Pass rate
94.3%
Above average — 14.1 pts ahead of the 80.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 296 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £35–£105
2014 Alfa Romeo 4C MOT pass rate
- 2014
- typical 17,392 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
31.8% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2015 94.6% pass
- Avoid 2018 84.0% pass
Across the 5 years on record, a spread of 10.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 94.0%
- Typical mileage
- 17k mi
The 2014 Alfa Romeo 4C MOT pass rate is 94.3% of its MOT tests — 14.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 31.8% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Alfa Romeo 4C does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Identification: 8.2× the national share
Identification accounts for 14.5% of everything recorded on the 2014 Alfa Romeo 4c, against 1.8% nationally — 12.7 points above. Tyres are still the single largest share at 31.8%, but at 19.8% nationally that one is ordinary. A missing or unreadable VIN plate is an administrative failure — usually easy to fix, but it stops the test.
- Beats its own age and mileage. Once you allow for how old and how far these cars have been driven, the expected pass rate is 80.2% and this one manages 94.3% — 14.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 6% of this model’s typical repairs come in under £30 in parts — the failures here tend to be the kind that need a garage rather than a bulb.
Written from this page's own figures: fault shares against the national composition, the like-for-like pass rate, and the priced repair list. How these are worked out
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How does the 2014 Alfa Romeo 4C compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 80.2%, so this figure is 14.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 94.0%. The median 2014 Alfa Romeo 4C in this dataset had covered 17,392 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 98.9% of the time, April–September 92.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 2.03% of tests.
- 296 recorded tests behind this page.
- 94.3% overall pass rate, 94.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Alfa Romeo 4C, the average is 93.4% — best year 2015 (94.6%), worst 2018 (84.0%).
Figures count every completed test on this vehicle-year in the dataset, including retests. See methodology for the exact definition.
This page's data
- Tests analysed
- 296
- Typical mileage (median)
- 17,392 mi
- Make and model
- Alfa Romeo 4C
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Ball Joint
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the 4C MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 70% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the 4C
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| East of England | 77 | 89.6% |
| South East | 56 | 98.2% |
| East Midlands | 35 | 100.0% |
| Yorkshire | 23 | 95.7% |
| South West | 22 | 95.5% |
| North West | 22 | 100.0% |
| Scotland | 20 | 100.0% |
| West Midlands | 15 | 86.7% |
Regions come from the postcode area recorded at the test station. Areas on region borders are assigned to the region with the majority of their population.
What fails a 2014 4C
Everything a tester recorded on this vehicle, grouped into the inspection sections that produced it. The notch on each bar is the national share, so you can see at a glance whether this car is unusual or just ordinary.
A test can record several items, so these percentages do not add up to 100%. The exact strings, with prices, are in the full DVSA record at the bottom of this page.
Before your test
Three checks worth doing on a 2014 4C
These are not generic tips — they are the faults recorded most often on this exact model, rewritten as things you can check yourself. All three take about ten minutes and cost nothing.
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Check the suspension joints 2.0% of tests
“ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated”
With the car parked on level ground, rock the top of each front wheel in and out while someone watches the suspension arm. Clunks, or rubber boots split and greasy, are what testers record here.
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Check the number plates 2.0% of tests
“registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements”
Check both plates are present, legible and correctly spaced, with the postcode of the supplier and the BS AU 145e mark. A private plate in the wrong style is a fail before the car is even looked at.
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Check tyre pressures and valves 1.7% of tests
“tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative”
Set the pressures to the figures on the door pillar, not the tyre wall, and check the valves do not hiss. A leaking valve is a two-minute fix that fails a test.
Shares are the proportion of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item, so they overlap: one test can record several.
What it costs to get a 2014 4C through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £35–£105 — and 6% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £35–£105
- Cheapest common item: washers provides insufficient washer liquid
- £5–£15
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 6%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 296 MOT tests on this vehicle. They exclude diagnostics, retest fees and garage labour where the part is a DIY fit, and they are not figures from the DVSA dataset. Older and higher-mileage examples cost more than the average. How these estimates are built → · All MOT repair costs → · Cheapest cars to put through a test →
Every year of the 4C, side by side
5 model years on record, from 2014 to 2018. Across them the pass rate runs from 84.0% to 94.6% — a spread of 10.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2014 94.3%ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2015 94.6% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2016 92.9% washers provides insufficient…
- 2017 93.8% registration plates does not…
- 2018 84.0% washers provides insufficient…
Colour is the pass rate on a fixed scale, so a block means the same thing on any model. Each year links to its own page with the full fault breakdown.
Compare the 2014 Alfa Romeo 4C with another year
The raw pass rate mostly measures age. The year comparison adds the like-for-like figure, the mileage bands and the repair bill.
Other 2014 cars with a similar record
- Bentley Continental 94.9%
- Porsche 911 95.1%
- Porsche Cayman 93.2%
- Porsche Boxster 93.0%
- Audi A8 92.8%
- Jaguar F-Type 92.1%
Closest pass rates among 2014 cars with at least 2,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. See the full rankings: best and worst MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2014 Alfa Romeo 4C 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 9 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 110 individual items recorded on this vehicle, and the same share across all cars nationally. A single test can record several items, so a row is not a percentage of tests.
| Category | Items | This car | Nationally | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 35 | 31.80% | 19.76% | +12.04 |
| Brakes | 22 | 20.00% | 20.89% | −0.89 |
| Suspension | 16 | 14.50% | 20.98% | −6.48 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 16 | 14.50% | 1.76% | +12.74 |
| Visibility | 9 | 8.20% | 4.97% | +3.23 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 6 | 5.50% | 5.52% | −0.02 |
| Non-component advisories | 4 | 3.60% | 4.18% | −0.58 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1 | 0.90% | 12.21% | −11.31 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 0.90% | 0.82% | +0.08 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.0% | £18–45 |
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Major | 2.0% | £20–80 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Major | 1.7% | £45–95 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.4% | £60–250 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.4% | £80–200 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 0.68% | £18–45 |
| Registration plates missing Identification of the vehicle | Rectified | 0.68% | £20–80 |
| Registration plates missing Identification of the vehicle | Major | 0.68% | £20–80 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Major | 0.68% | £5–15 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Major | 0.34% | £45–110 |
Severity is as recorded: Major and Dangerous fail the test outright; Minor and Advisory do not. Costs are estimates from typical UK parts prices — see how they are built.
What testers noted without failing the car
Advisories are the early warnings — the same parts a year or two before they fail. Reading them is how you tell a car that has been maintained from one that has been patched.
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 4.7% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 3.7% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 3.7% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 1.4% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 1.0% | £18–45 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.0% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 249 | 96.4% | 14,800 mi |
| 30-60k | 37 | 78.4% | 37,322 mi |
| 60-90k | 8 | 100.0% | 68,931 mi |
| 120k+ | 2 | 100.0% | 123,534 mi |
Source: 296 recorded tests on this vehicle-year. Every row above is recomputed from the same DVSA extract as the rest of the page — see the methodology.
2014 4C MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2014 Alfa Romeo 4C?
94.3% of the 296 2014 Alfa Romeo 4C tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 80.2% for cars first used in 2014. First-attempt pass rate: 94.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2014 Alfa Romeo 4C?
The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (2.03%), registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements (2.03%), tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative (1.69%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2014 Alfa Romeo 4C MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 96.4% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2014 Alfa Romeo 4C in this dataset had covered 17,392 mi.
Does the season affect the 2014 Alfa Romeo 4C MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 98.9% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 92.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.