Pass rate
88.7%
Above average — 15.6 pts ahead of the 73.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 62 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £33–£99
2008 Dodge Ram MOT pass rate
- 2008
- 2 trims combined
- typical 105,851 mi
Only 62 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
31.0% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2016 91.0% pass
- Avoid 2001 79.4% pass
Across the 20 years on record, a spread of 11.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 87.7%
- Typical mileage
- 106k mi
The 2008 Dodge Ram MOT pass rate is 88.7% of its MOT tests — 15.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 31.0% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.9× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 23.0% of everything recorded on the 2008 Dodge Ram, against 12.2% nationally — 10.8 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 31.0%, but at 21.0% nationally that one is ordinary. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- 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 73.1% and this one manages 88.7% — 15.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 24% 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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Every Dodge Ram first registered in 2008 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2008 Dodge Ram compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.1%, so this figure is 15.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 87.7%. The median 2008 Dodge Ram in this dataset had covered 105,851 mi.
66% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 87.8% of the time.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 9.68% of tests.
- 62 recorded tests behind this page.
- 88.7% overall pass rate, 87.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Dodge Ram, the average is 85.3% — best year 2016 (91.0%), worst 2001 (79.4%).
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
- 62
- Typical mileage (median)
- 105,851 mi
- Make and model
- Dodge Ram
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Ball Joint
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Ram MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 70% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (66% of tests).
Where the Dodge Ram is most common
Across all Ram model years on record (2001–2020): 1,418 Dodge Ram cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 2,839 tests. Peterborough (PE) has the most, with 70 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 | Peterborough (PE) | 70 | 88.6% |
| 2 | Chelmsford (CM) | 56 | 84.8% |
| 3 | Ipswich (IP) | 44 | 83.9% |
| 4 | Basildon (SS) | 36 | 94.6% |
| 5 | Guildford (GU) | 32 | 73.7% |
| 6 | Norwich (NR) | 32 | 86.7% |
| 7 | Nottingham (NG) | 32 | 85.7% |
| 8 | Poole (BH) | 32 | 83.1% |
| 9 | Ashford (TN) | 27 | 86.0% |
| 10 | Birmingham (B) | 27 | 91.5% |
| 11 | Colchester (CO) | 26 | 89.8% |
| 12 | Reading (RG) | 25 | 87.8% |
| 13 | Milton Keynes (MK) | 24 | 79.2% |
| 14 | Northampton (NN) | 22 | 82.8% |
| 15 | Oxford (OX) | 22 | 76.7% |
| 16 | Doncaster (DN) | 22 | 90.2% |
| 17 | Coventry (CV) | 21 | 89.7% |
| 18 | Derby (DE) | 21 | 75.8% |
| 19 | Crawley (RH) | 20 | 79.1% |
| 20 | Sheffield (S) | 20 | 91.7% |
The twenty areas with the most Dodge Ram 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 →
What fails a 2008 Ram
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 2008 Ram
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 suspension joints 9.7% of tests
“ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated”
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 battery 8.1% of tests
“battery(ies) insecure”
Check the battery is secure and its terminals are clean and tight — a loose battery is a fail on its own, and a weak one shows up as slow cranking on a cold morning.
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Check the exhaust and emissions 3.2% of tests
“catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds manufacturer's specified limits”
Listen for a blow at idle and have someone rev it gently. Then look at the tailpipe smoke: blue is oil, white when warm is coolant, black is over-fuelling. Any of those and the emissions test is the least of it.
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 2008 Ram through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £33–£99 — and 24% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £33–£99
- Cheapest common item: mirrors slightly damaged
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 24%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 62 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 Ram, side by side
20 model years on record, from 2001 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 79.4% to 91.0% — a spread of 11.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2001 79.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2002 86.1% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2003 85.2% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2004 85.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2005 84.7% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2006 84.1% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2007 81.6% position lamp not working
- 2008 88.7%ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2009 83.5% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2010 82.6% position lamp not working
- 2011 82.5% mirrors slightly damaged
- 2012 86.8% individual direction indicators…
- 2013 89.8% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2014 83.7% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2015 88.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 91.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 86.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 88.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 90.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 86.2% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
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 2008 Dodge Ram 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 2008 cars with a similar record
- Porsche Boxster 89.4%
- BMW M3 90.0%
- Audi A8 87.0%
- Mercedes-Benz Sl 86.7%
- Porsche 911 91.0%
- Bentley Continental 91.4%
Closest pass rates among 2008 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 2008 Dodge Ram 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 86 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 | 27 | 31.00% | 20.98% | +10.02 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 20 | 23.00% | 12.21% | +10.79 |
| Brakes | 12 | 13.80% | 20.89% | −7.09 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 7 | 8.00% | 5.52% | +2.48 |
| Visibility | 5 | 5.70% | 4.97% | +0.73 |
| Steering | 5 | 5.70% | 2.57% | +3.13 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 4 | 4.60% | 1.76% | +2.84 |
| Tyres | 3 | 3.40% | 19.76% | −16.36 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 2 | 2.30% | 5.57% | −3.27 |
| Non-component advisories | 1 | 1.10% | 4.18% | −3.08 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 9.7% | £18–45 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 8.1% | £60–140 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 4.8% | £45–110 |
| Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds manufacturer's specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.2% | £60–250 |
| Mirrors slightly damaged Visibility | Minor | 3.2% | £3–15 |
| Position lamp incorrect colour Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.2% | £5–25 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.2% | £5–20 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.6% | £18–45 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.6% | £60–250 |
| Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds default limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.6% | £60–250 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheel bearings has excessive play Suspension | Advisory | 11.3% | £20–55 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 6.5% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 6.5% | £45–110 |
| Registration plates inscription illegible Identification of the vehicle | Advisory | 6.5% | £20–80 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 4.8% | £18–45 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 3.2% | £200–700 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 9 | 100.0% | 50,860 mi |
| 60-90k | 14 | 100.0% | 70,830 mi |
| 90-120k | 11 | 90.9% | 103,717 mi |
| 120k+ | 28 | 78.6% | 152,551 mi |
Source: 62 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.
2008 Ram MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2008 Dodge Ram?
88.7% of the 62 2008 Dodge Ram tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.1% for cars first used in 2008. First-attempt pass rate: 87.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2008 Dodge Ram?
The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (9.68%), battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier (8.06%), rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements (4.84%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2008 Dodge Ram MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 78.6% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2008 Dodge Ram in this dataset had covered 105,851 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2008 Dodge Ram?
Petrol: 87.8% pass rate across 41 tests. Diesel: 92.9% pass rate across 14 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.