Pass rate
88.7%
Above average — 0.8 pts behind the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 3,159 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £38–£103
2019 Fiat 500 Star MOT pass rate
- 2019
- typical 23,304 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
34.4% 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 2021 91.4% pass
- Avoid 2019 88.7% pass · this year
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 2.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 87.4%
- Typical mileage
- 23k mi
The 2019 Fiat 500 Star MOT pass rate is 88.7% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 34.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Fiat 500 Star does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.7× the national share
Tyres make up 34.4% of everything recorded on the 2019 Fiat 500 Star, against 19.8% nationally — 14.6 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 18% 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 Fiat 500 Star compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 89.5%, so this figure is 0.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 87.4%. The median 2019 Fiat 500 Star in this dataset had covered 23,304 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 88.4% of the time, April–September 88.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn", noted on 2.25% of tests.
- 3,159 recorded tests behind this page.
- 88.7% overall pass rate, 87.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Fiat 500 Star, the average is 89.9% — best year 2021 (91.4%), worst 2019 (88.7%).
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
- 3,159
- Typical mileage (median)
- 23,304 mi
- Make and model
- Fiat 500 Star
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Suspension Component
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the 500 Star MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 58% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the 500 Star
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 741 | 90.0% |
| East of England | 405 | 91.6% |
| West Midlands | 316 | 88.9% |
| Yorkshire | 316 | 86.4% |
| South West | 273 | 89.7% |
| North West | 267 | 89.9% |
| East Midlands | 262 | 90.1% |
| North East | 177 | 83.1% |
| Scotland | 176 | 77.8% |
| Wales | 130 | 88.5% |
| London | 93 | 93.5% |
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 2019 500 Star
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 500 Star
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 suspension joints 2.3% of tests
“pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn”
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 0.9% 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 wipers and washers 0.9% 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.
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 500 Star through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £38–£103 — and 18% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £38–£103
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 18%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 3,159 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 500 Star, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2019 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 88.7% to 91.4% — a spread of 2.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 88.7%pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2020 90.0% wipers blade defective
- 2021 91.4% 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 Fiat 500 Star 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
- Kia Sportage 88.7%
- Peugeot 3008 88.7%
- Audi A4 88.7%
- Audi A5 88.7%
- Peugeot 308 88.7%
- Ford Mondeo 88.7%
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 Fiat 500 Star 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 2,866 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 | 993 | 34.40% | 19.76% | +14.64 |
| Brakes | 763 | 26.40% | 20.89% | +5.51 |
| Suspension | 466 | 16.10% | 20.98% | −4.88 |
| Visibility | 152 | 5.30% | 4.97% | +0.33 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 129 | 4.50% | 12.21% | −7.71 |
| Non-component advisories | 116 | 4.00% | 4.18% | −0.18 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 92 | 3.20% | 5.57% | −2.37 |
| Road Wheels | 63 | 2.20% | 0.75% | +1.45 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 50 | 1.70% | 5.52% | −3.82 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 42 | 1.50% | 1.76% | −0.26 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.3% | £40–150 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.92% | £80–200 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.89% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.85% | £8–22 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Major | 0.79% | £45–110 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.76% | £30–80 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 0.70% | £30–75 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.70% | £45–95 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.66% | £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 | 13.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 12.9% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 7.1% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.2% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 4.3% | £18–45 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 3.8% | £30–75 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 2,170 | 91.5% | 17,802 mi |
| 30-60k | 930 | 83.0% | 39,268 mi |
| 60-90k | 55 | 76.4% | 69,417 mi |
| 90-120k | 3 | 66.7% | 94,414 mi |
Source: 3,159 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 500 Star MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2019 Fiat 500 Star?
88.7% of the 3,159 2019 Fiat 500 Star tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 89.5% for cars first used in 2019. First-attempt pass rate: 87.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2019 Fiat 500 Star?
The three most recorded items are pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (2.25%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.14%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (0.92%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2019 Fiat 500 Star MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.5% of the time, falling to 66.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2019 Fiat 500 Star in this dataset had covered 23,304 mi.
Does the season affect the 2019 Fiat 500 Star MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 88.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 88.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.