2022 BMW 1 Series: MOT pass rate and common faults
Share of initial MOT tests passed with no repairs. Repairs made at the test centre count as a fail. 95% range 90.8% to 91.7% (±0.5 points).
That is 2.7 points above the average for all vehicles first used in 2022 (88.5%). These cars were about 3 years old at the test.
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Failure areas compared with all 2022 vehicles
Compared with all vehicles first used in 2022, failures are more common in tyres (1.1×), and less common in lights and electrics (0.4×) and windscreen, wipers, mirrors (0.3×). Other differences are within the margin of error.
- Tyres5.8 in 100 tests1.1× compared with 5.1 in 100 for all vehicles first used in 2022
- Lights and electrics1.1 in 100 tests0.4× compared with 2.5 in 100 for all vehicles first used in 2022
- Windscreen, wipers, mirrors0.8 in 100 tests0.3× compared with 2.5 in 100 for all vehicles first used in 2022
- Brakes0.7 in 100 tests– no reliable figure for all vehicles first used in 2022
All vehicles first used in 2022: the 217 models in our data, 1,692,367 tests (95.8% of all 1,765,878 tests on vehicles first used in 2022). Areas with fewer than 50 failures in a model aren't published, so an area is only compared when that leaves the all-vehicles figure at most 10% short; otherwise it shows –.
What MOT data can't tell you about any 2022 BMW 1 Series
Outstanding finance, write-offs, theft and plate changes aren't in MOT records. For a particular car, you need a history check.
Compare history checksWhat MOT history doesn't showOther BMW 1 Series years
- 2008 BMW 1 Series65.5%
- 2009 BMW 1 Series65.2%
- 2010 BMW 1 Series66.3%
- 2011 BMW 1 Series67.5%
- 2012 BMW 1 Series66.6%
- 2013 BMW 1 Series70.1%
- 2014 BMW 1 Series73.4%
- 2015 BMW 1 Series77.8%
- 2016 BMW 1 Series79.6%
- 2017 BMW 1 Series82.0%
- 2018 BMW 1 Series83.6%
- 2019 BMW 1 Series85.5%
- 2020 BMW 1 Series88.0%
- 2021 BMW 1 Series90.6%