Pass rate
91.0%
Above average — 0.3 pts ahead of the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 134 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £26–£65
2020 Abarth 695 MOT pass rate
- 2020
- typical 15,875 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
37.6% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tyre has a tear. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2016 93.2% pass
- Avoid 2018 88.0% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 5.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 90.2%
- Typical mileage
- 16k mi
The 2020 Abarth 695 MOT pass rate is 91.0% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 37.6% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Abarth 695 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.9× the national share
Tyres make up 37.6% of everything recorded on the 2020 Abarth 695, against 19.8% nationally — 17.8 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 31% 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.
- Based on a small sample. 134 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
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 2020 Abarth 695 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 0.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 90.2%. The median 2020 Abarth 695 in this dataset had covered 15,875 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 91.0% of the time, April–September 91.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Driver's view to the front outside the swept area of the windscreen wipers restricted by an obstruction", noted on 1.49% of tests.
- 134 recorded tests behind this page.
- 91.0% overall pass rate, 90.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Abarth 695, the average is 89.2% — best year 2016 (93.2%), worst 2018 (88.0%).
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
- 134
- Typical mileage (median)
- 15,875 mi
- Make and model
- Abarth 695
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Wiper Blade
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the 695 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 74% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the 695
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 47 | 85.1% |
| Yorkshire | 20 | 90.0% |
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 2020 695
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 2020 695
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 wipers and washers 1.5% of tests
“driver's view to the front outside the swept area of the windscreen wipers restricted by an obstruction”
Run the wipers with the screen wet: they should clear it in one sweep without smearing or juddering. Top the washer bottle up and check both jets hit the screen.
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Check the lights 1.5% of tests
“headlamp aim too high”
Switch everything on and walk round the car: both headlamps on dip and main, every indicator, both brake lights, reverse, fog and the two number-plate lamps. A bulb is a few pounds and a five-minute job.
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Check the number plates 1.5% of tests
“registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements”
Check both plates are present, legible and correctly spaced, with the postcode of the supplier and the BS AU 145e mark. A private plate in the wrong style is a fail before the car is even looked at.
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 2020 695 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £26–£65 — and 31% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £26–£65
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: has ply or cords exposed
- £45–£95
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 31%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 134 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 695, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2016 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 88.0% to 93.2% — a spread of 5.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2016 93.2% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2017 88.8% wipers blade defective
- 2018 88.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 91.7% has ply or cords exposed
- 2020 91.0%driver's view to the front…
- 2022 92.7% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
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 2020 Abarth 695 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 2020 cars with a similar record
- Ford Fiesta 91.0%
- Vauxhall Grandland X 91.0%
- Volkswagen Touran 91.0%
- BMW 218 91.0%
- Audi Q2 Technik 91.0%
- BMW M235I 91.0%
Closest pass rates among 2020 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 2020 Abarth 695 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 9 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 93 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 | 35 | 37.60% | 19.76% | +17.84 |
| Brakes | 19 | 20.40% | 20.89% | −0.49 |
| Suspension | 10 | 10.80% | 20.98% | −10.18 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 10 | 10.80% | 12.21% | −1.41 |
| Non-component advisories | 7 | 7.50% | 4.18% | +3.32 |
| Visibility | 6 | 6.50% | 4.97% | +1.53 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 3 | 3.20% | 5.52% | −2.32 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 2 | 2.20% | 1.76% | +0.44 |
| Road Wheels | 1 | 1.10% | 0.75% | +0.35 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Driver's view to the front outside the swept area of the windscreen wipers restricted by an obstruction Visibility | Minor | 1.5% | £8–22 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.5% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.5% | £30–80 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.5% | £3–12 |
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Major | 1.5% | £20–80 |
| Front fog lamps not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.75% | £3–15 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.75% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.75% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.75% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 9.7% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.2% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 6.0% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 6.0% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 3.7% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 3.7% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 108 | 92.6% | 14,410 mi |
| 30-60k | 23 | 82.6% | 41,142 mi |
| 60-90k | 3 | 100.0% | 68,003 mi |
Source: 134 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.
2020 695 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Abarth 695?
91.0% of the 134 2020 Abarth 695 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 90.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Abarth 695?
The three most recorded items are driver's view to the front outside the swept area of the windscreen wipers restricted by an obstruction (1.49%), has ply or cords exposed (1.49%), headlamp aim too high (1.49%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Abarth 695 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.6% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Abarth 695 in this dataset had covered 15,875 mi.
Does the season affect the 2020 Abarth 695 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 91.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 91.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.