Common problems

Peugeot Boxer common problems

What MOT testers find on the Peugeot Boxer: the parts that fail or get advisories most often at each age, against all cars of the same age. From 203,202 DVSA MOT tests taken 2022 to 2025.

MOT data updated 28 September 2026

At 8 years, the most tested age

Lights and electrics fails per 100 MOTs (n=12,586)8.3

All cars at 8 years (n=10,440,457)7.3

Tyres advisories and minor defects per 100 MOTs (n=12,586)11.5

All cars, same age (n=10,440,457)25.2

What stands out

Brakes fails show up on 6.1 of every 100 MOTs of a Peugeot Boxer at 8 years old (n=12,586), against 4.8 for all cars of that age (n=10,440,457).
Tyres fails are less common: 2.5 per 100 MOTs against 6.3 for all cars at the same age.
The fail item testers record most often at 8 years: handbrake too weak, on 2.5 per 100 MOTs (all cars 0.5).
The most common advisory or minor defect: tyre condition: slightly damaged/cracking or perishing, on 5.8 per 100 MOTs.

Problems by part at 8 years

How many of every 100 MOTs found a fail, or an advisory or minor defect, in each area. A test with faults in two areas counts in both.

Peugeot Boxer at 8 years (n=12,586) against all cars at 8 years (n=10,440,457). Per 100 MOTs.
Area	Fails	All cars	Advisories	All cars
Lights and electrics	8.3	7.3	5.3	3.4
Brakes	6.1	4.8	9.6	19.1
Suspension	3.9	6.1	9.5	11.8
Windscreen, wipers and mirrors	3.1	3.7	5.1	3.4
Tyres	2.5	6.3	11.5	25.2
Exhaust, emissions and leaks	2.1	2.1	4.7	2.3
Seat belts and airbags	1.8	0.5	0.6	0.3
Body and structure	1.2	1.8	1.8	2.2
Steering	0.8	1.2	2.2	1.5
Number plates and VIN	0.1	0.3	0.7	1.4
Road wheels	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.7

What testers fail most on the Boxer at 8 years

Fail items on the Peugeot Boxer at 8 years (n=12,586), per 100 MOTs, with all cars at the same age (n=10,440,457).
Item	Area	Per 100 MOTs	All cars	Typical repair (estimate)
Handbrake too weak	Brakes	2.5	0.5
Wipers not clearing screen	Windscreen, wipers and mirrors	1.8	1.7	£15 to £30 per blade
Airbag (SRS) warning light on	Seat belts and airbags	1.4	0.2	diagnosis from £39 (rough guide)
Headlamp aim: too low	Lights and electrics	1.3	1.0	£16 to £39 per car (rough guide)
Dipped headlight not working	Lights and electrics	1.2	1.2	£18 to £86 per lamp
Headlight aimed too high	Lights and electrics	1.1	0.7	£16 to £39 per car (rough guide)
Malfunction indicator lamp: inoperative or indicates a malfunction	Exhaust, emissions and leaks	1.1	0.6	diagnosis from £39 (rough guide)
Shock absorber leaking	Suspension	1.1	0.6	£122 to £484 per axle (pair) (rough guide)
Rbt (sp): efficiency less than 50% of the required value	Brakes	0.9	0.1
Brake pads under 1.5 mm	Brakes	0.8	2.0	£72 to £174 per axle (rough guide)

Early warnings: advisories and minor defects at 8 years

Advisories and minor defects are recorded, but the car still passes. Across all cars, a part with an advisory or minor defect failed at the next MOT 5.5 times in 100 (n=88,666,940 pairs of consecutive MOTs), against 0.3 times in 100 when the same part had none (n=12,936,860,350).

Advisories and minor defects on the Peugeot Boxer at 8 years (n=12,586), per 100 MOTs, with all cars at the same age (n=10,440,457).
Item	Area	Per 100 MOTs	All cars	If it needs replacing (estimate)
Tyre condition: slightly damaged/cracking or perishing	Tyres	5.8	8.6	£88 to £145 per tyre
Suspension arm pins and bushes: pin or bush worn but not resulting in excessive movement	Suspension	4.6	4.0	£92 to £237 per arm (rough guide)
Tread depth: worn close to legal limit/worn on edge	Tyres	4.6	15.7	£88 to £145 per tyre
Engine oil leaks: leak, but not excessive	Exhaust, emissions and leaks	4.1	1.8
Brake discs: worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened	Brakes	3.6	8.6	£148 to £376 per axle (rough guide)
Brake pads: wearing thin	Brakes	3.3	8.6	£72 to £174 per axle (rough guide)
Windscreen: damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view	Windscreen, wipers and mirrors	3.1	2.1
Shock absorbers: has light misting of oil	Suspension	2.8	2.8	£122 to £484 per axle (pair) (rough guide)
Registration plate lamp(s): inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources	Lights and electrics	2.2	1.9
Service brake performance: binding but not excessively	Brakes	1.3	0.8	£55 to £267 per wheel (rough guide)

Repair estimates are a guide for an independent garage: labour at the national median local garage rate (median £78 an hour from 65 garages, ONS price quotes) times estimated labour hours, plus a parts band. Labour hours and most parts bands are estimates, not quotes, and prices vary by model, engine and region. A warning light fault shows the cost of the diagnosis only.

How problems change with age

Fails per 100 MOTs in the three most common areas at 8 years. Ages with fewer than 1,000 tests are not shown.
Age	Tests (n)	Lights and electrics	Brakes	Suspension
3 years	6,068	6.5	2.4	1.0
4 years	7,533	6.4	3.5	1.2
5 years	9,361	7.0	4.3	1.8
6 years	11,139	6.9	5.2	2.2
7 years	12,101	8.0	5.7	3.3
8 years	12,586	8.3	6.1	3.9
9 years	11,977	9.7	6.0	4.5
10 years	11,028	10.7	6.0	5.3
11 years	9,900	11.4	5.7	5.3
12 years	9,121	11.1	5.0	5.1
13 years	8,557	12.3	6.2	5.0
14 years	8,490	13.7	6.0	6.0
15 years	8,755	15.3	6.8	6.7
16 years	9,322	16.3	9.0	8.1
17 years	10,028	16.3	10.1	8.9
18 years	10,033	15.9	10.3	9.8
19 years	9,584	14.8	10.6	10.8
20 years	8,527	15.6	11.6	11.4
21 years	7,288	16.9	12.5	12.0
22 years	6,301	17.3	12.7	13.7
23 years	5,526	20.3	14.1	13.7
24 years	5,121	20.0	12.9	13.1
25 years	4,856	19.8	14.4	14.3

Mileage

At 8 years, Peugeot Boxer cars showing under 30,000 miles failed 11.9% of MOTs (n=5,114); the band that failed most, over 150,000 miles, failed 34.2% (n=1,055). For pass and fail rates by age, see Peugeot Boxer MOT fail rates.

What to check on a viewing

On the Peugeot Boxer, testers most often record handbrake too weak; wipers not clearing screen; airbag (SRS) warning light on. Look at these first, then the areas below.

Lights and electrics

With someone outside, try every light: dipped and main beam, indicators, brake lights, fog lights and number plate lamps.
Check that the warning lights come on with the ignition and go out once the engine runs.
Look for misted, cracked or yellowed headlamp lenses.

Brakes

On the test drive the car should stop in a straight line without pulling, juddering or grinding.
Look at the discs through the wheels for a deep lip, heavy rust or scoring.
Check that the handbrake or electronic parking brake holds the car on a slope.
Ask when the pads, discs and brake fluid were last changed, and for the receipts.

Suspension

Listen for knocks or clonks over speed bumps and rough roads on the test drive.
Push down hard on each corner: the car should settle at once rather than keep bouncing.
Look behind the wheels for broken or heavily rusted coil springs and split rubber bushes.
Check that the car sits level and that no tyre is worn on one edge only.

Ask for the car's MOT history and service record: advisories that repeat from one year to the next show what has been left. GOV.UK MOT history.

Questions

What are the most common problems on the Peugeot Boxer?

At 8 years, the age with the most MOT tests (12,586), the fail items testers record most often on the Peugeot Boxer are handbrake too weak (2.5 per 100 MOTs), wipers not clearing screen (1.8 per 100 MOTs), airbag (SRS) warning light on (1.4 per 100 MOTs). The most common advisories or minor defects are tyre condition: slightly damaged/cracking or perishing (5.8) and suspension arm pins and bushes: pin or bush worn but not resulting in excessive movement (4.6).

Which parts of the Peugeot Boxer fail more often than on other cars?

At 8 years: brakes (6.1 per 100 MOTs against 4.8 for all cars); seat belts and airbags (1.8 per 100 MOTs against 0.5 for all cars); lights and electrics (8.3 per 100 MOTs against 7.3 for all cars). Compared with 10,440,457 MOTs of all cars the same age.

Peugeot Boxer problems by area

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Read this with care. A fail rate is not a measure of build quality. How far cars are driven, how they are used and how well owners maintain them all change it, and wear items such as tyres and brake pads are common fails. Compare a model only with cars of the same age. Methodology and limits.

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Source

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data, class 4 normal MOT tests, 2022 to 2025. MOT data updated 28 September 2026.

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