MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Fiat 500 Dolcevita MOT pass rate
The Fiat 500 Dolcevita passed 92.78% of its 14,784 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 15.5 percentage points better than average.
How the Fiat 500 Dolcevita 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 500 Dolcevita grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 14,393 | 92.71% |
Why the Fiat 500 Dolcevita fails its MOT
Across every Fiat 500 Dolcevita that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was tyres, accounting for 52.43% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 52.43% | 875 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 14.8% | 247 |
| Visibility | 13.78% | 230 |
| Suspension | 6.65% | 111 |
| Brakes | 5.27% | 88 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2.34% | 39 |
How the Fiat 500 Dolcevita compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Fiat 500 Dolcevita sits 28th of 651 models in this data , and 2nd of the 31 Fiat models covered . Fiat as a whole averaged 72.52%, so this model runs 20.3 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Fiat 500 Dolcevita
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Fiat 500 Dolcevita came to its 2025 test at 20,317 miles and 3.3 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 500 Dolcevita
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
- Ford Puma 93.18% pass rate
- Volkswagen T-ROC 92.71% pass rate
- Audi Q2 92.02% pass rate
- Porsche Macan 92.38% pass rate
- Lexus NX 93.11% pass rate
- Jaguar I-Pace 92.8% 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.