MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Fiat 500C MOT pass rate
The Fiat 500C passed 69.83% of its 16,976 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 7.5 percentage points worse than average.
How the Fiat 500C 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 500C grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 8 | 87.5% |
| 6–10 years | 6,954 | 74.33% |
| 11 years and over | 10,013 | 66.68% |
The Fiat 500C drops 20.8 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 500C fails its MOT
Across every Fiat 500C that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was suspension, accounting for 39.27% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 39.27% | 4,877 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 16.77% | 2,083 |
| Brakes | 14.01% | 1,740 |
| Tyres | 12.24% | 1,520 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 5.63% | 699 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 5.19% | 644 |
How the Fiat 500C compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Fiat 500C sits 525th of 651 models in this data , and 20th of the 31 Fiat models covered . Fiat as a whole averaged 72.52%, so this model runs 2.7 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Fiat 500C
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Fiat 500C came to its 2025 test at 58,358 miles and 11.3 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 500C
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 Mini 70% pass rate
- Citroen Berlingo 69.15% pass rate
- Vauxhall Zafira 69.21% pass rate
- Citroen C4 68.83% pass rate
- Peugeot 308 69.7% pass rate
- Land Rover Freelander 70.79% 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.