Pass rate
92.1%
Above average — 4.2 pts ahead of the 87.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 165 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £19–£48
2018 Bentley Flying Spur MOT pass rate
- 2018
- typical 22,973 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
47.4% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2017 94.7% pass
- Avoid 2018 92.1% pass · this year
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 2.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 92.4%
- Typical mileage
- 23k mi
The 2018 Bentley Flying Spur MOT pass rate is 92.1% of its MOT tests — 4.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 47.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Bentley Flying Spur does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.4× the national share
Tyres make up 47.4% of everything recorded on the 2018 Bentley Flying Spur, against 19.8% nationally — 27.6 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 87.9% and this one manages 92.1% — 4.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 165 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 2018 Bentley Flying Spur compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 87.9%, so this figure is 4.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 92.4%. The median 2018 Bentley Flying Spur in this dataset had covered 22,973 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 91.7% of the time, April–September 92.6%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords", noted on 1.21% of tests.
- 165 recorded tests behind this page.
- 92.1% overall pass rate, 92.4% 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
- 165
- Typical mileage (median)
- 22,973 mi
- Make and model
- Bentley Flying Spur
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Flying Spur MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 58% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Flying Spur
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 39 | 94.9% |
| North West | 34 | 94.1% |
| London | 27 | 92.6% |
| East of England | 18 | 77.8% |
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 2018 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 2018 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 lights 1.2% of tests
“headlamp cleaning device for LED or HID headlamp inoperative”
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 brakes 0.6% of tests
“brake pads worn down to wear indicator”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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 2018 Flying Spur through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £19–£48 — and 50% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £19–£48
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £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
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 50%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 165 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 2018 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 2018 cars with a similar record
- Audi Tt 92.1%
- Audi Q2 92.0%
- Skoda Karoq 92.2%
- Abarth 124 Spider Multiair 91.9%
- Volkswagen T-Roc 92.3%
- Mazda Cx-3 91.8%
Closest pass rates among 2018 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 2018 Bentley Flying Spur 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 7 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 57 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 | 27 | 47.40% | 19.76% | +27.64 |
| Brakes | 8 | 14.00% | 20.89% | −6.89 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 8 | 14.00% | 12.21% | +1.79 |
| Suspension | 6 | 10.50% | 20.98% | −10.48 |
| Non-component advisories | 6 | 10.50% | 4.18% | +6.32 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1 | 1.80% | 5.52% | −3.72 |
| Road Wheels | 1 | 1.80% | 0.75% | +1.05 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.2% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp cleaning device for LED or HID headlamp inoperative Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.2% | £5–25 |
| Side repeaters not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.2% | £5–25 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.2% | £3–12 |
| Brake pads worn down to wear indicator Brakes | Rectified | 0.61% | £18–45 |
| Brake pads worn down to wear indicator Brakes | Major | 0.61% | £18–45 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.61% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.61% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.61% | £30–80 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.61% | £3–12 |
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 | 5.5% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 3.6% | £45–95 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 3.0% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 3.0% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 2.4% | £18–45 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.4% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 114 | 93.9% | 16,009 mi |
| 30-60k | 40 | 87.5% | 41,168 mi |
| 60-90k | 7 | 100.0% | 70,019 mi |
| 90-120k | 3 | 66.7% | 99,568 mi |
| 120k+ | 1 | 100.0% | 121,103 mi |
Source: 165 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.
2018 Flying Spur MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2018 Bentley Flying Spur?
92.1% of the 165 2018 Bentley Flying Spur tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 87.9% for cars first used in 2018. First-attempt pass rate: 92.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2018 Bentley Flying Spur?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.21%), headlamp cleaning device for led or hid headlamp inoperative (1.21%), side repeaters not working (1.21%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2018 Bentley Flying Spur MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.9% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2018 Bentley Flying Spur in this dataset had covered 22,973 mi.
Does the season affect the 2018 Bentley Flying Spur MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 91.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 92.6%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.