General Motors Pontiac MOT reliability

General Motors Pontiacs passed their MOT first time 80% of the time across 74 tests in 2025.

These figures come from 74 MOT tests. That's a fairly small number of cars, so they may not be typical of these cars as a whole.

First-time pass rate

80%

MOTs analysed

74

Still licensed (GB)

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Body type

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Pass rate by year of first registration

Older cars fail more often, so compare a car with others of the same age. Years with very few MOTs can show extreme pass rates, even 0% or 100%, so give more weight to years with more tests.

In detail:

First registered

2002 petrol

5 MOTs

These figures come from only 5 MOT tests. With so few cars, a single pass or fail changes the percentages a lot, so treat them as a rough guide rather than a true average.

Passed first time 80%. Typical mileage 48,712 (most between 25,984 and 48,785).

2005: 67% → 2006: 86% → 2007: 67% → 2008: 86% → 2009: 63% → 2010: 75% → 2011: 80% → 2012: 57% → 2013: 67% → 2014: 80% → 2015: 80% → 2016: 100% → 2017: 100% → 2018: 75% → 2019: 25% → 2020: 80% → 2021: 100% → 2022: 83% → 2023: 80% → 2024: 80% → 2025: 80%

Most common failures

Individual direction indicators: not working (20.0%)
Track rod end: ball joint has excessive play (20.0%)

Where 2002 Pontiacs fail

Lights & electrics

20.0%

Steering

20.0%

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Based on 2025 initial MOT tests in DVSA's anonymised MOT dataset (cars and light vans). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Model details: Vehicle data by VehiclesDB.