Pass rate
84.2%
Around average — 5.3 pts behind the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 12,489 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £44–£104
2019 Tesla Model 3 Performance MOT pass rate
- 2019
- typical 45,165 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
40.2% 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 2022 85.6% pass
- Avoid 2020 83.2% pass
Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 2.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 81.7%
- Typical mileage
- 45k mi
The 2019 Tesla Model 3 Performance MOT pass rate is 84.2% of its MOT tests — 5.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 40.2% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.0× the national share
Tyres make up 40.2% of everything recorded on the 2019 Tesla Model 3 Performance, against 19.8% nationally — 20.4 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 89.5%; this one manages 84.2% — 5.3 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 5% 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 2019 Tesla Model 3 Performance compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 89.5%, so this figure is 5.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 81.7%. The median 2019 Tesla Model 3 Performance in this dataset had covered 45,165 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 84.1% of the time, April–September 84.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has ply or cords exposed", noted on 4.20% of tests.
- 12,489 recorded tests behind this page.
- 84.2% overall pass rate, 81.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Tesla Model 3 Performance, the average is 84.0% — best year 2022 (85.6%), worst 2020 (83.2%).
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
- 12,489
- Typical mileage (median)
- 45,165 mi
- Make and model
- Tesla Model 3 Performance
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
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 Model 3 Performance MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 72% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Tesla Model 3 Performance is most common
Across all Model 3 Performance model years on record (2019–2022): 20,608 Tesla Model 3 Performance cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 35,906 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 611 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birmingham (B) | 611 | 87.2% |
| 2 | Milton Keynes (MK) | 566 | 81.1% |
| 3 | Northampton (NN) | 537 | 84.1% |
| 4 | Reading (RG) | 531 | 82.7% |
| 5 | Leicester (LE) | 500 | 86.2% |
| 6 | Peterborough (PE) | 500 | 81.5% |
| 7 | Nottingham (NG) | 481 | 84.5% |
| 8 | Derby (DE) | 407 | 82.9% |
| 9 | Sheffield (S) | 403 | 86.7% |
| 10 | Oxford (OX) | 390 | 81.0% |
| 11 | Chelmsford (CM) | 378 | 83.1% |
| 12 | Coventry (CV) | 363 | 85.0% |
| 13 | London (NW) | 361 | 84.6% |
| 14 | Bristol (BS) | 355 | 81.2% |
| 15 | Guildford (GU) | 341 | 80.7% |
| 16 | Southampton (SO) | 334 | 86.6% |
| 17 | Leeds (LS) | 318 | 86.5% |
| 18 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 306 | 85.0% |
| 19 | High Wycombe (HP) | 305 | 84.3% |
| 20 | Gloucester (GL) | 290 | 75.9% |
The twenty areas with the most Tesla Model 3 Performance cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the Model 3 Performance
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 3,265 | 83.8% |
| East of England | 1,505 | 84.8% |
| South West | 1,222 | 79.3% |
| North West | 1,220 | 84.5% |
| West Midlands | 1,027 | 84.5% |
| East Midlands | 993 | 85.2% |
| Yorkshire | 948 | 85.8% |
| London | 810 | 86.8% |
| Scotland | 785 | 84.1% |
| North East | 388 | 85.6% |
| Wales | 321 | 86.6% |
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 2019 Model 3 Performance
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 2019 Model 3 Performance
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 windscreen 1.8% of tests
“windscreen damaged”
Check the driver’s side of the screen within the swept area for chips and cracks; anything larger than 10mm in the driver’s central view is a fail. Most chips can be resin-repaired for far less than a new screen.
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Check the tyre tread 1.6% 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 1.0% of tests
“pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn”
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 2019 Model 3 Performance through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £44–£104 — and 5% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £44–£104
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 5%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 12,489 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 Model 3 Performance, side by side
4 model years on record, from 2019 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 83.2% to 85.6% — a spread of 2.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 84.2%has ply or cords exposed
- 2020 83.2% has ply or cords exposed
- 2021 85.3% has ply or cords exposed
- 2022 85.6% has a bulge, caused by separation…
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 2019 Tesla Model 3 Performance 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 2019 cars with a similar record
- Isuzu D-Max 84.2%
- Renault Clio 84.4%
- Nissan Navara 84.0%
- Ford S-Max 84.4%
- Ford Grand C-Max 84.4%
- Ford Ranger 84.6%
Closest pass rates among 2019 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 2019 Tesla Model 3 Performance 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 11,058 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 | 4,468 | 40.20% | 19.76% | +20.44 |
| Brakes | 3,055 | 27.50% | 20.89% | +6.61 |
| Suspension | 1,311 | 11.80% | 20.98% | −9.18 |
| Non-component advisories | 585 | 5.30% | 4.18% | +1.12 |
| Road Wheels | 524 | 4.70% | 0.75% | +3.95 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 454 | 4.10% | 12.21% | −8.11 |
| Visibility | 436 | 3.90% | 4.97% | −1.07 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 160 | 1.40% | 1.76% | −0.36 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 37 | 0.30% | 5.57% | −5.27 |
| Steering | 28 | 0.30% | 2.57% | −2.27 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 4.2% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.2% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.8% | £80–200 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 1.3% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.0% | £40–150 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.74% | £8–22 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 0.69% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.69% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.58% | £30–80 |
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 | 17.5% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 13.7% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 4.9% | £40–150 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 3.8% | £45–95 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Advisory | 3.6% | £20–55 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 3.0% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 2,569 | 87.7% | 22,099 mi |
| 30-60k | 6,602 | 84.6% | 44,147 mi |
| 60-90k | 2,590 | 80.7% | 71,697 mi |
| 90-120k | 516 | 80.8% | 101,543 mi |
| 120k+ | 188 | 81.4% | 150,807 mi |
Source: 12,489 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.
2019 Model 3 Performance MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2019 Tesla Model 3 Performance?
84.2% of the 12,489 2019 Tesla Model 3 Performance tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 89.5% for cars first used in 2019. First-attempt pass rate: 81.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2019 Tesla Model 3 Performance?
The three most recorded items are has ply or cords exposed (4.20%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.18%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.76%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2019 Tesla Model 3 Performance MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 87.7% of the time, falling to 81.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2019 Tesla Model 3 Performance in this dataset had covered 45,165 mi.
Does the season affect the 2019 Tesla Model 3 Performance MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 84.1% 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.