Pass rate
82.8%
Around average — 5.6 pts ahead of the 77.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 513 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £44–£110
2012 Renault Twizy MOT pass rate
- 2012
- typical 10,530 mi
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Most common fault
Brakes
53.8% 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 →
Which year to buy
- Best 2018 90.2% pass
- Avoid 2016 79.8% pass
Across the 8 years on record, a spread of 10.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 80.7%
- Typical mileage
- 11k mi
The 2012 Renault Twizy MOT pass rate is 82.8% of its MOT tests — 5.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 53.8% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 2.6× the national share
Brakes make up 53.8% of everything recorded on the 2012 Renault Twizy, against 20.9% nationally — 32.9 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
- Beats its own age and mileage. Once you allow for how old and how far these cars have been driven, the expected pass rate is 77.2% and this one manages 82.8% — 5.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 27% 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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How does the 2012 Renault Twizy compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 77.2%, so this figure is 5.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 80.7%. The median 2012 Renault Twizy in this dataset had covered 10,530 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 82.2% of the time, April–September 83.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Switch inoperative", noted on 2.73% of tests.
- 513 recorded tests behind this page.
- 82.8% overall pass rate, 80.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Renault Twizy, the average is 82.8% — best year 2018 (90.2%), worst 2016 (79.8%).
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
- 513
- Typical mileage (median)
- 10,530 mi
- Make and model
- Renault Twizy
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Headlight Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Twizy MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 69% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Twizy
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 139 | 78.4% |
| South West | 63 | 87.3% |
| East of England | 62 | 80.6% |
| Yorkshire | 44 | 86.4% |
| North West | 41 | 82.9% |
| East Midlands | 40 | 85.0% |
| London | 36 | 86.1% |
| West Midlands | 35 | 85.7% |
| Wales | 22 | 77.3% |
| Scotland | 18 | 88.9% |
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 2012 Twizy
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 2012 Twizy
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 tyre tread 2.1% 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 steering 1.9% of tests
“steering rack gaiter missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt”
With the wheels straight, rock the steering wheel gently with the engine off — more than about an inch of free play before the wheels move is worth investigating. Split rack gaiters are cheap to replace and commonly recorded.
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Check the brakes 1.6% 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.
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 2012 Twizy through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £44–£110 — and 27% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £44–£110
- Cheapest common item: switch inoperative
- £5–£25
- Dearest common item: steering rack gaiter missing or no longer…
- £120–£300
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 27%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 513 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 Twizy, side by side
8 model years on record, from 2012 to 2019. Across them the pass rate runs from 79.8% to 90.2% — a spread of 10.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2012 82.8%switch inoperative
- 2013 81.3% parking brake performance…
- 2014 80.2% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2015 81.2% service brake performance…
- 2016 79.8% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2017 89.6% rbt (sp) efficiency less than 50%…
- 2018 90.2% parking brake performance…
- 2019 82.6% switch inoperative
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 2012 Renault Twizy 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 2012 cars with a similar record
- Toyota Rav-4 82.8%
- Honda Cr-Z 82.8%
- Honda Civic 82.7%
- BMW X5 82.7%
- BMW X6 82.7%
- Land Rover Range Rover 82.9%
Closest pass rates among 2012 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 2012 Renault Twizy 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 551 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 | 297 | 53.80% | 20.89% | +32.91 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 70 | 12.70% | 12.21% | +0.49 |
| Tyres | 69 | 12.50% | 19.76% | −7.26 |
| Suspension | 45 | 8.20% | 20.98% | −12.78 |
| Visibility | 31 | 5.60% | 4.97% | +0.63 |
| Steering | 20 | 3.60% | 2.57% | +1.03 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 11 | 2.00% | 1.76% | +0.24 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 3 | 0.50% | 5.57% | −5.07 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 3 | 0.50% | 0.82% | −0.32 |
| Non-component advisories | 2 | 0.40% | 4.18% | −3.78 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switch inoperative Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.7% | £5–25 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 2.1% | £45–110 |
| Switch faulty Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.1% | £5–25 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 2.1% | £45–95 |
| Steering rack gaiter missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Steering | Major | 1.9% | £120–300 |
| Service brake performance efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 1.8% | £60–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.6% | £18–45 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 1.4% | £60–150 |
| Lever defective so that it cannot be satisfactorily operated Brakes | Major | 1.2% | £45–110 |
| Parking brake performance inoperative on one side Brakes | Major | 1.2% | £60–150 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 21.1% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 12.9% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 7.8% | £45–95 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Advisory | 4.7% | £60–150 |
| Linkage pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 2.9% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 1.6% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 485 | 83.1% | 11,402 mi |
| 30-60k | 22 | 77.3% | 35,623 mi |
| 60-90k | 3 | 100.0% | 81,162 mi |
Source: 513 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.
2012 Twizy MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2012 Renault Twizy?
82.8% of the 513 2012 Renault Twizy tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 77.2% for cars first used in 2012. First-attempt pass rate: 80.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2012 Renault Twizy?
The three most recorded items are switch inoperative (2.73%), rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements (2.14%), switch faulty (2.14%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2012 Renault Twizy MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 83.1% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2012 Renault Twizy in this dataset had covered 10,530 mi.
Does the season affect the 2012 Renault Twizy MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 82.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 83.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.