Pass rate
68.1%
Below average — 4.9 pts behind the 73.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 4,081 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £40–£116
2007 Fiat Bravo MOT pass rate
- 2007
- typical 98,646 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
24.4% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2013 73.2% pass
- Avoid 2001 60.3% pass
Across the 9 years on record, a spread of 12.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 57.7%
- Typical mileage
- 99k mi
The 2007 Fiat Bravo MOT pass rate is 68.1% of its MOT tests — 4.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 24.4% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Body & chassis: 2.4× the national share
Body & chassis accounts for 13.1% of everything recorded on the 2007 Fiat Bravo, against 5.6% nationally — 7.5 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 24.4%, but at 21.0% nationally that one is ordinary. Look underneath for corrosion near the jacking points and suspension mounts; surface rust is normal, flaking metal is not.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 73.0%; this one manages 68.1% — 4.9 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- 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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How does the 2007 Fiat Bravo compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.0%, so this figure is 4.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 57.7%. The median 2007 Fiat Bravo in this dataset had covered 98,646 mi.
77% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 68.3% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 67.9% of the time, April–September 68.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp lens slightly defective", noted on 6.79% of tests.
- 4,081 recorded tests behind this page.
- 68.1% overall pass rate, 57.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Fiat Bravo, the average is 68.6% — best year 2013 (73.2%), worst 2001 (60.3%).
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
- 4,081
- Typical mileage (median)
- 98,646 mi
- Make and model
- Fiat Bravo
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Headlight Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Bravo MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 56% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (77% of tests).
Where the Fiat Bravo is most common
Across all Bravo model years on record (2001–2014): 8,114 Fiat Bravo cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 20,488 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 318 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 | Birmingham (B) | 318 | 77.5% |
| 2 | Coventry (CV) | 223 | 72.1% |
| 3 | Leicester (LE) | 189 | 75.1% |
| 4 | Northampton (NN) | 181 | 68.7% |
| 5 | Nottingham (NG) | 181 | 64.3% |
| 6 | Sheffield (S) | 181 | 68.0% |
| 7 | Peterborough (PE) | 173 | 68.2% |
| 8 | Manchester (M) | 170 | 70.4% |
| 9 | Norwich (NR) | 144 | 66.3% |
| 10 | Doncaster (DN) | 134 | 67.7% |
| 11 | Bristol (BS) | 123 | 59.5% |
| 12 | Cardiff (CF) | 122 | 64.6% |
| 13 | Swansea (SA) | 119 | 63.5% |
| 14 | Stoke On Trent (ST) | 110 | 63.9% |
| 15 | Ipswich (IP) | 108 | 70.1% |
| 16 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 104 | 63.5% |
| 17 | Liverpool (L) | 104 | 71.7% |
| 18 | Derby (DE) | 103 | 69.4% |
| 19 | Reading (RG) | 102 | 71.9% |
| 20 | Leeds (LS) | 98 | 67.8% |
The twenty areas with the most Fiat Bravo 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 →
Regional pass rates for the Bravo
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 779 | 72.9% |
| West Midlands | 494 | 69.2% |
| South West | 470 | 60.6% |
| North West | 429 | 69.5% |
| East of England | 387 | 69.5% |
| East Midlands | 363 | 68.3% |
| Yorkshire | 333 | 69.1% |
| Scotland | 244 | 59.4% |
| London | 234 | 76.9% |
| Wales | 215 | 63.7% |
| North East | 133 | 57.1% |
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 2007 Bravo
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 2007 Bravo
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 6.8% of tests
“headlamp lens slightly defective”
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 coil springs 6.0% of tests
“coil spring fractured or broken”
Look up inside each wheel arch with a torch, all the way round the spring. A snapped spring usually breaks at the very bottom coil, where a quick glance will not reach.
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Check the windscreen 3.9% of tests
“windscreen damaged”
Check the driver’s side of the screen within the swept area for chips and cracks; anything larger than 10mm in the driver’s central view is a fail. Most chips can be resin-repaired for far less than a new screen.
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 2007 Bravo through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £40–£116 — and 24% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £40–£116
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 24%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 4,081 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 Bravo, side by side
9 model years on record, from 2001 to 2014. Across them the pass rate runs from 60.3% to 73.2% — a spread of 12.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2001 60.3% rigid brake pipes excessively…
- 2007 68.1%headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2008 67.3% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2009 68.1% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2010 70.3% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2011 69.9% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2012 72.1% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2013 73.2% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2014 70.9% coil spring fractured or broken
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 2007 Fiat Bravo 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 2007 cars with a similar record
- Mitsubishi Outlander 68.1%
- Renault Clio 68.0%
- Chevrolet Kalos 68.0%
- Renault Megane 68.2%
- Chevrolet Matiz 67.9%
- Hyundai Matrix 68.3%
Closest pass rates among 2007 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 2007 Fiat Bravo 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 13,959 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 | 3,461 | 24.40% | 20.98% | +3.42 |
| Brakes | 2,271 | 16.00% | 20.89% | −4.89 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1,854 | 13.10% | 5.57% | +7.53 |
| Tyres | 1,776 | 12.50% | 19.76% | −7.26 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1,744 | 12.30% | 12.21% | +0.09 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1,222 | 8.60% | 5.52% | +3.08 |
| Non-component advisories | 468 | 3.30% | 4.18% | −0.88 |
| Visibility | 445 | 3.10% | 4.97% | −1.87 |
| Steering | 371 | 2.60% | 2.57% | +0.03 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 347 | 2.40% | 1.76% | +0.64 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 6.8% | £5–25 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 6.5% | £80–250 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 6.0% | £25–65 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 4.5% | £80–250 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 4.1% | £5–20 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.9% | £80–200 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Major | 3.8% | £45–120 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 3.5% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.3% | £18–45 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 3.2% | £45–110 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 21.3% | £45–95 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 15.4% | £180–450 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 14.8% | £45–110 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 14.7% | £200–700 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 11.6% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 11.4% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 16 | 87.5% | 26,721 mi |
| 30-60k | 334 | 76.9% | 48,657 mi |
| 60-90k | 1,225 | 69.4% | 77,294 mi |
| 90-120k | 1,499 | 67.2% | 104,115 mi |
| 120k+ | 1,007 | 64.4% | 142,462 mi |
Source: 4,081 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.
2007 Bravo MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2007 Fiat Bravo?
68.1% of the 4,081 2007 Fiat Bravo tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.0% for cars first used in 2007. First-attempt pass rate: 57.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2007 Fiat Bravo?
The three most recorded items are headlamp lens slightly defective (6.79%), joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (6.54%), coil spring fractured or broken (5.98%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2007 Fiat Bravo MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 87.5% of the time, falling to 64.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2007 Fiat Bravo in this dataset had covered 98,646 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2007 Fiat Bravo?
Petrol: 68.3% pass rate across 3,131 tests. Diesel: 67.3% pass rate across 950 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2007 Fiat Bravo MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 67.9% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 68.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.