Pass rate
95.2%
Above average — 0.4 pts ahead of the 94.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 105 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £27–£68
2023 Renault Clio MOT pass rate
- 2023
- 3 trims combined
- typical 16,972 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
45.1% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 95.2% pass · this year
- Avoid 2006 67.9% pass
Across the 24 years on record, a spread of 27.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 95.0%
- Typical mileage
- 17k mi
The 2023 Renault Clio MOT pass rate is 95.2% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 45.1% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.3× the national share
Tyres make up 45.1% of everything recorded on the 2023 Renault Clio, against 19.8% nationally — 25.3 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.
- Based on a small sample. 105 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 Renault Clio first registered in 2023 is combined here — 3 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2023 Renault Clio compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 94.8%, so this figure is 0.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 95.0%. The median 2023 Renault Clio in this dataset had covered 16,972 mi.
77% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 95.1% of the time.
The single most recorded failure item is "Service brake performance excessively binding", noted on 1.90% of tests.
- 105 recorded tests behind this page.
- 95.2% overall pass rate, 95.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Renault Clio, the average is 72.5% — best year 2023 (95.2%), worst 2006 (67.9%).
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
- 105
- Typical mileage (median)
- 16,972 mi
- Make and model
- Renault Clio
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Brake Servicing
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Clio MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 80% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (77% of tests).
Where the Renault Clio is most common
Across all Clio model years on record (2000–2023): 471,562 Renault Clio cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 1,261,211 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 14,280 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 | Birmingham (B) | 14,280 | 77.3% |
| 2 | Glasgow (G) | 12,718 | 70.7% |
| 3 | Sheffield (S) | 10,238 | 73.8% |
| 4 | Cardiff (CF) | 9,794 | 70.3% |
| 5 | Manchester (M) | 8,940 | 73.4% |
| 6 | Swansea (SA) | 8,791 | 70.8% |
| 7 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 8,687 | 72.1% |
| 8 | Bristol (BS) | 8,081 | 70.1% |
| 9 | Peterborough (PE) | 7,897 | 73.6% |
| 10 | Nottingham (NG) | 7,594 | 71.2% |
| 11 | Norwich (NR) | 7,371 | 72.2% |
| 12 | Leicester (LE) | 6,984 | 74.3% |
| 13 | Edinburgh (EH) | 6,961 | 68.5% |
| 14 | Warrington (WA) | 6,653 | 74.0% |
| 15 | Chester (CH) | 6,650 | 71.4% |
| 16 | Doncaster (DN) | 6,301 | 71.4% |
| 17 | Stoke On Trent (ST) | 6,041 | 70.6% |
| 18 | Northampton (NN) | 6,029 | 71.6% |
| 19 | Derby (DE) | 5,932 | 74.3% |
| 20 | Coventry (CV) | 5,910 | 74.1% |
The twenty areas with the most Renault Clio 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 Clio
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 19 | 84.2% |
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 2023 Clio
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 2023 Clio
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 1.9% 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 lights 0.9% of tests
“front fog lamps not working”
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 suspension joints 0.9% of tests
“track rod end ball joint has excessive play”
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.
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 2023 Clio through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £27–£68 — and 50% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £27–£68
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp insecure
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 50%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 105 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 Clio, side by side
24 model years on record, from 2000 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 67.9% to 95.2% — a spread of 27.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 69.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2001 70.7% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2002 70.4% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2003 68.7% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2004 68.3% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2005 68.0% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2006 67.9% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2007 68.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 68.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 68.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 68.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 68.4% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2012 68.7% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2013 71.3% ball joint excessively worn
- 2014 70.8% ball joint excessively worn
- 2015 72.5% ball joint excessively worn
- 2016 73.9% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2017 78.0% ball joint excessively worn
- 2018 82.0% ball joint excessively worn
- 2019 84.4% wipers does not clear the…
- 2020 88.1% wipers does not clear the…
- 2021 89.9% wipers does not clear the…
- 2022 91.5% has ply or cords exposed
- 2023 95.2%service brake performance…
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 2023 Renault Clio 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 2023 cars with a similar record
- Kia Niro 95.5%
- Toyota Corolla 95.7%
- Polestar Polestar 94.6%
- Mercedes-Benz Eqe 96.5%
- Ford Puma 96.5%
- Levc Tx 97.0%
Closest pass rates among 2023 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 2023 Renault Clio 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 7 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 51 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 | 23 | 45.10% | 19.76% | +25.34 |
| Brakes | 12 | 23.50% | 20.89% | +2.61 |
| Visibility | 5 | 9.80% | 4.97% | +4.83 |
| Non-component advisories | 5 | 9.80% | 4.18% | +5.62 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 3 | 5.90% | 12.21% | −6.31 |
| Road Wheels | 2 | 3.90% | 0.75% | +3.15 |
| Steering | 1 | 2.00% | 2.57% | −0.57 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 1.9% | £60–150 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.9% | £8–22 |
| Front fog lamps not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.95% | £3–15 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.95% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too far to the right Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.95% | £30–80 |
| Stop lamp insecure Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.95% | £3–12 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 0.95% | £18–45 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Rectified | 0.95% | £5–15 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Rectified | 0.95% | £5–15 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.95% | £80–200 |
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 | 13.3% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 3.8% | £45–110 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 3.8% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Items removed from drivers view prior to test Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.9% | £20–80 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Advisory | 2.9% | £60–150 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Advisory | 1.9% | £20–55 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 95 | 95.8% | 16,228 mi |
| 30-60k | 9 | 88.9% | 40,435 mi |
| 60-90k | 1 | 100.0% | 67,407 mi |
Source: 105 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.
2023 Clio MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2023 Renault Clio?
95.2% of the 105 2023 Renault Clio tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 94.8% for cars first used in 2023. First-attempt pass rate: 95.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2023 Renault Clio?
The three most recorded items are service brake performance excessively binding (1.90%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.90%), front fog lamps not working (0.95%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2023 Renault Clio MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.8% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2023 Renault Clio in this dataset had covered 16,972 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2023 Renault Clio?
Petrol: 95.1% pass rate across 81 tests. Hybrid: 95.8% pass rate across 24 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.