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4,202 tests in 2025

CUPRA Born reliability and MOT pass rate

91.9% passed first time. The 8.1% fail rate is 14.5 points better than the all-car average, on a median example 3 years old with 25,632 miles.

MOT pass rates / CUPRA

Pass rate

91.9%

22.6% of all cars failed; 8.1% of these did.

Fixed on the day

1.5%

Passed after a defect was put right during the visit.

Median at test

25,632 mi

3 years old.

Fail rate by age

Age at testTestsFail rate
3-5 years4,0688.1%
6-9 years0—
10-13 years0—
14+ years0—

What the Born fails on

Share of failed tests with at least one fail item in each DVSA inspection section. A test can fail in several sections at once.

  1. Tyres298 dangerous83.2%
  2. Visibility6.8%
  3. Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment6.5%
  4. Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems6.2%
  5. Suspension1 dangerous5%
  6. Brakes4.1%
  7. Identification of the vehicle1.5%
  8. Body, chassis, structure0.3%

The exact defects that fail it

Every failure item DVSA recorded against a Born in 2025, counted by how many tests each one appeared on.

  1. 1Condition: has ply or cords exposed137 tests
  2. 2Condition: has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords96 tests
  3. 3Tread depth: tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm54 tests
  4. 4Condition: has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure14 tests
  5. 5SRS malfunction indicator lamp: warning lamp indicates a fault12 tests
  6. 6Wipers: does not clear the windscreen effectively7 tests
  7. 7Service brake performance: excessively fluctuating7 tests
  8. 8Washers: not working7 tests

What wears out first

Advisories are the tester flagging wear that is still legal. A typical Born collects 1.97 of them per test, and these are the ones that come up most. Treat it as the running-repairs list for the next year or two.

  1. 1Tread depth: tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm918 tests
  2. 2Tread depth: tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm167 tests
  3. 3Condition: has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords93 tests
  4. 4Non-component advisories: Nail in tyre89 tests
  5. 5Non-component advisories: Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt83 tests
  6. 6Condition: has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure67 tests
  7. 7Service brake performance: excessively fluctuating35 tests
  8. 8Condition: has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure30 tests

Questions

What is the CUPRA Born MOT pass rate?

91.9% of the 4,202 CUPRA Born first-attempt MOTs in 2025 passed. The fail rate of 8.1% compares with 22.6% across all cars. A further 1.5% passed after a defect was fixed during the test visit.

What does a CUPRA Born usually fail on?

The single most common failure is "Condition: has ply or cords exposed", recorded on 137 failed tests, followed by "Condition: has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords" and "Tread depth: tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm". By section, tyres appears in 83.2% of failures, visibility appears in 6.8% of failures, lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment appears in 6.5% of failures.

Does age change the odds?

Sharply. At 3 to 5 years old the fail rate was 8.1%; at 3-5 years it was 8.1%. The median CUPRA Born tested in 2025 was 3 years old with 25,632 miles.

First-attempt class 4 tests, 2025, from DVSA’s anonymised MOT data (OGL v3, retrieved 2026-09-12). DVSA records newer cars trim by trim; this page adds every Born trim together. Year-on-year figures come from the same DVSA extracts for 2026 and earlier years. Full method on the pass rates hub.

Other CUPRA models

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