Pass rate
87.0%
Above average — 0.9 pts behind the 87.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,444 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £39–£100
2018 Abarth 595C MOT pass rate
- 2018
- typical 28,550 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Brakes
31.3% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Which year to buy
- Best 2022 93.2% pass
- Avoid 2016 84.5% pass
Across the 7 years on record, a spread of 8.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 85.5%
- Typical mileage
- 29k mi
The 2018 Abarth 595C MOT pass rate is 87.0% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 31.3% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 1.5× the national share
Brakes make up 31.3% of everything recorded on the 2018 Abarth 595c, against 20.9% nationally — 10.4 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 9% of this model’s typical repairs come in under £30 in parts — the failures here tend to be the kind that need a garage rather than a bulb.
Written from this page's own figures: fault shares against the national composition, the like-for-like pass rate, and the priced repair list. How these are worked out
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How does the 2018 Abarth 595C compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 87.9%, so this figure is 0.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 85.5%. The median 2018 Abarth 595C in this dataset had covered 28,550 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 87.2% of the time, April–September 86.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn", noted on 1.52% of tests.
- 1,444 recorded tests behind this page.
- 87.0% overall pass rate, 85.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Abarth 595C, the average is 87.5% — best year 2022 (93.2%), worst 2016 (84.5%).
Figures count every completed test on this vehicle-year in the dataset, including retests. See methodology for the exact definition.
This page's data
- Tests analysed
- 1,444
- Typical mileage (median)
- 28,550 mi
- Make and model
- Abarth 595C
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Suspension Component
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the 595C MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 58% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Abarth 595C is most common
Across all 595C model years on record (2016–2022): 3,335 Abarth 595C cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 6,456 tests. Kingston upon Thames (KT) has the most, with 80 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kingston upon Thames (KT) | 80 | 89.4% |
| 2 | Northampton (NN) | 76 | 89.0% |
| 3 | Ashford (TN) | 73 | 86.9% |
| 4 | Southampton (SO) | 73 | 92.6% |
| 5 | Crawley (RH) | 67 | 86.8% |
| 6 | Guildford (GU) | 62 | 90.3% |
| 7 | Birmingham (B) | 62 | 86.7% |
| 8 | Brighton (BN) | 60 | 86.7% |
| 9 | Chelmsford (CM) | 60 | 90.6% |
| 10 | Poole (BH) | 59 | 86.9% |
| 11 | Slough (SL) | 59 | 88.1% |
| 12 | Reading (RG) | 59 | 88.8% |
| 13 | Coventry (CV) | 56 | 90.7% |
| 14 | Bristol (BS) | 55 | 83.0% |
| 15 | Portsmouth (PO) | 54 | 89.2% |
| 16 | Derby (DE) | 54 | 87.4% |
| 17 | Maidstone (ME) | 53 | 87.9% |
| 18 | Canterbury (CT) | 51 | 88.1% |
| 19 | Warrington (WA) | 51 | 90.7% |
| 20 | High Wycombe (HP) | 50 | 88.6% |
The twenty areas with the most Abarth 595C cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the 595C
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 403 | 92.8% |
| South West | 231 | 81.0% |
| East of England | 166 | 88.0% |
| North West | 127 | 91.3% |
| Yorkshire | 109 | 85.3% |
| West Midlands | 99 | 79.8% |
| East Midlands | 95 | 86.3% |
| Scotland | 68 | 79.4% |
| London | 65 | 87.7% |
| Wales | 51 | 84.3% |
| North East | 30 | 86.7% |
Regions come from the postcode area recorded at the test station. Areas on region borders are assigned to the region with the majority of their population.
What fails a 2018 595C
Everything a tester recorded on this vehicle, grouped into the inspection sections that produced it. The notch on each bar is the national share, so you can see at a glance whether this car is unusual or just ordinary.
A test can record several items, so these percentages do not add up to 100%. The exact strings, with prices, are in the full DVSA record at the bottom of this page.
Before your test
Three checks worth doing on a 2018 595C
These are not generic tips — they are the faults recorded most often on this exact model, rewritten as things you can check yourself. All three take about ten minutes and cost nothing.
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Check the suspension joints 1.5% of tests
“pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn”
With the car parked on level ground, rock the top of each front wheel in and out while someone watches the suspension arm. Clunks, or rubber boots split and greasy, are what testers record here.
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Check the shock absorbers 1.5% of tests
“shock absorbers has an excessively worn bush”
Press down hard on each corner of the car and let go. It should settle in one bounce; if it keeps rocking, or you can see oil weeping down a shock absorber, that is the fault a tester will find.
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Check the tyre tread 1.3% of tests
“tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm”
Check all four tyres cold, including the inner shoulder where wear hides — 1.6mm across the central three-quarters is the legal limit, and most testers fail at 1.6mm without argument.
Shares are the proportion of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item, so they overlap: one test can record several.
What it costs to get a 2018 595C through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £39–£100 — and 9% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £39–£100
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 9%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,444 MOT tests on this vehicle. They exclude diagnostics, retest fees and garage labour where the part is a DIY fit, and they are not figures from the DVSA dataset. Older and higher-mileage examples cost more than the average. How these estimates are built → · All MOT repair costs → · Cheapest cars to put through a test →
Every year of the 595C, side by side
7 model years on record, from 2016 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 84.5% to 93.2% — a spread of 8.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2016 84.5% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2017 85.2% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2018 87.0%pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2019 89.1% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2020 90.2% tread depth below requirements of…
- 2021 89.6% tread depth below requirements of…
- 2022 93.2% tread depth below requirements of…
Colour is the pass rate on a fixed scale, so a block means the same thing on any model. Each year links to its own page with the full fault breakdown.
Compare the 2018 Abarth 595C with another year
The raw pass rate mostly measures age. The year comparison adds the like-for-like figure, the mileage bands and the repair bill.
Other 2018 cars with a similar record
- Nissan Qashqai 87.0%
- BMW 116 87.0%
- Ford Mustang 87.0%
- Hyundai I40 87.0%
- Kia Ceed 87.1%
- Citroen C3 86.8%
Closest pass rates among 2018 cars with at least 2,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. See the full rankings: best and worst MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2018 Abarth 595C 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 10 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 1,406 individual items recorded on this vehicle, and the same share across all cars nationally. A single test can record several items, so a row is not a percentage of tests.
| Category | Items | This car | Nationally | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 442 | 31.30% | 20.89% | +10.41 |
| Tyres | 376 | 26.60% | 19.76% | +6.84 |
| Suspension | 326 | 23.10% | 20.98% | +2.12 |
| Visibility | 74 | 5.20% | 4.97% | +0.23 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 59 | 4.20% | 12.21% | −8.01 |
| Non-component advisories | 40 | 2.80% | 4.18% | −1.38 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 31 | 2.20% | 5.52% | −3.32 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 24 | 1.70% | 1.76% | −0.06 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 20 | 1.40% | 5.57% | −4.17 |
| Road Wheels | 14 | 1.00% | 0.75% | +0.25 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.5% | £40–150 |
| Shock absorbers has an excessively worn bush Suspension | Major | 1.5% | £30–75 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.3% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.3% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 0.97% | £25–65 |
| Wheel bearings rough when rotated Suspension | Major | 0.97% | £20–55 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.97% | £8–22 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Major | 0.90% | £45–110 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.76% | £45–95 |
Severity is as recorded: Major and Dangerous fail the test outright; Minor and Advisory do not. Costs are estimates from typical UK parts prices — see how they are built.
What testers noted without failing the car
Advisories are the early warnings — the same parts a year or two before they fail. Reading them is how you tell a car that has been maintained from one that has been patched.
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 15.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 13.1% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 7.6% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.4% | £40–150 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 5.3% | £30–75 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 3.0% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 775 | 90.2% | 20,263 mi |
| 30-60k | 606 | 83.7% | 40,086 mi |
| 60-90k | 54 | 81.5% | 67,160 mi |
| 90-120k | 6 | 66.7% | 108,330 mi |
| 120k+ | 3 | 100.0% | 130,604 mi |
Source: 1,444 recorded tests on this vehicle-year. Every row above is recomputed from the same DVSA extract as the rest of the page — see the methodology.
2018 595C MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2018 Abarth 595C?
87.0% of the 1,444 2018 Abarth 595C tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 87.9% for cars first used in 2018. First-attempt pass rate: 85.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2018 Abarth 595C?
The three most recorded items are pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (1.52%), shock absorbers has an excessively worn bush (1.52%), tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (1.25%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2018 Abarth 595C MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 90.2% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2018 Abarth 595C in this dataset had covered 28,550 mi.
Does the season affect the 2018 Abarth 595C MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 87.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 86.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.