65.5%
Alfa Romeo Giulietta
Alfa Romeo Giulietta MOT pass rate and common problems
The Alfa Romeo Giulietta passed 65.5% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 6.8 percentage points below the 72.3% UK average. The item testers recorded most often was coil spring fractured or broken.
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How the Giulietta compares
Initial MOT tests in 2025, retests excluded. A car that failed and was repaired at the test station counts as a fail.
67.9%
Alfa Romeo average
72.3%
UK average, all cars
The Giulietta runs 2.3 points behind the Alfa Romeo average. It is 5th of the 7 Alfa Romeo models in the data. The average Giulietta arrived at its test 11.3 years old with 87,885 miles recorded.
A pass rate records whether cars met the roadworthiness standard on test day. It is not a reliability score, and part of any gap reflects how old the tested cars were.
Giulietta MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Alfa Romeo Giulietta cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 82% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 59.4%, a drop of 22.6 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years | 959 | 82% | 9.7 pts above |
| 6 to 10 years | 9,989 | 72.3% | In line |
| 11 years and over | 13,557 | 59.4% | 12.9 pts below |
That is a steep decline with age, so the headline rate flatters older examples. The UK average of 72.3% covers cars of every age, so compare like with like.
Where Giulietta failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Alfa Romeo Giulietta cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Suspension and lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment together account for 49.7% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Giulietta MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Alfa Romeo Giulietta cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 46.7% of everything testers recorded against failed Alfa Romeo Giulietta cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Giulietta
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Suspension
Recorded most often: coil spring fractured or broken, pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn and component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength. 18.5% of failure items.
2
Tyres
Recorded most often: tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm and condition has ply or cords exposed. 9.8% of failure items.
3
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: side repeaters not working and headlamp not working on dipped beam. 8.2% of failure items.
4
Noise, emissions and leaks
Recorded most often: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction. 4.2% of failure items.
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta MOT FAQs
What is the Alfa Romeo Giulietta MOT pass rate?
65.5% of Alfa Romeo Giulietta cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 24,505 tests. That is 6.8 percentage points below the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 423rd of 575 models.
What does an Alfa Romeo Giulietta most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Alfa Romeo Giulietta cars failing their 2025 MOT was coil spring fractured or broken, on 7.6% of failure items. Next were pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (6.9%) and tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (5.9%).
Which area causes the most Alfa Romeo Giulietta MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was suspension at 26.7%, followed by lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 23%.
Do older Alfa Romeo Giulietta cars fail their MOT more often?
Alfa Romeo Giulietta cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 82% of MOT tests in 2025, against 59.4% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Alfa Romeo Giulietta has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Alfa Romeo Giulietta that failed in 2025. They show where the model most often needs attention, not the condition of any individual car.
How do I see a specific Alfa Romeo Giulietta's MOT history?
Enter its registration on the free Carpeep MOT history check to see that car's own test results, failures, advisories and recorded mileages.
MOT figures are aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025: class 4 initial tests, retests excluded, with failure items from failed tests (advisories and minor defects excluded), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. MOT results describe roadworthiness at test, not mechanical reliability.