Pass rate
84.9%
Around average — 5.8 pts behind the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 15,246 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £31–£79
2020 Renault Trafic MOT pass rate
- 2020
- Van
- 18 trims combined
- typical 52,934 mi
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Most common fault
Brakes
26.6% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Part only £25–£40 for Brake pads under 1.5 mm. What fitting it takes →
3.0 pts up across model years — 2.1% in 2002, 5.1% in 2022.
Which year to buy
- Best 2025 98.3% pass
- Avoid 2004 66.9% pass
Across the 26 years on record, a spread of 31.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 82.5%
- Typical mileage
- 53k mi
The 2020 Renault Trafic MOT pass rate is 84.9% of its MOT tests — 5.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 26.6% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 1.3× the national share
Brakes make up 26.6% of everything recorded on the 2020 Renault Trafic, against 20.9% nationally — 5.7 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, vans this age and mileage expect about 90.7%; this one manages 84.9% — 5.8 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- 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 Trafic first registered in 2020 is combined here — 18 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2020 Renault Trafic compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 5.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 82.5%. The median 2020 Renault Trafic in this dataset had covered 52,934 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 85.2% of the time, April–September 84.5%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 4.02% of tests.
- 15,246 recorded tests behind this page.
- 84.9% overall pass rate, 82.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Renault Trafic, the average is 73.4% — best year 2025 (98.3%), worst 2004 (66.9%).
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
- 15,246
- Typical mileage (median)
- 52,934 mi
- Make and model
- Renault Trafic
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
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 Trafic MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 72% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Renault Trafic is most common
Across all Trafic model years on record (2000–2025): 161,586 Renault Trafic cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 420,362 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 3,715 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) | 3,715 | 78.9% |
| 2 | Peterborough (PE) | 3,371 | 73.8% |
| 3 | Glasgow (G) | 3,336 | 73.3% |
| 4 | Sheffield (S) | 3,098 | 77.0% |
| 5 | Nottingham (NG) | 2,980 | 71.3% |
| 6 | Bristol (BS) | 2,846 | 69.9% |
| 7 | Cardiff (CF) | 2,777 | 71.9% |
| 8 | Swansea (SA) | 2,776 | 71.3% |
| 9 | Basildon (SS) | 2,738 | 81.4% |
| 10 | Portsmouth (PO) | 2,628 | 69.6% |
| 11 | Exeter (EX) | 2,551 | 67.6% |
| 12 | Doncaster (DN) | 2,406 | 72.4% |
| 13 | Norwich (NR) | 2,390 | 71.5% |
| 14 | Chelmsford (CM) | 2,330 | 77.9% |
| 15 | Ashford (TN) | 2,293 | 74.1% |
| 16 | Leicester (LE) | 2,290 | 75.6% |
| 17 | Ipswich (IP) | 2,238 | 72.4% |
| 18 | Edinburgh (EH) | 2,085 | 70.1% |
| 19 | Stoke On Trent (ST) | 2,030 | 71.7% |
| 20 | Plymouth (PL) | 2,025 | 68.9% |
The twenty areas with the most Renault Trafic 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 Trafic
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 3,208 | 84.9% |
| East of England | 1,879 | 86.6% |
| North West | 1,617 | 85.4% |
| South West | 1,608 | 83.3% |
| Scotland | 1,581 | 81.5% |
| Yorkshire | 1,508 | 84.3% |
| West Midlands | 1,139 | 84.9% |
| East Midlands | 830 | 86.3% |
| London | 679 | 91.2% |
| Wales | 676 | 83.0% |
| North East | 521 | 85.6% |
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 Trafic
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 Trafic
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 4.0% 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 shock absorbers 2.1% of tests
“shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak”
Press down hard on each corner of the car and let go. It should settle in one bounce; if it keeps rocking, or you can see oil weeping down a shock absorber, that is the fault a tester will find.
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Check the lights 1.9% of tests
“malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction”
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 Trafic through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £31–£79 — and 26% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £31–£79
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 26%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 15,246 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 Trafic, side by side
26 model years on record, from 2000 to 2025. Across them the pass rate runs from 66.9% to 98.3% — a spread of 31.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 78.8% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2001 67.6% ball joint excessively worn
- 2002 68.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2003 67.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2004 66.9% ball joint excessively worn
- 2005 68.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2006 67.4% ball joint excessively worn
- 2007 68.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2008 68.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2009 68.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2010 67.9% track rod end ball joint has…
- 2011 67.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2012 69.0% track rod end ball joint has…
- 2013 70.5% track rod end ball joint has…
- 2014 70.9% track rod end ball joint has…
- 2015 72.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 74.8% track rod end ball joint has…
- 2017 76.1% track rod end ball joint has…
- 2018 78.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 81.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 84.9%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 84.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2022 84.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2023 91.1% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2024 94.7% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2025 98.3% headlamp aim too high
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 Trafic 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 vans with a similar record
- Ford Transit Courier 85.0%
- Vauxhall Vivaro 84.6%
- Ford Transit Connect 84.5%
- Citroen Berlingo 84.1%
- Citroen Dispatch 84.0%
- Toyota Proace 86.2%
Closest pass rates among 2020 vans with at least 1,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. Full rankings: best vans and worst vans for MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2020 Renault Trafic 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 15,474 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 4,177 | 26.60% | 20.89% | +5.71 |
| Tyres | 3,368 | 21.40% | 19.76% | +1.64 |
| Suspension | 2,619 | 16.70% | 20.98% | −4.28 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1,655 | 10.50% | 12.21% | −1.71 |
| Visibility | 1,421 | 9.00% | 4.97% | +4.03 |
| Non-component advisories | 797 | 5.10% | 4.18% | +0.92 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 581 | 3.70% | 5.52% | −1.82 |
| Steering | 468 | 3.00% | 2.57% | +0.43 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 231 | 1.50% | 0.82% | +0.68 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 157 | 1.00% | 5.57% | −4.57 |
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 | 4.0% | £80–200 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 2.1% | £30–75 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.9% | £3–12 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.8% | £18–45 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.5% | £5–20 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 1.5% | £18–45 |
| Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.3% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.3% | £18–45 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.3% | £45–95 |
| Mirrors slightly damaged Visibility | Minor | 1.2% | £3–15 |
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 | 12.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 11.4% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 6.8% | £45–110 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 4.2% | £30–75 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 2.4% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 3,050 | 91.4% | 20,116 mi |
| 30-60k | 5,842 | 85.2% | 44,648 mi |
| 60-90k | 3,871 | 81.9% | 73,496 mi |
| 90-120k | 1,634 | 81.2% | 102,556 mi |
| 120k+ | 844 | 80.0% | 150,235 mi |
Source: 15,246 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 Trafic MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Renault Trafic?
84.9% of the 15,246 2020 Renault Trafic tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 82.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Renault Trafic?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (4.02%), shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak (2.08%), malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (1.90%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Renault Trafic MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.4% of the time, falling to 80.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Renault Trafic in this dataset had covered 52,934 mi.
Does the season affect the 2020 Renault Trafic MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 85.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 84.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.