Rolls Royce MOT data

From the national MOT record: 198,278 tests across 37,958 vehicles on record.

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Vehicles on record

37,958

Average engine

N/A

MOT pass rate

77.2%

How Rolls Royce compares

Rolls Royce has an MOT pass rate of 77.2%, against 69.4% across every make in the national record. That is 198,278 tests and 50,451 since 2012 with a defect code to categorise, so the figure rests on the whole national record for this make rather than a sample of it. See what Rolls Royce vehicles fail on.

Common Rolls Royce defects

From 50,451 Rolls Royce tests in the national record with a DVSA defect code to categorise.

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 10,615 (21.0%)

Brakes 5,659 (11.2%)

Nuisance (emissions and noise) 4,603 (9.1%)

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 2,110 (4.2%)

Steering 1,615 (3.2%)

Body, structure and attachments 1,541 (3.1%)

Visibility 1,512 (3.0%)

Registration plates and vehicle identification 276 (0.5%)

A test can find problems in more than one category, so these figures do not sum to 100%. Common Rolls Royce MOT failures has the full breakdown, how it is worked out, and how it compares with other makes.

Rolls Royce models

Models with a page of their own, with vehicles on record, average engine size and pass rate
Model	On record	Engine	Pass rate
Unknown	14,385	-	5%
	3,565	-	84%
Silver Spirit	2,680	-	79%
Phantom	1,946	-	92%
Silver Shadow	1,817	-	80%
Ghost	1,722	-	89%
Shadow	919	-	82%
Cullinan	867	-	68%
Wraith	865	-	92%
Silver Spur	852	-	80%
Corniche	838	-	83%
Cullinan Black Badge Auto	756	-	48%
Dawn	601	-	92%
20	413	-	96%
Silver Wraith	389	-	83%
Silver Seraph	338	-	88%
Silver Shadow 2	328	-	79%
Silver Cloud	302	-	86%
Silver Dawn	210	-	85%
Saloon	162	-	85%
Silver Shadow 11	147	-	79%
Silver Shadow Ii	145	-	80%

Check a specific Rolls Royce

These are averages. For one vehicle's actual test history, enter its registration.

Figures cover every Rolls Royce in the national MOT record, which includes vehicles since scrapped or exported, so "on record" is not a count of cars on the road. Pass rate counts every recorded MOT test, retests included.