FIGURE 1 // WHERE IT WEARSPeugeot Expert
Top three failure systems, annotated from 37 failed first-time tests. Arrows point to where the defect is found on the car.
The Peugeot Expert beats the petrol fleet at every age it has been tested
1,137 inspections in a single year make the EXPERT a modestly documented electric car in the data. Lighting cause 28.6% of its failures; lighting take 1.7× the share they take on petrol and diesel cars of the same age.
First-time test findings
The three-year picture
AT THREE YEARS OLD4.8%
EXPERT failure rate. Petrol cars of the same age fail 8.2%.
ALL ELECTRIC CARS12.0%
All electric cars in the data.
At three years old the Peugeot Expert fails 4.8% of the time, under the 8.2% of a petrol car the same age. Lighting cause 28.6% of its failures.
FIGURE 2 // HEADLAMP UNIT6 certificates in 2024
The lamp that fails the test
Lighting take 28.6% of the defects that fail this car, 1.7× the share seen on petrol and diesel cars of the same age. The most common item in that group is "Stop lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning", recorded 6 times in 2024.
SECTION // LIGHTING CONCENTRATION
Where it concentrates
The EXPERT stays under the petrol fleet at every age we can measure. What it does fail on is unusually concentrated.
Source: DVSA MOT defect items, 2024 test year.
What to check
Check tyre age and tread across the full width, inner edge included. Electric cars wear tyres faster; a cheap mismatched set on a used car tells you how it was run. Trivial to fix, but a car advertised with worn wipers and a fresh failure certificate tells you how it was maintained. Ask when the brakes were last stripped and cleaned. Regenerative braking barely wears the pads, so discs and calipers corrode and seize instead. Ask for the full MOT history by registration on the free DVSA service: advisories are next year's failures.
3 inspection points:
✓ Tyre inner-edge wear and age
✓ Wipers and washers
✓ Rear caliper drag and disc lip
FIGURE 3 // FAILURE RATE BY AGEvs petrol, diesel and all electric cars
Points hidden where fewer than 50 cars of that age were tested. Dashed lines are the same-age petrol and diesel fleets.
Data sheet
- Inspections
- 1,137
- Passed
- 1,093
- Failed
- 37
- Passed after repair
- 7
- Failure rate
- 3.3% (all EV 12.0%)
- Average age
- 3.0 years
- Best year
- 3 yrs · 4.8%
- Worst year
- 3 yrs · 4.8%
- Top cause
- Lighting 28.6%
TABLE 1 // WHAT FAILS, BY SYSTEMshare of failing defects
| System | This car (mark = petrol/diesel) | Share | vs petrol/diesel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 25.0% | in line | |
| Suspension | 1.2% | 11.3× less | |
| Brakes | 23.8% | 1.3× more | |
| Visibility | 14.3% | in line | |
| Lighting | 28.6% | 1.7× more | |
| Steering | 1.2% | 2.6× less | |
| Body | 4.8% | in line |
TABLE 2 // TOP DEFECTS ON THE CERTIFICATE
- A tyre seriously damaged12
- Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the windscreen11
- Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements9
- Excessive fluctuation in brake effort through each wheel revolution.8
- Stop lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning6
- a brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm6
Wording as printed by the tester, from the DVSA inspection manual.
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Where it holds up
- Suspension fail less often than on petrol and diesel cars (1.2% of defects vs 13.6%)
- Steering fail less often than on petrol and diesel cars (1.2% of defects vs 3.1%)
- At three years old it fails 4.8% of the time, below the 8.2% of petrol cars the same age
Where it fails
- Lighting take a bigger share of failures than on petrol and diesel cars of the same age (28.6% vs 16.5%)
VERSIONS SEEN IN THE TESTSas recorded
- EXPERT S L1 EV804
- EXPERT PROFESSIONAL L1 EV135
- EXPERT S L2 EV112
- EXPERT PROFESSIONAL L2 EV48
- EXPERT ASPHALT L1 EV33
- EXPERT PROFESSIONAL EV3
- EXPERT1
- EXPERT S EV1
OWNER REPORTS // MATCHED TO RECORDED DEFECTS0 read · 0 matched
No owner discussion has been matched to this car's recorded defects yet. Reports are re-collected every quarter; the figures on this page do not depend on them.
Summaries written by us, never quotes; every entry links to its source. Owner reports have no denominator and never feed the failure rate.
SIMILAR CARS IN THE DATAclosest rate and age, other brands
Mercedes-Benz EQS3.2% fail · 280 testsLexus UX4.4% fail · 1,019 testsVolkswagen ABT4.2% fail · 263 testsToyota Proace4.8% fail · 208 tests
OTHER PEUGEOT ELECTRIC CARS
Three things the data shows
- 1,137 inspections in 2024 make this one of the adequately-documented electric cars in the data.
- Lighting take 1.7× the share of failures they take on petrol and diesel cars of the same age.
- It ranks 6 of 81 electric cars by first-time failure rate.
LIMITS // WHAT THE INSPECTION DOES NOT TELL YOU
No battery health, no motor, no charging performance. The test covers brakes, suspension, steering, tyres, lights, visibility and structure. A car with a badly degraded battery passes as long as it stops and steers. Read this page as evidence about the chassis, not the powertrain. Cars are tested from their third year, so the newest model years are missing; every figure carries its sample size for that reason. Full methodology.
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