2021 Ford Transit Custom: MOT pass rate and reliability

76.1% of 2021 Ford Transit Customs pass the MOT first time, measured across 498 DVSA tests on that model year alone. The average one had covered 46,007 miles.

How the 2021 compares

  • Against all Ford Transit Customs (83.5%, 74,465 tests): -7.4 points
  • Against all 2021 cars (90%): -13.9 points
  • National first-time pass rate, all cars and years: 77%

Every Ford Transit Custom model year

Pass rates fall as cars age, so the only fair comparison for a 2021 car is other cars of the same age. The full run for the Ford Transit Custom:

Year Pass rate Tests Avg mileage
2015 67.4% 224 108,926
2016 74.9% 386 96,249
2017 74% 334 87,179
2018 82.6% 32,528 82,420
2019 84.6% 38,777 71,637
2020 86.7% 1,414 57,281
2021 76.1% 498 46,007

What this means if you are buying a 2021 Transit Custom

The 2021 is a weaker year for this model, passing 7.4 points less often than the Ford Transit Custom average. Some of that is simply age, so compare it against the 2021 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 5-year-old car fails on

A 2021 car is 5 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 2021 Ford Transit Custom the average at test was 46,007 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 86.7%, and the weakest in our data is 2015 at 67.4%. That 19.3 point spread across the model's life is why comparing a 2021 car against a newer one tells you very little.

Nearby model years

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