Pass rate
92.4%
Above average — 1.7 pts ahead of the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 170 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £31–£74
2020 BMW 220D Luxury MOT pass rate
- 2020
- typical 26,818 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
63.2% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 92.4% pass · this year
- Avoid 2018 87.5% pass
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 4.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 91.8%
- Typical mileage
- 27k mi
The 2020 BMW 220D Luxury MOT pass rate is 92.4% of its MOT tests — 1.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 63.2% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how BMW 220D Luxury does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 3.2× the national share
Tyres make up 63.2% of everything recorded on the 2020 BMW 220d Luxury, against 19.8% nationally — 43.4 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.
- Based on a small sample. 170 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 BMW 220D Luxury compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 1.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 91.8%. The median 2020 BMW 220D Luxury in this dataset had covered 26,818 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 89.2% of the time, April–September 95.4%.
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 2.94% of tests.
- 170 recorded tests behind this page.
- 92.4% overall pass rate, 91.8% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the BMW 220D Luxury, the average is 90.9% — best year 2020 (92.4%), worst 2018 (87.5%).
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
- 170
- Typical mileage (median)
- 26,818 mi
- Make and model
- BMW 220D Luxury
- 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 220D Luxury MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 81% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the 220D Luxury
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| North West | 38 | 92.1% |
| South East | 37 | 91.9% |
| Scotland | 16 | 87.5% |
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 220D Luxury
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 220D Luxury
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 lights 1.2% of tests
“malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction”
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 windscreen 1.2% 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.
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Check the brakes 0.6% of tests
“brake pads incorrectly mounted”
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.
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 220D Luxury through its MOT
Across the 9 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £31–£74 — and 40% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 9 common items
- £31–£74
- 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
- 89%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 40%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 170 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 220D Luxury, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2018 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 87.5% to 92.4% — a spread of 4.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2018 87.5% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2019 91.0% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2020 92.4%has a cut in excess of the…
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 BMW 220D Luxury 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
- Renault Captur 92.4%
- MINI Countryman 92.4%
- Citroen C1 92.4%
- Land Rover Defender 92.4%
- Nissan Qashqai 92.5%
- Mercedes-Benz Glc 92.5%
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 BMW 220D Luxury 9 failure items · 6 advisories · 8 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 106 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 | 67 | 63.20% | 19.76% | +43.44 |
| Non-component advisories | 14 | 13.20% | 4.18% | +9.02 |
| Brakes | 13 | 12.30% | 20.89% | −8.59 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 4 | 3.80% | 12.21% | −8.41 |
| Suspension | 3 | 2.80% | 20.98% | −18.18 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2 | 1.90% | 5.52% | −3.62 |
| Visibility | 2 | 1.90% | 4.97% | −3.07 |
| Steering | 1 | 0.90% | 2.57% | −1.67 |
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 | 2.9% | £45–95 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.2% | £3–12 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.2% | £80–200 |
| All outline marker lamps not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.59% | £3–15 |
| Brake pads incorrectly mounted Brakes | Major | 0.59% | £18–45 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.59% | £45–95 |
| Position lamp lens seriously defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.59% | £5–25 |
| Position lamp with a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.59% | £5–25 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.59% | £3–12 |
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 | 17.1% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 10.0% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 5.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 3.5% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 2.9% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.4% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 98 | 89.8% | 20,806 mi |
| 30-60k | 62 | 95.2% | 41,550 mi |
| 60-90k | 9 | 100.0% | 69,489 mi |
| 90-120k | 1 | 100.0% | 96,495 mi |
Source: 170 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 220D Luxury MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 BMW 220D Luxury?
92.4% of the 170 2020 BMW 220D Luxury tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 91.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 BMW 220D Luxury?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.94%), malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (1.18%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.18%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 BMW 220D Luxury MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 89.8% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 BMW 220D Luxury in this dataset had covered 26,818 mi.
Does the season affect the 2020 BMW 220D Luxury MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 89.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 95.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.