Pass rate
94.9%
Above average — 4.2 pts ahead of the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 11,047 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £49–£116
2020 Porsche Macan MOT pass rate
- 2020
- 2 trims combined
- typical 27,597 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
55.5% 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 →
0.7 pts down across model years — 7.2% in 2014, 6.5% in 2022.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 98.5% pass
- Avoid 2014 88.4% pass
Across the 10 years on record, a spread of 10.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 94.7%
- Typical mileage
- 28k mi
The 2020 Porsche Macan MOT pass rate is 94.9% of its MOT tests — 4.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 55.5% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Porsche Macan does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.8× the national share
Tyres make up 55.5% of everything recorded on the 2020 Porsche Macan, against 19.8% nationally — 35.7 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 94.9% — 4.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 3% 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.
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 Porsche Macan first registered in 2020 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2020 Porsche Macan compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 4.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 94.7%. The median 2020 Porsche Macan in this dataset had covered 27,597 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 95.4% of the time, April–September 94.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 1.60% of tests.
- 11,047 recorded tests behind this page.
- 94.9% overall pass rate, 94.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Porsche Macan, the average is 93.1% — best year 2023 (98.5%), worst 2014 (88.4%).
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
- 11,047
- Typical mileage (median)
- 27,597 mi
- Make and model
- Porsche Macan
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Macan MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 73% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Macan
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 2,853 | 94.8% |
| East of England | 1,298 | 93.5% |
| North West | 1,156 | 96.5% |
| London | 1,113 | 94.2% |
| South West | 894 | 94.2% |
| Scotland | 847 | 94.5% |
| Yorkshire | 826 | 96.4% |
| East Midlands | 737 | 95.0% |
| West Midlands | 680 | 96.2% |
| Wales | 320 | 96.3% |
| North East | 319 | 95.3% |
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 2020 Macan
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 Macan
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 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 tyre tread 0.8% 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.
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Check the lights 0.5% of tests
“headlamp aim too high”
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 2020 Macan through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £49–£116 — and 3% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £49–£116
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 3%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 11,047 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 Macan, side by side
10 model years on record, from 2014 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 88.4% to 98.5% — a spread of 10.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2014 88.4% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2015 89.1% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2016 91.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 93.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 94.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 94.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 94.9%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 95.2% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2022 95.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2023 98.5% has ply or cords exposed
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 Porsche Macan 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%
- Toyota RAV4 95.2%
- Volvo XC40 Inscription B4 94.6%
- 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 Porsche Macan 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 4,096 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 | 2,279 | 55.50% | 19.76% | +35.74 |
| Brakes | 670 | 16.30% | 20.89% | −4.59 |
| Non-component advisories | 462 | 11.20% | 4.18% | +7.02 |
| Visibility | 264 | 6.40% | 4.97% | +1.43 |
| Suspension | 153 | 3.70% | 20.98% | −17.28 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 150 | 3.70% | 12.21% | −8.51 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 67 | 1.60% | 1.76% | −0.16 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 22 | 0.50% | 5.52% | −5.02 |
| Road Wheels | 16 | 0.40% | 0.75% | −0.35 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 13 | 0.30% | 0.82% | −0.52 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.6% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.76% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.45% | £30–80 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.39% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads worn down to wear indicator Brakes | Major | 0.36% | £18–45 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.20% | £8–22 |
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Major | 0.18% | £20–80 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.17% | £30–80 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.16% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 10.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 3.2% | £18–45 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.3% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.1% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 2.1% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.7% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 6,312 | 95.6% | 19,891 mi |
| 30-60k | 4,346 | 94.3% | 40,193 mi |
| 60-90k | 360 | 92.8% | 69,017 mi |
| 90-120k | 22 | 81.8% | 98,917 mi |
| 120k+ | 7 | 85.7% | 135,482 mi |
Source: 11,047 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 Macan MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Porsche Macan?
94.9% of the 11,047 2020 Porsche Macan tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 94.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Porsche Macan?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.60%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.52%), tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (0.76%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Porsche Macan MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.6% of the time, falling to 85.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Porsche Macan in this dataset had covered 27,597 mi.
Does the season affect the 2020 Porsche Macan MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 95.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 94.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.