2019–2024. Chart labels and rates: Body & chassis 12.2% · Brakes 7.6% · Suspension 7.3% · Tyres 5.5% · Noise, emissions, leaks 2.5% · Identification of the veh… 1.4% · Non-component 0%.
Advisory today → failure at the next test, with how long you have
ComponentFails next timeTypical lead timeMiles of warningAdvisories tracked
Body, chassis, structure12.2%12 months6,9103,761
Brakes7.5%12 months7,16023,247
Suspension7.3%12 months6,6301,027
Tyres5.5%12 months6,62125,432
Noise, emissions and leaks2.5%12 months6,954787
Identification of the vehicle1.4%12 months5,243667
Non-component advisories0.0%——6,507

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 12 in 100 cars, and the median gap is 12 months and roughly 6,910 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 Vauxhall Crossland?

Body, chassis, structure after a failure at age 6-8 are highest at 11.2%; Body, chassis, structure after a passed at age <3 are lowest at 1.5% — the gap is 9.7 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 3.0% · Brakes 2.4% · Body, chassis, structure 1.5%25,373
<3advisoryTyres 4.6% · Brakes 4.5% · Body, chassis, structure 2.1%13,411
<3failureBrakes 4.2% · Tyres 3.9% · Visibility 2.3%4,688
3-5passedBody, chassis, structure 4.4% · Tyres 3.3% · Brakes 3.1%32,477
3-5advisoryBody, chassis, structure 6.3% · Brakes 6.2% · Tyres 5.0%21,411
3-5failureBody, chassis, structure 8.6% · Brakes 6.2% · Tyres 5.1%8,796
6-8passedBody, chassis, structure 9.2% · Brakes 5.0% · Tyres 3.3%303 (rough estimate)
6-8advisoryBody, chassis, structure 9.7% · Brakes 8.9% · Tyres 5.8%257 (rough estimate)
6-8failureBody, chassis, structure 11.2% · Tyres 6.1% · Brakes 5.1%214 (rough estimate)

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.

Vauxhall Crossland ownership: what six years of MOTs show

The same-day re-test pass rate is highest at 51.7%; The later re-test pass rate is lowest at 2.0% — the gap is 49.8 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fixed same day
51.7%
of failures re-tested
Fails /10k miles
0.229
miles actually driven
Clean streaks
27.69%
3+ tests, nothing noted
Odometer anomaly
1.247%
reading went backwards

Failing is usually a same-week event, not a disaster. Of 17,252 failures followed through to their re-test, 51.7% were repaired and passed the same day and 46.35% within ten days; the median gap is 0 days. 29,170 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 0.229 failures per 10,000 miles, on a median of 5,977 miles a year across 50,687 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. 27.69% of these cars strung together three or more tests with nothing recorded at all, while 10.17% 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: 1.247% of 50,844 chains show a reading lower than the previous test, with a median drop of 8,156 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.

Vauxhall Crossland safety recalls and how to check yours

DVSA recall campaigns stand out at 13.

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

recall campaigns launched per year

Vauxhall Crossland recall campaigns launched per year — 2024 UK MOT data
Campaigns launched per year for the Vauxhall Crossland. Source: DVSA vehicle safety recalls. Chart values: 2018: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2021: 0 · 2022: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2025: 2.
Most recent safety recall campaigns for the Vauxhall Crossland
ReferenceLaunchedVehiclesConcern
R/2025/34218/08/20259Emission recall – On Board Diagnostics
R/2025/24503/07/20253,035Vauxhall DV5R Engines Camshaft Chain.
R/2024/13313/03/2024909Cross carline Engine software
R/2023/21921/07/2023598Affected vehicles may have been fitted with a rear axle crossmember that was not manufactu
R/2023/17008/06/202320Affected vehicles have Engine Control Unit software not according to specification.
All 13 campaigns
ReferenceLaunchedBuild datesVehiclesConcern
R/2025/34218/08/202506/10/2017 – 05/10/20209Emission recall – On Board Diagnostics
R/2025/24503/07/202516/07/2019 – 31/01/20233,035Vauxhall DV5R Engines Camshaft Chain.
R/2024/13313/03/202403/01/2022 – 09/11/2022909Cross carline Engine software
R/2023/21921/07/202326/05/2022 – 15/06/2022598Affected vehicles may have been fitted with a rear axle crossmember that was not manufactu
R/2023/17008/06/202311/07/2017 – 20/07/201820Affected vehicles have Engine Control Unit software not according to specification.
R/2022/35213/12/202217/01/2017 – 12/07/201710,100Update the vehicle s software in order to improve the diagnosis of the braking assistance
R/2022/14517/05/202217/08/2021 – 03/05/202210,576THE PASSENGER SEATBELT WARNING CHIME MIGHT BE INOPERATIVE
R/2020/20609/07/202021/05/2019 – 14/02/20202POSSIBLE LEAKY CONNECTION ON THE HIGH PRESSURE FUEL PUMP
R/2019/29530/08/201928/06/2018 – 22/03/20196,282THE LAMBDA CONTROL MAY NOT WORK SUFFICIENTLY ACCURATELY ENOUGH WHICH MAY RESULT IN A NOX L
R/2019/20603/07/201910/02/2017 – 15/05/2017219THE REAR END IMPACT LIMITER MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN INSTALLED IN PRODUCTION
R/2019/12009/04/201915/03/2010 – 26/03/2018539THE BOLTS SECURING THE REAR AXLE BEAM TO THE VEHICLE UNDERBODY HAVE BEEN INCORRECTLY MANUF
R/2018/10821/03/20183FASTENING NUT OF THE REAR AXLE HUB MAY WORK LOOSE
R/2017/34103/01/201809/10/2017 – 01/12/201752THE ENGINE PISTONS MAY NOT BE TO SPECIFICATION

DVSA lists 13 safety recall campaigns for the Vauxhall Crossland, covering roughly 32,344 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.

Vauxhall Crossland inspection results in other countries

Netherlands APK is well below the reference at 25.6%, 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)14.91%26.01%-11.1 pp67,658
Netherlands (as the Opel Crossland)APK25.6%50.8%-25.2 pp10,888
Finland (as the Opel Crossland)Katsastus17.9%26.3%-8.4 pp970
Norway (as the Opel Crossland)PKK20.3%33.7%-13.4 pp597

In Netherlands this model is sold as the Opel Crossland; the figures in that row are for the Opel Crossland in Netherlands's own inspection, which is not a UK MOT. In Finland this model is sold as the Opel Crossland; the figures in that row are for the Opel Crossland in Finland's own inspection, which is not a UK MOT. In Norway this model is sold as the Opel Crossland; the figures in that row are for the Opel Crossland in Norway's own inspection, which is not a UK MOT.

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
Steering equipment50.7%
Brake systems24.9%
Axles, wheels and suspension19.2%
Environmental hazards2.6%
Vehicle identification1.7%

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 value1,791failure
205Tyre with insufficient tread981failure
516Dipped headlight incorrectly aimed753failure
203Tyre damaged502failure
598Front fog light incorrectly aimed366failure
AC1Tyre down to 1.6–2.5 mm of tread343advisory
312Brake disc severely corroded191failure
391Wipers leave insufficient visibility177failure

Worth dwelling on how mundane the top of that list is: tyre pressure, tread depth, headlight aim. The Dutch APK records 0.562 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 Vauxhall Crossland 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 103.2 — 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.

Vauxhall Crossland MOT: quick answers

Vauxhall Crossland MOT Risk Index is close to the reference at 103.2, 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 Vauxhall Crossland first-time MOT pass rate?
85.09% of first attempts passed in 2024 (67,658 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 14.91% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 67,658 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 103.2 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Vauxhall Crossland with other cars

Nissan Leaf is highest at 103.4; Ford Focus is lowest at 102.7 — the gap is 0.7 points.

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

Same brand

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Similar risk

Ford Ka (index 103.2)Nissan Leaf (index 103.4)Ford Focus (index 102.7)

Same size class

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By build year

Vauxhall Crossland 2017Vauxhall Crossland 2018Vauxhall Crossland 2019Vauxhall Crossland 2020

By area

Vauxhall Crossland MOT failure rate by postcode area

By failure group

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

Inspections abroad

Vauxhall Crossland in NorwayVauxhall Crossland in FinlandVauxhall Crossland 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:vauxhall-crossland:dvsa-2024-v2. Full method: methodology.

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