2018 Ford B-Max: MOT pass rate and reliability

78.5% of 2018 Ford B-Max pass the MOT first time, measured across 694 DVSA tests on that model year alone. The average one had covered 37,277 miles.

How the 2018 compares

  • Against all Ford B-Max (77.8%, 54,445 tests): +0.7 points
  • Against all 2018 cars (85.9%): -7.4 points
  • National first-time pass rate, all cars and years: 77%

Every Ford B-Max model year

Pass rates fall as cars age, so the only fair comparison for a 2018 car is other cars of the same age. The full run for the Ford B-Max:

Year Pass rate Tests Avg mileage
2012 72.2% 2,991 71,378
2013 72.3% 14,762 66,071
2014 77.3% 13,042 59,281
2015 81.9% 9,960 51,367
2016 83.4% 7,208 44,016
2017 81.4% 5,786 37,513
2018 78.5% 694 37,277

What this means if you are buying a 2018 B-Max

The 2018 sits close to the Ford B-Max average, so there is no strong model-year signal either way. Judge the individual car on its own history. 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 an 8-year-old car fails on

A 2018 car is 8 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 2018 Ford B-Max the average at test was 37,277 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 2016 at 83.4%, and the weakest in our data is 2012 at 72.2%. That 11.2 point spread across the model's life is why comparing a 2018 car against a newer one tells you very little.

Nearby model years

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