Pass rate
88.7%
Above average — 2.0 pts behind the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 2,741 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £38–£91
2020 Volvo V60 R-Design + MOT pass rate
- 2020
- 5 trims combined
- typical 37,953 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
44.8% 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 2020 88.7% pass · this year
- Avoid 2019 87.3% pass
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 1.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 87.3%
- Typical mileage
- 38k mi
The 2020 Volvo V60 R-Design + MOT pass rate is 88.7% of its MOT tests — 2.0 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 44.8% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Volvo V60 R-Design + does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.3× the national share
Tyres make up 44.8% of everything recorded on the 2020 Volvo V60 R-Design +, against 19.8% nationally — 25.0 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 20% 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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Every Volvo V60 R-Design + first registered in 2020 is combined here — 5 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2020 Volvo V60 R-Design + compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 2.0 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 87.3%. The median 2020 Volvo V60 R-Design + in this dataset had covered 37,953 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 43% of tests, with a 87.4% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 90.1% of the time, April–September 87.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 2.48% of tests.
- 2,741 recorded tests behind this page.
- 88.7% overall pass rate, 87.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Volvo V60 R-Design +, the average is 88.2% — best year 2020 (88.7%), worst 2019 (87.3%).
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
- 2,741
- Typical mileage (median)
- 37,953 mi
- Make and model
- Volvo V60 R-Design +
- 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 V60 R-Design + MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 71% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (43% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the V60 R-Design +
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 538 | 89.4% |
| Scotland | 356 | 86.8% |
| Yorkshire | 309 | 88.7% |
| South West | 298 | 86.6% |
| North West | 262 | 90.5% |
| West Midlands | 232 | 90.5% |
| East of England | 220 | 88.2% |
| East Midlands | 194 | 88.1% |
| North East | 119 | 90.8% |
| Wales | 112 | 89.3% |
| London | 101 | 88.1% |
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 V60 R-Design +
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 V60 R-Design +
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 2.5% 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 brakes 1.9% 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 wipers and washers 1.4% 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 2020 V60 R-Design + through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £38–£91 — and 20% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £38–£91
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 20%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 2,741 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 V60 R-Design +, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2019 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 87.3% to 88.7% — a spread of 1.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 87.3% shock absorbers has a serious…
- 2020 88.7%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 2020 Volvo V60 R-Design + 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
- Peugeot 208 88.7%
- BMW 330E 88.7%
- Mercedes-Benz C 88.7%
- BMW 320D 88.7%
- Ford Mondeo 88.8%
- Volkswagen Sharan 88.8%
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 Volvo V60 R-Design + 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 1,902 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 | 853 | 44.80% | 19.76% | +25.04 |
| Brakes | 540 | 28.40% | 20.89% | +7.51 |
| Visibility | 150 | 7.90% | 4.97% | +2.93 |
| Non-component advisories | 114 | 6.00% | 4.18% | +1.82 |
| Suspension | 105 | 5.50% | 20.98% | −15.48 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 64 | 3.40% | 12.21% | −8.81 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 31 | 1.60% | 1.76% | −0.16 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 19 | 1.00% | 5.52% | −4.52 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 13 | 0.70% | 5.57% | −4.87 |
| Road Wheels | 13 | 0.70% | 0.75% | −0.05 |
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 | 2.5% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.4% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.9% | £18–45 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.4% | £8–22 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 0.95% | £30–75 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.84% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.77% | £30–80 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.77% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp cleaning device for LED or HID headlamp inoperative Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.47% | £5–25 |
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 | 15.4% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 13.3% | £18–45 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 3.3% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 3.0% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.6% | £45–95 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 2.3% | £30–75 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 920 | 91.3% | 21,203 mi |
| 30-60k | 1,255 | 87.8% | 42,468 mi |
| 60-90k | 410 | 88.8% | 72,112 mi |
| 90-120k | 109 | 79.8% | 102,151 mi |
| 120k+ | 47 | 80.9% | 139,412 mi |
Source: 2,741 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 V60 R-Design + MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Volvo V60 R-Design +?
88.7% of the 2,741 2020 Volvo V60 R-Design + tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 87.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Volvo V60 R-Design +?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.48%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.44%), brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (1.86%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Volvo V60 R-Design + MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.3% of the time, falling to 80.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Volvo V60 R-Design + in this dataset had covered 37,953 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2020 Volvo V60 R-Design +?
Diesel: 87.4% pass rate across 1,181 tests. Petrol: 89.6% pass rate across 1,048 tests. Hybrid: 89.8% pass rate across 512 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2020 Volvo V60 R-Design + MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 90.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 87.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.