Pass rate
87.2%
Above average — 3.5 pts behind the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 2,326 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £41–£103
2020 Volvo V90 Momentum + MOT pass rate
- 2020
- 2 trims combined
- typical 36,176 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
45.5% 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 2019 87.8% pass
- Avoid 2020 87.2% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 0.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 85.5%
- Typical mileage
- 36k mi
The 2020 Volvo V90 Momentum + MOT pass rate is 87.2% of its MOT tests — 3.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 45.5% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Volvo V90 Momentum + does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.3× the national share
Tyres make up 45.5% of everything recorded on the 2020 Volvo V90 Momentum +, against 19.8% nationally — 25.7 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 90.7%; this one manages 87.2% — 3.5 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 17% 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 V90 Momentum + first registered in 2020 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2020 Volvo V90 Momentum + compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 3.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 85.5%. The median 2020 Volvo V90 Momentum + in this dataset had covered 36,176 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 75% of tests, with a 86.6% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 88.2% of the time, April–September 86.5%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick", noted on 2.71% of tests.
- 2,326 recorded tests behind this page.
- 87.2% overall pass rate, 85.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Volvo V90 Momentum +, the average is 87.5% — best year 2019 (87.8%), worst 2020 (87.2%).
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
- 2,326
- Typical mileage (median)
- 36,176 mi
- Make and model
- Volvo V90 Momentum +
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Brake Pads Set
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the V90 Momentum + MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 77% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (75% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the V90 Momentum +
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 463 | 87.7% |
| Scotland | 305 | 87.9% |
| Yorkshire | 259 | 88.0% |
| East of England | 229 | 86.5% |
| North West | 221 | 88.7% |
| South West | 178 | 83.7% |
| East Midlands | 171 | 88.3% |
| West Midlands | 170 | 87.1% |
| North East | 124 | 87.1% |
| London | 116 | 85.3% |
| Wales | 90 | 86.7% |
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 V90 Momentum +
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 V90 Momentum +
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 brakes 2.7% 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.
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Check the windscreen 1.5% 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 wipers and washers 1.1% 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 V90 Momentum + through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £41–£103 — and 17% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £41–£103
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot split or…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 17%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 2,326 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 V90 Momentum +, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2019 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 87.2% to 87.8% — a spread of 0.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 87.8% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2020 87.2%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 Volvo V90 Momentum + 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
- DS DS3 87.2%
- Ford Allied 87.3%
- Peugeot 5008 87.1%
- Ford S-Max 87.1%
- Mercedes-Benz V 87.1%
- Audi A3 E-Tron 87.4%
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 V90 Momentum + 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 1,749 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 | 800 | 45.50% | 19.76% | +25.74 |
| Brakes | 539 | 30.60% | 20.89% | +9.71 |
| Non-component advisories | 107 | 6.10% | 4.18% | +1.92 |
| Visibility | 91 | 5.20% | 4.97% | +0.23 |
| Road Wheels | 76 | 4.30% | 0.75% | +3.55 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 39 | 2.20% | 5.57% | −3.37 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 37 | 2.10% | 12.21% | −10.11 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 32 | 1.80% | 1.76% | +0.04 |
| Suspension | 18 | 1.00% | 20.98% | −19.98 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 10 | 0.60% | 5.52% | −4.92 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 2.7% | £18–45 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.5% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.5% | £80–200 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.1% | £8–22 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.86% | £45–95 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 0.86% | £80–250 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.64% | £45–95 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 0.52% | £80–250 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.52% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 0.39% | £8–22 |
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 | 17.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 15.1% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 5.0% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 3.6% | £45–95 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Advisory | 2.9% | £20–55 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.7% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 822 | 88.8% | 21,572 mi |
| 30-60k | 1,208 | 86.3% | 42,292 mi |
| 60-90k | 240 | 85.4% | 70,016 mi |
| 90-120k | 40 | 90.0% | 101,351 mi |
| 120k+ | 16 | 93.8% | 148,385 mi |
Source: 2,326 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 V90 Momentum + MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Volvo V90 Momentum +?
87.2% of the 2,326 2020 Volvo V90 Momentum + tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 85.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Volvo V90 Momentum +?
The three most recorded items are brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (2.71%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.54%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.46%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Volvo V90 Momentum + MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 88.8% of the time, falling to 93.8% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Volvo V90 Momentum + in this dataset had covered 36,176 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2020 Volvo V90 Momentum +?
Petrol: 86.6% pass rate across 1,748 tests. Diesel: 89.3% pass rate across 578 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2020 Volvo V90 Momentum + MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 88.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 86.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.