Pass rate
81.4%
Around average — 9.8 pts behind the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 4,472 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £43–£111
2021 Fiat Doblo MOT pass rate
- 2021
- Van
- 8 trims combined
- typical 48,050 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
24.7% 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 →
1.9 pts down across model years — 7.8% in 2003, 5.9% 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
- 77.6%
- Typical mileage
- 48k mi
The 2021 Fiat Doblo MOT pass rate is 81.4% of its MOT tests — 9.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 24.7% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Fewer problems with suspension
Suspension is 13.4% of this car’s recorded faults, against 21.0% 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 91.2%; this one manages 81.4% — 9.8 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 20% 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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Every Fiat Doblo first registered in 2021 is combined here — 8 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2021 Fiat Doblo compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 9.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 77.6%. The median 2021 Fiat Doblo in this dataset had covered 48,050 mi.
99% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Diesel, which passed 81.3% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 81.8% of the time, April–September 80.6%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 4.94% of tests.
- 4,472 recorded tests behind this page.
- 81.4% overall pass rate, 77.6% 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
- 4,472
- Typical mileage (median)
- 48,050 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
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Doblo MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 69% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (99% 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 | 991 | 80.7% |
| South West | 467 | 81.8% |
| North West | 460 | 82.8% |
| Scotland | 448 | 78.3% |
| East of England | 439 | 83.6% |
| Yorkshire | 429 | 80.7% |
| West Midlands | 364 | 82.1% |
| East Midlands | 302 | 79.5% |
| Wales | 244 | 82.4% |
| North East | 179 | 84.4% |
| London | 149 | 81.9% |
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 2021 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 2021 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 windscreen 4.9% 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 lights 2.8% of tests
“malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction”
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 shock absorbers 2.5% of tests
“shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak”
Press down hard on each corner of the car and let go. It should settle in one bounce; if it keeps rocking, or you can see oil weeping down a shock absorber, that is the fault a tester will find.
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 Doblo through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £43–£111 — and 20% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £43–£111
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 20%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 4,472 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 2021 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 2021 vans with a similar record
- Nissan NV250 82.1%
- Citroen Dispatch 82.9%
- Citroen Berlingo 83.8%
- Renault Kangoo 84.1%
- Toyota Proace City 84.1%
- Peugeot Partner 84.5%
Closest pass rates among 2021 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 2021 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 5,185 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 | 1,293 | 24.70% | 19.76% | +4.94 |
| Brakes | 1,019 | 19.50% | 20.89% | −1.39 |
| Suspension | 701 | 13.40% | 20.98% | −7.58 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 674 | 12.90% | 12.21% | +0.69 |
| Visibility | 489 | 9.30% | 4.97% | +4.33 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 404 | 7.70% | 5.52% | +2.18 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 216 | 4.10% | 5.57% | −1.47 |
| Non-component advisories | 209 | 4.00% | 4.18% | −0.18 |
| Road Wheels | 119 | 2.30% | 0.75% | +1.55 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 61 | 1.20% | 1.76% | −0.56 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 4.9% | £80–200 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.8% | £3–12 |
| Pedal anti-slip provision missing Brakes | Major | 2.8% | £45–110 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 2.5% | £30–75 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 2.4% | £80–250 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.0% | £45–95 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.9% | £5–20 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.5% | £18–45 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 1.4% | £25–65 |
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 | 16.0% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.9% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 4.8% | £18–45 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 4.6% | £30–75 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 3.4% | £45–110 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 3.0% | £200–700 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 936 | 84.6% | 19,064 mi |
| 30-60k | 2,145 | 81.4% | 45,088 mi |
| 60-90k | 1,108 | 79.2% | 71,758 mi |
| 90-120k | 228 | 79.8% | 100,168 mi |
| 120k+ | 53 | 77.4% | 139,617 mi |
Source: 4,472 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 Doblo MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Fiat Doblo?
81.4% of the 4,472 2021 Fiat Doblo tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 77.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Fiat Doblo?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (4.94%), malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (2.82%), pedal anti-slip provision missing (2.75%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Fiat Doblo MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 84.6% of the time, falling to 77.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Fiat Doblo in this dataset had covered 48,050 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2021 Fiat Doblo?
Diesel: 81.3% pass rate across 4,442 tests. Petrol: 93.3% pass rate across 30 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2021 Fiat Doblo MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 81.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 80.6%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.