Pass rate
78.3%
Around average — 9.6 pts behind the 87.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 960 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £29–£75
2018 Fiat Talento MOT pass rate
- 2018
- typical 80,103 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
24.3% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Part only £40–£65 for Shock absorber leaking. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 86.1% pass
- Avoid 2017 75.7% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 10.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 73.0%
- Typical mileage
- 80k mi
The 2018 Fiat Talento MOT pass rate is 78.3% of its MOT tests — 9.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 24.3% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Falls short of its own age and mileage
Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 87.9%; this one manages 78.3% — 9.6 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 26% 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 2018 Fiat Talento compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 87.9%, so this figure is 9.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 73.0%. The median 2018 Fiat Talento in this dataset had covered 80,103 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 78.7% of the time, April–September 77.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 7.60% of tests.
- 960 recorded tests behind this page.
- 78.3% overall pass rate, 73.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Fiat Talento, the average is 78.4% — best year 2020 (86.1%), worst 2017 (75.7%).
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
- 960
- Typical mileage (median)
- 80,103 mi
- Make and model
- Fiat Talento
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
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 Talento MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 65% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Fiat Talento is most common
Across all Talento model years on record (2016–2021): 2,343 Fiat Talento cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 5,528 tests. Swansea (SA) has the most, with 87 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 | Swansea (SA) | 87 | 78.3% |
| 2 | Sheffield (S) | 71 | 80.0% |
| 3 | Birmingham (B) | 50 | 77.5% |
| 4 | Canterbury (CT) | 46 | 75.0% |
| 5 | Cardiff (CF) | 45 | 77.2% |
| 6 | Glasgow (G) | 45 | 80.0% |
| 7 | Southampton (SO) | 43 | 82.9% |
| 8 | Maidstone (ME) | 41 | 75.8% |
| 9 | Exeter (EX) | 40 | 75.6% |
| 10 | Doncaster (DN) | 38 | 78.2% |
| 11 | Bristol (BS) | 37 | 76.7% |
| 12 | Portsmouth (PO) | 36 | 74.7% |
| 13 | Plymouth (PL) | 34 | 72.9% |
| 14 | Inverness (IV) | 34 | 78.6% |
| 15 | Gloucester (GL) | 34 | 81.3% |
| 16 | Ashford (TN) | 34 | 75.6% |
| 17 | Edinburgh (EH) | 33 | 75.9% |
| 18 | Oxford (OX) | 32 | 80.0% |
| 19 | Stoke On Trent (ST) | 32 | 77.3% |
| 20 | Wrexham (LL) | 31 | 82.4% |
The twenty areas with the most Fiat Talento 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 Talento
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 232 | 78.4% |
| South West | 116 | 79.3% |
| Yorkshire | 101 | 83.2% |
| West Midlands | 94 | 73.4% |
| Scotland | 85 | 65.9% |
| Wales | 84 | 81.0% |
| North West | 78 | 79.5% |
| East Midlands | 58 | 81.0% |
| East of England | 44 | 79.5% |
| North East | 36 | 86.1% |
| London | 32 | 81.3% |
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 2018 Talento
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 2018 Talento
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 7.6% 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.
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Check the suspension joints 4.6% of tests
“track rod end ball joint has excessive play”
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 lights 4.5% 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.
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 2018 Talento through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £29–£75 — and 26% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £29–£75
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 26%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 960 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 Talento, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2016 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 75.7% to 86.1% — a spread of 10.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2016 75.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 75.7% track rod end ball joint has…
- 2018 78.3%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 78.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 86.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 83.4% 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 2018 Fiat Talento 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 2018 cars with a similar record
- Mercedes-Benz Citan 79.1%
- Renault Zoe 77.5%
- Vauxhall Combo 79.4%
- Nissan Navara 80.9%
- Renault Grand Scenic 81.2%
- Hyundai I800 81.8%
Closest pass rates among 2018 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 2018 Fiat Talento 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 1,438 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 | 354 | 24.30% | 20.98% | +3.32 |
| Brakes | 284 | 19.50% | 20.89% | −1.39 |
| Tyres | 227 | 15.60% | 19.76% | −4.16 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 165 | 11.30% | 12.21% | −0.91 |
| Visibility | 125 | 8.60% | 4.97% | +3.63 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 98 | 6.70% | 5.52% | +1.18 |
| Steering | 87 | 6.00% | 2.57% | +3.43 |
| Non-component advisories | 55 | 3.80% | 4.18% | −0.38 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 28 | 1.90% | 5.57% | −3.67 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 15 | 1.00% | 0.82% | +0.18 |
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 | 7.6% | £80–200 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 4.6% | £18–45 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 4.5% | £5–20 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 3.2% | £25–65 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 3.2% | £30–75 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.1% | £18–45 |
| Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.0% | £18–45 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.0% | £3–12 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 2.1% | £18–45 |
| Mirrors slightly damaged Visibility | Minor | 1.8% | £3–15 |
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 | 14.1% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 9.6% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 8.7% | £45–110 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 8.1% | £30–75 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 5.1% | £200–700 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.0% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 63 | 85.7% | 21,834 mi |
| 30-60k | 232 | 80.2% | 46,935 mi |
| 60-90k | 273 | 80.2% | 74,759 mi |
| 90-120k | 202 | 76.2% | 103,033 mi |
| 120k+ | 183 | 73.2% | 147,454 mi |
Source: 960 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.
2018 Talento MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2018 Fiat Talento?
78.3% of the 960 2018 Fiat Talento tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 87.9% for cars first used in 2018. First-attempt pass rate: 73.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2018 Fiat Talento?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (7.60%), track rod end ball joint has excessive play (4.58%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (4.48%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2018 Fiat Talento MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 85.7% of the time, falling to 73.2% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2018 Fiat Talento in this dataset had covered 80,103 mi.
Does the season affect the 2018 Fiat Talento MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 78.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 77.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.