Pass rate
90.9%
Above average — 16.2 pts ahead of the 74.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 143 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £19–£58
2010 Morgan Roadster MOT pass rate
- 2010
- typical 18,280 mi
Most common fault
Brakes
29.4% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Which year to buy
- Best 2013 97.8% pass
- Avoid 2015 87.4% pass
Across the 16 years on record, a spread of 10.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 90.2%
- Typical mileage
- 18k mi
The 2010 Morgan Roadster MOT pass rate is 90.9% of its MOT tests — 16.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 29.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Morgan Roadster does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 1.4× the national share
Brakes make up 29.4% of everything recorded on the 2010 Morgan Roadster, against 20.9% nationally — 8.5 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
- 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 74.7% and this one manages 90.9% — 16.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 59% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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 2010 Morgan Roadster compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 74.7%, so this figure is 16.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 90.2%. The median 2010 Morgan Roadster in this dataset had covered 18,280 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 97.7% of the time, April–September 88.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp lens slightly defective", noted on 2.10% of tests.
- 143 recorded tests behind this page.
- 90.9% overall pass rate, 90.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Morgan Roadster, the average is 92.2% — best year 2013 (97.8%), worst 2015 (87.4%).
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
- 143
- Typical mileage (median)
- 18,280 mi
- Make and model
- Morgan Roadster
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Headlight Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Roadster MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 82% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Roadster
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 37 | 89.2% |
| West Midlands | 25 | 92.0% |
| East of England | 20 | 80.0% |
| Yorkshire | 17 | 94.1% |
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 2010 Roadster
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 2010 Roadster
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 2.1% of tests
“headlamp lens slightly defective”
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 mirrors 1.4% of tests
“mirrors missing”
Make sure both door mirrors are present, intact and adjustable, and that nothing is obscuring the view through the windscreen.
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Check the wipers and washers 1.4% of tests
“washers not working”
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 2010 Roadster through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £19–£58 — and 59% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £19–£58
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: service brake performance excessively binding
- £60–£150
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 59%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 143 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 Roadster, side by side
16 model years on record, from 2004 to 2019. Across them the pass rate runs from 87.4% to 97.8% — a spread of 10.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2004 93.9% service brake imbalance across an…
- 2005 94.1% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2006 94.9% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2007 89.3% catalyst emissions carbon…
- 2008 92.8% headlamp aim too high
- 2009 94.7% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2010 90.9%headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2011 94.6% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2012 94.2% reversing lamps inoperative
- 2013 97.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2014 87.4% catalyst emissions carbon…
- 2015 87.4% headlamp aim too high
- 2016 92.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 94.1% steering rack gaiter damaged or…
- 2018 89.9% steering rack gaiter missing or…
- 2019 89.6% steering rack gaiter missing or…
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 2010 Morgan Roadster 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 2010 cars with a similar record
- BMW M3 90.8%
- Porsche Boxster 91.8%
- Porsche 911 92.7%
- Nissan 370 Z 86.6%
- Porsche Cayenne 86.5%
- Toyota Estima 85.9%
Closest pass rates among 2010 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 2010 Morgan Roadster 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 67 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 20 | 29.40% | 20.89% | +8.51 |
| Suspension | 19 | 27.90% | 20.98% | +6.92 |
| Visibility | 7 | 10.30% | 4.97% | +5.33 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 6 | 8.80% | 12.21% | −3.41 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 4 | 5.90% | 5.52% | +0.38 |
| Steering | 4 | 5.90% | 2.57% | +3.33 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 3 | 4.40% | 0.82% | +3.58 |
| Tyres | 2 | 2.90% | 19.76% | −16.86 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 1.50% | 5.57% | −4.07 |
| Non-component advisories | 1 | 1.50% | 4.18% | −2.68 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.1% | £5–25 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.4% | £3–12 |
| Mirrors missing Visibility | Major | 1.4% | £20–80 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 1.4% | £60–150 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Major | 1.4% | £5–15 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.4% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.70% | £30–80 |
| Individual direction indicators not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.70% | £3–12 |
| King pins is loose in the axle beam Suspension | Major | 0.70% | £40–150 |
| Lever has excessive movement indicating incorrect adjustment Brakes | Major | 0.70% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheel bearings has excessive play Suspension | Advisory | 4.9% | £20–55 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 4.2% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 3.5% | £45–110 |
| Service brake imbalance across an axle Brakes | Advisory | 2.8% | £45–110 |
| Webbing significantly weakened Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Advisory | 2.1% | £40–120 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 1.4% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 120 | 90.0% | 16,418 mi |
| 30-60k | 23 | 95.7% | 36,605 mi |
Source: 143 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.
2010 Roadster MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2010 Morgan Roadster?
90.9% of the 143 2010 Morgan Roadster tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 74.7% for cars first used in 2010. First-attempt pass rate: 90.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2010 Morgan Roadster?
The three most recorded items are headlamp lens slightly defective (2.10%), malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (1.40%), mirrors missing (1.40%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2010 Morgan Roadster MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 90.0% of the time, falling to 95.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2010 Morgan Roadster in this dataset had covered 18,280 mi.
Does the season affect the 2010 Morgan Roadster MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 97.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 88.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.