Pass rate
93.0%
Above average — 1.8 pts ahead of the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 142 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £49–£131
2021 Cupra Formentor Vz MOT pass rate
- 2021
- typical 23,423 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
41.1% 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 2020 93.2% pass
- Avoid 2021 93.0% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 0.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 92.5%
- Typical mileage
- 23k mi
The 2021 Cupra Formentor Vz MOT pass rate is 93.0% of its MOT tests — 1.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 41.1% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Cupra Formentor Vz does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.1× the national share
Tyres make up 41.1% of everything recorded on the 2021 Cupra Formentor Vz, against 19.8% nationally — 21.3 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 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.
- Based on a small sample. 142 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 2021 Cupra Formentor Vz compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 1.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 92.5%. The median 2021 Cupra Formentor Vz in this dataset had covered 23,423 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has ply or cords exposed", noted on 2.11% of tests.
- 142 recorded tests behind this page.
- 93.0% overall pass rate, 92.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Cupra Formentor Vz, the average is 93.1% — best year 2020 (93.2%), worst 2021 (93.0%).
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
- 142
- Typical mileage (median)
- 23,423 mi
- Make and model
- Cupra Formentor Vz
- 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 Formentor Vz MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 82% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Formentor Vz
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 41 | 92.7% |
| Scotland | 25 | 88.0% |
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 2021 Formentor Vz
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 2021 Formentor Vz
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 exhaust and emissions 1.4% of tests
“catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits”
Listen for a blow at idle and have someone rev it gently. Then look at the tailpipe smoke: blue is oil, white when warm is coolant, black is over-fuelling. Any of those and the emissions test is the least of it.
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Check the tyre tread 1.4% 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 windscreen 0.7% of tests
“driver's view of the road through the swept area of the windscreen significantly affected by an obstruction”
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 2021 Formentor Vz through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £49–£131 — and 0% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £49–£131
- Cheapest common item: headlamp aim too high
- £30–£80
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 40%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 0%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 142 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 Formentor Vz, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2020 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 93.0% to 93.2% — a spread of 0.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2020 93.2% registration plates does not…
- 2021 93.0%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 2021 Cupra Formentor Vz 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 2021 cars with a similar record
- Nissan Leaf 93.0%
- Hyundai Tucson Ultimate T-Gdi 93.0%
- Mazda Cx-5 93.0%
- Fiat 500 Dolcevita 93.0%
- Audi Q3 93.1%
- Mercedes-Benz Glc 92.9%
Closest pass rates among 2021 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 2021 Cupra Formentor Vz 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 95 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 | 39 | 41.10% | 19.76% | +21.34 |
| Brakes | 38 | 40.00% | 20.89% | +19.11 |
| Suspension | 6 | 6.30% | 20.98% | −14.68 |
| Non-component advisories | 4 | 4.20% | 4.18% | +0.02 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 2 | 2.10% | 5.57% | −3.47 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2 | 2.10% | 5.52% | −3.42 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1 | 1.10% | 12.21% | −11.11 |
| Visibility | 1 | 1.10% | 4.97% | −3.87 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1 | 1.10% | 1.76% | −0.66 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 1.10% | 0.82% | +0.28 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 2.1% | £45–95 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.4% | £60–250 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Major | 1.4% | £45–120 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Brake performance not tested unable to be tested Brakes | Major | 0.70% | £60–150 |
| Driver's view of the road through the swept area of the windscreen significantly affected by an obstruction Visibility | Major | 0.70% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.70% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.70% | £30–80 |
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Major | 0.70% | £20–80 |
| Service brake performance excessively fluctuating Brakes | Major | 0.70% | £60–150 |
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 | 16.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 15.5% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 7.0% | £45–110 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 4.2% | £30–75 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 3.5% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.1% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 101 | 90.1% | 19,176 mi |
| 30-60k | 41 | 100.0% | 39,390 mi |
Source: 142 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.
2021 Formentor Vz MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Cupra Formentor Vz?
93.0% of the 142 2021 Cupra Formentor Vz tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 92.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Cupra Formentor Vz?
The three most recorded items are has ply or cords exposed (2.11%), catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits (1.41%), exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases (1.41%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Cupra Formentor Vz MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 90.1% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Cupra Formentor Vz in this dataset had covered 23,423 mi.