Pass rate
93.1%
Above average — 3.6 pts ahead of the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 23,708 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £27–£66
2019 Mazda Cx-3 MOT pass rate
- 2019
- typical 29,047 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
38.4% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2019 93.1% pass · this year
- Avoid 2015 83.8% pass
Across the 5 years on record, a spread of 9.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 92.6%
- Typical mileage
- 29k mi
The 2019 Mazda Cx-3 MOT pass rate is 93.1% of its MOT tests — 3.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 38.4% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.9× the national share
Tyres make up 38.4% of everything recorded on the 2019 Mazda Cx-3, against 19.8% nationally — 18.6 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.
- 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 89.5% and this one manages 93.1% — 3.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
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 2019 Mazda Cx-3 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 89.5%, so this figure is 3.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 92.6%. The median 2019 Mazda Cx-3 in this dataset had covered 29,047 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 97% of tests, with a 93.1% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 93.4% of the time, April–September 92.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Wipers blade defective", noted on 2.08% of tests.
- 23,708 recorded tests behind this page.
- 93.1% overall pass rate, 92.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Mazda Cx-3, the average is 89.5% — best year 2019 (93.1%), worst 2015 (83.8%).
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
- 23,708
- Typical mileage (median)
- 29,047 mi
- Make and model
- Mazda Cx-3
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Wiper Blade
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Cx-3 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 82% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (97% of tests).
Where the Mazda Cx-3 is most common
Across all Cx-3 model years on record (2015–2019): 35,389 Mazda Cx-3 cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 82,585 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 883 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) | 883 | 90.9% |
| 2 | Sheffield (S) | 781 | 90.0% |
| 3 | Glasgow (G) | 634 | 86.9% |
| 4 | Nottingham (NG) | 631 | 90.0% |
| 5 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 620 | 90.7% |
| 6 | Peterborough (PE) | 612 | 92.2% |
| 7 | Edinburgh (EH) | 597 | 87.1% |
| 8 | Leicester (LE) | 596 | 89.6% |
| 9 | Northampton (NN) | 587 | 89.3% |
| 10 | Reading (RG) | 566 | 88.8% |
| 11 | Poole (BH) | 555 | 89.5% |
| 12 | Coventry (CV) | 545 | 90.3% |
| 13 | Portsmouth (PO) | 538 | 88.9% |
| 14 | Doncaster (DN) | 525 | 90.0% |
| 15 | Bristol (BS) | 516 | 86.2% |
| 16 | Cardiff (CF) | 512 | 88.9% |
| 17 | Derby (DE) | 494 | 89.3% |
| 18 | Stockport (SK) | 493 | 90.6% |
| 19 | Southampton (SO) | 458 | 91.1% |
| 20 | Leeds (LS) | 445 | 86.8% |
The twenty areas with the most Mazda Cx-3 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 Cx-3
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 4,459 | 92.9% |
| Scotland | 3,054 | 91.9% |
| North West | 2,707 | 93.2% |
| West Midlands | 2,304 | 93.9% |
| Yorkshire | 2,274 | 93.4% |
| South West | 2,258 | 92.8% |
| East of England | 2,129 | 93.4% |
| East Midlands | 1,695 | 92.9% |
| North East | 1,223 | 93.8% |
| Wales | 1,112 | 94.2% |
| London | 493 | 92.7% |
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 2019 Cx-3
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 2019 Cx-3
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 wipers and washers 2.1% 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 1.3% 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 brakes 1.0% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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 2019 Cx-3 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £27–£66 — and 49% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £27–£66
- Cheapest common item: washers provides insufficient washer liquid
- £5–£15
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 49%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 23,708 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 Cx-3, side by side
5 model years on record, from 2015 to 2019. Across them the pass rate runs from 83.8% to 93.1% — a spread of 9.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2015 83.8% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2016 84.6% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2017 89.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 91.8% wipers blade defective
- 2019 93.1%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 2019 Mazda Cx-3 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 2019 cars with a similar record
- Volkswagen Up 93.0%
- Audi Tt 93.0%
- Suzuki Vitara 93.2%
- Lexus Ct 93.2%
- Toyota Corolla 92.9%
- Volkswagen T-Roc 93.3%
Closest pass rates among 2019 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 2019 Mazda Cx-3 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 17,607 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 | 6,795 | 38.40% | 19.76% | +18.64 |
| Brakes | 6,603 | 37.30% | 20.89% | +16.41 |
| Visibility | 1,588 | 9.00% | 4.97% | +4.03 |
| Non-component advisories | 1,064 | 6.00% | 4.18% | +1.82 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 787 | 4.40% | 12.21% | −7.81 |
| Suspension | 439 | 2.50% | 20.98% | −18.48 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 122 | 0.70% | 1.76% | −1.06 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 87 | 0.50% | 5.52% | −5.02 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 69 | 0.40% | 5.57% | −5.17 |
| Road Wheels | 53 | 0.30% | 0.75% | −0.45 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 2.1% | £8–22 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.3% | £80–200 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.0% | £8–22 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.0% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.99% | £30–80 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.57% | £45–95 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Rectified | 0.40% | £5–15 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.38% | £5–20 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 12.2% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 11.2% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 10.4% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 9.5% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 2.5% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.9% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 12,517 | 95.0% | 20,128 mi |
| 30-60k | 9,955 | 91.0% | 40,677 mi |
| 60-90k | 1,127 | 90.2% | 69,835 mi |
| 90-120k | 97 | 93.8% | 99,865 mi |
| 120k+ | 12 | 100.0% | 174,139 mi |
Source: 23,708 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.
2019 Cx-3 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2019 Mazda Cx-3?
93.1% of the 23,708 2019 Mazda Cx-3 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 89.5% for cars first used in 2019. First-attempt pass rate: 92.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2019 Mazda Cx-3?
The three most recorded items are wipers blade defective (2.08%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.50%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.29%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2019 Mazda Cx-3 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.0% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2019 Mazda Cx-3 in this dataset had covered 29,047 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2019 Mazda Cx-3?
Petrol: 93.1% pass rate across 23,039 tests. Diesel: 91.3% pass rate across 669 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2019 Mazda Cx-3 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 93.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 92.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.