Used car guide · 1988–2003

Mitsubishi Galant common problems and MOT failures

What goes wrong on a used Mitsubishi Galant, year by year: known faults from UK buying guides, the parts flagged at MOT more than on other cars (from 411 MOTs done during 2023–2025), and what to check before you buy one.

411MOTs done in 2023–2025, all years of this model
720on the UK register

Pick the year

Most years have their own guide. The year is when the car was first registered (it’s on the logbook, or check the reg below).

20032002200120001999199819971994199319921991199019891988

What usually goes wrong with a Mitsubishi Galant?

We haven’t found widely reported faults for the Mitsubishi Galant in the UK buying guides we use yet. That doesn’t mean it has none, so check the car carefully and look at the MOT weak spots below.

Mitsubishi Galant MOT pass rate by year

Older cars fail more, so compare each year with all cars registered the same year.

YearPass first timeAll cars that yearMOT tests
200255%58% -3153 (small sample)
200153%60% -7149 (small sample)
200068%61% +7109 (small sample)

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Where this comes from: MOT figures are the DVSA’s anonymised results for every MOT test done in Great Britain during 2023–2025, grouped by the year each car was first registered. How many are on the road is from the Department for Transport’s vehicle licensing statistics. Known faults are from UK buying guides, in our own words, with links. How we score