Used car guide · 2012–2019

Renault Twizy common problems and MOT failures

What goes wrong on a used Renault Twizy, year by year: known faults from UK buying guides, the parts flagged at MOT more than on other cars (from 1,154 MOTs done during 2023–2025), and what to check before you buy one.

1,154MOTs done in 2023–2025, all years of this model
500on the UK register

Pick the year

Most years have their own guide. The year is when the car was first registered (it’s on the logbook, or check the reg below).

20192018201720162015201420132012

What usually goes wrong with a Renault Twizy?

We haven’t found widely reported faults for the Renault Twizy in the UK buying guides we use yet. That doesn’t mean it has none, so check the car carefully and look at the MOT weak spots below.

Renault Twizy MOT pass rate by year

Older cars fail more, so compare each year with all cars registered the same year.

YearPass first timeAll cars that yearMOT tests
201980%85% -5124 (small sample)
201888%83% +5100 (small sample)
201674%77% -3107 (small sample)
201577%74% +3186 (small sample)
201379%67% +12167 (small sample)
201277%64% +13470 (small sample)

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Where this comes from: MOT figures are the DVSA’s anonymised results for every MOT test done in Great Britain during 2023–2025, grouped by the year each car was first registered. How many are on the road is from the Department for Transport’s vehicle licensing statistics. Known faults are from UK buying guides, in our own words, with links. How we score