Pass rate
78.1%
Around average — 5.1 pts ahead of the 73.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 151 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £15–£43
2007 Smart Forfour Passion Semi-Auto MOT pass rate
- 2007
- typical 89,634 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
24.0% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2007 78.1% pass · this year
- Avoid 2004 73.4% pass
Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 4.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 72.5%
- Typical mileage
- 90k mi
The 2007 Smart Forfour Passion Semi-Auto MOT pass rate is 78.1% of its MOT tests — 5.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 24.0% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Smart Forfour Passion Semi-Auto does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.9× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 23.1% of everything recorded on the 2007 Smart Forfour Passion Semi-Auto, against 12.2% nationally — 10.9 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 24.0%, but at 21.0% nationally that one is ordinary. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- 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 73.0% and this one manages 78.1% — 5.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 57% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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 2007 Smart Forfour Passion Semi-Auto compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.0%, so this figure is 5.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 72.5%. The median 2007 Smart Forfour Passion Semi-Auto in this dataset had covered 89,634 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 75.0% of the time, April–September 84.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 5.96% of tests.
- 151 recorded tests behind this page.
- 78.1% overall pass rate, 72.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Smart Forfour Passion Semi-Auto, the average is 76.2% — best year 2007 (78.1%), worst 2004 (73.4%).
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
- 151
- Typical mileage (median)
- 89,634 mi
- Make and model
- Smart Forfour Passion Semi-Auto
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Ball Joint
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Forfour Passion Semi-Auto MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 62% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Forfour Passion Semi-Auto
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 36 | 77.8% |
| West Midlands | 22 | 81.8% |
| East of England | 21 | 71.4% |
| South West | 15 | 86.7% |
| London | 15 | 73.3% |
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 2007 Forfour Passion Semi-Auto
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 2007 Forfour Passion Semi-Auto
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 suspension joints 6.0% 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 lights 6.0% of tests
“headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect”
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.
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Check the wipers and washers 4.0% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
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.
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 2007 Forfour Passion Semi-Auto through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £15–£43 — and 57% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £15–£43
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements
- £45–£110
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 57%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 151 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 Forfour Passion Semi-Auto, side by side
4 model years on record, from 2004 to 2007. Across them the pass rate runs from 73.4% to 78.1% — a spread of 4.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2004 73.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2005 75.5% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2006 77.5% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2007 78.1%ball joint dust cover severely…
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 2007 Smart Forfour Passion Semi-Auto 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 2007 cars with a similar record
- BMW 116 77.9%
- Toyota Land Cruiser 77.9%
- Mercedes-Benz Ml 78.4%
- Toyota Hi-Ace 78.4%
- BMW 3 Series 78.5%
- Land Rover Range Rover 78.5%
Closest pass rates among 2007 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 2007 Smart Forfour Passion Semi-Auto 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 347 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 84 | 24.00% | 20.98% | +3.02 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 81 | 23.10% | 12.21% | +10.89 |
| Brakes | 63 | 18.00% | 20.89% | −2.89 |
| Tyres | 40 | 11.40% | 19.76% | −8.36 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 15 | 4.30% | 5.52% | −1.22 |
| Visibility | 15 | 4.30% | 4.97% | −0.67 |
| Steering | 15 | 4.30% | 2.57% | +1.73 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 14 | 4.00% | 5.57% | −1.57 |
| Non-component advisories | 12 | 3.40% | 4.18% | −0.78 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 8 | 2.30% | 1.76% | +0.54 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 6.0% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 6.0% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.3% | £5–25 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.3% | £5–20 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 4.0% | £45–110 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 4.0% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.3% | £5–25 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.3% | £5–25 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 3.3% | £3–12 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 2.6% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 17.9% | £25–65 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 13.3% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 11.3% | £45–95 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 9.9% | £30–75 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 6.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.3% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 12 | 75.0% | 48,289 mi |
| 60-90k | 64 | 81.3% | 79,607 mi |
| 90-120k | 51 | 78.4% | 103,237 mi |
| 120k+ | 24 | 70.8% | 144,857 mi |
Source: 151 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.
2007 Forfour Passion Semi-Auto MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2007 Smart Forfour Passion Semi-Auto?
78.1% of the 151 2007 Smart Forfour Passion Semi-Auto tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.0% for cars first used in 2007. First-attempt pass rate: 72.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2007 Smart Forfour Passion Semi-Auto?
The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (5.96%), headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect (5.96%), headlamp lens slightly defective (5.30%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2007 Smart Forfour Passion Semi-Auto MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 75.0% of the time, falling to 70.8% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2007 Smart Forfour Passion Semi-Auto in this dataset had covered 89,634 mi.
Does the season affect the 2007 Smart Forfour Passion Semi-Auto MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 75.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 84.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.