Does the Vauxhall Grandland fail the MOT on seat belts and airbags more than it should?

The Vauxhall Grandland records 0.60 seat belts and airbags failure items per 100 initial MOT tests (2019–2024), against 0.27 expected for a car of the same age mix: about as expected for its class and age (the difference is within its interval or under 0.5 items per 100 tests) (+0.33, 95% interval +0.29 to +0.36). It ranks 175 of 627 models on seat belts and airbags (1 = most failures above expected).

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What exactly fails on seat belts and airbags?

The most frequent DVSA defect wording in this group on the Vauxhall Grandland is “Seat belt buckle missing, damaged or not functioning as intended”, recorded 756 times in 2019–2024.

Vauxhall Grandland: most frequent seat belts and airbags defect wordings, 2019–2024 (30+ items each)
DVSA defect wording	Items	Per 100 tests
Seat belt buckle missing, damaged or not functioning as intended	756	0.40
Seat belt not functioning as intended or of an incorrect type	166	0.09
An SRS malfunction indicator lamp (MIL) indicates a system malfunction	61	0.03
A seat belt or flexible stalk damaged	50	0.03
A seat belt webbing or flexible stalk significantly stretched or weakened	38	0.02

Source: DVSA MOT bulk data (OGL v3.0) · Window: 2019–2024 · n = 187,275 (initial tests) · Method: failure items (major and minor) grouped by DVSA's defect tree; wordings with 30+ items · Updated: 30 Sep 2026 · Release: dvsa-2024-v2 · CSV

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Does the Vauxhall Grandland fail the MOT on seat belts and airbags more than it should?

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