MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Fiat Tipo MOT pass rate
The Fiat Tipo passed 76.32% of its 12,015 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 1 percentage points worse than average.
How the Fiat Tipo 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 Tipo grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 1,361 | 84.28% |
| 6–10 years | 10,607 | 75.29% |
| 11 years and over | 47 | 78.72% |
The Fiat Tipo only loses 5.6 percentage points between its early years and the 11-plus bracket, so it holds its test performance unusually well as it ages.
Why the Fiat Tipo fails its MOT
Across every Fiat Tipo that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was suspension, accounting for 31% 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 | 31% | 1,864 |
| Tyres | 21.14% | 1,271 |
| Brakes | 15.88% | 955 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 13.09% | 787 |
| Visibility | 9.08% | 546 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 5.37% | 323 |
How the Fiat Tipo compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Fiat Tipo sits 396th of 651 models in this data , and 15th of the 31 Fiat models covered . Fiat as a whole averaged 72.52%, so this model runs 3.8 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Fiat Tipo
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Fiat Tipo came to its 2025 test at 60,152 miles and 7.4 years old. Most examples tested were petrol, though 27.37% were diesel.
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 Tipo
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
- Audi A4 77.09% pass rate
- Skoda Fabia 75.71% pass rate
- Kia Picanto 76.85% pass rate
- Volkswagen Passat 75.9% pass rate
- Citroen C1 75.28% pass rate
- Ford Ranger 77.42% 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.