Pass rate
Around average — 6.1 pts ahead of the 78.6% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 215 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £23–£59
Pass rate
Around average — 6.1 pts ahead of the 78.6% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 215 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £23–£59
Most common fault
Tyres
35.2% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
Across the 10 years on record, a spread of 10.2 points. See every year →
The 2013 Maserati Grancabrio MOT pass rate is 84.7% of its MOT tests — 6.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 35.2% of what testers record.
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Maserati Grancabrio does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres make up 35.2% of everything recorded on the 2013 Maserati Grancabrio, against 19.8% nationally — 15.4 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.
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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Cars of this age and mileage average 78.6%, so this figure is 6.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 83.4%. The median 2013 Maserati Grancabrio in this dataset had covered 28,881 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 80.3% of the time, April–September 86.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an ABS fault", noted on 2.79% of tests.
Figures count every completed test on this vehicle-year in the dataset, including retests. See methodology for the exact definition.
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 72% so small gaps stay visible.
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 74 | 81.1% |
| East of England | 45 | 86.7% |
| London | 24 | 79.2% |
| South West | 18 | 88.9% |
| West Midlands | 16 | 93.8% |
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.
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
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.
Check the lights 2.8% of tests
“anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an ABS fault”
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.
Check the coil springs 1.9% 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.
Check the number plates 0.9% of tests
“registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements”
Check both plates are present, legible and correctly spaced, with the postcode of the supplier and the BS AU 145e mark. A private plate in the wrong style is a fail before the car is even looked at.
Shares are the proportion of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item, so they overlap: one test can record several.
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £23–£59 — and 42% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 215 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 →
10 model years on record, from 2010 to 2019. Across them the pass rate runs from 82.9% to 93.1% — a spread of 10.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
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.
The raw pass rate mostly measures age. The year comparison adds the like-for-like figure, the mileage bands and the repair bill.
Closest pass rates among 2013 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.
Shares of the 156 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 | 56 | 35.20% | 19.76% | +15.44 |
| Brakes | 39 | 24.50% | 20.89% | +3.61 |
| Suspension | 15 | 9.40% | 20.98% | −11.58 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 10 | 6.30% | 12.21% | −5.91 |
| Non-component advisories | 8 | 5.00% | 4.18% | +0.82 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 7 | 4.40% | 5.52% | −1.12 |
| Visibility | 7 | 4.40% | 4.97% | −0.57 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 7 | 4.40% | 1.76% | +2.64 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 5 | 3.10% | 0.82% | +2.28 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 2 | 1.30% | 5.57% | −4.27 |
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an ABS fault Brakes | Major | 2.8% | £3–15 |
| Electronic stability control warning lamp indicates a fault Brakes | Major | 2.3% | £3–15 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 2.3% | £45–110 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 1.9% | £25–65 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 1.9% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.4% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp not working on main beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.93% | £5–25 |
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Rectified | 0.93% | £20–80 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.93% | £8–22 |
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.
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 | 11.2% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.0% | £45–95 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 3.3% | £200–700 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 2.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 2.3% | £18–45 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 2.3% | £45–95 |
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 111 | 87.4% | 19,685 mi |
| 30-60k | 92 | 81.5% | 38,744 mi |
| 60-90k | 10 | 80.0% | 66,827 mi |
| 90-120k | 2 | 100.0% | 110,002 mi |
Source: 215 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.
84.7% of the 215 2013 Maserati Grancabrio tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 78.6% for cars first used in 2013. First-attempt pass rate: 83.4%.
The three most recorded items are anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an abs fault (2.79%), electronic stability control warning lamp indicates a fault (2.33%), rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements (2.33%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 87.4% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2013 Maserati Grancabrio in this dataset had covered 28,881 mi.
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 80.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 86.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.