Pass rate
94.0%
Above average — 2.8 pts ahead of the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 100 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £12–£37
2021 Fiat Carado MOT pass rate
- 2021
- 12 trims combined
- typical 10,914 mi
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
36.0% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Which year to buy
- Best 2016 97.1% pass
- Avoid 2017 92.4% pass
Across the 7 years on record, a spread of 4.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 93.5%
- Typical mileage
- 11k mi
The 2021 Fiat Carado MOT pass rate is 94.0% of its MOT tests — 2.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 36.0% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Fiat Carado does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 2.9× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 36.0% of everything recorded on the 2021 Fiat Carado, against 12.2% nationally — 23.8 points above. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 77% 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.
- Based on a small sample. 100 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
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 Fiat Carado first registered in 2021 is combined here — 12 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2021 Fiat Carado compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 2.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 93.5%. The median 2021 Fiat Carado in this dataset had covered 10,914 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 90.4% of the time, April–September 97.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Outline marker lamp not working", noted on 3.00% of tests.
- 100 recorded tests behind this page.
- 94.0% overall pass rate, 93.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Fiat Carado, the average is 93.8% — best year 2016 (97.1%), worst 2017 (92.4%).
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
- 100
- Typical mileage (median)
- 10,914 mi
- Make and model
- Fiat Carado
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Carado MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 85% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Carado
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| East Midlands | 25 | 100.0% |
| West Midlands | 18 | 94.4% |
| North West | 16 | 87.5% |
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 2021 Carado
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 Carado
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 lights 3.0% of tests
“outline marker lamp 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.
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Check the wipers and washers 2.0% 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 mirrors 1.0% of tests
“mirrors seriously damaged, affecting the rear view”
Make sure both door mirrors are present, intact and adjustable, and that nothing is obscuring the view through the windscreen.
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 Carado through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £12–£37 — and 77% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £12–£37
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: service brake performance efficiency below…
- £60–£150
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 77%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 100 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 Carado, side by side
7 model years on record, from 2015 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 92.4% to 97.1% — a spread of 4.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2015 92.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 97.1% headlamp aim too far to the right
- 2017 92.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 93.2% wipers does not clear the…
- 2019 95.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2020 93.7% stop lamp with a multiple light…
- 2021 94.0%outline marker lamp not working
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 Carado 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
- Toyota Aygo 94.0%
- Jaguar I-Pace 94.0%
- Toyota Corolla Gr 94.0%
- Volvo XC40 R-Design T4 94.0%
- Volvo XC60 R-Design B5 94.0%
- Citroen C1 93.9%
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 Carado 10 failure items · 5 advisories · 6 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 9 | 36.00% | 12.21% | +23.79 |
| Tyres | 5 | 20.00% | 19.76% | +0.24 |
| Visibility | 5 | 20.00% | 4.97% | +15.03 |
| Steering | 3 | 12.00% | 2.57% | +9.43 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2 | 8.00% | 5.52% | +2.48 |
| Brakes | 1 | 4.00% | 20.89% | −16.89 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outline marker lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 3.0% | £3–15 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 2.0% | £8–22 |
| Daytime running lamps not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.0% | £3–15 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.0% | £30–80 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.0% | £3–12 |
| Mirrors seriously damaged, affecting the rear view Visibility | Rectified | 1.0% | £20–80 |
| Outline marker lamp light intensity obviously reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.0% | £3–15 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.0% | £5–25 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.0% | £3–15 |
| Service brake performance efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 1.0% | £60–150 |
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 | 4.0% | £45–95 |
| Pipes and hoses leaking Steering | Advisory | 2.0% | £60–200 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 1.0% | £200–700 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 1.0% | £45–95 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Advisory | 1.0% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 98 | 93.9% | 12,260 mi |
| 30-60k | 2 | 100.0% | 39,524 mi |
Source: 100 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 Carado MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Fiat Carado?
94.0% of the 100 2021 Fiat Carado tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 93.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Fiat Carado?
The three most recorded items are outline marker lamp not working (3.00%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (2.00%), daytime running lamps not working (1.00%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Fiat Carado MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.9% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Fiat Carado in this dataset had covered 10,914 mi.
Does the season affect the 2021 Fiat Carado MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 90.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 97.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.