Caterham MOT data

From the national MOT record: 83,115 tests across 9,283 vehicles on record.

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Vehicles on record

9,283

Average engine

N/A

MOT pass rate

84.5%

How Caterham compares

Caterham has an MOT pass rate of 84.5%, against 69.4% across every make in the national record. That is 83,115 tests and 33,324 since 2012 with a defect code to categorise, so the figure rests on the whole national record for this make rather than a sample of it. See what Caterham vehicles fail on.

Common Caterham defects

From 33,324 Caterham tests in the national record with a DVSA defect code to categorise.

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 5,921 (17.8%)

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 2,511 (7.5%)

Nuisance (emissions and noise) 1,936 (5.8%)

Brakes 1,716 (5.1%)

Steering 1,139 (3.4%)

Visibility 968 (2.9%)

Registration plates and vehicle identification 425 (1.3%)

Body, structure and attachments 189 (0.6%)

A test can find problems in more than one category, so these figures do not sum to 100%. Common Caterham MOT failures has the full breakdown, how it is worked out, and how it compares with other makes.

Caterham models

Models with a page of their own, with vehicles on record, average engine size and pass rate
Model	On record	Engine	Pass rate
Unknown	3,523	-	70%
Seven	3,056	-	87%
Super	779	-	86%
	739	-	85%
7	479	-	88%

Check a specific Caterham

These are averages. For one vehicle's actual test history, enter its registration.

Figures cover every Caterham in the national MOT record, which includes vehicles since scrapped or exported, so "on record" is not a count of cars on the road. Pass rate counts every recorded MOT test, retests included.