2015 Ford Transit 2.2L Diesel · FV15 ADZ

The 2015 Ford Transit passed its most recent MOT on 21 November 2025 at 133,966 miles, yet the test exposed persistent advisories rather than a clean bill of health. The maintenance trend is worsening in practical terms: the vehicle failed eleven days earlier on 11 November 2025 at 133,773 miles for a non-working windscreen washer, a damaged near-side body component with exposed side repeater lens, an excessively worn near-side front anti-roll bar linkage ball joint, and a contaminated near-side rear brake disc caused by a leaking half-shaft seal. The owner corrected the failures and cleared the pass, but front brake discs, pads, lower suspension arm bushes, and three corroded brake pipes all carried straight through as advisories. Recorded mileage sits at 133,966 against an eleven-year lifespan, averaging roughly 12,179 miles per year, which is high for a light commercial of this age and points to steady hard use rather than standing periods. The gap between the 12 September 2023 test at 125,875 miles and the 26 November 2024 failure at 130,460 miles shows only 4,585 miles added in fourteen months, then just 3,506 miles to the November 2025 pass. That late-life slowdown suggests the van entered lighter duty or partial storage before sale. Recurring faults centre on the front suspension and brake hydraulics. The tester flagged near-side and off-side front lower suspension arm pins or bushes as worn at every test from September 2023 through November 2025, and the near-side front anti-roll bar linkage ball joint moved from a deteriorated dust cover in 2024 to excessive wear and failure in 2025. Brake pipe corrosion on the near-side front, off-side front, and off-side rear lines appears in all five records and is spreading. A buyer must inspect the half-shaft seal leak that contaminated the near-side rear brake disc, confirm the brake pipes are not structurally compromised, and verify the suspension bushes and anti-roll bar joints have been properly replaced rather than greased over. Front brake discs scored and pads wearing thin at the last pass confirm consumable neglect alongside the mechanical wear. The windscreen washer and broken repeater lens failure shows basic checks were skipped before the 2025 test. Treat the November 2025 certificate as a cleared fault sheet, not evidence of sound upkeep.