Pass rate
90.1%
Above average — 0.6 pts behind the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 294 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £39–£94
2020 SEAT Ibiza Fr MOT pass rate
- 2020
- typical 29,286 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
47.5% 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 2023 92.9% pass
- Avoid 2019 88.7% pass
Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 4.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 89.1%
- Typical mileage
- 29k mi
The 2020 SEAT Ibiza Fr 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 47.5% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how SEAT Ibiza Fr does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.4× the national share
Tyres make up 47.5% of everything recorded on the 2020 SEAT Ibiza Fr, against 19.8% nationally — 27.7 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 0% 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. 294 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 Ibiza Fr 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 89.1%. The median 2020 SEAT Ibiza Fr in this dataset had covered 29,286 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 91.8% of the time, April–September 87.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm", noted on 2.38% of tests.
- 294 recorded tests behind this page.
- 90.1% overall pass rate, 89.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the SEAT Ibiza Fr, the average is 90.2% — best year 2023 (92.9%), worst 2019 (88.7%).
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
- 294
- Typical mileage (median)
- 29,286 mi
- Make and model
- SEAT Ibiza 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 Ibiza Fr MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 80% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Ibiza Fr
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| North West | 68 | 85.3% |
| Yorkshire | 42 | 85.7% |
| West Midlands | 42 | 97.6% |
| Scotland | 29 | 93.1% |
| South West | 21 | 85.7% |
| North East | 21 | 81.0% |
| Wales | 19 | 94.7% |
| South East | 18 | 88.9% |
| East Midlands | 17 | 100.0% |
| East of England | 16 | 100.0% |
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 Ibiza 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 Ibiza 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 tyre tread 2.4% 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 suspension joints 0.7% of tests
“ball joint dust cover severely 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.
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Check the brakes 0.7% 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 2020 Ibiza Fr through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £39–£94 — and 0% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £39–£94
- Cheapest common item: ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated
- £18–£45
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 0%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 294 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 Ibiza Fr, side by side
4 model years on record, from 2019 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 88.7% to 92.9% — a spread of 4.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 88.7% tread depth below requirements of…
- 2020 90.1%tread depth below requirements of…
- 2022 91.4% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2023 92.9% 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 Ibiza 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
- 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 SEAT Ibiza 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 200 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 | 96 | 47.50% | 19.76% | +27.74 |
| Brakes | 42 | 20.80% | 20.89% | −0.09 |
| Non-component advisories | 19 | 9.40% | 4.18% | +5.22 |
| Visibility | 12 | 5.90% | 4.97% | +0.93 |
| Suspension | 8 | 4.00% | 20.98% | −16.98 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 7 | 3.50% | 5.52% | −2.02 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 6 | 3.00% | 12.21% | −9.21 |
| Steering | 4 | 2.00% | 2.57% | −0.57 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 3 | 1.50% | 1.76% | −0.26 |
| Road Wheels | 3 | 1.50% | 0.75% | +0.75 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 2.4% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.7% | £45–95 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 0.68% | £18–45 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.68% | £18–45 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.68% | £60–250 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.68% | £45–95 |
| Has a lump, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.68% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.68% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.68% | £30–80 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 0.68% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 11.9% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.4% | £45–110 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 4.1% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 3.7% | £18–45 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 3.7% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 150 | 90.7% | 20,325 mi |
| 30-60k | 135 | 88.9% | 40,533 mi |
| 60-90k | 9 | 100.0% | 69,573 mi |
Source: 294 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 Ibiza Fr MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 SEAT Ibiza Fr?
90.1% of the 294 2020 SEAT Ibiza Fr tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 89.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 SEAT Ibiza Fr?
The three most recorded items are tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (2.38%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.70%), ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (0.68%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 SEAT Ibiza Fr MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 90.7% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 SEAT Ibiza Fr in this dataset had covered 29,286 mi.
Does the season affect the 2020 SEAT Ibiza Fr MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 91.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 87.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.