Pass rate
88.9%
Above average — 2.3 pts behind the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 207 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £32–£71
2021 Fiat Panda City MOT pass rate
- 2021
- typical 17,007 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
44.6% 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 92.6% pass
- Avoid 2021 88.9% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 3.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 87.6%
- Typical mileage
- 17k mi
The 2021 Fiat Panda City MOT pass rate is 88.9% of its MOT tests — 2.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 44.6% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Fiat Panda City does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.3× the national share
Tyres make up 44.6% of everything recorded on the 2021 Fiat Panda City, against 19.8% nationally — 24.8 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 30% 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.
- Based on a small sample. 207 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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How does the 2021 Fiat Panda City compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 2.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 87.6%. The median 2021 Fiat Panda City in this dataset had covered 17,007 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 89.4% of the time, April–September 88.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has ply or cords exposed", noted on 3.38% of tests.
- 207 recorded tests behind this page.
- 88.9% overall pass rate, 87.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Fiat Panda City, the average is 90.9% — best year 2022 (92.6%), worst 2021 (88.9%).
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
- 207
- Typical mileage (median)
- 17,007 mi
- Make and model
- Fiat Panda City
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Panda City MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 67% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Panda City
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 47 | 87.2% |
| South West | 33 | 84.8% |
| Scotland | 27 | 88.9% |
| Wales | 22 | 90.9% |
| West Midlands | 18 | 88.9% |
| Yorkshire | 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 Panda City
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 Panda City
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 tyre tread 1.4% of tests
“tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm”
Check all four tyres cold, including the inner shoulder where wear hides — 1.6mm across the central three-quarters is the legal limit, and most testers fail at 1.6mm without argument.
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Check the wipers and washers 1.0% 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 coil springs 0.5% 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.
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 Panda City through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £32–£71 — and 30% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £32–£71
- Cheapest common item: daytime running lamps insecure
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: hand lever has insufficient reserve travel
- £45–£110
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 100%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 30%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 207 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 Panda City, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2021 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 88.9% to 92.6% — a spread of 3.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2021 88.9%has ply or cords exposed
- 2022 92.6% has ply or cords exposed
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 Panda City 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
- Hyundai I10 N 88.9%
- Skoda Enyaq Iv 89.0%
- Volvo XC90 R-Design B5 89.0%
- Kia Ceed 88.8%
- Toyota Hilux Invincible D-4D 88.8%
- Volkswagen Sharan 88.8%
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 Panda City 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 9 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 101 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 | 45 | 44.60% | 19.76% | +24.84 |
| Brakes | 19 | 18.80% | 20.89% | −2.09 |
| Suspension | 12 | 11.90% | 20.98% | −9.08 |
| Visibility | 8 | 7.90% | 4.97% | +2.93 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 7 | 6.90% | 12.21% | −5.31 |
| Non-component advisories | 6 | 5.90% | 4.18% | +1.72 |
| Road Wheels | 2 | 2.00% | 0.75% | +1.25 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1 | 1.00% | 1.76% | −0.76 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 1.00% | 0.82% | +0.18 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 3.4% | £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 | 0.97% | £45–95 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.97% | £8–22 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 0.48% | £25–65 |
| Daytime running lamps insecure Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.48% | £3–15 |
| Daytime running lamps not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.48% | £3–15 |
| Front fog lamps lens defective which has no effect on emitted light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.48% | £3–15 |
| Front fog lamps not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.48% | £3–15 |
| Hand lever has insufficient reserve travel Brakes | Major | 0.48% | £45–110 |
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 | 8.7% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.3% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 3.4% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 3.4% | £40–150 |
| Cable damaged Brakes | Advisory | 2.4% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.9% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 176 | 90.3% | 14,339 mi |
| 30-60k | 27 | 81.5% | 39,376 mi |
| 60-90k | 4 | 75.0% | 71,999 mi |
Source: 207 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 Panda City MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Fiat Panda City?
88.9% of the 207 2021 Fiat Panda City tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 87.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Fiat Panda City?
The three most recorded items are has ply or cords exposed (3.38%), tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (1.45%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (0.97%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Fiat Panda City MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 90.3% of the time, falling to 75.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Fiat Panda City in this dataset had covered 17,007 mi.
Does the season affect the 2021 Fiat Panda City MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 89.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 88.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.