Pass rate
71.2%
Below average — 2.6 pts behind the 73.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 455 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £69–£187
2000 Fiat Scudo MOT pass rate
- 2000
- Van
- typical 99,422 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
27.9% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2022 83.7% pass
- Avoid 2005 66.6% pass
Across the 18 years on record, a spread of 17.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 62.4%
- Typical mileage
- 99k mi
The 2000 Fiat Scudo MOT pass rate is 71.2% of its MOT tests — 2.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 27.9% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.3× the national share
Suspension accounts for 27.9% of everything recorded on the 2000 Fiat Scudo, against 21.0% nationally — 6.9 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.
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 2000 Fiat Scudo compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.8%, so this figure is 2.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 62.4%. The median 2000 Fiat Scudo in this dataset had covered 99,422 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 70.0% of the time, April–September 72.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength", noted on 7.25% of tests.
- 455 recorded tests behind this page.
- 71.2% overall pass rate, 62.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Fiat Scudo, the average is 69.5% — best year 2022 (83.7%), worst 2005 (66.6%).
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
- 455
- Typical mileage (median)
- 99,422 mi
- Make and model
- Fiat Scudo
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Corrosion Welding Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Scudo MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 0% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Fiat Scudo is most common
Across all Scudo model years on record (2000–2022): 11,961 Fiat Scudo cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 32,202 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 405 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 | Birmingham (B) | 405 | 77.3% |
| 2 | Sheffield (S) | 364 | 72.6% |
| 3 | Swansea (SA) | 292 | 68.0% |
| 4 | Nottingham (NG) | 268 | 68.1% |
| 5 | Plymouth (PL) | 265 | 64.2% |
| 6 | Bristol (BS) | 245 | 67.1% |
| 7 | Doncaster (DN) | 225 | 69.5% |
| 8 | Leicester (LE) | 223 | 72.6% |
| 9 | Cardiff (CF) | 220 | 68.8% |
| 10 | Exeter (EX) | 217 | 64.4% |
| 11 | Coventry (CV) | 211 | 74.8% |
| 12 | Derby (DE) | 207 | 72.6% |
| 13 | Peterborough (PE) | 206 | 66.0% |
| 14 | Gloucester (GL) | 204 | 68.2% |
| 15 | Norwich (NR) | 194 | 67.3% |
| 16 | Portsmouth (PO) | 193 | 67.0% |
| 17 | Stoke On Trent (ST) | 178 | 64.8% |
| 18 | Wrexham (LL) | 176 | 67.6% |
| 19 | Ashford (TN) | 165 | 67.7% |
| 20 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 155 | 66.0% |
The twenty areas with the most Fiat Scudo 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 Scudo
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South West | 75 | 69.3% |
| North West | 71 | 73.2% |
| South East | 58 | 70.7% |
| West Midlands | 54 | 70.4% |
| Yorkshire | 38 | 76.3% |
| East Midlands | 38 | 65.8% |
| Wales | 36 | 66.7% |
| East of England | 34 | 79.4% |
| Scotland | 29 | 72.4% |
| North East | 22 | 68.2% |
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 2000 Scudo
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 2000 Scudo
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 corrosion 7.3% of tests
“component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength”
Look under the sills, around the jacking points and where the suspension mounts meet the body. Flaking, holed or crumbly metal fails; a brown stain on sound metal does not.
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Check the lights 6.8% 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 suspension joints 4.4% of tests
“ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated”
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.
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 2000 Scudo through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £69–£187 — and 28% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £69–£187
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: component mounting prescribed areas…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 28%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 455 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 Scudo, side by side
18 model years on record, from 2000 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 66.6% to 83.7% — a spread of 17.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 71.2%component mounting prescribed…
- 2001 70.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2002 72.1% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2003 68.9% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2004 68.5% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2005 66.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2006 67.1% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2007 67.1% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2008 69.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2009 69.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2010 70.2% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2011 69.9% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2012 71.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 72.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2014 73.5% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2015 73.3% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2016 74.1% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2022 83.7% wipers does not clear the…
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 2000 Fiat Scudo 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 2000 vans with a similar record
- Peugeot Boxer 72.5%
- Volkswagen Transporter 69.5%
- Citroen Berlingo 69.2%
- Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 73.5%
- Ford Transit 74.8%
Closest pass rates among 2000 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 2000 Fiat Scudo 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 1,517 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 | 428 | 27.90% | 20.98% | +6.92 |
| Brakes | 305 | 19.90% | 20.89% | −0.99 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 177 | 11.50% | 5.57% | +5.93 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 164 | 10.70% | 12.21% | −1.51 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 118 | 7.70% | 5.52% | +2.18 |
| Tyres | 109 | 7.10% | 19.76% | −12.66 |
| Steering | 81 | 5.30% | 2.57% | +2.73 |
| Non-component advisories | 63 | 4.10% | 4.18% | −0.08 |
| Visibility | 51 | 3.30% | 4.97% | −1.67 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 21 | 1.40% | 0.82% | +0.58 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 7.3% | £180–450 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 6.8% | £5–20 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 6.2% | £80–250 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 4.4% | £18–45 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Major | 4.0% | £45–120 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 3.7% | £80–250 |
| Service brake imbalance across an axle Brakes | Major | 3.3% | £45–110 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.6% | £5–25 |
| Horn not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.4% | £8–25 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Major | 2.2% | £180–450 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 22.9% | £200–700 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 17.1% | £25–65 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 16.5% | £80–180 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 15.2% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 12.1% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Play in steering rack inner joint(s) Non-component advisories | Advisory | 11.7% | £120–300 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 2 | 0.0% | 9,521 mi |
| 30-60k | 43 | 72.1% | 48,812 mi |
| 60-90k | 54 | 70.4% | 76,558 mi |
| 90-120k | 37 | 75.7% | 102,772 mi |
| 120k+ | 87 | 67.8% | 170,628 mi |
Source: 455 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.
2000 Scudo MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2000 Fiat Scudo?
71.2% of the 455 2000 Fiat Scudo tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.8% for cars first used in 2000. First-attempt pass rate: 62.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2000 Fiat Scudo?
The three most recorded items are component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (7.25%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (6.81%), joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (6.15%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2000 Fiat Scudo MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 0.0% of the time, falling to 67.8% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2000 Fiat Scudo in this dataset had covered 99,422 mi.
Does the season affect the 2000 Fiat Scudo MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 70.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 72.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.