2012 Ford Focus 1.0L Petrol · YD62 ADO

The 2012 Ford Focus presents as roadworthy with a stable maintenance trend, evidenced by the most recent MOT test on 21 July 2025 at 116,325 miles returning a pass with no defects recorded. Prior tests on 5 August 2024 at 105,929 miles and 11 July 2023 at 96,043 miles also passed cleanly. The single failure on 11 July 2023 at 96,043 miles is anomalous; the DVSA record shows no defects listed against that test, and a pass was issued the same day on retest, indicating an administrative or non-mechanical rejection rather than a fault requiring repair. Annual mileage averages 8,309 across the vehicle's fourteen-year life, a typical figure for this age of car. The records show consistent yearly use: 87,969 miles in July 2022, 96,043 in July 2023, 105,929 in August 2024, and 116,325 in July 2025. The roughly 9,000-mile annual increments reflect steady private or light-duty use with no standing periods or abrupt accumulation spikes. The dataset is sparse, covering only the last three years, yet every test bar the unexplained 2023 failure cleared without advisories on tyres, brakes, suspension, or corrosion. A buyer should still commission an independent inspection of structural integrity and underbody corrosion given the vehicle's age and the absence of advisory data in the record. The clean history offers no flagged wear on coil springs, suspension bushes, brake discs, or exhaust emissions, but MOT pass-with-no-defects entries do not confirm component condition, merely that items met minimum legal thresholds on the day. Given the unexplained same-day fail and pass in July 2023, the buyer should request the original refusal notice from the seller to confirm no concealed defect existed. Otherwise, the documented pattern implies the previous owner kept basic upkeep current, with no recurring mechanical faults or skipped consumable replacements visible across the supplied tests.