Pass rate
92.4%
Above average — 1.7 pts ahead of the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 40,583 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £30–£79
2020 Renault Captur MOT pass rate
- 2020
- 3 trims combined
- typical 23,444 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
43.5% 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 →
1.7 pts down across model years — 7.3% in 2013, 5.6% in 2022.
Which year to buy
- Best 2022 93.6% pass
- Avoid 2013 72.1% pass
Across the 10 years on record, a spread of 21.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 91.8%
- Typical mileage
- 23k mi
The 2020 Renault Captur MOT pass rate is 92.4% of its MOT tests — 1.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 43.5% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.2× the national share
Tyres make up 43.5% of everything recorded on the 2020 Renault Captur, against 19.8% nationally — 23.7 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.
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 Renault Captur first registered in 2020 is combined here — 3 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2020 Renault Captur compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 1.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 91.8%. The median 2020 Renault Captur in this dataset had covered 23,444 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 90% of tests, with a 92.5% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 93.0% of the time, April–September 91.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Wipers blade defective", noted on 1.19% of tests.
- 40,583 recorded tests behind this page.
- 92.4% overall pass rate, 91.8% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Renault Captur, the average is 84.3% — best year 2022 (93.6%), worst 2013 (72.1%).
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
- 40,583
- Typical mileage (median)
- 23,444 mi
- Make and model
- Renault Captur
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
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 Captur MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 76% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (90% of tests).
Where the Renault Captur is most common
Across all Captur model years on record (2013–2022): 216,904 Renault Captur cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 527,229 tests. Glasgow (G) has the most, with 7,335 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glasgow (G) | 7,335 | 78.6% |
| 2 | Birmingham (B) | 5,899 | 86.9% |
| 3 | Cardiff (CF) | 4,980 | 83.4% |
| 4 | Sheffield (S) | 4,741 | 85.9% |
| 5 | Swansea (SA) | 4,538 | 84.8% |
| 6 | Warrington (WA) | 4,092 | 85.9% |
| 7 | Chester (CH) | 3,788 | 84.7% |
| 8 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 3,779 | 83.1% |
| 9 | Manchester (M) | 3,745 | 85.3% |
| 10 | Nottingham (NG) | 3,677 | 84.3% |
| 11 | Liverpool (L) | 3,640 | 85.8% |
| 12 | Doncaster (DN) | 3,487 | 84.4% |
| 13 | Peterborough (PE) | 3,434 | 87.2% |
| 14 | Edinburgh (EH) | 3,430 | 77.4% |
| 15 | Derby (DE) | 3,310 | 87.0% |
| 16 | Norwich (NR) | 3,204 | 86.2% |
| 17 | Stoke On Trent (ST) | 3,106 | 83.2% |
| 18 | Bristol (BS) | 3,072 | 84.8% |
| 19 | Northampton (NN) | 3,068 | 83.5% |
| 20 | Wolverhampton (WV) | 2,830 | 86.6% |
The twenty areas with the most Renault Captur cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the Captur
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| North West | 5,994 | 92.6% |
| Scotland | 5,871 | 90.0% |
| South East | 5,509 | 93.5% |
| West Midlands | 3,920 | 92.2% |
| Yorkshire | 3,856 | 92.5% |
| East of England | 3,750 | 94.3% |
| South West | 3,329 | 91.3% |
| Wales | 2,776 | 92.5% |
| East Midlands | 2,544 | 91.9% |
| North East | 1,964 | 93.4% |
| London | 1,070 | 93.7% |
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 Captur
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 Captur
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 1.2% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
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 suspension joints 1.1% of tests
“pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn”
With the car parked on level ground, rock the top of each front wheel in and out while someone watches the suspension arm. Clunks, or rubber boots split and greasy, are what testers record here.
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Check the windscreen 0.7% 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.
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 Captur through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £30–£79 — and 39% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £30–£79
- 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
- 39%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 40,583 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 Captur, side by side
10 model years on record, from 2013 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 72.1% to 93.6% — a spread of 21.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2013 72.1% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2014 77.3% ball joint excessively worn
- 2015 79.1% ball joint excessively worn
- 2016 83.6% ball joint excessively worn
- 2017 86.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 87.4% ball joint excessively worn
- 2019 89.4% wipers does not clear the…
- 2020 92.4%wipers blade defective
- 2021 93.5% has ply or cords exposed
- 2022 93.6% 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 Renault Captur 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
- MINI Countryman 92.4%
- Citroen C1 92.4%
- Land Rover Defender 92.4%
- Nissan Qashqai 92.5%
- Mercedes-Benz Glc 92.5%
- Citroen C3 92.5%
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 Renault Captur 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 24,934 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 | 10,940 | 43.50% | 19.76% | +23.74 |
| Brakes | 5,185 | 20.60% | 20.89% | −0.29 |
| Suspension | 2,934 | 11.70% | 20.98% | −9.28 |
| Non-component advisories | 2,460 | 9.80% | 4.18% | +5.62 |
| Visibility | 1,863 | 7.40% | 4.97% | +2.43 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 820 | 3.30% | 12.21% | −8.91 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 249 | 1.00% | 0.82% | +0.18 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 166 | 0.70% | 5.57% | −4.87 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 159 | 0.60% | 1.76% | −1.16 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 158 | 0.60% | 5.52% | −4.92 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.1% | £40–150 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 0.73% | £8–22 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.68% | £80–200 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.60% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.53% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.51% | £30–80 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.44% | £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 | 14.0% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.5% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 4.8% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 2.5% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.5% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 26,999 | 94.4% | 17,843 mi |
| 30-60k | 12,508 | 88.6% | 40,897 mi |
| 60-90k | 992 | 85.6% | 68,077 mi |
| 90-120k | 68 | 86.8% | 99,731 mi |
| 120k+ | 13 | 84.6% | 143,962 mi |
Source: 40,583 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 Captur MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Renault Captur?
92.4% of the 40,583 2020 Renault Captur tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 91.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Renault Captur?
The three most recorded items are wipers blade defective (1.19%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.17%), pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (1.08%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Renault Captur MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.4% of the time, falling to 84.6% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Renault Captur in this dataset had covered 23,444 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2020 Renault Captur?
Petrol: 92.5% pass rate across 36,383 tests. Diesel: 90.5% pass rate across 3,617 tests. Hybrid: 91.9% pass rate across 583 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2020 Renault Captur MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 93.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 91.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.