Pass rate
94.4%
Above average — 2.4 pts ahead of the 92.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 124 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £35–£91
2022 Volkswagen Up Beats MOT pass rate
- 2022
- typical 14,810 mi
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
32.4% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Which year to buy
- Best 2021 96.7% pass
- Avoid 2022 94.4% pass · this year
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 2.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 94.1%
- Typical mileage
- 15k mi
The 2022 Volkswagen Up Beats MOT pass rate is 94.4% of its MOT tests — 2.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 32.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Volkswagen Up Beats does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 2.7× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 32.4% of everything recorded on the 2022 Volkswagen Up Beats, against 12.2% nationally — 20.2 points above. 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 33% 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. 124 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 2022 Volkswagen Up Beats compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 92.0%, so this figure is 2.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 94.1%. The median 2022 Volkswagen Up Beats in this dataset had covered 14,810 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 90.4% of the time, April–September 100.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 3.23% of tests.
- 124 recorded tests behind this page.
- 94.4% overall pass rate, 94.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Volkswagen Up Beats, the average is 95.6% — best year 2021 (96.7%), worst 2022 (94.4%).
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
- 124
- Typical mileage (median)
- 14,810 mi
- Make and model
- Volkswagen Up Beats
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Up Beats MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 80% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Up Beats
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 36 | 94.4% |
| Yorkshire | 19 | 84.2% |
| East of England | 17 | 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 2022 Up Beats
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 2022 Up Beats
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 3.2% 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 lights 2.4% of tests
“headlamp not working on dipped beam”
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.
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 2022 Up Beats through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £35–£91 — and 33% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £35–£91
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 33%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 124 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 Up Beats, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2020 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 94.4% to 96.7% — a spread of 2.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2020 95.0% headlamp aim too low
- 2021 96.7% wipers blade defective
- 2022 94.4%windscreen damaged but not…
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 2022 Volkswagen Up Beats 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 2022 cars with a similar record
- Mazda Cx-5 94.4%
- Toyota Corolla 94.5%
- Jaguar I-Pace HSE 94.3%
- Audi Q3 94.2%
- Hyundai Tucson Ultimate T-Gdi 94.2%
- Skoda Karoq 94.2%
Closest pass rates among 2022 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 2022 Volkswagen Up Beats 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 7 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 12 | 32.40% | 12.21% | +20.19 |
| Tyres | 9 | 24.30% | 19.76% | +4.54 |
| Brakes | 5 | 13.50% | 20.89% | −7.39 |
| Visibility | 5 | 13.50% | 4.97% | +8.53 |
| Non-component advisories | 3 | 8.10% | 4.18% | +3.92 |
| Road Wheels | 2 | 5.40% | 0.75% | +4.65 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 2.70% | 0.82% | +1.88 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.2% | £80–200 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.4% | £5–25 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim not tested unable to be tested Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.6% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.6% | £30–80 |
| Flexible stalk damaged Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 0.81% | £40–120 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.81% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp light source and lamp not compatible Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.81% | £5–25 |
| Position lamp with a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.81% | £5–25 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.81% | £3–12 |
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 | 4.8% | £45–95 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Advisory | 1.6% | £20–55 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 1.6% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 1.6% | £18–45 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.6% | £20–80 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 0.81% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 106 | 95.3% | 14,598 mi |
| 30-60k | 18 | 88.9% | 38,011 mi |
Source: 124 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.
2022 Up Beats MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2022 Volkswagen Up Beats?
94.4% of the 124 2022 Volkswagen Up Beats tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 92.0% for cars first used in 2022. First-attempt pass rate: 94.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2022 Volkswagen Up Beats?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.23%), headlamp not working on dipped beam (2.42%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.61%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2022 Volkswagen Up Beats MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.3% of the time, falling to 88.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2022 Volkswagen Up Beats in this dataset had covered 14,810 mi.
Does the season affect the 2022 Volkswagen Up Beats MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 90.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 100.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.