Pass rate
74.0%
Below average — 0.0 pts in line with the 74.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 196 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £46–£129
2009 MINI COOPER D MOT pass rate
- 2009
- typical 99,555 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
30.0% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2014 83.0% pass
- Avoid 2007 69.2% pass
Across the 8 years on record, a spread of 13.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 66.7%
- Typical mileage
- 100k mi
The 2009 MINI COOPER D MOT pass rate is 74.0% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 30.0% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.4× the national share
Suspension accounts for 30.0% of everything recorded on the 2009 MINI Cooper D, against 21.0% nationally — 9.0 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.
- Based on a small sample. 196 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 2009 MINI COOPER D compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 74.0%, so this figure is 0.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 66.7%. The median 2009 MINI COOPER D in this dataset had covered 99,555 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 72.6% of the time, April–September 75.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Position lamp not working", noted on 5.61% of tests.
- 196 recorded tests behind this page.
- 74.0% overall pass rate, 66.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the MINI COOPER D, the average is 80.7% — best year 2014 (83.0%), worst 2007 (69.2%).
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
- 196
- Typical mileage (median)
- 99,555 mi
- Make and model
- MINI COOPER D
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Headlight Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the COOPER D MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 59% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the MINI COOPER D is most common
Across all COOPER D model years on record (2007–2014): 9,695 MINI COOPER D cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 24,045 tests. Peterborough (PE) has the most, with 276 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 | Peterborough (PE) | 276 | 83.3% |
| 2 | Birmingham (B) | 242 | 83.7% |
| 3 | Nottingham (NG) | 223 | 79.6% |
| 4 | Sheffield (S) | 215 | 86.0% |
| 5 | Leicester (LE) | 198 | 83.5% |
| 6 | Northampton (NN) | 180 | 81.8% |
| 7 | Cardiff (CF) | 177 | 79.4% |
| 8 | Doncaster (DN) | 177 | 77.8% |
| 9 | Gloucester (GL) | 170 | 75.5% |
| 10 | Ashford (TN) | 164 | 81.3% |
| 11 | Coventry (CV) | 161 | 80.4% |
| 12 | Derby (DE) | 158 | 79.7% |
| 13 | Reading (RG) | 157 | 82.2% |
| 14 | Guildford (GU) | 155 | 81.5% |
| 15 | Norwich (NR) | 153 | 80.9% |
| 16 | Bristol (BS) | 151 | 78.0% |
| 17 | Portsmouth (PO) | 146 | 82.0% |
| 18 | Swansea (SA) | 145 | 77.4% |
| 19 | Southampton (SO) | 144 | 77.3% |
| 20 | Exeter (EX) | 141 | 77.4% |
The twenty areas with the most MINI COOPER D 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 COOPER D
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| West Midlands | 39 | 66.7% |
| South East | 29 | 69.0% |
| East of England | 27 | 92.6% |
| South West | 26 | 73.1% |
| Yorkshire | 21 | 81.0% |
| Wales | 15 | 80.0% |
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 2009 COOPER D
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 2009 COOPER D
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 5.6% of tests
“position lamp not working”
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 windscreen 4.6% 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 corrosion 4.1% of tests
“sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened”
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.
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 2009 COOPER D through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £46–£129 — and 54% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £46–£129
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: sub-frame corroded
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 54%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 196 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 COOPER D, side by side
8 model years on record, from 2007 to 2014. Across them the pass rate runs from 69.2% to 83.0% — a spread of 13.8 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2007 69.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2008 74.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 74.0%position lamp not working
- 2010 76.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 78.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 81.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 81.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 83.0% 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 2009 MINI COOPER D 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 2009 cars with a similar record
- Ford Mondeo 74.0%
- Vauxhall Insignia 74.0%
- Ford Focus 74.1%
- Skoda Fabia 73.9%
- Nissan Note 74.2%
- Peugeot 107 73.8%
Closest pass rates among 2009 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 2009 MINI COOPER D 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 454 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 | 139 | 30.00% | 20.98% | +9.02 |
| Brakes | 82 | 17.70% | 20.89% | −3.19 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 79 | 17.00% | 12.21% | +4.79 |
| Tyres | 64 | 13.80% | 19.76% | −5.96 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 39 | 8.40% | 5.52% | +2.88 |
| Visibility | 21 | 4.50% | 4.97% | −0.47 |
| Steering | 11 | 2.40% | 2.57% | −0.17 |
| Non-component advisories | 7 | 1.50% | 4.18% | −2.68 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 6 | 1.30% | 5.57% | −4.27 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 6 | 1.30% | 1.76% | −0.46 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 5.6% | £5–25 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 4.6% | £80–200 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Major | 4.1% | £180–450 |
| Position lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.6% | £5–25 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.6% | £5–20 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 3.1% | £5–25 |
| On or after 01/07/2008 emissions exceed default limit of 1.5m-1 Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.5% | £60–250 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.0% | £30–80 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 2.0% | £60–150 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 2.0% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 23.5% | £180–450 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 17.4% | £45–95 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 13.8% | £200–700 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 11.7% | £40–150 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Advisory | 9.7% | £60–150 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 8.7% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 18 | 83.3% | 51,357 mi |
| 60-90k | 40 | 75.0% | 78,544 mi |
| 90-120k | 68 | 67.6% | 99,730 mi |
| 120k+ | 70 | 77.1% | 145,496 mi |
Source: 196 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.
2009 COOPER D MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2009 MINI COOPER D?
74.0% of the 196 2009 MINI COOPER D tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 74.0% for cars first used in 2009. First-attempt pass rate: 66.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2009 MINI COOPER D?
The three most recorded items are position lamp not working (5.61%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (4.59%), sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened (4.08%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2009 MINI COOPER D MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 83.3% of the time, falling to 77.1% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2009 MINI COOPER D in this dataset had covered 99,555 mi.
Does the season affect the 2009 MINI COOPER D MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 72.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 75.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.