2016 Smart (Mcc) Forfour: MOT pass rate and reliability

77.6% of 2016 Smart (Mcc) Forfours pass the MOT first time, measured across 5,316 DVSA tests on that model year alone. The average one had covered 45,665 miles.

How the 2016 compares

  • Against all Smart (Mcc) Forfours (79%, 22,713 tests): -1.4 points
  • Against all 2016 cars (80.9%): -3.3 points
  • National first-time pass rate, all cars and years: 77%

Every Smart (Mcc) Forfour model year

Pass rates fall as cars age, so the only fair comparison for a 2016 car is other cars of the same age. The full run for the Smart (Mcc) Forfour:

Year Pass rate Tests Avg mileage
2004 58.2% 201 105,289
2005 68.4% 569 97,919
2006 62.7% 450 99,045
2015 74.1% 5,494 52,067
2016 77.6% 5,316 45,665
2017 81.8% 4,780 39,688
2018 85.9% 3,849 32,368
2019 85.5% 1,956 26,731

What this means if you are buying a 2016 Forfour

The 2016 sits close to the Smart (Mcc) Forfour average, so there is no strong model-year signal either way. Judge the individual car on its own history. 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 10-year-old car fails on

A 2016 car is 10 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 2016 Smart (Mcc) Forfour the average at test was 45,665 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 2018 at 85.9%, and the weakest in our data is 2004 at 58.2%. That 27.7 point spread across the model's life is why comparing a 2016 car against a newer one tells you very little.

Nearby model years

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