Pass rate
94.6%
Above average — 21.5 pts ahead of the 73.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 760 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £24–£61
2008 Ferrari F430 MOT pass rate
- 2008
- typical 20,213 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
35.4% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2009 96.5% pass
- Avoid 2005 93.5% pass
Across the 5 years on record, a spread of 3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 94.5%
- Typical mileage
- 20k mi
The 2008 Ferrari F430 MOT pass rate is 94.6% of its MOT tests — 21.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 35.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Ferrari F430 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.7× the national share
Suspension accounts for 35.4% of everything recorded on the 2008 Ferrari F430, against 21.0% nationally — 14.4 points above. Ask for the front and rear suspension to be checked on a ramp before you buy — worn bushes and broken springs are cheap to look at and expensive to discover at test time.
- 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 94.6% — 21.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 34% 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 2008 Ferrari F430 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.1%, so this figure is 21.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 94.5%. The median 2008 Ferrari F430 in this dataset had covered 20,213 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 93.1% of the time, April–September 95.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt", noted on 1.32% of tests.
- 760 recorded tests behind this page.
- 94.6% overall pass rate, 94.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Ferrari F430, the average is 95.0% — best year 2009 (96.5%), worst 2005 (93.5%).
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
- 760
- Typical mileage (median)
- 20,213 mi
- Make and model
- Ferrari F430
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
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 F430 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 75% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the F430
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 258 | 96.9% |
| East of England | 106 | 92.5% |
| East Midlands | 83 | 90.4% |
| South West | 59 | 93.2% |
| North West | 59 | 96.6% |
| West Midlands | 53 | 96.2% |
| Yorkshire | 44 | 97.7% |
| Scotland | 43 | 93.0% |
| London | 39 | 89.7% |
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 2008 F430
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 F430
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 1.3% of tests
“track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or 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 wipers and washers 0.9% 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 lights 0.8% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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 2008 F430 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £24–£61 — and 34% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £24–£61
- Cheapest common item: mirrors slightly loose
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 34%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 760 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 F430, side by side
5 model years on record, from 2005 to 2009. Across them the pass rate runs from 93.5% to 96.5% — a spread of 3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2005 93.5% position lamp not working
- 2006 95.7% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2007 95.3% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2008 94.6%track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2009 96.5% track rod end ball joint dust…
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 Ferrari F430 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
- Bentley Continental 91.4%
- Porsche 911 91.0%
- BMW M3 90.0%
- Porsche Boxster 89.4%
- Audi A8 87.0%
- Mercedes-Benz Sl 86.7%
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 Ferrari F430 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 299 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 | 107 | 35.40% | 20.98% | +14.42 |
| Brakes | 40 | 13.20% | 20.89% | −7.69 |
| Tyres | 40 | 13.20% | 19.76% | −6.56 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 36 | 11.90% | 12.21% | −0.31 |
| Steering | 32 | 10.60% | 2.57% | +8.03 |
| Visibility | 20 | 6.60% | 4.97% | +1.63 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 7 | 2.30% | 5.57% | −3.27 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 7 | 2.30% | 1.76% | +0.54 |
| Non-component advisories | 6 | 2.00% | 4.18% | −2.18 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 4 | 1.30% | 5.52% | −4.22 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 1.3% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 1.2% | £18–45 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 0.92% | £45–110 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.92% | £8–22 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.79% | £5–20 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover excessively damaged or deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of… Steering | Major | 0.79% | £18–45 |
| Mirrors slightly loose Visibility | Minor | 0.53% | £3–15 |
| Position lamp insecure Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.53% | £5–25 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 0.53% | £60–150 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.53% | £80–200 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 3.8% | £18–45 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 3.5% | £25–65 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.6% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 2.2% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 1.8% | £45–95 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Advisory | 1.7% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 600 | 95.0% | 17,484 mi |
| 30-60k | 151 | 94.0% | 37,565 mi |
| 60-90k | 6 | 83.3% | 64,317 mi |
Source: 760 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 F430 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2008 Ferrari F430?
94.6% of the 760 2008 Ferrari F430 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.1% for cars first used in 2008. First-attempt pass rate: 94.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2008 Ferrari F430?
The three most recorded items are track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt (1.32%), ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (1.18%), rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements (0.92%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2008 Ferrari F430 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.0% of the time, falling to 83.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2008 Ferrari F430 in this dataset had covered 20,213 mi.
Does the season affect the 2008 Ferrari F430 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 93.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 95.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.