Pass rate
Around average — 5.6 pts ahead of the 78.6% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,128 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £26–£74
Pass rate
Around average — 5.6 pts ahead of the 78.6% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,128 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £26–£74
Most common fault
Tyres
24.2% 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
Across the 5 years on record, a spread of 17.3 points. See every year →
The 2013 MINI One Clubman MOT pass rate is 84.2% of its MOT tests — 5.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 24.2% of what testers record.
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how MINI One Clubman does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension is 13.3% of this car’s recorded faults, against 21.0% nationally — the mirror image of the usual story on a car of this age.
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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Cars of this age and mileage average 78.6%, so this figure is 5.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 81.4%. The median 2013 MINI One Clubman in this dataset had covered 68,312 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 82.9% of the time, April–September 85.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 4.79% of tests.
Figures count every completed test on this vehicle-year in the dataset, including retests. See methodology for the exact definition.
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 69% so small gaps stay visible.
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 291 | 88.3% |
| South West | 189 | 80.4% |
| East of England | 146 | 84.2% |
| North West | 125 | 81.6% |
| West Midlands | 81 | 87.7% |
| East Midlands | 69 | 79.7% |
| Scotland | 65 | 89.2% |
| Yorkshire | 63 | 76.2% |
| London | 47 | 83.0% |
| North East | 33 | 84.8% |
| Wales | 19 | 89.5% |
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.
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
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.
Check the lights 4.8% 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.
Check the windscreen 3.5% 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.
Check the tyre tread 1.8% of tests
“tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm”
Check all four tyres cold, including the inner shoulder where wear hides — 1.6mm across the central three-quarters is the legal limit, and most testers fail at 1.6mm without argument.
Shares are the proportion of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item, so they overlap: one test can record several.
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £26–£74 — and 62% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,128 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 →
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.
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.
The raw pass rate mostly measures age. The year comparison adds the like-for-like figure, the mileage bands and the repair bill.
Closest pass rates among 2013 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.
Shares of the 1,646 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 | 402 | 24.20% | 19.76% | +4.44 |
| Brakes | 347 | 20.90% | 20.89% | +0.01 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 265 | 16.00% | 12.21% | +3.79 |
| Suspension | 220 | 13.30% | 20.98% | −7.68 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 113 | 6.80% | 5.52% | +1.28 |
| Visibility | 95 | 5.70% | 4.97% | +0.73 |
| Non-component advisories | 77 | 4.60% | 4.18% | +0.42 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 75 | 4.50% | 5.57% | −1.07 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 37 | 2.20% | 1.76% | +0.44 |
| Road Wheels | 15 | 0.90% | 0.75% | +0.15 |
| 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 | 4.8% | £5–20 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.5% | £80–200 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.0% | £3–12 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.8% | £45–95 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.6% | £5–25 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.5% | £5–25 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.3% | £60–250 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.2% | £3–12 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.1% | £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.
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 | 16.1% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 11.3% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 9.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 7.6% | £18–45 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 4.4% | £45–120 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 4.4% | £180–450 |
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 52 | 90.4% | 21,772 mi |
| 30-60k | 351 | 90.6% | 48,529 mi |
| 60-90k | 476 | 82.1% | 73,556 mi |
| 90-120k | 212 | 77.8% | 100,714 mi |
| 120k+ | 37 | 78.4% | 131,438 mi |
Source: 1,128 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.
84.2% of the 1,128 2013 MINI One Clubman tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 78.6% for cars first used in 2013. First-attempt pass rate: 81.4%.
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (4.79%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.46%), stop lamp not working (2.04%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 90.4% of the time, falling to 78.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2013 MINI One Clubman in this dataset had covered 68,312 mi.
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 82.9% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 85.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.