Pass rate
94.4%
Above average — 21.3 pts ahead of the 73.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 267 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £23–£80
2008 Lamborghini Gallardo MOT pass rate
- 2008
- typical 28,604 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
21.8% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2011 98.6% pass
- Avoid 2008 94.4% pass · this year
Across the 10 years on record, a spread of 4.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 94.2%
- Typical mileage
- 29k mi
The 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo MOT pass rate is 94.4% of its MOT tests — 21.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 21.8% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.8× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 21.8% of everything recorded on the 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo, against 12.2% nationally — 9.6 points above. Tyres are still the single largest share at 21.8%, but at 19.8% nationally that one is ordinary. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- 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 94.4% — 21.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 267 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
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 Lamborghini Gallardo compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.1%, so this figure is 21.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 94.2%. The median 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo in this dataset had covered 28,604 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 90.1% of the time, April–September 97.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Rear fog lamp not working", noted on 1.50% of tests.
- 267 recorded tests behind this page.
- 94.4% overall pass rate, 94.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Lamborghini Gallardo, the average is 96.2% — best year 2011 (98.6%), worst 2008 (94.4%).
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
- 267
- Typical mileage (median)
- 28,604 mi
- Make and model
- Lamborghini Gallardo
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Gallardo MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 85% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Gallardo
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 76 | 92.1% |
| East of England | 57 | 96.5% |
| South West | 34 | 91.2% |
| North West | 25 | 92.0% |
| West Midlands | 21 | 100.0% |
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 Gallardo
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 Gallardo
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 1.5% of tests
“rear fog lamp not working”
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 shock absorbers 0.8% 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 suspension joints 0.4% of tests
“ball joint dust cover severely 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.
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 Gallardo through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £23–£80 — and 45% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £23–£80
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 45%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 267 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 Gallardo, side by side
10 model years on record, from 2004 to 2013. Across them the pass rate runs from 94.4% to 98.6% — a spread of 4.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2004 94.6% catalyst emissions carbon…
- 2005 94.8% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2006 96.1% decelerometer (sp) efficiency…
- 2007 94.9% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2008 94.4%rear fog lamp not working
- 2009 98.3% catch deteriorated so the door…
- 2010 97.3% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2011 98.6% registration plates does not…
- 2012 98.0% registration plates does not…
- 2013 97.8% registration plates does not…
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 Lamborghini Gallardo 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 Lamborghini Gallardo 10 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 78 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 | 17 | 21.80% | 19.76% | +2.04 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 17 | 21.80% | 12.21% | +9.59 |
| Brakes | 15 | 19.20% | 20.89% | −1.69 |
| Suspension | 14 | 17.90% | 20.98% | −3.08 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 5 | 6.40% | 5.52% | +0.88 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 4 | 5.10% | 1.76% | +3.34 |
| Visibility | 3 | 3.80% | 4.97% | −1.17 |
| Road Wheels | 2 | 2.60% | 0.75% | +1.85 |
| Steering | 1 | 1.30% | 2.57% | −1.27 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.5% | £3–15 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.75% | £3–12 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 0.75% | £45–110 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.75% | £5–20 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 0.75% | £30–75 |
| Window excessively tinted but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.75% | £20–80 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 0.37% | £18–45 |
| Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds default limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.37% | £60–250 |
| Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content at idle exceeds manufacturer's specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.37% | £60–250 |
| Catalyst emissions hydrocarbon content after 2nd fast idle exceeds manufacturer's specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.37% | £60–250 |
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 | 4.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 3.8% | £45–110 |
| Stop lamp with a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 1.5% | £3–12 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 1.1% | £40–150 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Advisory | 0.75% | £20–55 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 146 | 95.2% | 20,954 mi |
| 30-60k | 117 | 93.2% | 39,302 mi |
| 60-90k | 2 | 100.0% | 68,858 mi |
| 120k+ | 2 | 100.0% | 150,499 mi |
Source: 267 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 Gallardo MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo?
94.4% of the 267 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.1% for cars first used in 2008. First-attempt pass rate: 94.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo?
The three most recorded items are rear fog lamp not working (1.50%), malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (0.75%), rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements (0.75%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.2% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo in this dataset had covered 28,604 mi.
Does the season affect the 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 90.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 97.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.