MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Porsche 911 MOT pass rate
The Porsche 911 passed 90.2% of its 46,091 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 12.9 percentage points better than average.
How the Porsche 911 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 Porsche 911 grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 665 | 96.99% |
| 6–10 years | 9,446 | 95.27% |
| 11 years and over | 35,974 | 88.74% |
The Porsche 911 loses 8.3 percentage points between its early years and the 11-plus bracket — a normal pattern for a car of this age, but still worth checking the individual history.
Why the Porsche 911 fails its MOT
Across every Porsche 911 that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment, accounting for 27.74% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 27.74% | 2,803 |
| Brakes | 15.13% | 1,529 |
| Tyres | 14.07% | 1,422 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 11.49% | 1,161 |
| Suspension | 9.88% | 998 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 8.05% | 813 |
How the Porsche 911 compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Porsche 911 sits 89th of 651 models in this data , and 4th of the 8 Porsche models covered . Porsche as a whole averaged 89.3%, so this model runs 0.9 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Porsche 911
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Porsche 911 came to its 2025 test at 61,970 miles and 18.7 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 Porsche 911
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 Porsche models
- Porsche Macan 92.38% pass rate · 34,957 tests
- Porsche Boxster 85.19% pass rate · 32,098 tests
- Porsche Cayenne 87.68% pass rate · 29,877 tests
- Porsche Cayman 90.58% pass rate · 14,285 tests
- Porsche Taycan 91.91% pass rate · 9,594 tests
- Porsche Panamera 89.74% pass rate · 6,659 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Kia Niro 91.13% pass rate
- Toyota C-HR 90.73% pass rate
- Suzuki Vitara 89.5% pass rate
- Hyundai Kona 89.77% pass rate
- Skoda Karoq 90.93% pass rate
- Hyundai Ioniq 90.39% 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.