Pass rate
94.3%
Above average — 3.1 pts ahead of the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 2,303 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £44–£108
2021 Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro MOT pass rate
- 2021
- typical 29,491 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
56.7% 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 2021 94.3% pass · this year
- Avoid 2020 94.0% pass
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 0.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 93.9%
- Typical mileage
- 29k mi
The 2021 Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro MOT pass rate is 94.3% of its MOT tests — 3.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 56.7% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.9× the national share
Tyres make up 56.7% of everything recorded on the 2021 Volvo Xc40 Inscript Pro, against 19.8% nationally — 36.9 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.
- 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 91.2% and this one manages 94.3% — 3.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 28% 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 2021 Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 3.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 93.9%. The median 2021 Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro in this dataset had covered 29,491 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 94.9% of the time, April–September 93.6%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 2.00% of tests.
- 2,303 recorded tests behind this page.
- 94.3% overall pass rate, 93.9% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro, the average is 94.2% — best year 2021 (94.3%), worst 2020 (94.0%).
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
- 2,303
- Typical mileage (median)
- 29,491 mi
- Make and model
- Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
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 XC40 Inscript Pro MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 85% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro is most common
Across all XC40 Inscript Pro model years on record (2020–2022): 3,693 Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 5,271 tests. London (NW) has the most, with 95 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 | London (NW) | 95 | 92.3% |
| 2 | Leicester (LE) | 91 | 96.8% |
| 3 | Birmingham (B) | 87 | 95.8% |
| 4 | Peterborough (PE) | 83 | 91.8% |
| 5 | Northampton (NN) | 83 | 94.6% |
| 6 | Coventry (CV) | 80 | 97.1% |
| 7 | Chelmsford (CM) | 77 | 92.3% |
| 8 | Nottingham (NG) | 72 | 92.9% |
| 9 | Milton Keynes (MK) | 69 | 95.2% |
| 10 | Doncaster (DN) | 63 | 97.8% |
| 11 | Chester (CH) | 60 | 97.6% |
| 12 | Reading (RG) | 59 | 93.9% |
| 13 | Southampton (SO) | 58 | 92.4% |
| 14 | Warrington (WA) | 58 | 90.8% |
| 15 | Kingston upon Thames (KT) | 55 | 95.0% |
| 16 | Exeter (EX) | 52 | 96.3% |
| 17 | Crawley (RH) | 52 | 97.4% |
| 18 | London (SE) | 52 | 94.4% |
| 19 | Oxford (OX) | 52 | 100.0% |
| 20 | Derby (DE) | 51 | 98.4% |
The twenty areas with the most Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro 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 XC40 Inscript Pro
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 518 | 95.0% |
| North West | 251 | 94.4% |
| East of England | 246 | 91.9% |
| East Midlands | 208 | 96.2% |
| West Midlands | 207 | 93.2% |
| South West | 198 | 94.4% |
| Yorkshire | 197 | 93.9% |
| London | 174 | 93.7% |
| Scotland | 151 | 94.7% |
| Wales | 83 | 97.6% |
| North East | 70 | 91.4% |
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 2021 XC40 Inscript Pro
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 2021 XC40 Inscript Pro
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 2.0% 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 1.3% 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.
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Check the tyre tread 0.7% 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.
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 2021 XC40 Inscript Pro through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £44–£108 — and 28% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £44–£108
- 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
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 28%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 2,303 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 XC40 Inscript Pro, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2020 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 94.0% to 94.3% — a spread of 0.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2020 94.0% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 94.3%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2022 94.3% has a cut in excess of the…
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 2021 Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro 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 2021 cars with a similar record
- Toyota C-Hr 94.2%
- Toyota Gr YARIS Circuit 94.2%
- Volkswagen E-Up 94.2%
- Audi Q2 94.4%
- Mazda Cx-30 94.4%
- Land Rover Defender Hard Top 94.1%
Closest pass rates among 2021 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 2021 Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro 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 1,035 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 | 590 | 56.70% | 19.76% | +36.94 |
| Brakes | 124 | 11.90% | 20.89% | −8.99 |
| Non-component advisories | 124 | 11.90% | 4.18% | +7.72 |
| Visibility | 114 | 11.00% | 4.97% | +6.03 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 34 | 3.30% | 12.21% | −8.91 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 17 | 1.60% | 5.57% | −3.97 |
| Suspension | 11 | 1.10% | 20.98% | −19.88 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 10 | 1.00% | 0.82% | +0.18 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 7 | 0.70% | 1.76% | −1.06 |
| Road Wheels | 4 | 0.40% | 0.75% | −0.35 |
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 | 2.0% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.8% | £45–95 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.3% | £8–22 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.87% | £45–95 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.69% | £8–22 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.65% | £45–95 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 0.48% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.43% | £30–80 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 0.30% | £80–250 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 0.26% | £80–250 |
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 | 13.2% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.7% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 2.4% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 2.4% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.4% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.3% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 1,182 | 94.7% | 19,999 mi |
| 30-60k | 937 | 93.5% | 40,857 mi |
| 60-90k | 154 | 94.8% | 70,500 mi |
| 90-120k | 24 | 100.0% | 99,623 mi |
| 120k+ | 6 | 100.0% | 126,375 mi |
Source: 2,303 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.
2021 XC40 Inscript Pro MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro?
94.3% of the 2,303 2021 Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 93.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.00%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.82%), wipers blade defective (1.26%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.7% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro in this dataset had covered 29,491 mi.
Does the season affect the 2021 Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 94.9% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 93.6%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.