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Rolls Royce MOT failure rates by model

Rolls Royce cars fail 15.4% of MOT tests. Here is every Rolls Royce model ranked by failure rate, and the item each loses most tests to.

What is the MOT failure rate for Rolls Royce cars?

Across 154,944 MOT tests in the DVSA record, 15.4% of Rolls Royce cars fail. That is 10.3 points below the 25.7% national average across all cars. The Rolls Royce models below are ranked worst to best by failure rate, each with the failure area it loses most tests to.

ModelFailure rateTestsTop failure area
Rolls Royce Silver19.1%88,418Brakes
Rolls Royce Shadow18.4%9,453Brakes
Rolls Royce Corniche17.0%8,641Brakes
Rolls Royce Saloon14.9%1,371Brakes
Rolls Royce Phantom6.5%15,473Lamps & electrical
Rolls Royce Ghost5.7%9,285Tyres
Rolls Royce Wraith5.1%4,984Tyres
Rolls Royce Dawn5.1%2,941Tyres
Rolls Royce 20/253.6%2,137Lamps & electrical
Rolls Royce Cullinan2.9%1,528Tyres

Which Rolls Royce fails its MOT most, and which least?

The Rolls Royce Silver has the highest failure rate at 19.1%, and the Rolls Royce Cullinan the lowest at 2.9%. A higher rate reflects how old and how hard a model tends to be used as much as how it was built, so the oldest models in the range usually sit near the top.

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Sources: DVSA MOT History API: MOT test results and defect data ยท DVSA MOT testing data for Great Britain