Pass rate
88.3%
Above average — 2.9 pts behind the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,081 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £19–£49
2021 Renault Clio Play Sce MOT pass rate
- 2021
- typical 19,107 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
37.3% 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 2020 89.6% pass
- Avoid 2021 88.3% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 1.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 86.9%
- Typical mileage
- 19k mi
The 2021 Renault Clio Play Sce MOT pass rate is 88.3% of its MOT tests — 2.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 37.3% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Renault Clio Play Sce does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.9× the national share
Tyres make up 37.3% of everything recorded on the 2021 Renault Clio Play Sce, against 19.8% nationally — 17.5 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.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 57% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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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How does the 2021 Renault Clio Play Sce compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 2.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 86.9%. The median 2021 Renault Clio Play Sce in this dataset had covered 19,107 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 89.7% of the time, April–September 85.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively", noted on 4.07% of tests.
- 1,081 recorded tests behind this page.
- 88.3% overall pass rate, 86.9% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Renault Clio Play Sce, the average is 89.1% — best year 2020 (89.6%), worst 2021 (88.3%).
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
- 1,081
- Typical mileage (median)
- 19,107 mi
- Make and model
- Renault Clio Play Sce
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
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 Clio Play Sce MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 73% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Clio Play Sce
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 545 | 87.3% |
| North West | 189 | 88.9% |
| Yorkshire | 80 | 91.3% |
| South East | 44 | 95.5% |
| North East | 42 | 88.1% |
| Wales | 40 | 85.0% |
| East of England | 40 | 90.0% |
| East Midlands | 39 | 84.6% |
| West Midlands | 30 | 90.0% |
| South West | 26 | 88.5% |
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 2021 Clio Play Sce
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 2021 Clio Play Sce
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 4.1% 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.
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Check the brakes 2.2% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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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.
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 2021 Clio Play Sce through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £19–£49 — and 57% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £19–£49
- Cheapest common item: washers provides insufficient washer liquid
- £5–£15
- Dearest common item: pins
- £40–£150
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 57%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,081 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 Play Sce, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2020 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 88.3% to 89.6% — a spread of 1.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2020 89.6% wipers does not clear the…
- 2021 88.3%wipers does not clear the…
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 2021 Renault Clio Play Sce 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 2021 cars with a similar record
- Isuzu D-Max 88.2%
- BMW 420D 88.2%
- Ford Mondeo 88.4%
- Tesla Model 3 88.1%
- Nissan Navara 88.5%
- BMW 840I 88.5%
Closest pass rates among 2021 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 2021 Renault Clio Play Sce 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 719 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 | 273 | 37.30% | 19.76% | +17.54 |
| Brakes | 163 | 22.30% | 20.89% | +1.41 |
| Visibility | 108 | 14.80% | 4.97% | +9.83 |
| Suspension | 78 | 10.70% | 20.98% | −10.28 |
| Non-component advisories | 42 | 5.70% | 4.18% | +1.52 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 22 | 3.00% | 12.21% | −9.21 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 10 | 1.40% | 5.57% | −4.17 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 8 | 1.10% | 0.82% | +0.28 |
| Road Wheels | 8 | 1.10% | 0.75% | +0.35 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 7 | 1.00% | 5.52% | −4.52 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 4.1% | £8–22 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 2.2% | £18–45 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.9% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.6% | £8–22 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| 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 | 0.93% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.83% | £45–95 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Rectified | 0.83% | £5–15 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.46% | £5–20 |
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 | 13.1% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 4.8% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 4.8% | £40–150 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 3.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 3.0% | £45–110 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 2.1% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 843 | 89.6% | 16,830 mi |
| 30-60k | 221 | 84.2% | 39,480 mi |
| 60-90k | 16 | 81.3% | 67,870 mi |
| 90-120k | 1 | 100.0% | 101,990 mi |
Source: 1,081 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.
2021 Clio Play Sce MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Renault Clio Play Sce?
88.3% of the 1,081 2021 Renault Clio Play Sce tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 86.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Renault Clio Play Sce?
The three most recorded items are wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (4.07%), brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (2.22%), wipers blade defective (1.94%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Renault Clio Play Sce MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 89.6% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Renault Clio Play Sce in this dataset had covered 19,107 mi.
Does the season affect the 2021 Renault Clio Play Sce MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 89.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 85.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.