Pass rate
94.8%
Above average — 18.9 pts ahead of the 75.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 465 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £24–£67
2011 Ferrari California MOT pass rate
- 2011
- 2 trims combined
- typical 26,711 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
34.4% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2017 97.9% pass
- Avoid 2009 93.8% pass
Across the 9 years on record, a spread of 4.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 94.7%
- Typical mileage
- 27k mi
The 2011 Ferrari California MOT pass rate is 94.8% of its MOT tests — 18.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 34.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Ferrari California does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.7× the national share
Tyres make up 34.4% of everything recorded on the 2011 Ferrari California, against 19.8% nationally — 14.6 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 75.9% and this one manages 94.8% — 18.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
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 Ferrari California first registered in 2011 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2011 Ferrari California compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 75.9%, so this figure is 18.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 94.7%. The median 2011 Ferrari California in this dataset had covered 26,711 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 97.2% of the time, April–September 93.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak", noted on 1.29% of tests.
- 465 recorded tests behind this page.
- 94.8% overall pass rate, 94.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Ferrari California, the average is 95.4% — best year 2017 (97.9%), worst 2009 (93.8%).
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
- 465
- Typical mileage (median)
- 26,711 mi
- Make and model
- Ferrari California
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Shock Absorber
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the California MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 72% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the California
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 129 | 95.3% |
| East of England | 85 | 95.3% |
| North West | 41 | 100.0% |
| East Midlands | 41 | 97.6% |
| London | 36 | 83.3% |
| Yorkshire | 35 | 100.0% |
| West Midlands | 32 | 93.8% |
| South West | 30 | 96.7% |
| Wales | 15 | 73.3% |
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 2011 California
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 2011 California
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 shock absorbers 1.3% of tests
“shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak”
Press down hard on each corner of the car and let go. It should settle in one bounce; if it keeps rocking, or you can see oil weeping down a shock absorber, that is the fault a tester will find.
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Check the wipers and washers 1.1% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
Run the wipers with the screen wet: they should clear it in one sweep without smearing or juddering. Top the washer bottle up and check both jets hit the screen.
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Check the horn 0.9% of tests
“horn not working”
Press it. That is the whole check, and a surprising number of cars fail on 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 2011 California through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £24–£67 — and 38% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £24–£67
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: pins
- £40–£150
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 38%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 465 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 California, side by side
9 model years on record, from 2009 to 2017. Across them the pass rate runs from 93.8% to 97.9% — a spread of 4.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2009 93.8% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2010 94.7% shock absorbers has a serious…
- 2011 94.8%shock absorbers has a serious…
- 2012 95.5% wipers blade defective
- 2013 94.1% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2014 97.2% registration plates does not…
- 2015 96.0% wipers does not clear the…
- 2016 95.4% wipers blade defective
- 2017 97.9% wipers blade defective
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 2011 Ferrari California 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 2011 cars with a similar record
- Porsche 911 93.4%
- Porsche Boxster 91.5%
- BMW M3 90.9%
- Audi A8 90.3%
- Honda Fit 86.9%
- Porsche Cayenne 86.8%
Closest pass rates among 2011 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 2011 Ferrari California 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 208 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 | 73 | 34.40% | 19.76% | +14.64 |
| Suspension | 54 | 25.50% | 20.98% | +4.52 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 21 | 9.90% | 12.21% | −2.31 |
| Brakes | 13 | 6.10% | 20.89% | −14.79 |
| Steering | 12 | 5.70% | 2.57% | +3.13 |
| Visibility | 11 | 5.20% | 4.97% | +0.23 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 9 | 4.20% | 5.57% | −1.37 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 6 | 2.80% | 1.76% | +1.04 |
| Non-component advisories | 5 | 2.40% | 4.18% | −1.78 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 4 | 1.90% | 5.52% | −3.62 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 1.3% | £30–75 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.1% | £8–22 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.86% | £45–95 |
| Horn not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.86% | £8–25 |
| Registration plates missing Identification of the vehicle | Major | 0.86% | £20–80 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 0.65% | £40–150 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.43% | £45–95 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.43% | £3–12 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 0.43% | £45–110 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.43% | £5–20 |
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 | 8.4% | £45–95 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 5.2% | £30–75 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 4.5% | £45–95 |
| Service brake performance excessively fluctuating Brakes | Advisory | 1.1% | £60–150 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Advisory | 0.86% | £20–55 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 0.86% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 287 | 95.8% | 19,465 mi |
| 30-60k | 171 | 93.6% | 40,909 mi |
| 60-90k | 5 | 80.0% | 67,953 mi |
Source: 465 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.
2011 California MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2011 Ferrari California?
94.8% of the 465 2011 Ferrari California tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 75.9% for cars first used in 2011. First-attempt pass rate: 94.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2011 Ferrari California?
The three most recorded items are shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak (1.29%), wipers blade defective (1.08%), has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure (0.86%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2011 Ferrari California MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.8% of the time, falling to 80.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2011 Ferrari California in this dataset had covered 26,711 mi.
Does the season affect the 2011 Ferrari California MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 97.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 93.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.