Pass rate
90.1%
Above average — 0.6 pts behind the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,224 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £43–£101
2020 Renault Zoe I Play MOT pass rate
- 2020
- typical 17,581 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
40.7% 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 90.1% pass · this year
- Avoid 2021 88.2% pass
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 1.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 89.0%
- Typical mileage
- 18k mi
The 2020 Renault Zoe I Play MOT pass rate is 90.1% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 40.7% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Renault Zoe I Play does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.1× the national share
Tyres make up 40.7% of everything recorded on the 2020 Renault Zoe I Play, against 19.8% nationally — 20.9 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 9% 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 2020 Renault Zoe I Play compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 0.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 89.0%. The median 2020 Renault Zoe I Play in this dataset had covered 17,581 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 87.2% of the time, April–September 91.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords", noted on 2.45% of tests.
- 1,224 recorded tests behind this page.
- 90.1% overall pass rate, 89.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Renault Zoe I Play, the average is 89.8% — best year 2020 (90.1%), worst 2021 (88.2%).
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
- 1,224
- Typical mileage (median)
- 17,581 mi
- Make and model
- Renault Zoe I Play
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Zoe I Play MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 42% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Zoe I Play
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 550 | 92.9% |
| South East | 159 | 89.3% |
| South West | 96 | 84.4% |
| East of England | 82 | 80.5% |
| Yorkshire | 76 | 90.8% |
| East Midlands | 65 | 92.3% |
| North West | 63 | 85.7% |
| West Midlands | 48 | 87.5% |
| North East | 33 | 90.9% |
| London | 27 | 92.6% |
| Wales | 25 | 92.0% |
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 Zoe I 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 Zoe I 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 wipers and washers 0.8% of tests
“washers provides insufficient washer liquid”
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 tyre tread 0.7% 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 brakes 0.7% of tests
“brake discs significantly and obviously worn”
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 2020 Zoe I Play through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £43–£101 — and 9% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £43–£101
- Cheapest common item: washers provides insufficient washer liquid
- £5–£15
- Dearest common item: service brake performance excessively binding
- £60–£150
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 9%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,224 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 Zoe I Play, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2020 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 88.2% to 90.1% — a spread of 1.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2020 90.1%has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 88.2% brake discs significantly and…
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 Zoe I 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
- MG 3 90.1%
- Land Rover Range Rover Evoque 90.0%
- Vauxhall Crossland 90.0%
- Fiat 500 Star 90.0%
- Mitsubishi L200 Barbarian X 90.0%
- Volvo S60 R-Design + 90.0%
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 Zoe I 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 774 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 | 315 | 40.70% | 19.76% | +20.94 |
| Brakes | 302 | 39.00% | 20.89% | +18.11 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 34 | 4.40% | 12.21% | −7.81 |
| Visibility | 33 | 4.30% | 4.97% | −0.67 |
| Non-component advisories | 32 | 4.10% | 4.18% | −0.08 |
| Suspension | 26 | 3.40% | 20.98% | −17.58 |
| Road Wheels | 11 | 1.40% | 0.75% | +0.65 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 9 | 1.20% | 1.76% | −0.56 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 8 | 1.00% | 0.82% | +0.18 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 4 | 0.50% | 5.57% | −5.07 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.5% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 1.1% | £60–150 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Rectified | 0.82% | £5–15 |
| Service brake performance efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 0.74% | £60–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.74% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Major | 0.65% | £45–110 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.65% | £30–80 |
| Service brake imbalance across an axle Brakes | Major | 0.65% | £45–110 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 0.57% | £45–110 |
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 | 12.4% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 11.7% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 3.7% | £45–95 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Advisory | 2.9% | £60–150 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 1.9% | £45–110 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 1.9% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 930 | 92.3% | 14,518 mi |
| 30-60k | 255 | 83.9% | 40,430 mi |
| 60-90k | 29 | 82.8% | 71,662 mi |
| 90-120k | 7 | 71.4% | 101,725 mi |
| 120k+ | 2 | 50.0% | 122,974 mi |
Source: 1,224 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 Zoe I Play MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Renault Zoe I Play?
90.1% of the 1,224 2020 Renault Zoe I Play tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 89.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Renault Zoe I Play?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.45%), has ply or cords exposed (1.06%), service brake performance excessively binding (1.06%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Renault Zoe I Play MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.3% of the time, falling to 50.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Renault Zoe I Play in this dataset had covered 17,581 mi.
Does the season affect the 2020 Renault Zoe I Play MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 87.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 91.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.