Pass rate
93.5%
Above average — 2.3 pts ahead of the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 154 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £39–£92
2021 MINI Paddy Hopkirk MOT pass rate
- 2021
- typical 17,673 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
68.3% 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 2021 93.5% pass · this year
- Avoid 2021 93.5% pass · this year
Across the 1 years on record, a spread of 0 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 93.1%
- Typical mileage
- 18k mi
The 2021 MINI Paddy Hopkirk MOT pass rate is 93.5% of its MOT tests — 2.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 68.3% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how MINI Paddy Hopkirk does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 3.5× the national share
Tyres make up 68.3% of everything recorded on the 2021 MINI Paddy Hopkirk, against 19.8% nationally — 48.5 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 24% of this model’s typical repairs come in under £30 in parts — the failures here tend to be the kind that need a garage rather than a bulb.
- Based on a small sample. 154 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 2021 MINI Paddy Hopkirk compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 2.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 93.1%. The median 2021 MINI Paddy Hopkirk in this dataset had covered 17,673 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 92.6% of the time, April–September 94.5%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm", noted on 1.95% of tests.
- 154 recorded tests behind this page.
- 93.5% overall pass rate, 93.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the MINI Paddy Hopkirk, the average is 93.5% — best year 2021 (93.5%), worst 2021 (93.5%).
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
- 154
- Typical mileage (median)
- 17,673 mi
- Make and model
- MINI Paddy Hopkirk
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Paddy Hopkirk MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 82% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Paddy Hopkirk
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 32 | 96.9% |
| South West | 19 | 94.7% |
| North West | 17 | 82.4% |
| Yorkshire | 16 | 100.0% |
| Scotland | 15 | 93.3% |
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 2021 Paddy Hopkirk
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 2021 Paddy Hopkirk
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 tyre tread 1.9% 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.
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Check the windscreen 1.9% 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 lights 1.3% of tests
“stop lamp lens 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.
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 2021 Paddy Hopkirk through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £39–£92 — and 24% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £39–£92
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp lens defective
- £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
- 24%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 154 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 2021 MINI Paddy Hopkirk 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 2021 cars with a similar record
- Renault Captur 93.5%
- Dacia Sandero Comfort 93.5%
- Ford Fiesta 93.4%
- Mercedes-Benz Gla 93.4%
- Nissan Micra 93.4%
- SEAT Ateca Xperience 93.4%
Closest pass rates among 2021 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 2021 MINI Paddy Hopkirk 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 7 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 63 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 | 43 | 68.30% | 19.76% | +48.54 |
| Brakes | 7 | 11.10% | 20.89% | −9.79 |
| Visibility | 6 | 9.50% | 4.97% | +4.53 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 3 | 4.80% | 12.21% | −7.41 |
| Non-component advisories | 2 | 3.20% | 4.18% | −0.98 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 1.60% | 0.82% | +0.78 |
| Road Wheels | 1 | 1.60% | 0.75% | +0.85 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.9% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.9% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.3% | £45–95 |
| Stop lamp lens defective which has no effect on emitted light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.3% | £3–12 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.3% | £8–22 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Major | 0.65% | £20–55 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Major | 0.65% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.65% | £18–45 |
| Buckle not functioning as intended Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 0.65% | £40–120 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.65% | £45–95 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 12.3% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 7.8% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 1.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 1.3% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 1.3% | £18–45 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.3% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 127 | 93.7% | 15,234 mi |
| 30-60k | 21 | 90.5% | 40,121 mi |
| 60-90k | 5 | 100.0% | 73,656 mi |
Source: 154 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.
2021 Paddy Hopkirk MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 MINI Paddy Hopkirk?
93.5% of the 154 2021 MINI Paddy Hopkirk tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 93.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 MINI Paddy Hopkirk?
The three most recorded items are tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (1.95%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.95%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.30%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 MINI Paddy Hopkirk MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.7% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 MINI Paddy Hopkirk in this dataset had covered 17,673 mi.
Does the season affect the 2021 MINI Paddy Hopkirk MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 92.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 94.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.