Pass rate
94.4%
Above average — 2.4 pts ahead of the 92.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 801 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £17–£42
2022 Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential MOT pass rate
- 2022
- typical 18,465 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
38.5% 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 94.4% pass · this year
- Avoid 2021 91.9% pass
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 2.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 94.1%
- Typical mileage
- 18k mi
The 2022 Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential MOT pass rate is 94.4% of its MOT tests — 2.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 38.5% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.9× the national share
Tyres make up 38.5% of everything recorded on the 2022 Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential, against 19.8% nationally — 18.7 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.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 59% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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 2022 Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 92.0%, so this figure is 2.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 94.1%. The median 2022 Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential in this dataset had covered 18,465 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 95.2% of the time, April–September 93.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Wipers blade defective", noted on 3.00% of tests.
- 801 recorded tests behind this page.
- 94.4% overall pass rate, 94.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential, the average is 93.0% — best year 2022 (94.4%), worst 2021 (91.9%).
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
- 801
- Typical mileage (median)
- 18,465 mi
- Make and model
- Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential
- 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 Sandero Stepway Essential MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 67% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Sandero Stepway Essential
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 228 | 92.5% |
| North West | 123 | 91.9% |
| Wales | 91 | 95.6% |
| Yorkshire | 82 | 97.6% |
| South East | 68 | 94.1% |
| South West | 63 | 95.2% |
| East of England | 48 | 95.8% |
| North East | 39 | 100.0% |
| West Midlands | 33 | 97.0% |
| East Midlands | 22 | 90.9% |
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 2022 Sandero Stepway Essential
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 2022 Sandero Stepway Essential
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 3.0% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
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 1.6% 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 brakes 1.4% 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.
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 2022 Sandero Stepway Essential through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £17–£42 — and 59% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £17–£42
- Cheapest common item: srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: has a cut in excess of the requirements deep…
- £45–£95
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 59%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 801 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 Sandero Stepway Essential, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2021 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 91.9% to 94.4% — a spread of 2.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2021 91.9% wipers blade defective
- 2022 94.4%wipers blade defective
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 2022 Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential 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 2022 cars with a similar record
- Mazda Cx-5 94.4%
- Toyota Corolla 94.5%
- Jaguar I-Pace HSE 94.3%
- Audi Q3 94.2%
- Hyundai Tucson Ultimate T-Gdi 94.2%
- Skoda Karoq 94.2%
Closest pass rates among 2022 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 2022 Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential 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 456 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 | 176 | 38.50% | 19.76% | +18.74 |
| Brakes | 111 | 24.30% | 20.89% | +3.41 |
| Visibility | 65 | 14.20% | 4.97% | +9.23 |
| Non-component advisories | 49 | 10.70% | 4.18% | +6.52 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 28 | 6.10% | 12.21% | −6.11 |
| Suspension | 12 | 2.60% | 20.98% | −18.38 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 8 | 1.80% | 0.82% | +0.98 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 3 | 0.70% | 5.52% | −4.82 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 2 | 0.40% | 5.57% | −5.17 |
| Road Wheels | 2 | 0.40% | 0.75% | −0.35 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 3.0% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.6% | £30–80 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.5% | £8–22 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.4% | £18–45 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Rectified | 1.0% | £5–15 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.0% | £8–22 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.75% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.62% | £30–80 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 0.62% | £3–12 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.50% | £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 | 12.2% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.1% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 4.0% | £45–95 |
| 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 | 2.5% | £20–80 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 2.3% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 674 | 95.3% | 16,443 mi |
| 30-60k | 121 | 90.1% | 36,929 mi |
| 60-90k | 4 | 75.0% | 65,912 mi |
| 90-120k | 1 | 100.0% | 95,523 mi |
Source: 801 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.
2022 Sandero Stepway Essential MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2022 Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential?
94.4% of the 801 2022 Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 92.0% for cars first used in 2022. First-attempt pass rate: 94.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2022 Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential?
The three most recorded items are wipers blade defective (3.00%), headlamp aim too high (1.62%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.50%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2022 Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.3% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2022 Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential in this dataset had covered 18,465 mi.
Does the season affect the 2022 Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 95.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 93.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.