Pass rate
79.1%
Around average — 3.2 pts ahead of the 75.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 86 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £26–£77
2011 Alfa Romeo Brera MOT pass rate
- 2011
- typical 78,083 mi
Only 86 tests of this exact model and year are in the DVSA data, below the 100 we ask for before a page goes in the index. The figures are still shown, because they are the only ones there are.
Most common fault
Suspension
22.6% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2011 79.1% pass · this year
- Avoid 2007 72.4% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 6.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 73.5%
- Typical mileage
- 78k mi
The 2011 Alfa Romeo Brera MOT pass rate is 79.1% of its MOT tests — 3.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 22.6% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Alfa Romeo Brera does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Fewer problems with brakes
Brakes are 15.5% of this car’s recorded faults, against 20.9% nationally — the mirror image of the usual story on a car of this age.
- 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 75.9% and this one manages 79.1% — 3.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 86 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
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 2011 Alfa Romeo Brera compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 75.9%, so this figure is 3.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 73.5%. The median 2011 Alfa Romeo Brera in this dataset had covered 78,083 mi.
86% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 79.7% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 75.5% of the time, April–September 84.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Coil spring fractured or broken", noted on 4.65% of tests.
- 86 recorded tests behind this page.
- 79.1% overall pass rate, 73.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Alfa Romeo Brera, the average is 75.1% — best year 2011 (79.1%), worst 2007 (72.4%).
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
- 86
- Typical mileage (median)
- 78,083 mi
- Make and model
- Alfa Romeo Brera
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Coil Spring
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Brera MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 62% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (86% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Brera
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| North West | 26 | 73.1% |
| East of England | 19 | 89.5% |
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 2011 Brera
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 2011 Brera
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 coil springs 4.7% of tests
“coil spring fractured or broken”
Look up inside each wheel arch with a torch, all the way round the spring. A snapped spring usually breaks at the very bottom coil, where a quick glance will not reach.
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Check the lights 4.7% of tests
“mirrors slightly damaged”
Switch everything on and walk round the car: both headlamps on dip and main, every indicator, both brake lights, reverse, fog and the two number-plate lamps. A bulb is a few pounds and a five-minute job.
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Check the exhaust and emissions 3.5% of tests
“emissions not tested unable to be completed”
Listen for a blow at idle and have someone rev it gently. Then look at the tailpipe smoke: blue is oil, white when warm is coolant, black is over-fuelling. Any of those and the emissions test is the least of it.
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 2011 Brera through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £26–£77 — and 38% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £26–£77
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: emissions not tested unable to be completed
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 38%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 86 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 Brera, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2006 to 2011. Across them the pass rate runs from 72.4% to 79.1% — a spread of 6.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2006 72.4% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2007 72.4% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2008 76.3% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2009 78.1% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2010 77.4% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2011 79.1%coil spring fractured or broken
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 2011 Alfa Romeo Brera 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 2011 cars with a similar record
- Suzuki Alto 79.1%
- Volvo V60 78.9%
- Volkswagen Sharan 78.9%
- BMW 118 78.8%
- BMW 3 Series 79.4%
- Smart Mcc Fortwo 79.4%
Closest pass rates among 2011 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 2011 Alfa Romeo Brera 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 10 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 154 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 35 | 22.60% | 20.98% | +1.62 |
| Tyres | 33 | 21.30% | 19.76% | +1.54 |
| Brakes | 24 | 15.50% | 20.89% | −5.39 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 16 | 10.30% | 12.21% | −1.91 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 16 | 10.30% | 5.52% | +4.78 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 10 | 6.50% | 5.57% | +0.93 |
| Non-component advisories | 7 | 4.50% | 4.18% | +0.32 |
| Visibility | 6 | 3.90% | 4.97% | −1.07 |
| Road Wheels | 4 | 2.60% | 0.75% | +1.85 |
| Steering | 3 | 1.90% | 2.57% | −0.67 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 4.7% | £25–65 |
| Mirrors slightly damaged Visibility | Minor | 4.7% | £3–15 |
| Emissions not tested unable to be completed Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.5% | £60–250 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.5% | £3–12 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 2.3% | £18–45 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.3% | £60–140 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 2.3% | £45–95 |
| Individual direction indicators incorrect colour Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.3% | £3–12 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 1.2% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Major | 1.2% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 23.3% | £45–95 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 9.3% | £180–450 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.8% | £18–45 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 5.8% | £200–700 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 5.8% | £45–120 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.8% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 8 | 100.0% | 19,099 mi |
| 30-60k | 20 | 90.0% | 50,887 mi |
| 60-90k | 27 | 70.4% | 73,919 mi |
| 90-120k | 27 | 74.1% | 99,347 mi |
| 120k+ | 4 | 75.0% | 128,001 mi |
Source: 86 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.
2011 Brera MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2011 Alfa Romeo Brera?
79.1% of the 86 2011 Alfa Romeo Brera tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 75.9% for cars first used in 2011. First-attempt pass rate: 73.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2011 Alfa Romeo Brera?
The three most recorded items are coil spring fractured or broken (4.65%), mirrors slightly damaged (4.65%), emissions not tested unable to be completed (3.49%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2011 Alfa Romeo Brera MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 75.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2011 Alfa Romeo Brera in this dataset had covered 78,083 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2011 Alfa Romeo Brera?
Petrol: 79.7% pass rate across 74 tests. Diesel: 75.0% pass rate across 12 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2011 Alfa Romeo Brera MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 75.5% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 84.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.