Pass rate
81.2%
Around average — 8.1 pts ahead of the 73.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 388 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £23–£65
2008 Maserati Quattroporte MOT pass rate
- 2008
- typical 65,786 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
27.6% 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 2019 90.0% pass
- Avoid 2006 78.3% pass
Across the 15 years on record, a spread of 11.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 79.0%
- Typical mileage
- 66k mi
The 2008 Maserati Quattroporte MOT pass rate is 81.2% of its MOT tests — 8.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 27.6% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Maserati Quattroporte does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.3× the national share
Suspension accounts for 27.6% of everything recorded on the 2008 Maserati Quattroporte, against 21.0% nationally — 6.6 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 81.2% — 8.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 388 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 Maserati Quattroporte compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.1%, so this figure is 8.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 79.0%. The median 2008 Maserati Quattroporte in this dataset had covered 65,786 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 79.1% of the time, April–September 83.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Coil spring fractured or broken", noted on 3.09% of tests.
- 388 recorded tests behind this page.
- 81.2% overall pass rate, 79.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Maserati Quattroporte, the average is 84.0% — best year 2019 (90.0%), worst 2006 (78.3%).
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
- 388
- Typical mileage (median)
- 65,786 mi
- Make and model
- Maserati Quattroporte
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Coil Spring
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Quattroporte MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 66% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Quattroporte
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 120 | 82.5% |
| London | 53 | 81.1% |
| East of England | 38 | 86.8% |
| South West | 36 | 86.1% |
| West Midlands | 34 | 76.5% |
| East Midlands | 30 | 56.7% |
| North West | 26 | 80.8% |
| Wales | 21 | 85.7% |
| Yorkshire | 18 | 94.4% |
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 Quattroporte
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 Quattroporte
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 coil springs 3.1% 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 lights 2.3% 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.
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Check the wipers and washers 2.1% of tests
“wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively”
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.
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 Quattroporte through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £23–£65 — and 45% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £23–£65
- Cheapest common item: srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: parking brake performance inoperative on one…
- £60–£150
- 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 388 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 Quattroporte, side by side
15 model years on record, from 2004 to 2019. Across them the pass rate runs from 78.3% to 90.0% — a spread of 11.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2004 80.6% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2005 84.6% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2006 78.3% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2007 81.0% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2008 81.2%coil spring fractured or broken
- 2009 84.0% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2010 81.7% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2011 85.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2013 86.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2014 84.1% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2015 86.9% position lamp not working
- 2016 86.1% tread depth below requirements of…
- 2017 88.8% tread depth below requirements of…
- 2018 87.4% wipers does not clear the…
- 2019 90.0% windscreen damaged but 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 Maserati Quattroporte 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
- Audi Q7 81.2%
- Jaguar Xj 81.0%
- BMW 5 Series 81.0%
- Jaguar Xkr 81.4%
- Mercedes-Benz S-Class 81.5%
- Volvo S80 80.7%
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 Maserati Quattroporte 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 503 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 | 142 | 27.60% | 20.98% | +6.62 |
| Brakes | 139 | 27.00% | 20.89% | +6.11 |
| Tyres | 82 | 16.00% | 19.76% | −3.76 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 49 | 9.50% | 12.21% | −2.71 |
| Visibility | 31 | 6.00% | 4.97% | +1.03 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 15 | 2.90% | 5.57% | −2.67 |
| Non-component advisories | 14 | 2.70% | 4.18% | −1.48 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 13 | 2.50% | 5.52% | −3.02 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 10 | 1.90% | 0.82% | +1.08 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 8 | 1.60% | 1.76% | −0.16 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 3.1% | £25–65 |
| Anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an ABS fault Brakes | Major | 2.3% | £3–15 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 2.3% | £3–12 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.1% | £5–25 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 2.1% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.8% | £30–80 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 1.8% | £45–110 |
| Parking brake performance inoperative on one side Brakes | Major | 1.6% | £60–150 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Major | 1.3% | £45–110 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.3% | £40–150 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 11.1% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 10.1% | £45–95 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 8.5% | £25–65 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 5.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 4.9% | £18–45 |
| Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 4.9% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 31 | 96.8% | 20,652 mi |
| 30-60k | 117 | 82.9% | 46,005 mi |
| 60-90k | 152 | 82.2% | 72,996 mi |
| 90-120k | 63 | 74.6% | 101,647 mi |
| 120k+ | 14 | 78.6% | 134,841 mi |
Source: 388 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 Quattroporte MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2008 Maserati Quattroporte?
81.2% of the 388 2008 Maserati Quattroporte tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.1% for cars first used in 2008. First-attempt pass rate: 79.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2008 Maserati Quattroporte?
The three most recorded items are coil spring fractured or broken (3.09%), anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an abs fault (2.32%), srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault (2.32%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2008 Maserati Quattroporte MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 96.8% of the time, falling to 78.6% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2008 Maserati Quattroporte in this dataset had covered 65,786 mi.
Does the season affect the 2008 Maserati Quattroporte MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 79.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 83.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.