MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Alfa Romeo Spider MOT pass rate
The Alfa Romeo Spider passed 74.8% of its 3,135 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 2.5 percentage points worse than average.
How the Alfa Romeo Spider 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 Spider grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 6–10 years | 3 | 100% |
| 11 years and over | 3,125 | 74.75% |
Why the Alfa Romeo Spider fails its MOT
Across every Alfa Romeo Spider that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was brakes, accounting for 27.58% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 27.58% | 653 |
| Suspension | 16.6% | 393 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 15.46% | 366 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 10.52% | 249 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 8.66% | 205 |
| Tyres | 7.69% | 182 |
How the Alfa Romeo Spider compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Alfa Romeo Spider sits 433rd of 651 models in this data , and 3rd of the 7 Alfa Romeo models covered . Alfa Romeo as a whole averaged 72.07%, so this model runs 2.7 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Alfa Romeo Spider
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Alfa Romeo Spider came to its 2025 test at 76,223 miles and 23.9 years old. Most examples tested were petrol.
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 Spider
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 159 62.01% pass rate · 2,811 tests
- Alfa Romeo Brera 71.24% pass rate · 1,631 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Ford Focus 74.62% pass rate
- Ford Transit 74.63% pass rate
- Nissan Juke 74.48% pass rate
- Honda Civic 74.32% pass rate
- Vauxhall Mokka 74.37% pass rate
- Citroen C3 74.75% 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.