Pass rate
95.9%
Above average — 13.8 pts ahead of the 82.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 341 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £57–£145
2015 Morgan Plus MOT pass rate
- 2015
- 2 trims combined
- typical 12,978 mi
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
25.3% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Which year to buy
- Best 2010 96.3% pass
- Avoid 2003 82.2% pass
Across the 22 years on record, a spread of 14.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 95.7%
- Typical mileage
- 13k mi
The 2015 Morgan Plus MOT pass rate is 95.9% of its MOT tests — 13.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 25.3% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Morgan Plus does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Steering: 7.3× the national share
Steering accounts for 18.7% of everything recorded on the 2015 Morgan Plus, against 2.6% nationally — 16.1 points above. Lamps & electrics are still the single largest share at 25.3%, but at 12.2% nationally that one is ordinary. Ask for the steering to be checked for play with the wheels on the ground, not on a jack.
- 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 82.1% and this one manages 95.9% — 13.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 18% 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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Every Morgan Plus first registered in 2015 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2015 Morgan Plus compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 82.1%, so this figure is 13.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 95.7%. The median 2015 Morgan Plus in this dataset had covered 12,978 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 95.2% of the time, April–September 96.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Service brake performance excessively binding", noted on 1.17% of tests.
- 341 recorded tests behind this page.
- 95.9% overall pass rate, 95.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Morgan Plus, the average is 92.3% — best year 2010 (96.3%), worst 2003 (82.2%).
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
- 341
- Typical mileage (median)
- 12,978 mi
- Make and model
- Morgan Plus
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Brake Servicing
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Plus MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 84% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Plus
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 88 | 93.2% |
| South West | 55 | 100.0% |
| West Midlands | 47 | 91.5% |
| North West | 35 | 97.1% |
| Yorkshire | 29 | 96.6% |
| East of England | 27 | 96.3% |
| Wales | 19 | 94.7% |
| Scotland | 19 | 100.0% |
| East Midlands | 17 | 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 2015 Plus
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 2015 Plus
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 0.6% of tests
“position 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 steering 0.6% of tests
“steering rack gaiter damaged or deteriorated,”
With the wheels straight, rock the steering wheel gently with the engine off — more than about an inch of free play before the wheels move is worth investigating. Split rack gaiters are cheap to replace and commonly recorded.
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Check the battery 0.3% of tests
“battery(ies) insecure and likely to cause a short circuit”
Check the battery is secure and its terminals are clean and tight — a loose battery is a fail on its own, and a weak one shows up as slow cranking on a cold morning.
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 2015 Plus through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £57–£145 — and 18% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £57–£145
- Cheapest common item: direction indicator tell-tale inoperative
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: steering rack gaiter damaged or deteriorated,
- £120–£300
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 40%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 18%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 341 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 Plus, side by side
22 model years on record, from 2000 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 82.2% to 96.3% — a spread of 14.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 90.0% service brake imbalance across an…
- 2001 91.6% steering rack gaiter missing or…
- 2002 89.2% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2003 82.2% steering rack gaiter missing or…
- 2004 92.9% steering rack gaiter missing or…
- 2005 94.6% hose chafing
- 2006 90.8% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2007 95.7% headlamp aim projected beam image…
- 2008 92.7% wipers blade defective
- 2009 91.4% service brake performance…
- 2010 96.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2011 93.0% service brake imbalance across an…
- 2012 92.0% catalyst emissions carbon…
- 2013 93.2% catalyst emissions carbon…
- 2014 92.3% direction indicator tell-tale…
- 2015 95.9%service brake performance…
- 2016 89.5% service brake performance…
- 2017 92.6% service brake performance…
- 2018 91.5% steering rack gaiter missing or…
- 2019 93.6% steering rack gaiter missing or…
- 2020 90.4% steering rack gaiter missing or…
- 2021 92.6% parking brake performance…
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 2015 Morgan Plus 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 2015 cars with a similar record
- Bentley Continental 95.6%
- Porsche 911 95.5%
- Porsche Cayman 94.7%
- Porsche Boxster 94.4%
- Jaguar F-Type 92.9%
- Audi A8 92.7%
Closest pass rates among 2015 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 2015 Morgan Plus 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 74 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 19 | 25.30% | 12.21% | +13.09 |
| Steering | 14 | 18.70% | 2.57% | +16.13 |
| Brakes | 13 | 17.30% | 20.89% | −3.59 |
| Suspension | 11 | 14.70% | 20.98% | −6.28 |
| Tyres | 8 | 10.70% | 19.76% | −9.06 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 4 | 5.30% | 5.57% | −0.27 |
| Non-component advisories | 2 | 2.70% | 4.18% | −1.48 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1 | 1.30% | 5.52% | −4.22 |
| Visibility | 1 | 1.30% | 4.97% | −3.67 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 1.30% | 0.82% | +0.48 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 1.2% | £60–150 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.59% | £5–25 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 0.59% | £45–110 |
| Steering rack gaiter damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 0.59% | £120–300 |
| Steering rack gaiter missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Steering | Major | 0.59% | £120–300 |
| Battery(ies) insecure and likely to cause a short circuit Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.29% | £60–140 |
| Direction indicator tell-tale inoperative Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.29% | £3–12 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.29% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.29% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.29% | £30–80 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheel bearings has excessive play Suspension | Advisory | 1.8% | £20–55 |
| Excessively rough Steering | Advisory | 1.5% | £60–200 |
| Exhaust system system insecure Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 1.2% | £45–120 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Advisory | 1.2% | £60–150 |
| Individual direction indicators incorrect colour Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 0.88% | £3–12 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 0.88% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 301 | 96.3% | 12,901 mi |
| 30-60k | 39 | 92.3% | 37,118 mi |
| 90-120k | 1 | 100.0% | 117,011 mi |
Source: 341 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.
2015 Plus MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2015 Morgan Plus?
95.9% of the 341 2015 Morgan Plus tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 82.1% for cars first used in 2015. First-attempt pass rate: 95.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2015 Morgan Plus?
The three most recorded items are service brake performance excessively binding (1.17%), position lamp not working (0.59%), rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements (0.59%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2015 Morgan Plus MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 96.3% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2015 Morgan Plus in this dataset had covered 12,978 mi.
Does the season affect the 2015 Morgan Plus MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 95.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 96.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.