Pass rate
73.2%
Below average — 5.4 pts behind the 78.6% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 530 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £25–£78
2013 Fiat Bravo MOT pass rate
- 2013
- typical 83,780 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
27.0% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Part only £35–£75 for Suspension pin or bush excessively worn. What fitting it takes →
0.9 pts up across model years — 7.2% in 2007, 8.1% in 2011.
Which year to buy
- Best 2013 73.2% pass · this year
- Avoid 2001 60.3% pass
Across the 9 years on record, a spread of 12.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 66.0%
- Typical mileage
- 84k mi
The 2013 Fiat Bravo MOT pass rate is 73.2% of its MOT tests — 5.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 27.0% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.3× the national share
Suspension accounts for 27.0% of everything recorded on the 2013 Fiat Bravo, against 21.0% nationally — 6.0 points above. Ask for the front and rear suspension to be checked on a ramp before you buy — worn bushes and broken springs are cheap to look at and expensive to discover at test time.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 78.6%; this one manages 73.2% — 5.4 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 35% 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 2013 Fiat Bravo compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 78.6%, so this figure is 5.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 66.0%. The median 2013 Fiat Bravo in this dataset had covered 83,780 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 65% of tests, with a 73.7% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 71.8% of the time, April–September 75.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Coil spring fractured or broken", noted on 7.17% of tests.
- 530 recorded tests behind this page.
- 73.2% overall pass rate, 66.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Fiat Bravo, the average is 68.6% — best year 2013 (73.2%), worst 2001 (60.3%).
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
- 530
- Typical mileage (median)
- 83,780 mi
- Make and model
- Fiat Bravo
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Coil Spring
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Bravo MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 60% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (65% of tests).
Where the Fiat Bravo is most common
Across all Bravo model years on record (2001–2014): 8,114 Fiat Bravo cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 20,488 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 318 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 | Birmingham (B) | 318 | 77.5% |
| 2 | Coventry (CV) | 223 | 72.1% |
| 3 | Leicester (LE) | 189 | 75.1% |
| 4 | Northampton (NN) | 181 | 68.7% |
| 5 | Nottingham (NG) | 181 | 64.3% |
| 6 | Sheffield (S) | 181 | 68.0% |
| 7 | Peterborough (PE) | 173 | 68.2% |
| 8 | Manchester (M) | 170 | 70.4% |
| 9 | Norwich (NR) | 144 | 66.3% |
| 10 | Doncaster (DN) | 134 | 67.7% |
| 11 | Bristol (BS) | 123 | 59.5% |
| 12 | Cardiff (CF) | 122 | 64.6% |
| 13 | Swansea (SA) | 119 | 63.5% |
| 14 | Stoke On Trent (ST) | 110 | 63.9% |
| 15 | Ipswich (IP) | 108 | 70.1% |
| 16 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 104 | 63.5% |
| 17 | Liverpool (L) | 104 | 71.7% |
| 18 | Derby (DE) | 103 | 69.4% |
| 19 | Reading (RG) | 102 | 71.9% |
| 20 | Leeds (LS) | 98 | 67.8% |
The twenty areas with the most Fiat Bravo 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 Bravo
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| East Midlands | 74 | 66.2% |
| North West | 64 | 78.1% |
| South East | 63 | 77.8% |
| Yorkshire | 56 | 75.0% |
| Wales | 53 | 67.9% |
| West Midlands | 52 | 75.0% |
| East of England | 50 | 76.0% |
| South West | 46 | 69.6% |
| Scotland | 31 | 61.3% |
| London | 22 | 86.4% |
| North East | 19 | 78.9% |
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 2013 Bravo
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 2013 Bravo
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 coil springs 7.2% of tests
“coil spring fractured or broken”
Look up inside each wheel arch with a torch, all the way round the spring. A snapped spring usually breaks at the very bottom coil, where a quick glance will not reach.
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Check the lights 3.2% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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 suspension joints 2.8% 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.
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 2013 Bravo through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £25–£78 — and 35% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £25–£78
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: on or after 01/07/2008 emissions exceed…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 35%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 530 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 Bravo, side by side
9 model years on record, from 2001 to 2014. Across them the pass rate runs from 60.3% to 73.2% — a spread of 12.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2001 60.3% rigid brake pipes excessively…
- 2007 68.1% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2008 67.3% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2009 68.1% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2010 70.3% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2011 69.9% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2012 72.1% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2013 73.2%coil spring fractured or broken
- 2014 70.9% coil spring fractured or broken
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 2013 Fiat Bravo 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 2013 cars with a similar record
- Chevrolet Spark 73.2%
- Peugeot Bipper 73.2%
- Vauxhall Antara 73.3%
- Citroen DS5 73.1%
- Hyundai I30 73.4%
- Hyundai Veloster 73.4%
Closest pass rates among 2013 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 2013 Fiat Bravo 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 1,200 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 327 | 27.00% | 20.98% | +6.02 |
| Brakes | 212 | 17.50% | 20.89% | −3.39 |
| Tyres | 203 | 16.80% | 19.76% | −2.96 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 113 | 9.30% | 12.21% | −2.91 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 95 | 7.90% | 5.52% | +2.38 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 67 | 5.50% | 5.57% | −0.07 |
| Non-component advisories | 67 | 5.50% | 4.18% | +1.32 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 46 | 3.80% | 1.76% | +2.04 |
| Visibility | 44 | 3.60% | 4.97% | −1.37 |
| Steering | 26 | 2.20% | 2.57% | −0.37 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 7.2% | £25–65 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.2% | £5–20 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.8% | £40–150 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.6% | £3–12 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 2.6% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.5% | £80–200 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.3% | £5–25 |
| On or after 01/07/2008 emissions exceed manufacturer's specified limit Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.9% | £60–250 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.9% | £5–25 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.7% | £18–45 |
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 discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 17.6% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 17.0% | £45–95 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 13.2% | £180–450 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 11.3% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 10.9% | £40–150 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 9.8% | £200–700 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 21 | 76.2% | 22,074 mi |
| 30-60k | 109 | 78.0% | 48,390 mi |
| 60-90k | 181 | 75.1% | 76,132 mi |
| 90-120k | 127 | 69.3% | 101,555 mi |
| 120k+ | 92 | 68.5% | 140,670 mi |
Source: 530 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.
2013 Bravo MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2013 Fiat Bravo?
73.2% of the 530 2013 Fiat Bravo tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 78.6% for cars first used in 2013. First-attempt pass rate: 66.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2013 Fiat Bravo?
The three most recorded items are coil spring fractured or broken (7.17%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (3.21%), pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (2.83%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2013 Fiat Bravo MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 76.2% of the time, falling to 68.5% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2013 Fiat Bravo in this dataset had covered 83,780 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2013 Fiat Bravo?
Diesel: 73.7% pass rate across 342 tests. Petrol: 72.3% pass rate across 188 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2013 Fiat Bravo MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 71.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 75.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.