Pass rate
93.9%
Above average — 9.9 pts ahead of the 84.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 409 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £35–£97
2016 Bentley Flying Spur MOT pass rate
- 2016
- typical 32,414 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
48.0% 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 2017 94.7% pass
- Avoid 2018 92.1% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 2.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 93.5%
- Typical mileage
- 32k mi
The 2016 Bentley Flying Spur MOT pass rate is 93.9% of its MOT tests — 9.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 48.0% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.4× the national share
Tyres make up 48.0% of everything recorded on the 2016 Bentley Flying Spur, against 19.8% nationally — 28.2 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 84.0% and this one manages 93.9% — 9.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 28% 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 2016 Bentley Flying Spur compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 84.0%, so this figure is 9.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 93.5%. The median 2016 Bentley Flying Spur in this dataset had covered 32,414 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 94.8% of the time, April–September 93.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 1.47% of tests.
- 409 recorded tests behind this page.
- 93.9% overall pass rate, 93.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Bentley Flying Spur, the average is 94.1% — best year 2017 (94.7%), worst 2018 (92.1%).
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
- 409
- Typical mileage (median)
- 32,414 mi
- Make and model
- Bentley Flying Spur
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Flying Spur MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 82% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Bentley Flying Spur is most common
Across all Flying Spur model years on record (2013–2018): 1,251 Bentley Flying Spur cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 2,158 tests. London (SW) has the most, with 72 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | London (SW) | 72 | 92.3% |
| 2 | Birmingham (B) | 47 | 96.0% |
| 3 | Warrington (WA) | 42 | 92.3% |
| 4 | London (W) | 39 | 89.6% |
| 5 | Kingston upon Thames (KT) | 36 | 90.5% |
| 6 | Derby (DE) | 34 | 90.7% |
| 7 | Enfield (EN) | 32 | 97.9% |
| 8 | Leicester (LE) | 29 | 94.5% |
| 9 | Crawley (RH) | 29 | 94.3% |
| 10 | London (NW) | 28 | 94.2% |
| 11 | Gloucester (GL) | 26 | 98.0% |
| 12 | Chelmsford (CM) | 25 | 92.3% |
| 13 | Leeds (LS) | 24 | 95.0% |
| 14 | Sheffield (S) | 22 | 97.2% |
| 15 | Slough (SL) | 22 | 88.6% |
| 16 | High Wycombe (HP) | 22 | 97.1% |
| 17 | Hounslow (TW) | 22 | 100.0% |
| 18 | Southampton (SO) | 21 | 92.5% |
| 19 | Peterborough (PE) | 21 | 90.3% |
| 20 | St Albans (AL) | 21 | — |
The twenty areas with the most Bentley Flying Spur cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the Flying Spur
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 87 | 90.8% |
| London | 60 | 93.3% |
| East of England | 56 | 94.6% |
| North West | 47 | 89.4% |
| East Midlands | 33 | 100.0% |
| Yorkshire | 32 | 96.9% |
| South West | 30 | 96.7% |
| West Midlands | 26 | 100.0% |
| Scotland | 23 | 91.3% |
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 2016 Flying Spur
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 2016 Flying Spur
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 windscreen 1.5% 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 suspension joints 1.0% 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.
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Check the lights 1.0% of tests
“stop lamp not working”
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 2016 Flying Spur through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £35–£97 — and 28% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £35–£97
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £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
- 28%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 409 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 Flying Spur, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2013 to 2018. Across them the pass rate runs from 92.1% to 94.7% — a spread of 2.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2013 92.6% washers provides insufficient…
- 2014 94.6% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2015 94.5% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2016 93.9%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 94.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 92.1% 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 2016 Bentley Flying Spur 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 2016 cars with a similar record
- Jaguar F-Type 93.9%
- Lexus Rx 94.4%
- Porsche Boxster 94.6%
- Porsche Cayman 94.8%
- Audi A8 92.7%
- Porsche 911 95.7%
Closest pass rates among 2016 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 2016 Bentley Flying Spur 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 172 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 | 83 | 48.00% | 19.76% | +28.24 |
| Brakes | 29 | 16.80% | 20.89% | −4.09 |
| Suspension | 23 | 13.30% | 20.98% | −7.68 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 11 | 6.40% | 12.21% | −5.81 |
| Visibility | 7 | 4.00% | 4.97% | −0.97 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 6 | 3.50% | 1.76% | +1.74 |
| Non-component advisories | 4 | 2.30% | 4.18% | −1.88 |
| Road Wheels | 4 | 2.30% | 0.75% | +1.55 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 3 | 1.70% | 5.52% | −3.82 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 2 | 1.20% | 0.82% | +0.38 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.5% | £80–200 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 0.98% | £40–150 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.98% | £3–12 |
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Major | 0.73% | £20–80 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.73% | £45–95 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 0.49% | £18–45 |
| Has a lump, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.49% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp cleaning device for LED or HID headlamp inoperative Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.49% | £5–25 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.49% | £3–12 |
| Bonnet cannot be secured in the closed position Visibility | Major | 0.24% | £20–80 |
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 | 5.1% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 5.1% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 4.7% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 3.4% | £40–150 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.7% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 2.0% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 175 | 96.6% | 19,032 mi |
| 30-60k | 187 | 92.0% | 40,921 mi |
| 60-90k | 42 | 90.5% | 69,421 mi |
| 90-120k | 5 | 100.0% | 98,661 mi |
Source: 409 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.
2016 Flying Spur MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2016 Bentley Flying Spur?
93.9% of the 409 2016 Bentley Flying Spur tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 84.0% for cars first used in 2016. First-attempt pass rate: 93.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2016 Bentley Flying Spur?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.47%), pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (0.98%), stop lamp not working (0.98%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2016 Bentley Flying Spur MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 96.6% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2016 Bentley Flying Spur in this dataset had covered 32,414 mi.
Does the season affect the 2016 Bentley Flying Spur MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 94.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 93.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.