Pass rate
69.1%
Below average — 3.9 pts behind the 73.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 291 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £27–£83
2007 Fiat Stilo MOT pass rate
- 2007
- typical 83,224 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
23.4% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Part only £35–£75 for Suspension pin or bush excessively worn. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2007 69.1% pass · this year
- Avoid 2006 66.3% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 2.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 59.3%
- Typical mileage
- 83k mi
The 2007 Fiat Stilo MOT pass rate is 69.1% of its MOT tests — 3.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 23.4% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Body & chassis: 2.1× the national share
Body & chassis accounts for 11.5% of everything recorded on the 2007 Fiat Stilo, against 5.6% nationally — 5.9 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 23.4%, 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 69.1% — 3.9 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 27% 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 Stilo compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.0%, so this figure is 3.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 59.3%. The median 2007 Fiat Stilo in this dataset had covered 83,224 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 82% of tests, with a 69.9% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 69.8% of the time, April–September 68.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 9.97% of tests.
- 291 recorded tests behind this page.
- 69.1% overall pass rate, 59.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Fiat Stilo, the average is 67.5% — best year 2007 (69.1%), worst 2006 (66.3%).
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
- 291
- Typical mileage (median)
- 83,224 mi
- Make and model
- Fiat Stilo
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Stilo MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 51% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (82% of tests).
Where the Fiat Stilo is most common
Across all Stilo model years on record (2002–2007): 1,279 Fiat Stilo cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 3,139 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 47 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) | 47 | 71.0% |
| 2 | Coventry (CV) | 36 | 72.5% |
| 3 | Manchester (M) | 31 | 73.1% |
| 4 | Peterborough (PE) | 31 | 60.9% |
| 5 | Northampton (NN) | 26 | 69.0% |
| 6 | Leicester (LE) | 25 | 74.3% |
| 7 | Nottingham (NG) | 25 | 66.7% |
| 8 | Ipswich (IP) | 23 | 66.7% |
| 9 | Norwich (NR) | 23 | 68.4% |
| 10 | Guildford (GU) | 22 | 75.0% |
| 11 | Ashford (TN) | 20 | 68.6% |
| 12 | Exeter (EX) | 20 | 64.7% |
| 13 | Doncaster (DN) | 20 | 67.4% |
| 14 | Maidstone (ME) | 19 | 66.1% |
| 15 | Sheffield (S) | 19 | 65.0% |
| 16 | Swansea (SA) | 19 | 62.3% |
| 17 | Brighton (BN) | 19 | 74.5% |
| 18 | Warrington (WA) | 19 | 76.1% |
| 19 | Wigan (WN) | 19 | 66.7% |
| 20 | Chester (CH) | 17 | 62.2% |
The twenty areas with the most Fiat Stilo 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 Stilo
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 52 | 80.8% |
| North West | 44 | 68.2% |
| East Midlands | 42 | 76.2% |
| East of England | 36 | 72.2% |
| West Midlands | 33 | 54.5% |
| Wales | 19 | 63.2% |
| South West | 18 | 61.1% |
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 Stilo
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 Stilo
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 10.0% 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.
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Check the coil springs 5.2% 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 exhaust and emissions 5.2% of tests
“exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases”
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 2007 Stilo through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £27–£83 — and 27% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £27–£83
- Cheapest common item: individual direction indicators incorrect…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 27%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 291 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 Stilo, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2002 to 2007. Across them the pass rate runs from 66.3% to 69.1% — a spread of 2.8 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2002 68.0% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2003 66.9% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2004 68.4% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2005 66.8% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2006 66.3% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2007 69.1%registration plate lamp(s)…
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 Stilo 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
- Peugeot 307 69.0%
- Citroen Xsara 69.0%
- Alfa Romeo 159 68.9%
- Vauxhall Meriva 68.8%
- Renault Scenic 68.8%
- Vauxhall Tigra 68.7%
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 Stilo 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 935 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 | 221 | 23.40% | 20.98% | +2.42 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 171 | 18.10% | 12.21% | +5.89 |
| Brakes | 133 | 14.10% | 20.89% | −6.79 |
| Tyres | 111 | 11.70% | 19.76% | −8.06 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 109 | 11.50% | 5.57% | +5.93 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 93 | 9.80% | 5.52% | +4.28 |
| Steering | 35 | 3.70% | 2.57% | +1.13 |
| Visibility | 30 | 3.20% | 4.97% | −1.77 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 17 | 1.80% | 1.76% | +0.04 |
| Non-component advisories | 15 | 1.60% | 4.18% | −2.58 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 10.0% | £5–20 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 5.2% | £25–65 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Major | 5.2% | £45–120 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.8% | £30–80 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 4.8% | £18–45 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 4.5% | £60–250 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.4% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.4% | £40–150 |
| Individual direction indicators incorrect colour Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.8% | £3–12 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 2.8% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 15.8% | £45–95 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 15.5% | £200–700 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 14.8% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 14.1% | £45–95 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 13.1% | £45–120 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 11.7% | £25–65 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 1 | 100.0% | 13,704 mi |
| 30-60k | 54 | 77.8% | 50,619 mi |
| 60-90k | 115 | 73.9% | 76,059 mi |
| 90-120k | 69 | 60.9% | 101,494 mi |
| 120k+ | 52 | 59.6% | 139,761 mi |
Source: 291 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 Stilo MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2007 Fiat Stilo?
69.1% of the 291 2007 Fiat Stilo tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.0% for cars first used in 2007. First-attempt pass rate: 59.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2007 Fiat Stilo?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (9.97%), coil spring fractured or broken (5.15%), exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases (5.15%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2007 Fiat Stilo MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 59.6% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2007 Fiat Stilo in this dataset had covered 83,224 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2007 Fiat Stilo?
Petrol: 69.9% pass rate across 239 tests. Diesel: 65.4% pass rate across 52 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2007 Fiat Stilo MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 69.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 68.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.