MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Mitsubishi Colt MOT pass rate
The Mitsubishi Colt passed 64.04% of its 19,615 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 13.3 percentage points worse than average.
How the Mitsubishi Colt 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 Mitsubishi Colt grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 3 | 100% |
| 6–10 years | 6 | 100% |
| 11 years and over | 19,606 | 64.03% |
The Mitsubishi Colt drops 36 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 Mitsubishi Colt fails its MOT
Across every Mitsubishi Colt that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment, accounting for 28.01% 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 | 28.01% | 6,576 |
| Suspension | 21.96% | 5,157 |
| Brakes | 10.25% | 2,406 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 9.96% | 2,339 |
| Tyres | 7.58% | 1,779 |
| Visibility | 6.78% | 1,591 |
How the Mitsubishi Colt compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Mitsubishi Colt sits 596th of 651 models in this data , and 9th of the 9 Mitsubishi models covered . Mitsubishi as a whole averaged 76.72%, so this model runs 12.7 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Mitsubishi Colt
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Mitsubishi Colt came to its 2025 test at 84,559 miles and 16.7 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 Mitsubishi Colt
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 Mitsubishi models
- Mitsubishi L200 74.68% pass rate · 79,171 tests
- Mitsubishi Outlander 80.68% pass rate · 74,570 tests
- Mitsubishi ASX 78.37% pass rate · 28,731 tests
- Mitsubishi Shogun 72.78% pass rate · 28,373 tests
- Mitsubishi Eclipse 88.93% pass rate · 10,463 tests
- Mitsubishi Mirage 84.73% pass rate · 10,367 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Renault Clio 62.96% pass rate
- Vauxhall Vivaro 64.44% pass rate
- Renault Trafic 64.42% pass rate
- Fiat Punto 63.87% pass rate
- Volkswagen Beetle 64.47% pass rate
- Nissan NV200 64.79% 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.