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Rover 45 MOT pass rate by year

How the Rover 45's MOT pass rate changes year by year, from 2000 to 2006, across the DVSA record.

What is the Rover 45 MOT pass rate by year?

The MOT pass and failure rate for each Rover 45 model year, from the DVSA record. Only years with at least 1,000 tests are shown, so each figure is a real average rather than a handful of cars. The Rover 45 averages 27.7% failures across all years.

YearPass rateFailure rateTests
200070.0%30.0%214,029
200172.0%28.0%198,369
200273.1%26.9%172,292
200373.7%26.3%138,364
200474.2%25.8%92,825
200574.0%26.0%31,707
200673.5%26.5%1,596

Does age change how often a Rover 45 fails?

Older Rover 45s fail more often, as expected. The 2000 cars fail 30.0% of tests against 26.5% for the 2006. Across every year the model averages 27.7%. The 2000 is the weakest year at 30.0%, and the 2004 the strongest at 25.8%.

More on the Rover 45

The full failure breakdown for this model, and how it compares to others.

See also
Rover 45: common MOT failures and the parts that fix them
All Rover models compared by MOT failure rate
MOT failure rates across Britain

Sources: DVSA MOT History API: MOT test results and defect data ยท DVSA MOT testing data for Great Britain