2017 Citroen C3 Aircross: MOT pass rate and reliability

82.6% of 2017 Citroen C3 Aircross pass the MOT first time, measured across 927 DVSA tests on that model year alone. The average one had covered 43,562 miles.

How the 2017 compares

  • Against all Citroen C3 Aircross (86.8%, 24,993 tests): -4.2 points
  • Against all 2017 cars (83.5%): -0.9 points
  • National first-time pass rate, all cars and years: 77%

Every Citroen C3 Aircross model year

Pass rates fall as cars age, so the only fair comparison for a 2017 car is other cars of the same age. The full run for the Citroen C3 Aircross:

Year Pass rate Tests Avg mileage
2017 82.6% 927 43,562
2018 83.8% 9,586 39,011
2019 88% 9,565 33,572
2020 90.9% 4,413 25,361
2021 90.2% 498 21,500

What this means if you are buying a 2017 C3 Aircross

The 2017 is a weaker year for this model, passing 4.2 points less often than the Citroen C3 Aircross average. Some of that is simply age, so compare it against the 2017 figure for all cars above rather than against newer examples. Check the exact car with the free MOT history checker before you buy, and run its VIN and mileage through our free VIN decoder and clocking check.

What a 9-year-old car fails on

A 2017 car is 9 years old now, and age drives the failure mix more than the badge does. Across all cars tested, these are the categories that actually cause failures:

  • Lights and electrical: 10.36% of all cars tested
  • Suspension: 8.65% of all cars tested
  • Tyres: 6.23% of all cars tested
  • Brakes: 6.1% of all cars tested
  • Visibility: wipers, washers, glass: 4.65% of all cars tested
  • Body, chassis and structure: 3.18% of all cars tested

That is below average for a car this age, worth a mileage-consistency check since an unusually low reading is sometimes clocking rather than luck. On a 2017 Citroen C3 Aircross the average at test was 43,562 miles, so treat anything far above that as a car that has worked harder than its peers, and anything far below as one worth checking for the faults that come from standing still.

The strongest year for this model is 2020 at 90.9%, and the weakest in our data is 2017 at 82.6%. That 8.3 point spread across the model's life is why comparing a 2017 car against a newer one tells you very little.

Nearby model years

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