Pass rate
95.7%
Above average — 5.0 pts ahead of the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 161 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £19–£63
2020 Mobilvetta motorhome MOT pass rate
- 2020
- Motorhome
- 5 trims combined
- typical 10,242 mi
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
54.8% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 95.7% pass · this year
- Avoid 2018 94.1% pass
Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 1.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 95.5%
- Typical mileage
- 10k mi
The 2020 Mobilvetta motorhome MOT pass rate is 95.7% of its MOT tests — 5.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 54.8% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Mobilvetta motorhome does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 4.5× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 54.8% of everything recorded on the 2020 Mobilvetta Motorhome, against 12.2% nationally — 42.6 points above. 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 motorhomes have been driven, the expected pass rate is 90.7% and this one manages 95.7% — 5.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 161 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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Every Mobilvetta motorhome first registered in 2020 is combined here — 5 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2020 Mobilvetta motorhome compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 5.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 95.5%. The median 2020 Mobilvetta motorhome in this dataset had covered 10,242 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 95.1% of the time, April–September 96.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp aim not tested unable to be tested", noted on 1.24% of tests.
- 161 recorded tests behind this page.
- 95.7% overall pass rate, 95.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Mobilvetta motorhome, the average is 94.8% — best year 2020 (95.7%), worst 2018 (94.1%).
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
- 161
- Typical mileage (median)
- 10,242 mi
- Make and model
- Mobilvetta Motorhome
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Headlight Alignment
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Motorhome MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 87% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Motorhome
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South West | 27 | 88.9% |
| South East | 25 | 100.0% |
| Yorkshire | 18 | 100.0% |
| East Midlands | 17 | 94.1% |
| East of England | 17 | 100.0% |
| West Midlands | 16 | 87.5% |
| North East | 15 | 100.0% |
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 2020 Motorhome
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 Motorhome
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 1.2% of tests
“headlamp aim not tested unable to be tested”
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 exhaust and emissions 0.6% of tests
“emissions not tested unable to be completed”
Listen for a blow at idle and have someone rev it gently. Then look at the tailpipe smoke: blue is oil, white when warm is coolant, black is over-fuelling. Any of those and the emissions test is the least of it.
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 Motorhome through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £19–£63 — and 50% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £19–£63
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: emissions not tested unable to be completed
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 50%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 161 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 Motorhome, side by side
4 model years on record, from 2018 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 94.1% to 95.7% — a spread of 1.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2018 94.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 95.4% wipers blade defective
- 2020 95.7%headlamp aim not tested unable to…
- 2021 94.2% headlamp aim too high
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 Mobilvetta Motorhome 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 motorhomes with a similar record
- Ford Motorhome 95.4%
- Peugeot Motorhome 95.0%
- Fiat Motorhome 94.8%
- Suzuki Motorhome 94.5%
- Volkswagen Grand California 97.0%
- Mercedes-Benz Motorhome 94.3%
Closest pass rates among 2020 motorhomes with at least 150 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. Full rankings: best motorhomes and worst motorhomes for MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2020 Mobilvetta Motorhome 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 8 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 17 | 54.80% | 12.21% | +42.59 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 3 | 9.70% | 5.52% | +4.18 |
| Visibility | 3 | 9.70% | 4.97% | +4.73 |
| Suspension | 2 | 6.50% | 20.98% | −14.48 |
| Brakes | 2 | 6.50% | 20.89% | −14.39 |
| Tyres | 2 | 6.50% | 19.76% | −13.26 |
| Non-component advisories | 1 | 3.20% | 4.18% | −0.98 |
| Steering | 1 | 3.20% | 2.57% | +0.63 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headlamp aim not tested unable to be tested Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.2% | £30–80 |
| Rear fog lamp lens defective which has no effect on emitted light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.2% | £3–15 |
| All outline marker lamps do not illuminate simultaneously with the position lamps Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.62% | £5–25 |
| Daytime running lamps with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.62% | £3–15 |
| Emissions not tested unable to be completed Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.62% | £60–250 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.62% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.62% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too high and too far to the right. Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.62% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.62% | £5–25 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.62% | £3–12 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 0.62% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 0.62% | £45–110 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 0.62% | £200–700 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 0.62% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Vehicles internal headlight adjuster altered to recheck lights Non-component advisories | Advisory | 0.62% | £3–15 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 0.62% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 159 | 95.6% | 11,473 mi |
| 30-60k | 2 | 100.0% | 32,672 mi |
Source: 161 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 Motorhome MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Mobilvetta motorhome?
95.7% of the 161 2020 Mobilvetta motorhome tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 95.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Mobilvetta motorhome?
The three most recorded items are headlamp aim not tested unable to be tested (1.24%), rear fog lamp lens defective which has no effect on emitted light (1.24%), all outline marker lamps do not illuminate simultaneously with the position lamps (0.62%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Mobilvetta motorhome MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.6% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Mobilvetta motorhome in this dataset had covered 10,242 mi.
Does the season affect the 2020 Mobilvetta motorhome MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 95.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 96.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.