Pass rate
89.1%
Above average — 0.4 pts behind the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,310 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £33–£84
2019 Abarth 595C MOT pass rate
- 2019
- typical 22,149 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
34.6% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
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
- 87.9%
- Typical mileage
- 22k mi
The 2019 Abarth 595C MOT pass rate is 89.1% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 34.6% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.8× the national share
Tyres make up 34.6% of everything recorded on the 2019 Abarth 595c, against 19.8% nationally — 14.8 points above. Check all four tyres yourself, including the inner shoulders, and look at the date stamp — a tyre can pass on tread and still be six years old.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 28% 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 2019 Abarth 595C compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 89.5%, so this figure is 0.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 87.9%. The median 2019 Abarth 595C in this dataset had covered 22,149 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 90.1% of the time, April–September 88.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick", noted on 1.15% of tests.
- 1,310 recorded tests behind this page.
- 89.1% overall pass rate, 87.9% 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
- 1,310
- Typical mileage (median)
- 22,149 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
Brake Pads Set
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the 595C MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 70% 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 | 402 | 88.8% |
| East of England | 181 | 89.0% |
| South West | 158 | 89.9% |
| West Midlands | 120 | 92.5% |
| North West | 95 | 90.5% |
| Yorkshire | 93 | 86.0% |
| East Midlands | 89 | 91.0% |
| Scotland | 65 | 83.1% |
| London | 55 | 89.1% |
| Wales | 36 | 86.1% |
| North East | 16 | 93.8% |
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 2019 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 2019 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 brakes 1.1% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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Check the tyre tread 1.1% 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.
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Check the suspension joints 0.9% 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.
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 2019 595C through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £33–£84 — and 28% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £33–£84
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 28%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,310 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 2019 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 2019 cars with a similar record
- Skoda Octavia 89.1%
- Fiat 500 89.1%
- Vauxhall Crossland 89.1%
- Volkswagen E-Golf 89.1%
- Fiat Panda 89.1%
- Skoda Scala 89.1%
Closest pass rates among 2019 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 2019 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 992 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 346 | 34.60% | 19.76% | +14.84 |
| Brakes | 344 | 34.40% | 20.89% | +13.51 |
| Suspension | 136 | 13.60% | 20.98% | −7.38 |
| Visibility | 46 | 4.60% | 4.97% | −0.37 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 45 | 4.50% | 12.21% | −7.71 |
| Non-component advisories | 26 | 2.60% | 4.18% | −1.58 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 16 | 1.60% | 5.52% | −3.92 |
| Road Wheels | 15 | 1.50% | 0.75% | +0.75 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 10 | 1.00% | 5.57% | −4.57 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 8 | 0.80% | 0.82% | −0.02 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.1% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 0.92% | £40–150 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.84% | £3–12 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.84% | £80–200 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Rectified | 0.76% | £5–15 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Major | 0.61% | £45–110 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.61% | £8–22 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.53% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.53% | £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 | 15.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 9.8% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.6% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 3.3% | £45–110 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 3.3% | £40–150 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 2.7% | £30–75 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 979 | 90.5% | 18,493 mi |
| 30-60k | 312 | 85.3% | 38,319 mi |
| 60-90k | 19 | 78.9% | 68,787 mi |
Source: 1,310 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.
2019 595C MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2019 Abarth 595C?
89.1% of the 1,310 2019 Abarth 595C tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 89.5% for cars first used in 2019. First-attempt pass rate: 87.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2019 Abarth 595C?
The three most recorded items are brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (1.15%), tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (1.15%), pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (0.92%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2019 Abarth 595C MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 90.5% of the time, falling to 78.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2019 Abarth 595C in this dataset had covered 22,149 mi.
Does the season affect the 2019 Abarth 595C MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 90.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 88.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.