Pass rate
77.3%
Around average — 3.3 pts ahead of the 74.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 75 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £35–£95
2009 Audi Cabriolet MOT pass rate
- 2009
- typical 99,621 mi
Only 75 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.
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Most common fault
Suspension
29.0% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2000 79.3% pass
- Avoid 2008 74.7% pass
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 4.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 70.7%
- Typical mileage
- 100k mi
The 2009 Audi Cabriolet MOT pass rate is 77.3% of its MOT tests — 3.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 29.0% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.4× the national share
Suspension accounts for 29.0% of everything recorded on the 2009 Audi Cabriolet, against 21.0% nationally — 8.0 points above. Ask for the front and rear suspension to be checked on a ramp before you buy — worn bushes and broken springs are cheap to look at and expensive to discover at test time.
- 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 74.0% and this one manages 77.3% — 3.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 32% 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 2009 Audi Cabriolet compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 74.0%, so this figure is 3.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 70.7%. The median 2009 Audi Cabriolet in this dataset had covered 99,621 mi.
68% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 76.5% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 84.4% of the time, April–September 72.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Coil spring fractured or broken", noted on 8.00% of tests.
- 75 recorded tests behind this page.
- 77.3% overall pass rate, 70.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Audi Cabriolet, the average is 78.5% — best year 2000 (79.3%), worst 2008 (74.7%).
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
- 75
- Typical mileage (median)
- 99,621 mi
- Make and model
- Audi Cabriolet
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
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 Cabriolet 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 (68% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Cabriolet
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 19 | 73.7% |
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 2009 Cabriolet
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 2009 Cabriolet
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 8.0% 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 8.0% 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 windscreen 6.7% 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.
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 2009 Cabriolet through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £35–£95 — and 32% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £35–£95
- Cheapest common item: srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 32%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 75 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 Cabriolet, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2000 to 2009. Across them the pass rate runs from 74.7% to 79.3% — a spread of 4.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 79.3% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2008 74.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 77.3%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 2009 Audi Cabriolet 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 2009 cars with a similar record
- Land Rover Freelander 77.3%
- BMW 1 Series 77.3%
- Land Rover Discovery 77.2%
- Ford Fusion 77.4%
- BMW 120 77.4%
- BMW 118 77.1%
Closest pass rates among 2009 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 2009 Audi Cabriolet 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 169 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 | 49 | 29.00% | 20.98% | +8.02 |
| Tyres | 41 | 24.30% | 19.76% | +4.54 |
| Brakes | 24 | 14.20% | 20.89% | −6.69 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 16 | 9.50% | 12.21% | −2.71 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 9 | 5.30% | 5.57% | −0.27 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 9 | 5.30% | 5.52% | −0.22 |
| Visibility | 7 | 4.10% | 4.97% | −0.87 |
| Non-component advisories | 6 | 3.60% | 4.18% | −0.58 |
| Road Wheels | 5 | 3.00% | 0.75% | +2.25 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 3 | 1.80% | 0.82% | +0.98 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 8.0% | £25–65 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 8.0% | £5–20 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 6.7% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 5.3% | £45–95 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 5.3% | £80–250 |
| Position lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 4.0% | £5–25 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 2.7% | £18–45 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 2.7% | £3–12 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 1.3% | £18–45 |
| Brake drums in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Major | 1.3% | £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 | 24.0% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 18.7% | £40–150 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 14.7% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 13.3% | £45–110 |
| Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 9.3% | £18–45 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 9.3% | £180–450 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 3 | 100.0% | 16,007 mi |
| 30-60k | 7 | 71.4% | 47,912 mi |
| 60-90k | 24 | 83.3% | 77,062 mi |
| 90-120k | 21 | 76.2% | 105,821 mi |
| 120k+ | 20 | 70.0% | 138,439 mi |
Source: 75 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.
2009 Cabriolet MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2009 Audi Cabriolet?
77.3% of the 75 2009 Audi Cabriolet tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 74.0% for cars first used in 2009. First-attempt pass rate: 70.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2009 Audi Cabriolet?
The three most recorded items are coil spring fractured or broken (8.00%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (8.00%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (6.67%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2009 Audi Cabriolet MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 70.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2009 Audi Cabriolet in this dataset had covered 99,621 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2009 Audi Cabriolet?
Petrol: 76.5% pass rate across 51 tests. Diesel: 79.2% pass rate across 24 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2009 Audi Cabriolet MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 84.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 72.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.