Vauxhall Meriva MOT reliability

Vauxhall Merivas passed their MOT first time 62% of the time across 81,099 tests in 2025. 68,053 are still licensed in Great Britain.

First-time pass rate

62%

MOTs analysed

81,099

Still licensed (GB)

68,053

Body type

Mpv

Pass rate by year of first registration

Older cars fail more often, so compare a car with others of the same age.

In detail:

First registered

2015 petrol

7,429 MOTs

Passed first time 69%. Typical mileage 56,585 (most between 40,758 and 74,739).

2015: 100% → 2016: 80% → 2017: 87% → 2018: 90% → 2019: 89% → 2020: 85% → 2021: 83% → 2022: 79% → 2023: 75% → 2024: 74% → 2025: 69%

Most common failures

Coil spring: fractured or broken (12.8%)
Malfunction indicator lamp: inoperative or indicates a malfunction (2.6%)
Brake pads: less than 1.5 mm thick (2.2%)
Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (1.8%)
Washers: provides insufficient washer liquid (1.7%)

2015 diesel

648 MOTs

Passed first time 66%. Typical mileage 68,533 (most between 49,923 and 88,796).

2017: 85% → 2018: 85% → 2019: 84% → 2020: 82% → 2021: 79% → 2022: 76% → 2023: 70% → 2024: 67% → 2025: 66%

Most common failures

Coil spring: fractured or broken (13.4%)
Malfunction indicator lamp: inoperative or indicates a malfunction (3.1%)
Tyre pressure monitoring system: malfunctioning or obviously inoperative (2.9%)
Brake pads: less than 1.5 mm thick (2.8%)
Washers: provides insufficient washer liquid (2.6%)

2015 gb

1 MOT

These figures come from only 1 MOT test. 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 0%. Typical mileage 74,720 (most between 74,720 and 74,720).

2018: 100% → 2019: 100% → 2020: 100% → 2021: 100% → 2022: 100% → 2023: 100% → 2024: 100% → 2025: 0%

Most common failures

Position lamp: not working (100.0%)

Where 2015 Merivas fail

Suspension & axles

14.5%

Wheels & tyres

6.8%

Lights & electrics

6.7%

Brakes

5.1%

Visibility & wipers

4.2%

Exhaust, emissions & leaks

3.8%

Body, structure & corrosion

1.7%

Seat belts & other equipment

1.0%

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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.