Pass rate
90.2%
Above average — 0.5 pts behind the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 570 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £32–£94
2020 Renault Captur Play MOT pass rate
- 2020
- 2 trims combined
- typical 22,583 mi
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Most common fault
Tyres
39.6% 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 91.8% pass
- Avoid 2020 90.2% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 1.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 89.3%
- Typical mileage
- 23k mi
The 2020 Renault Captur Play MOT pass rate is 90.2% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 39.6% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.0× the national share
Tyres make up 39.6% of everything recorded on the 2020 Renault Captur Play, against 19.8% nationally — 19.8 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 26% 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 Renault Captur Play 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 Renault Captur Play compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 0.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 89.3%. The median 2020 Renault Captur Play in this dataset had covered 22,583 mi.
98% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 89.9% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 94.7% of the time, April–September 87.5%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn", noted on 2.11% of tests.
- 570 recorded tests behind this page.
- 90.2% overall pass rate, 89.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Renault Captur Play, the average is 90.9% — best year 2021 (91.8%), worst 2020 (90.2%).
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
- 570
- Typical mileage (median)
- 22,583 mi
- Make and model
- Renault Captur Play
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Suspension Component
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Captur Play MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 79% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (98% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Captur Play
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 122 | 86.1% |
| North West | 93 | 90.3% |
| West Midlands | 70 | 90.0% |
| South East | 63 | 95.2% |
| Yorkshire | 58 | 96.6% |
| East Midlands | 43 | 93.0% |
| South West | 33 | 75.8% |
| North East | 28 | 92.9% |
| Wales | 26 | 96.2% |
| East of England | 25 | 84.0% |
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 Captur Play
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 Play
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 suspension joints 2.1% 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 tyre tread 1.4% 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 wipers and washers 1.1% 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.
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 Play through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £32–£94 — and 26% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £32–£94
- Cheapest common item: wipers does not clear the windscreen…
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 26%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 570 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 Play, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2020 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 90.2% to 91.8% — a spread of 1.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2020 90.2%pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2021 91.8% pins and bushes pin or bush…
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 Play 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
- Vauxhall Astra 90.2%
- BMW 520D 90.2%
- Hyundai I30 90.2%
- Hyundai Tucson N LN48V 90.2%
- Vauxhall Grandland X Businss 90.2%
- Audi A4 90.3%
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 Play 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 334 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 | 133 | 39.60% | 19.76% | +19.84 |
| Suspension | 73 | 21.70% | 20.98% | +0.72 |
| Brakes | 56 | 16.70% | 20.89% | −4.19 |
| Non-component advisories | 29 | 8.60% | 4.18% | +4.42 |
| Visibility | 21 | 6.20% | 4.97% | +1.23 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 9 | 2.70% | 5.52% | −2.82 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 5 | 1.50% | 12.21% | −10.71 |
| Steering | 4 | 1.20% | 2.57% | −1.37 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 3 | 0.90% | 0.82% | +0.08 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 0.30% | 5.57% | −5.27 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.1% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| 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 | Major | 1.1% | £8–22 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.88% | £8–22 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.70% | £60–250 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.70% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.53% | £18–45 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 0.53% | £18–45 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 0.53% | £8–22 |
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 | 14.6% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 8.8% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.1% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.6% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.3% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 2.1% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 399 | 91.2% | 18,120 mi |
| 30-60k | 160 | 87.5% | 39,419 mi |
| 60-90k | 11 | 90.9% | 66,657 mi |
Source: 570 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 Play MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Renault Captur Play?
90.2% of the 570 2020 Renault Captur Play tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 89.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Renault Captur Play?
The three most recorded items are pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (2.11%), tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (1.40%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.05%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Renault Captur Play MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.2% of the time, falling to 90.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Renault Captur Play in this dataset had covered 22,583 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2020 Renault Captur Play?
Petrol: 89.9% pass rate across 557 tests. Diesel: 100.0% pass rate across 13 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2020 Renault Captur Play MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 94.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 87.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.