MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Alfa Romeo 159 MOT pass rate
The Alfa Romeo 159 passed 62.01% of its 2,811 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 15.3 percentage points worse than average.
How the Alfa Romeo 159 holds up with age
Every car fails the MOT more often as it gets older. What matters when you are buying is how steeply that happens for this particular model. These are the 2025 pass rates for the Alfa Romeo 159 grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 11 years and over | 2,811 | 62.01% |
Why the Alfa Romeo 159 fails its MOT
Across every Alfa Romeo 159 that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was suspension, accounting for 27.83% of all recorded failure items. These are the areas worth having checked before you buy, and worth budgeting for on an older example.
| Failure area | Share of failure items | Recorded items |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 27.83% | 970 |
| Brakes | 19.62% | 684 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 16.04% | 559 |
| Tyres | 10.13% | 353 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 8.75% | 305 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 7.29% | 254 |
How the Alfa Romeo 159 compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Alfa Romeo 159 sits 620th of 651 models in this data , and 7th of the 7 Alfa Romeo models covered . Alfa Romeo as a whole averaged 72.07%, so this model runs 10.1 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Alfa Romeo 159
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Alfa Romeo 159 came to its 2025 test at 120,540 miles and 16.1 years old. Most examples tested were diesel.
The useful check is the individual car's own MOT record: how many times it has failed, what for, and whether advisories keep reappearing. A recurring advisory on corrosion, suspension or brakes tells you far more than a model-wide average, and a mileage that does not move consistently between tests is a warning in itself.
Check a specific Alfa Romeo 159
Run the registration through a free MOT history check to see that car's test results, advisories and recorded mileages. For the risks an MOT never covers — outstanding finance, insurance write-off records, stolen markers and ownership history — a full car history check brings them together in one £15 report.
Also useful: mileage check · write-off check · free car check
Other Alfa Romeo models
- Alfa Romeo Giulietta 69.88% pass rate · 24,200 tests
- Alfa Romeo Mito 66.26% pass rate · 17,224 tests
- Alfa Romeo Giulia 87.64% pass rate · 7,073 tests
- Alfa Romeo Stelvio 89.48% pass rate · 3,660 tests
- Alfa Romeo Spider 74.8% pass rate · 3,135 tests
- Alfa Romeo Brera 71.24% pass rate · 1,631 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Renault Clio 62.96% pass rate
- Renault Megane 62.2% pass rate
- Renault Kangoo 61.99% pass rate
- Peugeot 206 62.71% pass rate
- Renault Scenic 62.83% pass rate
- Volvo V50 61.01% pass rate
Figures aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025, class 4 initial tests only, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Retests are excluded, so these are first-time pass rates.