Rover Cityrover MOT reliability

Rover Cityrovers passed their MOT first time 53% of the time across 57 tests in 2025. 37 are still licensed in Great Britain.

These figures come from 57 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

53%

MOTs analysed

57

Still licensed (GB)

37

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

2003 petrol

2 MOTs

These figures come from only 2 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 50%. Typical mileage 23,893 (most between 20,543 and 27,242).

2006: 79% → 2007: 66% → 2008: 54% → 2009: 50% → 2010: 46% → 2011: 40% → 2012: 38% → 2013: 39% → 2014: 37% → 2015: 36% → 2016: 27% → 2017: 40% → 2018: 35% → 2019: 31% → 2020: 44% → 2021: 40% → 2022: 36% → 2023: 40% → 2024: 0% → 2025: 50%

Most common failures

Stop lamp: not working (50.0%)
Rear fog lamp: not working (50.0%)
Component mounting prescribed areas: prescribed area is inadequately repaired (50.0%)
Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (50.0%)

Where 2003 Cityrovers fail

Lights & electrics

50.0%

Suspension & axles

50.0%

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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.