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motrisk

motrisk on a desktop screen: the calculator set to a 2015 petrol Volkswagen Golf at 80,000 miles, showing the share that failed at the first attempt and a list of what to check before you buy.The same motrisk result on a phone.

A free MOT failure-risk calculator for UK drivers and used-car buyers, built on DVSA open data.

  • Enter a car's make, model, fuel, engine size, year and mileage to see how often cars like it failed their first MOT test, what they failed on, and how they compare with similar cars.
  • Every figure shows how many tests it is based on. Where there are too few, the site says so rather than guess.
  • Built from about 42.7 million MOT records for 2025, covering Ford, Volkswagen and Vauxhall across 147 model pages.
  • No cookies, no analytics and no tracking.
  • From idea to live site in about two days.

motrisk is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the DVSA. It uses the DVSA's anonymised MOT results, published as open data under the Open Government Licence.

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