Pass rate
78.9%
Around average — 1.3 pts behind the 80.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 11,187 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £34–£92
2014 Alfa Romeo Giulietta MOT pass rate
- 2014
- typical 77,726 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
25.2% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 89.0% pass
- Avoid 2011 71.9% pass
Across the 11 years on record, a spread of 17.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 73.7%
- Typical mileage
- 78k mi
The 2014 Alfa Romeo Giulietta MOT pass rate is 78.9% of its MOT tests — 1.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 25.2% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Alfa Romeo Giulietta does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.3× the national share
Tyres make up 25.2% of everything recorded on the 2014 Alfa Romeo Giulietta, against 19.8% nationally — 5.4 points above. Check all four tyres yourself, including the inner shoulders, and look at the date stamp — a tyre can pass on tread and still be six years old.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 31% 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 Giulietta compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 80.2%, so this figure is 1.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 73.7%. The median 2014 Alfa Romeo Giulietta in this dataset had covered 77,726 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 54% of tests, with a 81.2% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 78.9% of the time, April–September 78.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Coil spring fractured or broken", noted on 4.23% of tests.
- 11,187 recorded tests behind this page.
- 78.9% overall pass rate, 73.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta, the average is 77.4% — best year 2020 (89.0%), worst 2011 (71.9%).
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
- 11,187
- Typical mileage (median)
- 77,726 mi
- Make and model
- Alfa Romeo Giulietta
- 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 Giulietta MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 64% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (54% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Giulietta
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 2,391 | 82.0% |
| East of England | 1,458 | 80.4% |
| West Midlands | 1,239 | 79.3% |
| South West | 1,070 | 75.7% |
| North West | 1,050 | 78.6% |
| Yorkshire | 1,001 | 76.5% |
| East Midlands | 961 | 79.4% |
| Scotland | 658 | 71.3% |
| North East | 490 | 75.7% |
| Wales | 451 | 75.8% |
| London | 418 | 86.1% |
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 Giulietta
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 Giulietta
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 4.2% 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 3.6% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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 suspension joints 2.8% of tests
“pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn”
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.
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 Giulietta through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £34–£92 — and 31% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £34–£92
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: door condition cannot be opened from inside…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 31%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 11,187 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 Giulietta, side by side
11 model years on record, from 2010 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 71.9% to 89.0% — a spread of 17.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2010 71.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 71.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 74.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 76.7% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2014 78.9%coil spring fractured or broken
- 2015 79.9% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2016 82.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 86.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 86.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2019 88.3% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2020 89.0% has a cut in excess of the…
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 Giulietta 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
- Vauxhall Zafira 78.9%
- Vauxhall Astra 78.7%
- Ford Focus 79.2%
- Peugeot 207 79.2%
- Abarth 500 79.2%
- Hyundai I40 78.6%
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 Giulietta 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 17,171 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 | 4,368 | 25.20% | 19.76% | +5.44 |
| Brakes | 4,112 | 23.80% | 20.89% | +2.91 |
| Suspension | 4,090 | 23.60% | 20.98% | +2.62 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1,342 | 7.80% | 12.21% | −4.41 |
| Visibility | 834 | 4.80% | 4.97% | −0.17 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 781 | 4.50% | 5.52% | −1.02 |
| Non-component advisories | 718 | 4.20% | 4.18% | +0.02 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 495 | 2.90% | 5.57% | −2.67 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 241 | 1.40% | 1.76% | −0.36 |
| Road Wheels | 190 | 1.10% | 0.75% | +0.35 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 4.2% | £25–65 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.6% | £5–20 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.8% | £40–150 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.3% | £80–200 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.9% | £3–12 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.8% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Major | 1.3% | £5–15 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.3% | £45–95 |
| Door condition cannot be opened from inside the vehicle Body, chassis, structure | Major | 1.2% | £80–250 |
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 | 19.4% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 13.6% | £45–110 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 11.8% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.5% | £18–45 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 8.1% | £25–65 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.0% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 303 | 86.5% | 22,852 mi |
| 30-60k | 2,457 | 83.4% | 48,814 mi |
| 60-90k | 4,568 | 78.9% | 74,605 mi |
| 90-120k | 2,680 | 76.4% | 102,934 mi |
| 120k+ | 1,174 | 72.8% | 141,682 mi |
Source: 11,187 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 Giulietta MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2014 Alfa Romeo Giulietta?
78.9% of the 11,187 2014 Alfa Romeo Giulietta tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 80.2% for cars first used in 2014. First-attempt pass rate: 73.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2014 Alfa Romeo Giulietta?
The three most recorded items are coil spring fractured or broken (4.23%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (3.60%), pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (2.82%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2014 Alfa Romeo Giulietta MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 86.5% of the time, falling to 72.8% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2014 Alfa Romeo Giulietta in this dataset had covered 77,726 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2014 Alfa Romeo Giulietta?
Petrol: 81.2% pass rate across 6,026 tests. Diesel: 76.1% pass rate across 5,161 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2014 Alfa Romeo Giulietta MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 78.9% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 78.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.