Dacia Sandero Essential Tce: MOT pass rate and reliability data

The Dacia Sandero Essential Tce passes its MOT first time more often than the average UK car, by 17.8 percentage points. These figures come from the DVSA's full year of anonymised MOT results, covering 704 individual Dacia Sandero Essential Tce tests. Nothing here is an estimate or a survey.

The numbers

What this means if you are buying one

A 94.5% first-time pass rate means roughly 6 in every 100 Dacia Sandero Essential Tces presented for MOT fail on the first attempt. That is better than average, so a well-kept example is a reasonably safe used buy. The average Dacia Sandero Essential Tce tested had covered 19,888 miles and was built around 2021.

What this means at salvage auction

Pass rate is a proxy for what a car costs to keep on the road. On a Dacia Sandero Essential Tce bought as a repairable salvage, the mechanical side is less likely to spring surprises, so your repair estimate should hold up reasonably well.

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Most common MOT failures on a Dacia Sandero Essential Tce

1. A tyre seriously damaged, 1.3% of tests
2. Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the windscreen, 1% of tests
3. Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements, 0.7% of tests
4. Windscreen washers not working or not providing sufficient fluid to clear the windscreen, 0.6% of tests
5. a brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm, 0.5% of tests
6. The aim of a headlamp is not within limits laid down in the requirements, 0.4% of tests
7. Audible warning inoperative, 0.1% of tests
8. A shock absorber damaged to the extent that it does not function or showing signs of severe leakage, 0.1% of tests
9. A wheel badly distorted or wear between wheel and hub at spigot mounting, 0.1% of tests (3.4x the national rate for this defect)
10. An SRS malfunction indicator lamp (MIL) indicates a system malfunction, 0.1% of tests

From 1,017 DVSA-tracked Dacia Sandero Essential Tce tests, 2024. DVSA testers marked 4.38% of these flagged Dacia Sandero Essential Tce defects as "dangerous", meaning the tester judged the car unsafe to drive away, against 4.97% nationally.

Other Dacia models

• Dacia Sandero - 75%
• Dacia Duster - 79.6%
• Dacia Logan - 77.4%
• Dacia Duster Essential Tce 4x2 - 88.2%
• Dacia Sandero Comfort Tce - 94.3%
• Dacia Sandero Stepway Se Twenty Tce - 88.1%
• Dacia Sandero Stepway Comfort Tce - 93.8%
• Dacia Sandero Stepway Prestige Tce - 94.3%

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• Land Rover Defender Hse D Mhev Auto - 94.5%
• Suzuki Vitara Sz-T Boosterjet Mhev - 94.4%

If this car is a salvage or write-off

• What does Cat N mean? Category N explained
• What does Cat S mean? Category S explained
• Cat S vs Cat N: the real differences

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