Vauxhall Antara: MOT pass rate and reliability data

The Vauxhall Antara fails its first MOT more often than the average UK car, by 13.1 percentage points. These figures come from the DVSA's full year of anonymised MOT results, covering 20,746 individual Vauxhall Antara tests. Nothing here is an estimate or a survey.

The numbers

What this means if you are buying one

A 63.6% first-time pass rate means roughly 36 in every 100 Vauxhall Antaras presented for MOT fail on the first attempt. That is worse than average, so budget for remedial work and treat a fresh 12-month MOT as a genuine selling point rather than a given. The average Vauxhall Antara tested had covered 86,149 miles and was built around 2013.

What this means at salvage auction

Pass rate is a proxy for what a car costs to keep on the road. On a Vauxhall Antara bought as a repairable salvage, assume the mechanical side needs more than the visible accident damage, and pad your repair estimate accordingly.

Before you bid: run the lot through the analyzer, check the car's own record, check the mileage, decode the VIN, and if it carries a marker use the write-off value calculator. Or compare it against another model.

Looking at a specific Vauxhall Antara rather than the model in general? The free check covers its MOT and mileage history, and the full HPI report confirms the insurance write-off category, outstanding finance and whether it is recorded stolen, from licensed data for 5 credits. Already own one that has been damaged? Work out whether fixing it beats selling it with the repair or scrap calculator, and see what damaged Vauxhall Antaras actually sold for at UK salvage auction.

Most common MOT failures on a Vauxhall Antara

1. A reversing lamp inoperative, 3% of tests (36.74x the national rate for this defect)
2. Stop lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning, 4.8% of tests (4.85x the national rate for this defect)
3. Parking brake inoperative on one side, 2% of tests (4.41x the national rate for this defect)
4. A lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning, 6.7% of tests (4.12x the national rate for this defect)
5. Brake pipe damaged or excessively corroded, 2.9% of tests (3.47x the national rate for this defect)
6. A headlamp or light source missing, inoperative or more than ½ not functioning in the case of LED, 2.8% of tests (3.16x the national rate for this defect)
7. A rear registration plate lamp or light source missing or inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps, 2% of tests (3.14x the national rate for this defect)
8. A suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn, 9.1% of tests (2.48x the national rate for this defect)
9. a brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm, 3.2% of tests (2.07x the national rate for this defect)
10. A spring or spring component fractured or seriously weakened, 3.2% of tests (1.96x the national rate for this defect)

From 31,544 DVSA-tracked Vauxhall Antara tests, 2024. DVSA testers marked 5.53% of these flagged Vauxhall Antara defects as "dangerous", meaning the tester judged the car unsafe to drive away, against 4.97% nationally.

Vauxhall Antara pass rate by model year

Pass rates fall steadily as cars age, so the model year matters as much as the model. First-time pass rate for each Vauxhall Antara year:

• 2007 Vauxhall Antara - 61.1% first-time pass, 334 tests
• 2008 Vauxhall Antara - 56.9% first-time pass, 499 tests
• 2009 Vauxhall Antara - 59.1% first-time pass, 645 tests
• 2010 Vauxhall Antara - 57.9% first-time pass, 252 tests
• 2011 Vauxhall Antara - 60% first-time pass, 839 tests
• 2012 Vauxhall Antara - 62% first-time pass, 5,801 tests
• 2013 Vauxhall Antara - 65% first-time pass, 6,703 tests
• 2014 Vauxhall Antara - 67.6% first-time pass, 2,618 tests
• 2015 Vauxhall Antara - 67.1% first-time pass, 2,073 tests
• 2016 Vauxhall Antara - 69% first-time pass, 806 tests

Vauxhall Antara by fuel type

Diesel and petrol versions of the same car fail on different things, so the fuel type moves the number:

• Diesel Vauxhall Antara - 64.2% first-time pass, 20,253 tests
• Petrol Vauxhall Antara - 61.2% first-time pass, 327 tests

Other Vauxhall models

• Vauxhall Corsa - 70%
• Vauxhall Astra - 71.9%
• Vauxhall Mokka - 75.6%
• Vauxhall Zafira - 68.7%
• Vauxhall Insignia - 73.5%
• Vauxhall Vivaro - 59.7%
• Vauxhall Meriva - 68.9%
• Vauxhall Combo - 66.3%

Models with a similar pass rate

• Nissan Primera - 63.8%
• Honda Fr-V - 63.7%
• Dodge Nitro - 63.7%
• Fiat Punto - 63.5%
• Daihatsu Hijet - 63.3%
• Volkswagen Beetle - 63.2%

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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