Pass rate
83.5%
Around average — 6.3 pts ahead of the 77.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 702 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £25–£66
2012 MINI One Clubman MOT pass rate
- 2012
- 2 trims combined
- typical 78,174 mi
Most common fault
Brakes
20.4% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Which year to buy
- Best 2013 84.2% pass
- Avoid 2009 66.9% pass
Across the 5 years on record, a spread of 17.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 80.4%
- Typical mileage
- 78k mi
The 2012 MINI One Clubman MOT pass rate is 83.5% of its MOT tests — 6.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 20.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how MINI One Clubman does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.5× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 18.0% of everything recorded on the 2012 MINI One Clubman, against 12.2% nationally — 5.8 points above. Brakes are still the single largest share at 20.4%, but at 20.9% 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.
- 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 77.2% and this one manages 83.5% — 6.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 64% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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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Every MINI One Clubman first registered in 2012 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2012 MINI One Clubman compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 77.2%, so this figure is 6.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 80.4%. The median 2012 MINI One Clubman in this dataset had covered 78,174 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 84.1% of the time, April–September 82.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 4.99% of tests.
- 702 recorded tests behind this page.
- 83.5% overall pass rate, 80.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the MINI One Clubman, the average is 82.4% — best year 2013 (84.2%), worst 2009 (66.9%).
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
- 702
- Typical mileage (median)
- 78,174 mi
- Make and model
- MINI One Clubman
- 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 One Clubman MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 66% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the One Clubman
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South West | 153 | 80.4% |
| South East | 132 | 84.1% |
| West Midlands | 83 | 84.3% |
| East of England | 77 | 85.7% |
| North West | 70 | 88.6% |
| East Midlands | 45 | 86.7% |
| Yorkshire | 40 | 80.0% |
| London | 39 | 87.2% |
| Scotland | 25 | 76.0% |
| Wales | 23 | 78.3% |
| North East | 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 2012 One Clubman
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 2012 One Clubman
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 5.0% 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 windscreen 4.7% 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.
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Check tyre pressures and valves 1.3% of tests
“tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative”
Set the pressures to the figures on the door pillar, not the tyre wall, and check the valves do not hiss. A leaking valve is a two-minute fix that fails a test.
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 2012 One Clubman through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £25–£66 — and 64% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £25–£66
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 64%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 702 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 One Clubman, side by side
5 model years on record, from 2009 to 2013. Across them the pass rate runs from 66.9% to 84.2% — a spread of 17.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2009 66.9% catalyst emissions carbon…
- 2010 78.2% position lamp not working
- 2011 83.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2012 83.5%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 84.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
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 2012 MINI One Clubman 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 2012 cars with a similar record
- BMW 530 83.5%
- Mercedes-Benz Ml 83.7%
- BMW 640 83.7%
- Ford Fusion 83.3%
- Volkswagen Up 83.8%
- Volkswagen Touareg 83.1%
Closest pass rates among 2012 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 2012 MINI One Clubman 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 1,143 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 234 | 20.40% | 20.89% | −0.49 |
| Tyres | 231 | 20.10% | 19.76% | +0.34 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 207 | 18.00% | 12.21% | +5.79 |
| Suspension | 170 | 14.80% | 20.98% | −6.18 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 90 | 7.80% | 5.52% | +2.28 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 66 | 5.70% | 5.57% | +0.13 |
| Visibility | 62 | 5.40% | 4.97% | +0.43 |
| Non-component advisories | 56 | 4.90% | 4.18% | +0.72 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 21 | 1.80% | 1.76% | +0.04 |
| Road Wheels | 6 | 0.50% | 0.75% | −0.25 |
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 | 5.0% | £5–20 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 4.7% | £80–200 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.3% | £5–25 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.0% | £3–12 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.6% | £5–25 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.4% | £3–12 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.3% | £30–80 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Major | 1.3% | £45–95 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.1% | £8–22 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.0% | £18–45 |
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 | 14.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 10.8% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 8.8% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 7.7% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 7.0% | £18–45 |
| Stop lamp with a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 7.0% | £3–12 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 37 | 94.6% | 20,456 mi |
| 30-60k | 152 | 92.1% | 47,897 mi |
| 60-90k | 258 | 82.6% | 74,248 mi |
| 90-120k | 200 | 78.5% | 102,308 mi |
| 120k+ | 55 | 74.5% | 133,285 mi |
Source: 702 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.
2012 One Clubman MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2012 MINI One Clubman?
83.5% of the 702 2012 MINI One Clubman tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 77.2% for cars first used in 2012. First-attempt pass rate: 80.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2012 MINI One Clubman?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (4.99%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (4.70%), position lamp not working (3.28%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2012 MINI One Clubman MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.6% of the time, falling to 74.5% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2012 MINI One Clubman in this dataset had covered 78,174 mi.
Does the season affect the 2012 MINI One Clubman MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 84.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 82.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.