Pass rate
93.8%
Above average — 4.3 pts ahead of the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 243 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £37–£91
2019 Audi A1 Citycarver MOT pass rate
- 2019
- typical 24,408 mi
Most common fault
Brakes
41.5% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Part only £25–£40 for Brake pads under 1.5 mm. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2019 93.8% pass · this year
- Avoid 2021 91.8% pass
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 93.4%
- Typical mileage
- 24k mi
The 2019 Audi A1 Citycarver MOT pass rate is 93.8% of its MOT tests — 4.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 41.5% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Audi A1 Citycarver does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 2.0× the national share
Brakes make up 41.5% of everything recorded on the 2019 Audi A1 Citycarver, against 20.9% nationally — 20.6 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
- Beats its own age and mileage. Once you allow for how old and how far these cars have been driven, the expected pass rate is 89.5% and this one manages 93.8% — 4.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 0% 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 Audi A1 Citycarver compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 89.5%, so this figure is 4.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 93.4%. The median 2019 Audi A1 Citycarver in this dataset had covered 24,408 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 94.1% of the time, April–September 93.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords", noted on 2.06% of tests.
- 243 recorded tests behind this page.
- 93.8% overall pass rate, 93.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Audi A1 Citycarver, the average is 92.5% — best year 2019 (93.8%), worst 2021 (91.8%).
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
- 243
- Typical mileage (median)
- 24,408 mi
- Make and model
- Audi A1 Citycarver
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the A1 Citycarver MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 85% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the A1 Citycarver
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 44 | 93.2% |
| East of England | 42 | 90.5% |
| Scotland | 34 | 91.2% |
| South West | 25 | 100.0% |
| North West | 22 | 100.0% |
| North East | 17 | 100.0% |
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 2019 A1 Citycarver
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 A1 Citycarver
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 1.2% of tests
“brake discs significantly and obviously worn”
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 suspension joints 1.2% of tests
“track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated,”
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 windscreen 0.8% of tests
“windscreen damaged”
Check the driver’s side of the screen within the swept area for chips and cracks; anything larger than 10mm in the driver’s central view is a fail. Most chips can be resin-repaired for far less than a new screen.
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 A1 Citycarver through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £37–£91 — and 0% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £37–£91
- Cheapest common item: brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- £18–£45
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot split or…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 0%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 243 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 A1 Citycarver, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2019 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 91.8% to 93.8% — a spread of 2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 93.8%has a cut in excess of the…
- 2020 92.6% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 91.8% has ply or cords exposed
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 Audi A1 Citycarver 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 Citigo 93.8%
- BMW 730 93.8%
- Jaguar F-Type 93.7%
- Levc Tx 93.6%
- Toyota Prius 93.5%
- Suzuki Celerio 94.1%
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 Audi A1 Citycarver 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 142 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 | 59 | 41.50% | 20.89% | +20.61 |
| Tyres | 50 | 35.20% | 19.76% | +15.44 |
| Non-component advisories | 16 | 11.30% | 4.18% | +7.12 |
| Steering | 6 | 4.20% | 2.57% | +1.63 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 4 | 2.80% | 1.76% | +1.04 |
| Visibility | 3 | 2.10% | 4.97% | −2.87 |
| Suspension | 1 | 0.70% | 20.98% | −20.28 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 0.70% | 5.57% | −4.87 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 0.70% | 0.82% | −0.12 |
| Road Wheels | 1 | 0.70% | 0.75% | −0.05 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.1% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Major | 1.2% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.2% | £18–45 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 1.2% | £18–45 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover excessively damaged or deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of… Steering | Major | 1.2% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.82% | £80–200 |
| Buckle not functioning as intended Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 0.41% | £40–120 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 0.41% | £25–65 |
| Fixing missing Road Wheels | Major | 0.41% | £20–55 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 0.41% | £80–250 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 11.1% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 9.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 6.2% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 3.3% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.9% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.9% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 164 | 93.9% | 19,466 mi |
| 30-60k | 72 | 93.1% | 39,073 mi |
| 60-90k | 7 | 100.0% | 71,445 mi |
Source: 243 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 A1 Citycarver MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2019 Audi A1 Citycarver?
93.8% of the 243 2019 Audi A1 Citycarver tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 89.5% for cars first used in 2019. First-attempt pass rate: 93.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2019 Audi A1 Citycarver?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.06%), brake discs significantly and obviously worn (1.23%), brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (1.23%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2019 Audi A1 Citycarver MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.9% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2019 Audi A1 Citycarver in this dataset had covered 24,408 mi.
Does the season affect the 2019 Audi A1 Citycarver MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 94.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 93.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.