Pass rate
89.6%
Above average — 1.6 pts behind the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 346 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £29–£92
2021 Fiat Panda Cross Twinair MOT pass rate
- 2021
- typical 21,032 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
31.9% 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 →
Which year to buy
- Best 2021 89.6% pass · this year
- Avoid 2022 82.4% pass
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 7.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 88.4%
- Typical mileage
- 21k mi
The 2021 Fiat Panda Cross Twinair MOT pass rate is 89.6% of its MOT tests — 1.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 31.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Fiat Panda Cross Twinair does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.5× the national share
Suspension accounts for 31.9% of everything recorded on the 2021 Fiat Panda Cross Twinair, against 21.0% nationally — 10.9 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 28% 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. 346 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 Cross Twinair compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 1.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 88.4%. The median 2021 Fiat Panda Cross Twinair in this dataset had covered 21,032 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 91.7% of the time, April–September 88.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn", noted on 4.62% of tests.
- 346 recorded tests behind this page.
- 89.6% overall pass rate, 88.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Fiat Panda Cross Twinair, the average is 88.7% — best year 2021 (89.6%), worst 2022 (82.4%).
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
- 346
- Typical mileage (median)
- 21,032 mi
- Make and model
- Fiat Panda Cross Twinair
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Suspension Component
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Panda Cross Twinair MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 62% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Panda Cross Twinair
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Yorkshire | 55 | 89.1% |
| South East | 53 | 86.8% |
| South West | 48 | 93.8% |
| Scotland | 36 | 86.1% |
| North West | 34 | 91.2% |
| West Midlands | 27 | 88.9% |
| North East | 24 | 95.8% |
| East of England | 24 | 91.7% |
| East Midlands | 22 | 81.8% |
| Wales | 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 Cross Twinair
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 Cross Twinair
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 suspension joints 4.6% 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.
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Check the brakes 0.9% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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Check the lights 0.9% of tests
“headlamp aim too high”
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.
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 Cross Twinair through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £29–£92 — and 28% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £29–£92
- Cheapest common item: individual direction indicators not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: pins
- £40–£150
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 28%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 346 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 Cross Twinair, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2021 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 82.4% to 89.6% — a spread of 7.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2021 89.6%pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2022 82.4% pins and bushes pin or bush…
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 Cross Twinair 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
- Mercedes-Benz Cla 89.6%
- Mercedes-Benz E 89.6%
- SEAT Arona Fr 89.6%
- BMW X5 XDRIVE30D 89.6%
- Hyundai Kona Ultimate Gdi 89.7%
- Peugeot Rifter 89.7%
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 Cross Twinair 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 279 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 | 89 | 31.90% | 20.98% | +10.92 |
| Tyres | 72 | 25.80% | 19.76% | +6.04 |
| Brakes | 70 | 25.10% | 20.89% | +4.21 |
| Visibility | 12 | 4.30% | 4.97% | −0.67 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 11 | 3.90% | 5.52% | −1.62 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 10 | 3.60% | 12.21% | −8.61 |
| Non-component advisories | 8 | 2.90% | 4.18% | −1.28 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 4 | 1.40% | 5.57% | −4.17 |
| Road Wheels | 2 | 0.70% | 0.75% | −0.05 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 0.40% | 0.82% | −0.42 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 4.6% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.87% | £18–45 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.87% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.87% | £30–80 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 0.87% | £45–110 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.87% | £8–22 |
| Individual direction indicators not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.58% | £3–12 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.58% | £5–20 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Major | 0.58% | £5–15 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.58% | £8–22 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 18.8% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 10.1% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 10.1% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.2% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 4.9% | £45–95 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 2.3% | £200–700 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 249 | 93.2% | 16,551 mi |
| 30-60k | 87 | 81.6% | 40,278 mi |
| 60-90k | 10 | 70.0% | 66,237 mi |
Source: 346 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 Cross Twinair MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Fiat Panda Cross Twinair?
89.6% of the 346 2021 Fiat Panda Cross Twinair tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 88.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Fiat Panda Cross Twinair?
The three most recorded items are pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (4.62%), brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (0.87%), has ply or cords exposed (0.87%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Fiat Panda Cross Twinair MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.2% of the time, falling to 70.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Fiat Panda Cross Twinair in this dataset had covered 21,032 mi.
Does the season affect the 2021 Fiat Panda Cross Twinair MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 91.7% 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.