Pass rate
77.0%
Around average — 7.0 pts behind the 84.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 12,901 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £38–£99
2016 Fiat Doblo MOT pass rate
- 2016
- Van
- typical 79,567 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
24.9% 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 →
4.8 pts down across model years — 6.2% in 2003, 1.4% in 2021.
Which year to buy
- Best 2022 84.2% pass
- Avoid 2001 66.3% pass
Across the 22 years on record, a spread of 17.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 71.0%
- Typical mileage
- 80k mi
The 2016 Fiat Doblo MOT pass rate is 77.0% of its MOT tests — 7.0 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 24.9% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Fewer problems with brakes
Brakes are 14.5% of this car’s recorded faults, against 20.9% nationally — the mirror image of the usual story on a van of this age.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, vans this age and mileage expect about 84.0%; this one manages 77.0% — 7.0 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 23% 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 2016 Fiat Doblo compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 84.0%, so this figure is 7.0 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 71.0%. The median 2016 Fiat Doblo in this dataset had covered 79,567 mi.
93% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Diesel, which passed 76.7% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 77.3% of the time, April–September 76.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Coil spring fractured or broken", noted on 6.68% of tests.
- 12,901 recorded tests behind this page.
- 77.0% overall pass rate, 71.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Fiat Doblo, the average is 76.2% — best year 2022 (84.2%), worst 2001 (66.3%).
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
- 12,901
- Typical mileage (median)
- 79,567 mi
- Make and model
- Fiat Doblo
- 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 Doblo MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 66% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (93% of tests).
Where the Fiat Doblo is most common
Across all Doblo model years on record (2001–2022): 67,336 Fiat Doblo cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 164,516 tests. Sheffield (S) has the most, with 1,807 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 | Sheffield (S) | 1,807 | 80.2% |
| 2 | Birmingham (B) | 1,676 | 81.8% |
| 3 | Cardiff (CF) | 1,455 | 76.3% |
| 4 | Nottingham (NG) | 1,432 | 76.2% |
| 5 | Peterborough (PE) | 1,385 | 78.2% |
| 6 | Swansea (SA) | 1,358 | 73.9% |
| 7 | Leicester (LE) | 1,246 | 80.8% |
| 8 | Glasgow (G) | 1,138 | 76.6% |
| 9 | Doncaster (DN) | 1,113 | 77.1% |
| 10 | Manchester (M) | 1,098 | 78.7% |
| 11 | Derby (DE) | 1,068 | 78.1% |
| 12 | Bristol (BS) | 1,043 | 72.5% |
| 13 | Norwich (NR) | 1,036 | 74.0% |
| 14 | Stoke On Trent (ST) | 1,027 | 74.9% |
| 15 | Chelmsford (CM) | 999 | 81.7% |
| 16 | Portsmouth (PO) | 970 | 73.5% |
| 17 | Reading (RG) | 945 | 80.4% |
| 18 | Coventry (CV) | 933 | 80.3% |
| 19 | Southampton (SO) | 929 | 75.8% |
| 20 | Edinburgh (EH) | 910 | 73.3% |
The twenty areas with the most Fiat Doblo 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 Doblo
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 2,250 | 78.6% |
| North West | 1,586 | 75.7% |
| Scotland | 1,473 | 73.2% |
| South West | 1,401 | 74.2% |
| East of England | 1,344 | 78.9% |
| West Midlands | 1,133 | 78.6% |
| Yorkshire | 1,103 | 79.1% |
| East Midlands | 963 | 76.5% |
| Wales | 888 | 75.3% |
| London | 383 | 84.1% |
| North East | 377 | 79.8% |
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 2016 Doblo
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 2016 Doblo
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 6.7% 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 windscreen 6.5% 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 suspension joints 2.5% 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 2016 Doblo through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £38–£99 — and 23% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £38–£99
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 23%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 12,901 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 Doblo, side by side
22 model years on record, from 2001 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 66.3% to 84.2% — a spread of 17.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2001 66.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2002 67.0% component mounting prescribed…
- 2003 66.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2004 67.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2005 68.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 71.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 71.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 72.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 74.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2010 73.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2011 72.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2012 72.8% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2013 80.8% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2014 75.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2015 76.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 77.0%coil spring fractured or broken
- 2017 77.7% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2018 80.8% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2019 81.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 82.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 81.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2022 84.2% windscreen damaged but not…
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 2016 Fiat Doblo 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 2016 vans with a similar record
- Nissan NV200 76.6%
- Citroen Berlingo 77.6%
- Peugeot Partner 77.9%
- Peugeot Expert 76.1%
- Toyota Proace 76.0%
- Vauxhall Movano 78.1%
Closest pass rates among 2016 vans with at least 1,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. Full rankings: best vans and worst vans for MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2016 Fiat Doblo 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 20,710 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 | 5,225 | 24.90% | 20.98% | +3.92 |
| Tyres | 4,700 | 22.40% | 19.76% | +2.64 |
| Brakes | 3,040 | 14.50% | 20.89% | −6.39 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 2,364 | 11.30% | 12.21% | −0.91 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1,633 | 7.80% | 5.52% | +2.28 |
| Visibility | 1,592 | 7.60% | 4.97% | +2.63 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1,033 | 4.90% | 5.57% | −0.67 |
| Non-component advisories | 622 | 3.00% | 4.18% | −1.18 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 266 | 1.30% | 1.76% | −0.46 |
| Road Wheels | 235 | 1.10% | 0.75% | +0.35 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 6.7% | £25–65 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 6.5% | £80–200 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.5% | £40–150 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.4% | £5–20 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.0% | £3–12 |
| Side repeaters lens defective which has no effect on emitted light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.9% | £3–15 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.3% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.2% | £30–80 |
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 | 18.5% | £45–95 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 7.8% | £25–65 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 7.7% | £40–150 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 7.4% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 7.1% | £45–110 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 6.3% | £200–700 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 878 | 85.5% | 18,548 mi |
| 30-60k | 2,605 | 80.2% | 47,731 mi |
| 60-90k | 4,478 | 76.8% | 75,014 mi |
| 90-120k | 3,039 | 74.2% | 103,094 mi |
| 120k+ | 1,891 | 74.0% | 146,698 mi |
Source: 12,901 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.
2016 Doblo MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2016 Fiat Doblo?
77.0% of the 12,901 2016 Fiat Doblo tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 84.0% for cars first used in 2016. First-attempt pass rate: 71.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2016 Fiat Doblo?
The three most recorded items are coil spring fractured or broken (6.68%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (6.53%), pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (2.52%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2016 Fiat Doblo MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 85.5% of the time, falling to 74.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2016 Fiat Doblo in this dataset had covered 79,567 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2016 Fiat Doblo?
Diesel: 76.7% pass rate across 12,056 tests. Petrol: 82.2% pass rate across 845 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2016 Fiat Doblo MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 77.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 76.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.