Pass rate
86.2%
Above average — 4.5 pts behind the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 58 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £32–£107
2020 Dodge Ram MOT pass rate
- 2020
- 2 trims combined
- typical 40,100 mi
Only 58 tests of this exact model and year are in the DVSA data, below the 100 we ask for before a page goes in the index. The figures are still shown, because they are the only ones there are.
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Most common fault
Brakes
27.3% 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 2016 91.0% pass
- Avoid 2001 79.4% pass
Across the 20 years on record, a spread of 11.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 84.6%
- Typical mileage
- 40k mi
The 2020 Dodge Ram MOT pass rate is 86.2% of its MOT tests — 4.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 27.3% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Visibility: 2.4× the national share
Visibility accounts for 12.1% of everything recorded on the 2020 Dodge Ram, against 5.0% nationally — 7.1 points above. Brakes are still the single largest share at 27.3%, but at 20.9% nationally that one is ordinary. Wipers, washers and a chip in the driver’s eyeline are the three quickest ways to fail a test that the car otherwise deserves to pass.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 90.7%; this one manages 86.2% — 4.5 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 25% 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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Every Dodge Ram first registered in 2020 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2020 Dodge Ram compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 4.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 84.6%. The median 2020 Dodge Ram in this dataset had covered 40,100 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick", noted on 3.45% of tests.
- 58 recorded tests behind this page.
- 86.2% overall pass rate, 84.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Dodge Ram, the average is 85.3% — best year 2016 (91.0%), worst 2001 (79.4%).
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
- 58
- Typical mileage (median)
- 40,100 mi
- Make and model
- Dodge Ram
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Brake Pads Set
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Ram MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 25% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Dodge Ram is most common
Across all Ram model years on record (2001–2020): 1,418 Dodge Ram cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 2,839 tests. Peterborough (PE) has the most, with 70 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peterborough (PE) | 70 | 88.6% |
| 2 | Chelmsford (CM) | 56 | 84.8% |
| 3 | Ipswich (IP) | 44 | 83.9% |
| 4 | Basildon (SS) | 36 | 94.6% |
| 5 | Guildford (GU) | 32 | 73.7% |
| 6 | Norwich (NR) | 32 | 86.7% |
| 7 | Nottingham (NG) | 32 | 85.7% |
| 8 | Poole (BH) | 32 | 83.1% |
| 9 | Ashford (TN) | 27 | 86.0% |
| 10 | Birmingham (B) | 27 | 91.5% |
| 11 | Colchester (CO) | 26 | 89.8% |
| 12 | Reading (RG) | 25 | 87.8% |
| 13 | Milton Keynes (MK) | 24 | 79.2% |
| 14 | Northampton (NN) | 22 | 82.8% |
| 15 | Oxford (OX) | 22 | 76.7% |
| 16 | Doncaster (DN) | 22 | 90.2% |
| 17 | Coventry (CV) | 21 | 89.7% |
| 18 | Derby (DE) | 21 | 75.8% |
| 19 | Crawley (RH) | 20 | 79.1% |
| 20 | Sheffield (S) | 20 | 91.7% |
The twenty areas with the most Dodge Ram cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the Ram
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| East of England | 19 | 89.5% |
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 Ram
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 Ram
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 3.5% 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.
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Check the exhaust and emissions 3.5% 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 lights 1.7% of tests
“individual direction indicators not working”
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.
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 Ram through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £32–£107 — and 25% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £32–£107
- Cheapest common item: individual direction indicators not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 25%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 58 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 Ram, side by side
20 model years on record, from 2001 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 79.4% to 91.0% — a spread of 11.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2001 79.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2002 86.1% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2003 85.2% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2004 85.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2005 84.7% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2006 84.1% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2007 81.6% position lamp not working
- 2008 88.7% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2009 83.5% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2010 82.6% position lamp not working
- 2011 82.5% mirrors slightly damaged
- 2012 86.8% individual direction indicators…
- 2013 89.8% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2014 83.7% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2015 88.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 91.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 86.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 88.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 90.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 86.2%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 Dodge Ram 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
- Nissan Navara 86.3%
- Peugeot 508 86.0%
- Tesla Model 3 86.8%
- Renault Megane 86.8%
- Ford Ranger 85.6%
- Vauxhall Corsa E 85.4%
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 Dodge Ram 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 33 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 | 9 | 27.30% | 20.89% | +6.41 |
| Suspension | 8 | 24.20% | 20.98% | +3.22 |
| Tyres | 4 | 12.10% | 19.76% | −7.66 |
| Visibility | 4 | 12.10% | 4.97% | +7.13 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 3 | 9.10% | 5.52% | +3.58 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 2 | 6.10% | 12.21% | −6.11 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 3.00% | 5.57% | −2.57 |
| Non-component advisories | 1 | 3.00% | 4.18% | −1.18 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1 | 3.00% | 1.76% | +1.24 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 3.5% | £18–45 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.5% | £60–250 |
| Individual direction indicators not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.7% | £3–12 |
| Joints excessively worn Body, chassis, structure | Major | 1.7% | £80–250 |
| Mirrors slightly damaged Visibility | Minor | 1.7% | £3–15 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.7% | £40–150 |
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Major | 1.7% | £20–80 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 1.7% | £30–75 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.7% | £45–95 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Major | 1.7% | £5–15 |
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 pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 6.9% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 5.2% | £45–110 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 3.5% | £30–75 |
| Shock absorbers has negligible damping effect Suspension | Advisory | 3.5% | £30–75 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 3.5% | £45–95 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 1.7% | £200–700 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 20 | 100.0% | 16,778 mi |
| 30-60k | 20 | 80.0% | 43,074 mi |
| 60-90k | 13 | 84.6% | 70,020 mi |
| 90-120k | 2 | 100.0% | 98,253 mi |
| 120k+ | 3 | 33.3% | 128,966 mi |
Source: 58 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 Ram MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Dodge Ram?
86.2% of the 58 2020 Dodge Ram tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 84.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Dodge Ram?
The three most recorded items are brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (3.45%), catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits (3.45%), individual direction indicators not working (1.72%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Dodge Ram MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 33.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Dodge Ram in this dataset had covered 40,100 mi.