Pass rate
91.1%
Above average — 0.4 pts ahead of the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 123 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £33–£80
2020 Fiat Qubo MOT pass rate
- 2020
- typical 20,459 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
36.9% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 91.1% pass · this year
- Avoid 2008 68.1% pass
Across the 13 years on record, a spread of 23 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 90.3%
- Typical mileage
- 20k mi
The 2020 Fiat Qubo MOT pass rate is 91.1% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 36.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Fiat Qubo does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.9× the national share
Tyres make up 36.9% of everything recorded on the 2020 Fiat Qubo, against 19.8% nationally — 17.1 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.
- Based on a small sample. 123 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 2020 Fiat Qubo compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 0.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 90.3%. The median 2020 Fiat Qubo in this dataset had covered 20,459 mi.
50% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Diesel, which passed 90.3% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 93.8% of the time, April–September 87.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 3.25% of tests.
- 123 recorded tests behind this page.
- 91.1% overall pass rate, 90.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Fiat Qubo, the average is 75.6% — best year 2020 (91.1%), worst 2008 (68.1%).
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
- 123
- Typical mileage (median)
- 20,459 mi
- Make and model
- Fiat Qubo
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
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 Qubo MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 73% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (50% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Qubo
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| North West | 23 | 91.3% |
| Yorkshire | 19 | 89.5% |
| South East | 18 | 88.9% |
| West Midlands | 15 | 100.0% |
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 2020 Qubo
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 2020 Qubo
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 3.3% 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 wipers and washers 3.3% 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 lights 1.6% 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 2020 Qubo through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £33–£80 — and 43% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £33–£80
- Cheapest common item: wipers does not clear the windscreen…
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 43%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 123 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 Qubo, side by side
13 model years on record, from 2008 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 68.1% to 91.1% — a spread of 23 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2008 68.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 72.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2010 71.7% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2011 75.2% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2012 75.1% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2013 75.2% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2014 76.5% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2015 79.7% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2016 79.7% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2017 83.2% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2018 82.9% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2019 86.6% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2020 91.1%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 2020 Fiat Qubo 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 2020 cars with a similar record
- Skoda Octavia 91.1%
- SEAT Arona 91.1%
- Mercedes-Benz A 91.1%
- Ford Fiesta 91.0%
- Vauxhall Grandland X 91.0%
- Volkswagen Touran 91.0%
Closest pass rates among 2020 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 2020 Fiat Qubo 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 83 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 | 31 | 36.90% | 19.76% | +17.14 |
| Brakes | 16 | 19.00% | 20.89% | −1.89 |
| Visibility | 16 | 19.00% | 4.97% | +14.03 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 5 | 6.00% | 12.21% | −6.21 |
| Non-component advisories | 5 | 6.00% | 4.18% | +1.82 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 3 | 3.60% | 5.57% | −1.97 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 3 | 3.60% | 0.82% | +2.78 |
| Suspension | 2 | 2.40% | 20.98% | −18.58 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1 | 1.20% | 5.52% | −4.32 |
| Steering | 1 | 1.20% | 2.57% | −1.37 |
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 | 3.3% | £80–200 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 3.3% | £8–22 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 2.4% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 2.4% | £8–22 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.6% | £30–80 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Rectified | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake fluid contaminated Brakes | Major | 0.81% | £45–110 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 0.81% | £25–65 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.81% | £45–95 |
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 | 12.2% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 5.7% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 4.9% | £18–45 |
| Non-component advisories Items removed from drivers view prior to test Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.4% | £20–80 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 2.4% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 87 | 94.3% | 14,460 mi |
| 30-60k | 33 | 81.8% | 41,578 mi |
| 60-90k | 3 | 100.0% | 73,084 mi |
Source: 123 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.
2020 Qubo MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Fiat Qubo?
91.1% of the 123 2020 Fiat Qubo tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 90.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Fiat Qubo?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.25%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (3.25%), wipers blade defective (2.44%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Fiat Qubo MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.3% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Fiat Qubo in this dataset had covered 20,459 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2020 Fiat Qubo?
Diesel: 90.3% pass rate across 62 tests. Petrol: 91.8% pass rate across 61 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2020 Fiat Qubo MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 93.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 87.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.