Pass rate
89.1%
Above average — 10.5 pts ahead of the 78.6% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 55 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £34–£89
2013 Fiat Rapdio MOT pass rate
- 2013
- typical 30,795 mi
Only 55 tests of this exact model and year are in the DVSA data, below the 100 we ask for before a page goes in the index. The figures are still shown, because they are the only ones there are.
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
25.0% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Part only £6–£18 for Registration plate lamp inoperative (multiple lamps). What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2019 95.3% pass
- Avoid 2020 88.2% pass
Across the 8 years on record, a spread of 7.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 87.8%
- Typical mileage
- 31k mi
The 2013 Fiat Rapdio MOT pass rate is 89.1% of its MOT tests — 10.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 25.0% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Fiat Rapdio does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Visibility: 4.4× the national share
Visibility accounts for 21.9% of everything recorded on the 2013 Fiat Rapdio, against 5.0% nationally — 16.9 points above. Lamps & electrics are still the single largest share at 25.0%, but at 12.2% nationally that one is ordinary. Wipers, washers and a chip in the driver’s eyeline are the three quickest ways to fail a test that the car otherwise deserves to pass.
- Beats its own age and mileage. Once you allow for how old and how far these cars have been driven, the expected pass rate is 78.6% and this one manages 89.1% — 10.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 62% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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 2013 Fiat Rapdio compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 78.6%, so this figure is 10.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 87.8%. The median 2013 Fiat Rapdio in this dataset had covered 30,795 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 5.45% of tests.
- 55 recorded tests behind this page.
- 89.1% overall pass rate, 87.8% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Fiat Rapdio, the average is 91.8% — best year 2019 (95.3%), worst 2020 (88.2%).
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
- 55
- Typical mileage (median)
- 30,795 mi
- Make and model
- Fiat Rapdio
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Rapdio MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 79% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Rapdio
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| East of England | 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 2013 Rapdio
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 2013 Rapdio
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 lights 5.5% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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 wipers and washers 5.5% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
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 windscreen 3.6% 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.
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 2013 Rapdio through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £34–£89 — and 62% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £34–£89
- Cheapest common item: srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: chassis condition modified such that…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 62%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 55 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 Rapdio, side by side
8 model years on record, from 2013 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 88.2% to 95.3% — a spread of 7.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2013 89.1%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 89.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 91.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 90.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 93.2% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2018 92.3% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2019 95.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 88.2% wipers blade defective
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 2013 Fiat Rapdio 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 2013 cars with a similar record
- Lexus Is 88.9%
- Lexus Rx 90.2%
- Porsche Panamera 87.9%
- Toyota Prius 87.7%
- Jaguar Xk 90.5%
- Toyota Estima 87.5%
Closest pass rates among 2013 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 2013 Fiat Rapdio 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 8 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 8 | 25.00% | 12.21% | +12.79 |
| Visibility | 7 | 21.90% | 4.97% | +16.93 |
| Brakes | 6 | 18.80% | 20.89% | −2.09 |
| Tyres | 6 | 18.80% | 19.76% | −0.96 |
| Non-component advisories | 2 | 6.20% | 4.18% | +2.02 |
| Suspension | 1 | 3.10% | 20.98% | −17.88 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 3.10% | 5.57% | −2.47 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 3.10% | 0.82% | +2.28 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.5% | £5–20 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 5.5% | £8–22 |
| Service brake performance efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 3.6% | £60–150 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.6% | £80–200 |
| Chassis condition modified such that structural rigidity is significantly reduced Body, chassis, structure | Major | 1.8% | £180–450 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.8% | £30–80 |
| Outline marker lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.8% | £3–15 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.8% | £5–25 |
| Side repeaters lens defective which has no effect on emitted light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.8% | £3–15 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 1.8% | £3–12 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 7.3% | £45–95 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 3.6% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Vehicles internal headlight adjuster altered to recheck lights Non-component advisories | Advisory | 3.6% | £3–15 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 1.8% | £45–110 |
| Brake linings less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 1.8% | £45–110 |
| Flexible brake hoses ferrule excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 1.8% | £25–70 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 23 | 87.0% | 20,840 mi |
| 30-60k | 23 | 87.0% | 40,789 mi |
| 60-90k | 8 | 100.0% | 66,586 mi |
Source: 55 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.
2013 Rapdio MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2013 Fiat Rapdio?
89.1% of the 55 2013 Fiat Rapdio tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 78.6% for cars first used in 2013. First-attempt pass rate: 87.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2013 Fiat Rapdio?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (5.45%), wipers blade defective (5.45%), service brake performance efficiency below requirements (3.64%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2013 Fiat Rapdio MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 87.0% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2013 Fiat Rapdio in this dataset had covered 30,795 mi.