Pass rate
73.3%
Below average — 0.8 pts ahead of the 72.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 90 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £41–£125
2006 MINI Mini COOPER Park MOT pass rate
- 2006
- typical 114,494 mi
Only 90 tests of this exact model and year are in the DVSA data, below the 100 we ask for before a page goes in the index. The figures are still shown, because they are the only ones there are.
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Most common fault
Suspension
20.5% 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 2006 73.3% pass · this year
- Avoid 2006 73.3% pass · this year
Across the 1 years on record, a spread of 0 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 64.2%
- Typical mileage
- 114k mi
The 2006 MINI Mini COOPER Park MOT pass rate is 73.3% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 20.5% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.5× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 18.6% of everything recorded on the 2006 MINI Mini Cooper Park, against 12.2% nationally — 6.4 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 20.5%, but at 21.0% nationally that one is ordinary. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- Based on a small sample. 90 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 2006 MINI Mini COOPER Park compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.5%, so this figure is 0.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 64.2%. The median 2006 MINI Mini COOPER Park in this dataset had covered 114,494 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 65.0% of the time, April–September 80.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated", noted on 11.11% of tests.
- 90 recorded tests behind this page.
- 73.3% overall pass rate, 64.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the MINI Mini COOPER Park, the average is 73.3% — best year 2006 (73.3%), worst 2006 (73.3%).
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
- 90
- Typical mileage (median)
- 114,494 mi
- Make and model
- MINI Mini COOPER Park
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Body Panel Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Mini COOPER Park MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 50% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Mini COOPER Park
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 28 | 75.0% |
| East Midlands | 22 | 68.2% |
| East of England | 16 | 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 2006 Mini COOPER Park
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 2006 Mini COOPER Park
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 7.8% of tests
“headlamp lens slightly defective”
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 5.6% 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 brake pipes 5.6% of tests
“rigid brake pipes excessively corroded”
Brake pipes run under the car, usually in front of the rear wheels. Flaking or crusty metal is what fails; a light dusting of surface rust does not. Worth asking a garage to look while it is on a ramp.
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 2006 Mini COOPER Park through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £41–£125 — and 46% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £41–£125
- Cheapest common item: srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 46%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 90 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 →
Compare the 2006 MINI Mini COOPER Park 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 2006 cars with a similar record
- Saab 9-3 73.3%
- Volkswagen Jetta 73.3%
- Nissan Almera 73.2%
- Hyundai Amica 73.1%
- Volvo S40 73.5%
- Daihatsu Sirion 73.5%
Closest pass rates among 2006 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 2006 MINI Mini COOPER Park 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 305 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 | 63 | 20.50% | 20.98% | −0.48 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 57 | 18.60% | 12.21% | +6.39 |
| Brakes | 54 | 17.60% | 20.89% | −3.29 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 35 | 11.40% | 5.52% | +5.88 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 33 | 10.70% | 5.57% | +5.13 |
| Tyres | 23 | 7.50% | 19.76% | −12.26 |
| Steering | 15 | 4.90% | 2.57% | +2.33 |
| Non-component advisories | 13 | 4.20% | 4.18% | +0.02 |
| Visibility | 9 | 2.90% | 4.97% | −2.07 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 3 | 1.00% | 0.82% | +0.18 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 11.1% | £80–250 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 7.8% | £5–25 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 7.8% | £5–20 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 5.6% | £80–250 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 5.6% | £40–150 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 5.6% | £80–180 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.4% | £5–25 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 3.3% | £3–12 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.3% | £3–12 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.3% | £80–200 |
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 | 34.4% | £200–700 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 23.3% | £40–150 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 22.2% | £80–180 |
| Individual direction indicators incorrect colour Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 13.3% | £3–12 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 11.1% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 11.1% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 3 | 100.0% | 51,099 mi |
| 60-90k | 12 | 58.3% | 83,703 mi |
| 90-120k | 37 | 73.0% | 107,891 mi |
| 120k+ | 38 | 76.3% | 139,756 mi |
Source: 90 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.
2006 Mini COOPER Park MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2006 MINI Mini COOPER Park?
73.3% of the 90 2006 MINI Mini COOPER Park tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.5% for cars first used in 2006. First-attempt pass rate: 64.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2006 MINI Mini COOPER Park?
The three most recorded items are joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (11.11%), headlamp lens slightly defective (7.78%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (7.78%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2006 MINI Mini COOPER Park MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 76.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2006 MINI Mini COOPER Park in this dataset had covered 114,494 mi.
Does the season affect the 2006 MINI Mini COOPER Park MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 65.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 80.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.