Pass rate
85.7%
Above average — 11.0 pts ahead of the 74.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 328 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £32–£83
2010 Alfa Romeo Spider MOT pass rate
- 2010
- typical 66,308 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
25.5% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2011 86.7% pass
- Avoid 2000 71.0% pass
Across the 11 years on record, a spread of 15.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 83.6%
- Typical mileage
- 66k mi
The 2010 Alfa Romeo Spider MOT pass rate is 85.7% of its MOT tests — 11.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 25.5% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Alfa Romeo Spider does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
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 74.7% and this one manages 85.7% — 11.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 35% 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.
- Based on a small sample. 328 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 2010 Alfa Romeo Spider compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 74.7%, so this figure is 11.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 83.6%. The median 2010 Alfa Romeo Spider in this dataset had covered 66,308 mi.
81% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 86.1% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 82.4% of the time, April–September 88.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Coil spring fractured or broken", noted on 4.57% of tests.
- 328 recorded tests behind this page.
- 85.7% overall pass rate, 83.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Alfa Romeo Spider, the average is 79.0% — best year 2011 (86.7%), worst 2000 (71.0%).
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
- 328
- Typical mileage (median)
- 66,308 mi
- Make and model
- Alfa Romeo Spider
- 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 Spider MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 65% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (81% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Spider
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 99 | 88.9% |
| East of England | 35 | 85.7% |
| South West | 34 | 85.3% |
| Yorkshire | 30 | 86.7% |
| North West | 29 | 82.8% |
| West Midlands | 21 | 90.5% |
| Scotland | 21 | 76.2% |
| Wales | 17 | 88.2% |
| East Midlands | 17 | 94.1% |
| London | 15 | 73.3% |
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 2010 Spider
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 2010 Spider
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 4.6% 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 windscreen 3.7% of tests
“windscreen damaged”
Check the driver’s side of the screen within the swept area for chips and cracks; anything larger than 10mm in the driver’s central view is a fail. Most chips can be resin-repaired for far less than a new screen.
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Check the lights 1.8% of tests
“headlamp not working on dipped beam”
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.
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 2010 Spider through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £32–£83 — and 35% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £32–£83
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 35%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 328 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 Spider, side by side
11 model years on record, from 2000 to 2011. Across them the pass rate runs from 71.0% to 86.7% — a spread of 15.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 71.0% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2001 78.5% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2002 78.5% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2003 71.3% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2004 83.5% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2005 80.1% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2007 79.3% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2008 79.7% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2009 85.5% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2010 85.7%coil spring fractured or broken
- 2011 86.7% 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 2010 Alfa Romeo Spider 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 2010 cars with a similar record
- Lexus IS250 85.6%
- Toyota Estima 85.9%
- Jaguar Xk 85.5%
- Porsche Cayenne 86.5%
- Nissan 370 Z 86.6%
- BMW Z4 84.8%
Closest pass rates among 2010 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 2010 Alfa Romeo Spider 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 325 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 | 83 | 25.50% | 20.98% | +4.52 |
| Tyres | 77 | 23.60% | 19.76% | +3.84 |
| Brakes | 62 | 19.00% | 20.89% | −1.89 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 34 | 10.40% | 12.21% | −1.81 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 27 | 8.30% | 5.52% | +2.78 |
| Visibility | 23 | 7.10% | 4.97% | +2.13 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 8 | 2.50% | 5.57% | −3.07 |
| Non-component advisories | 6 | 1.80% | 4.18% | −2.38 |
| Steering | 4 | 1.20% | 2.57% | −1.37 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1 | 0.30% | 1.76% | −1.46 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 4.6% | £25–65 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.7% | £80–200 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.8% | £5–25 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.8% | £5–25 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.91% | £30–80 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.91% | £3–12 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.91% | £3–12 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.61% | £5–25 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 0.61% | £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 | 14.3% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 6.4% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 5.5% | £45–110 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 5.2% | £200–700 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 4.9% | £45–95 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Advisory | 4.0% | £60–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 36 | 97.2% | 19,505 mi |
| 30-60k | 101 | 85.1% | 46,619 mi |
| 60-90k | 134 | 86.6% | 72,825 mi |
| 90-120k | 42 | 78.6% | 103,722 mi |
| 120k+ | 15 | 73.3% | 128,196 mi |
Source: 328 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.
2010 Spider MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2010 Alfa Romeo Spider?
85.7% of the 328 2010 Alfa Romeo Spider tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 74.7% for cars first used in 2010. First-attempt pass rate: 83.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2010 Alfa Romeo Spider?
The three most recorded items are coil spring fractured or broken (4.57%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.66%), headlamp not working on dipped beam (1.83%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2010 Alfa Romeo Spider MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 97.2% of the time, falling to 73.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2010 Alfa Romeo Spider in this dataset had covered 66,308 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2010 Alfa Romeo Spider?
Petrol: 86.1% pass rate across 267 tests. Diesel: 83.6% pass rate across 61 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2010 Alfa Romeo Spider MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 82.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 88.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.