Pass rate
86.5%
Above average — 4.2 pts behind the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 297 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £26–£82
2020 Isuzu D-Max Xtr MOT pass rate
- 2020
- typical 37,306 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
32.9% 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 89.0% pass
- Avoid 2020 86.5% pass · this year
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 2.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 84.8%
- Typical mileage
- 37k mi
The 2020 Isuzu D-Max Xtr MOT pass rate is 86.5% of its MOT tests — 4.2 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 32.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Isuzu D-Max Xtr does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.6× the national share
Suspension accounts for 32.9% of everything recorded on the 2020 Isuzu D-Max Xtr, against 21.0% nationally — 11.9 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 90.7%; this one manages 86.5% — 4.2 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- Based on a small sample. 297 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 Isuzu D-Max Xtr compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 4.2 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 84.8%. The median 2020 Isuzu D-Max Xtr in this dataset had covered 37,306 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 87.6% of the time, April–September 85.5%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 3.70% of tests.
- 297 recorded tests behind this page.
- 86.5% overall pass rate, 84.8% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Isuzu D-Max Xtr, the average is 87.5% — best year 2021 (89.0%), worst 2020 (86.5%).
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
- 297
- Typical mileage (median)
- 37,306 mi
- Make and model
- Isuzu D-Max Xtr
- 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 D-Max Xtr MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 58% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the D-Max Xtr
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 44 | 95.5% |
| East Midlands | 36 | 83.3% |
| South West | 32 | 75.0% |
| Yorkshire | 32 | 87.5% |
| East of England | 32 | 75.0% |
| West Midlands | 29 | 86.2% |
| South East | 28 | 89.3% |
| Wales | 25 | 92.0% |
| North East | 20 | 95.0% |
| North West | 17 | 88.2% |
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 2020 D-Max Xtr
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 D-Max Xtr
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 3.7% 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 2.4% 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 windscreen 1.7% 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 2020 D-Max Xtr through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £26–£82 — and 48% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £26–£82
- Cheapest common item: individual direction indicators flashing more…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 48%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 297 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 D-Max Xtr, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2019 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 86.5% to 89.0% — a spread of 2.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 88.3% wheel bearings has excessive play
- 2020 86.5%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2021 89.0% 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 Isuzu D-Max Xtr 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
- Nissan Navara 86.3%
- Tesla Model 3 86.8%
- Renault Megane 86.8%
- Peugeot 508 86.0%
- Kia Sportage GT-Ln Crdi 87.0%
- Peugeot 5008 87.1%
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 Isuzu D-Max Xtr 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 249 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 | 82 | 32.90% | 20.98% | +11.92 |
| Brakes | 46 | 18.50% | 20.89% | −2.39 |
| Tyres | 42 | 16.90% | 19.76% | −2.86 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 35 | 14.10% | 12.21% | +1.89 |
| Visibility | 17 | 6.80% | 4.97% | +1.83 |
| Non-component advisories | 11 | 4.40% | 4.18% | +0.22 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 10 | 4.00% | 5.52% | −1.52 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 2 | 0.80% | 5.57% | −4.77 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 2 | 0.80% | 1.76% | −0.96 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 2 | 0.80% | 0.82% | −0.02 |
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 | 3.7% | £5–20 |
| Leaf spring fractured Suspension | Major | 2.7% | £40–150 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.4% | £40–150 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.7% | £80–200 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.4% | £8–22 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.0% | £18–45 |
| Individual direction indicators flashing more than 120 times a minute Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.0% | £3–12 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Rectified | 1.0% | £3–12 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.0% | £45–95 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.0% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 9.4% | £45–95 |
| Wheel bearings has excessive play Suspension | Advisory | 6.7% | £20–55 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.7% | £45–110 |
| Shock absorbers has an excessively worn bush Suspension | Advisory | 4.0% | £30–75 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 3.0% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 2.7% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 100 | 93.0% | 19,707 mi |
| 30-60k | 141 | 85.8% | 42,999 mi |
| 60-90k | 49 | 77.6% | 72,817 mi |
| 90-120k | 4 | 75.0% | 102,021 mi |
| 120k+ | 3 | 66.7% | 130,551 mi |
Source: 297 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 D-Max Xtr MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Isuzu D-Max Xtr?
86.5% of the 297 2020 Isuzu D-Max Xtr tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 84.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Isuzu D-Max Xtr?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (3.70%), leaf spring fractured (2.69%), pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (2.36%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Isuzu D-Max Xtr MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.0% of the time, falling to 66.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Isuzu D-Max Xtr in this dataset had covered 37,306 mi.
Does the season affect the 2020 Isuzu D-Max Xtr MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 87.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 85.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.