Mazda Tribute MOT reliability

Mazda Tributes passed their MOT first time 65% of the time across 80 tests in 2025. 48 are still licensed in Great Britain.

These figures come from 80 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

65%

MOTs analysed

80

Still licensed (GB)

48

Body type

Hatchback

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

2004 petrol

27 MOTs

Passed first time 56%. Typical mileage 87,895 (most between 65,276 and 108,926).

2005: 100% → 2006: 87% → 2007: 84% → 2008: 78% → 2009: 74% → 2010: 72% → 2011: 68% → 2012: 61% → 2013: 55% → 2014: 54% → 2015: 52% → 2016: 44% → 2017: 48% → 2018: 46% → 2019: 46% → 2020: 40% → 2021: 51% → 2022: 55% → 2023: 67% → 2024: 49% → 2025: 56%

Most common failures

Position lamp: not working (11.1%)
Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (11.1%)
Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (7.4%)
Component mounting prescribed areas: prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (7.4%)
Chassis condition: or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of a body mounting (7.4%)

Where 2004 Tributes fail

Suspension & axles

22.2%

Lights & electrics

18.5%

Wheels & tyres

14.8%

Body, structure & corrosion

11.1%

Brakes

7.4%

Steering

3.7%

Seat belts & other equipment

3.7%

Visibility & wipers

3.7%

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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.