Pass rate
91.4%
Above average — 14.2 pts ahead of the 77.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 302 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £14–£35
2012 Aston Martin Virage MOT pass rate
- 2012
- typical 24,313 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
39.8% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2011 92.0% pass
- Avoid 2012 91.4% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 0.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 90.7%
- Typical mileage
- 24k mi
The 2012 Aston Martin Virage MOT pass rate is 91.4% of its MOT tests — 14.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 39.8% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Aston Martin Virage does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.0× the national share
Tyres make up 39.8% of everything recorded on the 2012 Aston Martin Virage, against 19.8% nationally — 20.0 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.
- 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 77.2% and this one manages 91.4% — 14.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 76% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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 2012 Aston Martin Virage compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 77.2%, so this figure is 14.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 90.7%. The median 2012 Aston Martin Virage in this dataset had covered 24,313 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 92.6% of the time, April–September 90.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction", noted on 1.66% of tests.
- 302 recorded tests behind this page.
- 91.4% overall pass rate, 90.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Aston Martin Virage, the average is 91.7% — best year 2011 (92.0%), worst 2012 (91.4%).
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
- 302
- Typical mileage (median)
- 24,313 mi
- Make and model
- Aston Martin Virage
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Indicator Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Virage MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 83% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Virage
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 104 | 88.5% |
| East of England | 41 | 95.1% |
| North West | 35 | 91.4% |
| London | 23 | 73.9% |
| South West | 19 | 100.0% |
| Scotland | 17 | 94.1% |
| North East | 15 | 100.0% |
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 2012 Virage
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 2012 Virage
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 lights 1.7% of tests
“malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction”
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 tyre pressures and valves 0.7% 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 2012 Virage through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £14–£35 — and 76% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £14–£35
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: has a cut in excess of the requirements deep…
- £45–£95
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 100%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 76%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 302 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 Virage, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2011 to 2012. Across them the pass rate runs from 91.4% to 92.0% — a spread of 0.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2011 92.0% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2012 91.4%malfunction indicator lamp…
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 2012 Aston Martin Virage 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 2012 cars with a similar record
- Porsche Boxster 91.6%
- Audi A8 90.2%
- Porsche 911 93.4%
- Bentley Continental 93.4%
- Honda Fit 89.3%
- Toyota Estima 88.3%
Closest pass rates among 2012 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 2012 Aston Martin Virage 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 165 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 | 66 | 39.80% | 19.76% | +20.04 |
| Suspension | 23 | 13.90% | 20.98% | −7.08 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 22 | 13.30% | 12.21% | +1.09 |
| Brakes | 21 | 12.70% | 20.89% | −8.19 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 13 | 7.80% | 1.76% | +6.04 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 6 | 3.60% | 5.52% | −1.92 |
| Visibility | 6 | 3.60% | 4.97% | −1.37 |
| Non-component advisories | 6 | 3.60% | 4.18% | −0.58 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 0.60% | 5.57% | −4.97 |
| Steering | 1 | 0.60% | 2.57% | −1.97 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.7% | £3–12 |
| Headlamp cleaning device for LED or HID headlamp inoperative Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.99% | £5–25 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.99% | £3–12 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.66% | £45–95 |
| Individual direction indicators not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.66% | £3–12 |
| Position lamp with a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.66% | £5–25 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.66% | £5–20 |
| Side repeaters with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.66% | £3–15 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Rectified | 0.66% | £45–95 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Major | 0.66% | £45–95 |
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 | 11.9% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 5.0% | £45–95 |
| Registration plates inscription illegible Identification of the vehicle | Advisory | 3.3% | £20–80 |
| Linkage corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 3.0% | £180–450 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 2.6% | £80–180 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 2.0% | £180–450 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 187 | 91.4% | 18,003 mi |
| 30-60k | 114 | 91.2% | 39,484 mi |
| 60-90k | 1 | 100.0% | 62,207 mi |
Source: 302 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.
2012 Virage MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2012 Aston Martin Virage?
91.4% of the 302 2012 Aston Martin Virage tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 77.2% for cars first used in 2012. First-attempt pass rate: 90.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2012 Aston Martin Virage?
The three most recorded items are malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (1.66%), headlamp cleaning device for led or hid headlamp inoperative (0.99%), stop lamp not working (0.99%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2012 Aston Martin Virage MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.4% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2012 Aston Martin Virage in this dataset had covered 24,313 mi.
Does the season affect the 2012 Aston Martin Virage MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 92.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 90.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.