2012 Fiat Auto Trail: MOT pass rate and reliability

90% of 2012 Fiat Auto Trails pass the MOT first time, measured across 422 DVSA tests on that model year alone. The average one had covered 32,902 miles.

How the 2012 compares

  • Against all Fiat Auto Trails (92.9%, 9,705 tests): -2.9 points
  • Against all 2012 cars (70.8%): +19.2 points
  • National first-time pass rate, all cars and years: 77%

Every Fiat Auto Trail model year

Pass rates fall as cars age, so the only fair comparison for a 2012 car is other cars of the same age. The full run for the Fiat Auto Trail:

Year Pass rate Tests Avg mileage
2012 90% 422 32,902
2013 91.2% 600 29,777
2014 89.7% 623 29,050
2015 91.8% 1,118 25,453
2016 92.8% 1,301 22,893
2017 94.3% 1,300 19,430
2018 94.8% 1,590 16,840
2019 94.3% 1,457 14,006
2020 95.3% 614 12,140
2021 95% 398 9,673

What this means if you are buying a 2012 Auto Trail

The 2012 is a weaker year for this model, passing 2.9 points less often than the Fiat Auto Trail average. Some of that is simply age, so compare it against the 2012 figure for all cars above rather than against newer examples. Check the exact car with the free MOT history checker before you buy, and run its VIN and mileage through our free VIN decoder and clocking check.

What a 14-year-old car fails on

A 2012 car is 14 years old now, and age drives the failure mix more than the badge does. Across all cars tested, these are the categories that actually cause failures:

  • Lights and electrical: 10.36% of all cars tested
  • Suspension: 8.65% of all cars tested
  • Tyres: 6.23% of all cars tested
  • Brakes: 6.1% of all cars tested
  • Visibility: wipers, washers, glass: 4.65% of all cars tested
  • Body, chassis and structure: 3.18% of all cars tested

That is below average for a car this age, worth a mileage-consistency check since an unusually low reading is sometimes clocking rather than luck. On a 2012 Fiat Auto Trail the average at test was 32,902 miles, so treat anything far above that as a car that has worked harder than its peers, and anything far below as one worth checking for the faults that come from standing still.

The strongest year for this model is 2020 at 95.3%, and the weakest in our data is 2014 at 89.7%. That 5.6 point spread across the model's life is why comparing a 2012 car against a newer one tells you very little.

Nearby model years

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