2021 Vauxhall Vivaro 2900 Sportive S/S: MOT pass rate and reliability
80.1% of 2021 Vauxhall Vivaro 2900 Sportive S/S pass the MOT first time, measured across 1,647 DVSA tests on that model year alone. The average one had covered 47,348 miles.
How the 2021 compares
- Against all Vauxhall Vivaro 2900 Sportive S/S (81.2%, 7,370 tests): -1.1 points
- Against all 2021 cars (90%): -9.9 points
- National first-time pass rate, all cars and years: 77%
Every Vauxhall Vivaro 2900 Sportive S/S 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 Vauxhall Vivaro 2900 Sportive S/S:
| Year | Pass rate | Tests | Avg mileage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 84% | 3,478 | 70,942 |
| 2020 | 77.8% | 2,245 | 59,854 |
| 2021 | 80.1% | 1,647 | 47,348 |
What this means if you are buying a 2021 Vivaro 2900 Sportive S/S
The 2021 sits close to the Vauxhall Vivaro 2900 Sportive S/S 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 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 Vauxhall Vivaro 2900 Sportive S/S the average at test was 47,348 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 2019 at 84%, and the weakest in our data is 2020 at 77.8%. That 6.2 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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