68.7%
Fiat Talento
Fiat Talento MOT pass rate and common problems
The Fiat Talento passed 68.7% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 3.6 percentage points below the 72.3% UK average. The item testers recorded most often was track rod end ball joint has excessive play.
Checking a specific car? Its own results, advisories and recorded mileages are in a free MOT history check.
How the Talento compares
Initial MOT tests in 2025, retests excluded. A car that failed and was repaired at the test station counts as a fail.
67.7%
Fiat average
72.3%
UK average, all cars
The Talento runs 0.9 points ahead of the Fiat average. It is 6th of the 15 Fiat models in the data. The average Talento arrived at its test 6.4 years old with 82,615 miles recorded.
A pass rate records whether cars met the roadworthiness standard on test day. It is not a reliability score, and part of any gap reflects how old the tested cars were.
Talento MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Fiat Talento cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 76.2% of MOT tests. For cars aged 6 to 10 years that fell to 63.5%, a drop of 12.7 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years | 690 | 76.2% | 3.9 pts above |
| 6 to 10 years | 1,017 | 63.5% | 8.8 pts below |
| 11 years and over (small sample) | 2 | 50% | 22.3 pts below |
That is a steep decline with age, so the headline rate flatters older examples. The UK average of 72.3% covers cars of every age, so compare like with like.
Where Talento failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Fiat Talento cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Suspension and lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment together account for 48.5% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Talento MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Fiat Talento cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 52.1% of everything testers recorded against failed Fiat Talento cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Talento
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Suspension
Recorded most often: coil spring fractured or broken, shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak, linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn and ball joint excessively worn. 22.3% of failure items.
2
Steering
Recorded most often: track rod end ball joint has excessive play. 10.6% of failure items.
3
Noise, emissions and leaks
Recorded most often: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction. 5.9% of failure items.
4
Brakes
Recorded most often: brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick. 5.3% of failure items.
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Fiat Talento MOT FAQs
What is the Fiat Talento MOT pass rate?
68.7% of Fiat Talento cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 1,710 tests. That is 3.6 percentage points below the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 374th of 575 models.
What does a Fiat Talento most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Fiat Talento cars failing their 2025 MOT was track rod end ball joint has excessive play, on 10.6% of failure items. Next were coil spring fractured or broken (7%) and malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (5.9%).
Which area causes the most Fiat Talento MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was suspension at 29.4%, followed by lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 19.1%.
Do older Fiat Talento cars fail their MOT more often?
Fiat Talento cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 76.2% of MOT tests in 2025, against 63.5% for cars aged 6 to 10 years.
Does this mean every Fiat Talento has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Fiat Talento that failed in 2025. They show where the model most often needs attention, not the condition of any individual car.
How do I see a specific Fiat Talento's MOT history?
Enter its registration on the free Carpeep MOT history check to see that car's own test results, failures, advisories and recorded mileages.
MOT figures are aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025: class 4 initial tests, retests excluded, with failure items from failed tests (advisories and minor defects excluded), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. MOT results describe roadworthiness at test, not mechanical reliability.