Fiat Tipo MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Fiat Tipo in Great Britain in 2025 — 13,251 tests. Figures cover every Tipo first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Tipo ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
71.8%
0.5 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
13,251
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
8.2%
of Tipo first tests; national 7.3%

How many Fiat Tipo cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 13,448 Fiat Tipo cars that were taxed or on SORN: 12,914 taxed and 534 on SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification — kept, but declared off the road by the keeper). The MOT figures above count tests; these count cars, across the whole United Kingdom, cars only. Fiat Tipo vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
12,914
96.0% of the 13,448 Tipo cars taxed or on SORN; 58 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
534
declared off the road by their keepers — 4.0% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Tipo cars peaked at 13,150 at the end of 2022 and has since fallen by 236 (1.8%) to 12,914 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 310 at the end of 2014 to 534 at the end of 2025, up 72.3%. A car leaves the taxed count when it is scrapped, exported or declared off the road; the year-end counts do not say which.

Taxed Tipo cars, year by year

Cars of this model taxed and on the road at the end of each year, 2014–2025.

05k10k15k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Tipo cars, year 2014: 214Taxed Tipo cars, year 2015: 170Taxed Tipo cars, year 2016: 1kTaxed Tipo cars, year 2017: 7kTaxed Tipo cars, year 2018: 9kTaxed Tipo cars, year 2019: 10kTaxed Tipo cars, year 2020: 12kTaxed Tipo cars, year 2021: 13kTaxed Tipo cars, year 2022: 13kTaxed Tipo cars, year 2023: 13kTaxed Tipo cars, year 2024: 13kTaxed Tipo cars, year 2025: 13k13k
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YearTaxed Tipo cars
2014214
2015170
20161,359
20176,675
20188,974
201910,206
202011,683
202112,838
202213,150
202313,098
202413,146
202512,914

Tipo cars on SORN, year by year

Cars of this model declared off the road at the end of each year, 2014–2025. Its own scale — SORN counts are a fraction of the taxed count.

02004006002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Tipo cars on SORN, year 2014: 310Tipo cars on SORN, year 2015: 303Tipo cars on SORN, year 2016: 312Tipo cars on SORN, year 2017: 472Tipo cars on SORN, year 2018: 390Tipo cars on SORN, year 2019: 403Tipo cars on SORN, year 2020: 441Tipo cars on SORN, year 2021: 413Tipo cars on SORN, year 2022: 408Tipo cars on SORN, year 2023: 468Tipo cars on SORN, year 2024: 463Tipo cars on SORN, year 2025: 534534
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YearTipo cars on SORN
2014310
2015303
2016312
2017472
2018390
2019403
2020441
2021413
2022408
2023468
2024463
2025534

Which model years survive

Taxed Tipo cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 12,914 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. A build year's count depends on how many were sold that year as well as how many have lasted.

Year of manufacture Taxed, end of 2025Share of taxed Tipo cars
20232241.7%
20223983.1%
20211,0117.8%
20201,0167.9%
20191,54111.9%
20181,88214.6%
20175,66843.9%
20161,0858.4%
All other build years (13 years, each under 1%)890.7%

Population source: Department for Transport / DVLA vehicle licensing statistics, table VEH0124, updated 15 July 2026; counts of the cars on DVLA's register that were taxed or on SORN at the end of each year shown, United Kingdom, cars only, excluding cars recorded with no model name. SortedCars groups DVLA's model name TIPO under this model. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. SortedCars is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, DVLA or the Department for Transport.

How the Tipo ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, Tipo vs all cars, 2025.

Fiat TipoAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Fiat Tipo, vehicle age 4: 77.6%Fiat Tipo, vehicle age 5: 80.1%Fiat Tipo, vehicle age 6: 75.5%Fiat Tipo, vehicle age 7: 71.5%Fiat Tipo, vehicle age 8: 67.7%Fiat Tipo, vehicle age 9: 72.4%All cars, vehicle age 3: 88.5%All cars, vehicle age 4: 87.2%All cars, vehicle age 5: 86%All cars, vehicle age 6: 83.5%All cars, vehicle age 7: 80.9%All cars, vehicle age 8: 78.2%All cars, vehicle age 9: 74.9%All cars, vehicle age 10: 71.9%All cars, vehicle age 11: 68.6%All cars, vehicle age 12: 65.8%All cars, vehicle age 13: 63.5%All cars, vehicle age 14: 61.2%All cars, vehicle age 15: 59.3%All cars, vehicle age 16: 58.3%All cars, vehicle age 17: 57.2%All cars, vehicle age 18: 57.4%All cars, vehicle age 19: 57%All cars, vehicle age 20: 57.6%Fiat Tipo 72.4%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Tipo testsTipo pass rateAll cars
41,08277.6%87.2%
51,03780.1%86.0%
61,62275.5%83.5%
71,98171.5%80.9%
85,92767.7%78.2%
91,11572.4%74.9%

Better or worse than the average car?

The Tipo's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the Tipo beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

Tipo behind
-12-6+0+6+12Age 4: -9.6 points vs the average carAge 5: -5.9 points vs the average car5Age 6: -8.0 points vs the average carAge 7: -9.4 points vs the average car7Age 8: -10.5 points vs the average carAge 9: -2.5 points vs the average car9Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
4-9.6
5-5.9
6-8.0
7-9.4
8-10.5
9-2.5

The Tipo fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the Tipo fleet still in use.

01k3k4k6kAge 4: 1k4Age 5: 1kAge 6: 1k6Age 7: 1kAge 8: 5k8Age 9: 1k9Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
41,082
51,037
61,622
71,981
85,927
91,115

What a Tipo fails on

Where the failure items land when a Tipo fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Use it as a pre-purchase checklist: these are the areas to look at first.

Suspension26.8%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment19.3%
Tyres19.2%
Brakes13.8%
Visibility11.2%
Noise, emissions and leaks5.5%
Body, chassis, structure1.4%
Steering0.9%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.1% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a Tipo, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Tyres: 40.0% of advisories40.0%Brakes: 29.6% of advisories29.6%Suspension: 16.9% of advisories16.9%Non-component advisories: 7.9% of advisories7.9%Noise, emissions and leaks: 1.4% of advisoriesSteering: 1.3% of advisories
TyresBrakesSuspensionNon-component advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaksSteering
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres40.0%
Brakes29.6%
Suspension16.9%
Non-component advisories7.9%
Noise, emissions and leaks1.4%
Steering1.3%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Tipo?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Tipo fuel types, 2025, against the all-cars average. Fleet ages differ by fuel — newer fleets help the electrified bars.

50%60%70%80%90%100%all cars 72.3%Petrol: 73.2% of 9,916 tests73.2%Petrol9,916 testsDiesel: 67.7% of 3,327 tests67.7%Diesel3,327 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Petrol9,91673.2%
Diesel3,32767.7%

What mileage is normal for a Tipo?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Tipo; the shaded band holds the middle half. A car far outside the band, in either direction, is worth questions the recorded history can answer.

Typical Tipo (median)
0k25k50k75k100k4689Vehicle age (years)Age 4: typical 28,750 miles (middle half 21,250–43,750)Age 5: typical 36,250 miles (middle half 26,250–48,750)Age 6: typical 43,750 miles (middle half 31,250–58,750)Age 7: typical 53,750 miles (middle half 38,750–68,750)Age 8: typical 66,250 miles (middle half 51,250–81,250)Age 9: typical 66,250 miles (middle half 51,250–83,750)66k mi

Mileage values are midpoints of 2,500-mile bands.

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
421,25028,75043,750
526,25036,25048,750
631,25043,75058,750
738,75053,75068,750
851,25066,25081,250
951,25066,25083,750

What fails at each age

The Tipo's failure mix by age band, 2025 — each band's top categories at their true share of that band's failure items; the pale remainder is everything else. How the mix shifts with age is the point of the chart.

TyresVisibilitySuspensionBrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres32.8%
3-5 yrsVisibility24.3%
3-5 yrsSuspension14.7%
3-5 yrsBrakes11.3%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment8.9%
3-5 yrsEverything else8.0%
6-9 yrsSuspension33.1%
6-9 yrsTyres19.8%
6-9 yrsBrakes16.3%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment13.6%
6-9 yrsVisibility7.2%
6-9 yrsEverything else10.0%

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How these figures are computed. Every number on this page is calculated by SortedCars from the DVSA anonymised MOT results dataset (every MOT test in Great Britain — 2025 for single-year figures; trend figures state their span, currently 2023–2025). Where a figure comes from a sample or uses banded values (mileage is banded to 2,500 miles), the page says so beside the figure. Test class 4 only, first tests only — retests are excluded. Class 4 is the car MOT class and also covers car-derived vans, pickups and motorhomes tested to the same standard; where this page says "cars" it means class 4. Pass rate = passes ÷ (passes + failures + pass-after-rectification): a vehicle that failed and was fixed during the visit counts as a fail. Pass rates describe fleets, not individual machines: they reflect how cars were driven, maintained and used as well as how they were built, and beyond recorded mileage none of that is in the data. A well-kept example of a model with a weak average can still pass; a neglected example of a strong one can still fail. No figure is shown for any group with fewer than 500 tests. Alias spellings of a make in the DVSA file are counted under one make name, and all trims and variants of a model are grouped under one model name, using SortedCars' grouping tables. The taxed and SORN counts on this page are the one exception: they are not computed from MOT records but taken from the Department for Transport's vehicle licensing statistics (DfT/DVLA table VEH0124, updated 15 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0), which count the cars on DVLA's register that were taxed or on SORN at the end of each year shown, UK-wide, cars only. They describe a model as a whole, grouped under SortedCars' model names, and say nothing about any one car. “Dangerous” is DVSA's statutory defect category (in force since May 2018): a defect posing an immediate risk to road safety — driving the vehicle before repair is an offence. What these figures are for. These statistics are general information about groups of vehicles. They are not advice, a valuation or a recommendation to buy, avoid or price any particular vehicle, and no decision about one car should rest on them alone — check the car itself and its own records. We take care over the calculations, but we cannot guarantee they are complete, current or free of error, and we accept no liability for loss arising from reliance on them. This does not limit any liability that cannot lawfully be limited — see our Terms & Conditions. If you believe any figure on this page is inaccurate, contact us. SortedCars is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the DVSA or DVLA. DVSA publishes the raw test records; the statistics on this page are SortedCars' own calculations from them. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.