Pass rate
86.5%
Above average — 4.7 pts behind the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 2,902 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £33–£101
2021 Fiat 500E La Prima MOT pass rate
- 2021
- typical 15,407 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
48.7% 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 90.1% pass
- Avoid 2021 86.5% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 3.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 84.6%
- Typical mileage
- 15k mi
The 2021 Fiat 500E La Prima MOT pass rate is 86.5% of its MOT tests — 4.7 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 48.7% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Fiat 500E La Prima does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.5× the national share
Tyres make up 48.7% of everything recorded on the 2021 Fiat 500e La Prima, against 19.8% nationally — 28.9 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 91.2%; this one manages 86.5% — 4.7 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 24% 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 2021 Fiat 500E La Prima compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 4.7 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 84.6%. The median 2021 Fiat 500E La Prima in this dataset had covered 15,407 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 87.7% of the time, April–September 85.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn", noted on 6.58% of tests.
- 2,902 recorded tests behind this page.
- 86.5% overall pass rate, 84.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Fiat 500E La Prima, the average is 87.8% — best year 2022 (90.1%), worst 2021 (86.5%).
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
- 2,902
- Typical mileage (median)
- 15,407 mi
- Make and model
- Fiat 500E La Prima
- 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 500E La Prima MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 67% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the 500E La Prima
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 1,090 | 86.3% |
| South West | 387 | 86.3% |
| East of England | 320 | 87.8% |
| London | 224 | 89.3% |
| Yorkshire | 195 | 87.2% |
| North West | 182 | 89.0% |
| West Midlands | 175 | 82.9% |
| East Midlands | 147 | 85.7% |
| Wales | 73 | 87.7% |
| Scotland | 63 | 79.4% |
| North East | 46 | 80.4% |
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 500E La Prima
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 500E La Prima
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 6.6% 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 wipers and washers 1.8% of tests
“wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively”
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 1.2% 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.
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 500E La Prima through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £33–£101 — and 24% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £33–£101
- Cheapest common item: wipers does not clear the windscreen…
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: pins
- £40–£150
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 24%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 2,902 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 500E La Prima, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2021 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 86.5% to 90.1% — a spread of 3.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2021 86.5%pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2022 90.1% pins and bushes pin or bush…
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 Fiat 500E La Prima 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
- Vauxhall Corsa E 86.3%
- Land Rover Discovry 86.7%
- Ford Ranger 86.9%
- Citroen C4 86.9%
- Peugeot 508 86.9%
- BMW X5 XDRIVE45E 85.9%
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 Fiat 500E La Prima 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 1,558 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 | 761 | 48.70% | 19.76% | +28.94 |
| Suspension | 407 | 26.10% | 20.98% | +5.12 |
| Visibility | 179 | 11.50% | 4.97% | +6.53 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 74 | 4.70% | 12.21% | −7.51 |
| Non-component advisories | 66 | 4.20% | 4.18% | +0.02 |
| Brakes | 38 | 2.40% | 20.89% | −18.49 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 13 | 0.80% | 1.76% | −0.96 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 8 | 0.50% | 5.57% | −5.07 |
| Road Wheels | 7 | 0.40% | 0.75% | −0.35 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 5 | 0.30% | 0.82% | −0.52 |
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 | 6.6% | £40–150 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.8% | £8–22 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.7% | £45–95 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.7% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.2% | £30–80 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush likely to become detached Suspension | Major | 1.2% | £40–150 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.93% | £45–95 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.90% | £45–95 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 0.76% | £8–22 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.69% | £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 | 8.5% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.0% | £40–150 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 4.7% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 4.4% | £45–95 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 1.8% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.6% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 2,594 | 87.4% | 14,718 mi |
| 30-60k | 296 | 79.1% | 37,304 mi |
| 60-90k | 12 | 75.0% | 68,689 mi |
Source: 2,902 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 500E La Prima MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Fiat 500E La Prima?
86.5% of the 2,902 2021 Fiat 500E La Prima tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 84.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Fiat 500E La Prima?
The three most recorded items are pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (6.58%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.79%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.72%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Fiat 500E La Prima MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 87.4% of the time, falling to 75.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Fiat 500E La Prima in this dataset had covered 15,407 mi.
Does the season affect the 2021 Fiat 500E La Prima MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 87.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 85.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.