Pass rate
95.0%
Above average — 4.3 pts ahead of the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 424 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £27–£66
2020 Mitsubishi Asx MOT pass rate
- 2020
- typical 27,176 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
35.0% 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 →
1.4 pts down across model years — 6.6% in 2010, 5.2% in 2019.
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 95.0% pass · this year
- Avoid 2010 74.3% pass
Across the 11 years on record, a spread of 20.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 94.8%
- Typical mileage
- 27k mi
The 2020 Mitsubishi Asx MOT pass rate is 95.0% of its MOT tests — 4.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 35.0% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Mitsubishi Asx does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.8× the national share
Tyres make up 35.0% of everything recorded on the 2020 Mitsubishi Asx, against 19.8% nationally — 15.2 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.
- 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 90.7% and this one manages 95.0% — 4.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 56% 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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How does the 2020 Mitsubishi Asx compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 4.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 94.8%. The median 2020 Mitsubishi Asx in this dataset had covered 27,176 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 94.3% of the time, April–September 95.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively", noted on 2.59% of tests.
- 424 recorded tests behind this page.
- 95.0% overall pass rate, 94.8% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Mitsubishi Asx, the average is 82.6% — best year 2020 (95.0%), worst 2010 (74.3%).
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
- 424
- Typical mileage (median)
- 27,176 mi
- Make and model
- Mitsubishi Asx
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Wiper Blade
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Asx MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 85% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Asx
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 119 | 94.1% |
| South West | 90 | 97.8% |
| Wales | 46 | 97.8% |
| Yorkshire | 32 | 90.6% |
| North West | 28 | 96.4% |
| West Midlands | 27 | 96.3% |
| South East | 26 | 96.2% |
| East Midlands | 25 | 92.0% |
| East of England | 17 | 88.2% |
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 2020 Asx
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 2020 Asx
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 wipers and washers 2.6% of tests
“wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively”
Run the wipers with the screen wet: they should clear it in one sweep without smearing or juddering. Top the washer bottle up and check both jets hit the screen.
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Check the windscreen 1.6% 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 the brakes 0.5% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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 2020 Asx through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £27–£66 — and 56% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £27–£66
- Cheapest common item: wipers does not clear the windscreen…
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 56%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 424 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 Asx, side by side
11 model years on record, from 2010 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 74.3% to 95.0% — a spread of 20.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2010 74.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 76.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 78.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 78.5% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2014 79.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 83.4% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2016 85.6% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2017 87.3% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2018 90.6% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2019 92.1% wipers does not clear the…
- 2020 95.0%wipers does not clear the…
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 2020 Mitsubishi Asx 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 2020 cars with a similar record
- Lexus Ct 95.0%
- Suzuki Vitara 95.1%
- Porsche Macan 94.9%
- Toyota RAV4 95.2%
- Suzuki Ignis 95.4%
- Volvo XC40 Inscription Pro 95.4%
Closest pass rates among 2020 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 2020 Mitsubishi Asx 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 240 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 | 84 | 35.00% | 19.76% | +15.24 |
| Brakes | 62 | 25.80% | 20.89% | +4.91 |
| Non-component advisories | 41 | 17.10% | 4.18% | +12.92 |
| Visibility | 35 | 14.60% | 4.97% | +9.63 |
| Suspension | 8 | 3.30% | 20.98% | −17.68 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 4 | 1.70% | 12.21% | −10.51 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 3 | 1.20% | 1.76% | −0.56 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 0.40% | 5.57% | −5.17 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 0.40% | 0.82% | −0.42 |
| Road Wheels | 1 | 0.40% | 0.75% | −0.35 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 2.6% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.9% | £8–22 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.6% | £80–200 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.4% | £8–22 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.2% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.47% | £18–45 |
| Brake pads worn down to wear indicator Brakes | Major | 0.47% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.47% | £45–95 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.24% | £60–140 |
| Fixing missing Road Wheels | Major | 0.24% | £20–55 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.0% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 8.0% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.4% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 4.5% | £20–80 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 3.3% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 2.6% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 247 | 96.4% | 19,812 mi |
| 30-60k | 157 | 93.0% | 41,749 mi |
| 60-90k | 20 | 95.0% | 68,743 mi |
Source: 424 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.
2020 Asx MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Mitsubishi Asx?
95.0% of the 424 2020 Mitsubishi Asx tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 94.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Mitsubishi Asx?
The three most recorded items are wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (2.59%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.89%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.65%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Mitsubishi Asx MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 96.4% of the time, falling to 95.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Mitsubishi Asx in this dataset had covered 27,176 mi.
Does the season affect the 2020 Mitsubishi Asx MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 94.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 95.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.