MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Fiat 124 MOT pass rate
The Fiat 124 passed 87.99% of its 2,831 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 10.7 percentage points better than average.
How the Fiat 124 holds up with age
Every car fails the MOT more often as it gets older. What matters when you are buying is how steeply that happens for this particular model. These are the 2025 pass rates for the Fiat 124 grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 1 | 100% |
| 6–10 years | 2,795 | 88.12% |
| 11 years and over | 35 | 77.14% |
The Fiat 124 drops 22.9 percentage points between its early years and the 11-plus bracket, which is a steep decline. On an older example, the MOT history is worth reading closely before you buy.
Why the Fiat 124 fails its MOT
Across every Fiat 124 that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment, accounting for 27.99% of all recorded failure items. These are the areas worth having checked before you buy, and worth budgeting for on an older example.
| Failure area | Share of failure items | Recorded items |
|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 27.99% | 180 |
| Brakes | 24.26% | 156 |
| Suspension | 15.4% | 99 |
| Tyres | 14.31% | 92 |
| Visibility | 12.13% | 78 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2.8% | 18 |
How the Fiat 124 compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Fiat 124 sits 149th of 651 models in this data , and 8th of the 31 Fiat models covered . Fiat as a whole averaged 72.52%, so this model runs 15.5 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Fiat 124
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Fiat 124 came to its 2025 test at 33,357 miles and 8.2 years old. Most examples tested were petrol.
The useful check is the individual car's own MOT record: how many times it has failed, what for, and whether advisories keep reappearing. A recurring advisory on corrosion, suspension or brakes tells you far more than a model-wide average, and a mileage that does not move consistently between tests is a warning in itself.
Check a specific Fiat 124
Run the registration through a free MOT history check to see that car's test results, advisories and recorded mileages. For the risks an MOT never covers — outstanding finance, insurance write-off records, stolen markers and ownership history — a full car history check brings them together in one £15 report.
Also useful: mileage check · write-off check · free car check
Other Fiat models
- Fiat 500 70.89% pass rate · 298,752 tests
- Fiat Panda 69.2% pass rate · 83,157 tests
- Fiat Ducato 77.88% pass rate · 71,135 tests
- Fiat Punto 63.87% pass rate · 51,222 tests
- Fiat Doblo 69.04% pass rate · 42,802 tests
- Fiat 500X 77.07% pass rate · 35,754 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- MINI Cooper 87.98% pass rate
- MINI Countryman 88.41% pass rate
- Mercedes-Benz GLC 88.01% pass rate
- Jaguar F-Pace 87.53% pass rate
- BMW 320 87.83% pass rate
- Mercedes-Benz GLE 88.79% pass rate
Figures aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025, class 4 initial tests only, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Retests are excluded, so these are first-time pass rates.