Pass rate
96.7%
Above average — 23.4 pts ahead of the 73.3% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 123 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £43–£126
2001 Ferrari 550 MOT pass rate
- 2001
- typical 23,422 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
26.9% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2000 96.9% pass
- Avoid 2001 96.7% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 0.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 96.7%
- Typical mileage
- 23k mi
The 2001 Ferrari 550 MOT pass rate is 96.7% of its MOT tests — 23.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 26.9% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Advisories: 3.7× the national share
Advisories make up 15.4% of everything recorded on the 2001 Ferrari 550, against 4.2% nationally — 11.2 points above. Tyres are still the single largest share at 26.9%, but at 19.8% nationally that one is ordinary. Most of what testers record here is advisory — worth reading, not worth walking away from on its own.
- 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 73.3% and this one manages 96.7% — 23.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 25% 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 2001 Ferrari 550 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.3%, so this figure is 23.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 96.7%. The median 2001 Ferrari 550 in this dataset had covered 23,422 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 95.6% of the time, April–September 97.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits", noted on 0.81% of tests.
- 123 recorded tests behind this page.
- 96.7% overall pass rate, 96.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Ferrari 550, the average is 96.8% — best year 2000 (96.9%), worst 2001 (96.7%).
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
- 123
- Typical mileage (median)
- 23,422 mi
- Make and model
- Ferrari 550
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Emissions Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the 550 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 88% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the 550
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 39 | 100.0% |
| South West | 27 | 100.0% |
| East of England | 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 2001 550
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 2001 550
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 exhaust and emissions 0.8% of tests
“catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside 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.
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Check the lights 0.8% of tests
“headlamp aim too far to the right”
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 number plates 0.8% of tests
“registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements”
Check both plates are present, legible and correctly spaced, with the postcode of the supplier and the BS AU 145e mark. A private plate in the wrong style is a fail before the car is even looked at.
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 2001 550 through its MOT
Across the 8 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £43–£126 — and 25% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 8 common items
- £43–£126
- Cheapest common item: washers not working
- £5–£15
- Dearest common item: steering rack gaiter damaged or deteriorated,
- £120–£300
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 25%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 123 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 550, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2000 to 2001. Across them the pass rate runs from 96.7% to 96.9% — a spread of 0.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 96.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2001 96.7%catalyst emissions lambda reading…
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 2001 Ferrari 550 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 2001 cars with a similar record
- Porsche 911 86.3%
- Jaguar XK8 80.6%
- Porsche Boxster 80.5%
- Mercedes-Benz Slk 80.3%
- BMW Z3 79.5%
- Subaru Impreza 79.3%
Closest pass rates among 2001 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 2001 Ferrari 550 8 failure items · 6 advisories · 9 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 26 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 | 7 | 26.90% | 19.76% | +7.14 |
| Brakes | 4 | 15.40% | 20.89% | −5.49 |
| Non-component advisories | 4 | 15.40% | 4.18% | +11.22 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 3 | 11.50% | 5.52% | +5.98 |
| Suspension | 2 | 7.70% | 20.98% | −13.28 |
| Visibility | 2 | 7.70% | 4.97% | +2.73 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 2 | 7.70% | 1.76% | +5.94 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1 | 3.80% | 12.21% | −8.41 |
| Steering | 1 | 3.80% | 2.57% | +1.23 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.81% | £60–250 |
| Headlamp aim too far to the right Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.81% | £30–80 |
| Parking brake performance inoperative on one side Brakes | Major | 0.81% | £60–150 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency less than 50% of the required value Brakes | Major | 0.81% | £45–110 |
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Major | 0.81% | £20–80 |
| Steering rack gaiter damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 0.81% | £120–300 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Major | 0.81% | £5–15 |
| Wipers not working Visibility | Major | 0.81% | £8–22 |
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 | 3.3% | £45–95 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 1.6% | £200–700 |
| Non-component advisories Play in steering rack inner joint(s) Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.6% | £120–300 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 0.81% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 0.81% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 86 | 96.5% | 14,941 mi |
| 30-60k | 34 | 97.1% | 39,751 mi |
| 60-90k | 3 | 100.0% | 79,444 mi |
Source: 123 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.
2001 550 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2001 Ferrari 550?
96.7% of the 123 2001 Ferrari 550 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.3% for cars first used in 2001. First-attempt pass rate: 96.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2001 Ferrari 550?
The three most recorded items are catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits (0.81%), headlamp aim too far to the right (0.81%), parking brake performance inoperative on one side (0.81%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2001 Ferrari 550 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 96.5% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2001 Ferrari 550 in this dataset had covered 23,422 mi.
Does the season affect the 2001 Ferrari 550 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 95.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 97.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.