Pass rate
89.6%
Above average — 1.1 pts behind the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 260 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £34–£84
2020 SEAT Arona Fr MOT pass rate
- 2020
- typical 24,462 mi
Most common fault
Brakes
44.5% 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 2023 90.7% pass
- Avoid 2021 89.6% pass
Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 1.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 88.5%
- Typical mileage
- 24k mi
The 2020 SEAT Arona Fr MOT pass rate is 89.6% of its MOT tests — 1.1 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 44.5% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how SEAT Arona Fr does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 2.1× the national share
Brakes make up 44.5% of everything recorded on the 2020 SEAT Arona Fr, against 20.9% nationally — 23.6 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 16% 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.
- Based on a small sample. 260 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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How does the 2020 SEAT Arona Fr compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 1.1 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 88.5%. The median 2020 SEAT Arona Fr in this dataset had covered 24,462 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 87.9% of the time, April–September 96.2%.
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 1.15% of tests.
- 260 recorded tests behind this page.
- 89.6% overall pass rate, 88.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the SEAT Arona Fr, the average is 89.9% — best year 2023 (90.7%), worst 2021 (89.6%).
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
- 260
- Typical mileage (median)
- 24,462 mi
- Make and model
- SEAT Arona Fr
- 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 Arona Fr MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 80% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Arona Fr
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Yorkshire | 46 | 93.5% |
| Scotland | 43 | 83.7% |
| West Midlands | 32 | 90.6% |
| South West | 32 | 84.4% |
| North West | 28 | 92.9% |
| East Midlands | 21 | 95.2% |
| South East | 20 | 90.0% |
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 Arona Fr
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 Arona Fr
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 1.1% 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 0.8% 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 0.4% of tests
“ball joint dust cover excessively damaged or deteriorated”
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 2020 Arona Fr through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £34–£84 — and 16% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £34–£84
- Cheapest common item: wipers does not clear the windscreen…
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: service brake performance excessively…
- £60–£150
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 16%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 260 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 Arona Fr, side by side
4 model years on record, from 2020 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 89.6% to 90.7% — a spread of 1.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2020 89.6%has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 89.6% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2022 90.4% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2023 90.7% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
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 SEAT Arona Fr 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
- Hyundai Tucson 89.6%
- Vauxhall Crossland X Griffin 89.6%
- BMW 320 89.6%
- Volkswagen E-Golf 89.6%
- Fiat 500 Rockstar 89.6%
- Renault Kadjar 89.5%
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 SEAT Arona Fr 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 191 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 | 85 | 44.50% | 20.89% | +23.61 |
| Tyres | 71 | 37.20% | 19.76% | +17.44 |
| Non-component advisories | 10 | 5.20% | 4.18% | +1.02 |
| Visibility | 7 | 3.70% | 4.97% | −1.27 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 6 | 3.10% | 0.82% | +2.28 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 4 | 2.10% | 12.21% | −10.11 |
| Steering | 3 | 1.60% | 2.57% | −0.97 |
| Suspension | 2 | 1.00% | 20.98% | −19.98 |
| Road Wheels | 2 | 1.00% | 0.75% | +0.25 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1 | 0.50% | 5.52% | −5.02 |
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 | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Not functioning as intended Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 1.1% | £40–120 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.1% | £8–22 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.77% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.77% | £45–95 |
| Service brake performance excessively fluctuating Brakes | Major | 0.77% | £60–150 |
| Ball joint dust cover excessively damaged or deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Steering | Major | 0.38% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Major | 0.38% | £45–110 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Major | 0.38% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads incorrectly mounted Brakes | Major | 0.38% | £18–45 |
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 | 15.4% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 11.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 10.0% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 7.3% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 2.7% | £45–110 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.3% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 170 | 88.2% | 18,728 mi |
| 30-60k | 85 | 91.8% | 39,680 mi |
| 60-90k | 5 | 100.0% | 63,638 mi |
Source: 260 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 Arona Fr MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 SEAT Arona Fr?
89.6% of the 260 2020 SEAT Arona Fr tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 88.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 SEAT Arona Fr?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.15%), not functioning as intended (1.15%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.15%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 SEAT Arona Fr MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 88.2% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 SEAT Arona Fr in this dataset had covered 24,462 mi.
Does the season affect the 2020 SEAT Arona Fr MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 87.9% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 96.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.