Pass rate
90.0%
Above average — 17.5 pts ahead of the 72.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 50 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £46–£115
2006 Porsche 911 Carrera MOT pass rate
- 2006
- 5 trims combined
- typical 59,380 mi
Only 50 tests of this exact model and year are in the DVSA data, below the 100 we ask for before a page goes in the index. The figures are still shown, because they are the only ones there are.
Most common fault
Brakes
19.6% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Which year to buy
- Best 2022 97.1% pass
- Avoid 2013 81.8% pass
Across the 17 years on record, a spread of 15.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 88.9%
- Typical mileage
- 59k mi
The 2006 Porsche 911 Carrera MOT pass rate is 90.0% of its MOT tests — 17.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 19.6% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Porsche 911 Carrera does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Advisories: 4.2× the national share
Advisories make up 17.4% of everything recorded on the 2006 Porsche 911 Carrera, against 4.2% nationally — 13.2 points above. Brakes are still the single largest share at 19.6%, but at 20.9% nationally that one is ordinary. Most of what testers record here is advisory — worth reading, not worth walking away from on its own.
- 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 72.5% and this one manages 90.0% — 17.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 0% 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 Porsche 911 Carrera first registered in 2006 is combined here — 5 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2006 Porsche 911 Carrera compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.5%, so this figure is 17.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 88.9%. The median 2006 Porsche 911 Carrera in this dataset had covered 59,380 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 4.00% of tests.
- 50 recorded tests behind this page.
- 90.0% overall pass rate, 88.9% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Porsche 911 Carrera, the average is 94.0% — best year 2022 (97.1%), worst 2013 (81.8%).
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
- 50
- Typical mileage (median)
- 59,380 mi
- Make and model
- Porsche 911 Carrera
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the 911 Carrera MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 58% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the 911 Carrera
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| London | 20 | 85.0% |
| South East | 17 | 88.2% |
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 2006 911 Carrera
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 2006 911 Carrera
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 windscreen 4.0% of tests
“windscreen damaged”
Check the driver’s side of the screen within the swept area for chips and cracks; anything larger than 10mm in the driver’s central view is a fail. Most chips can be resin-repaired for far less than a new screen.
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Check the suspension joints 2.0% of tests
“ball joint excessively worn”
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.
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Check the lights 2.0% of tests
“headlamp aim too high”
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.
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 2006 911 Carrera through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £46–£115 — and 0% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £46–£115
- Cheapest common item: ball joint excessively worn
- £18–£45
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot split or…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 0%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 50 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 911 Carrera, side by side
17 model years on record, from 2001 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 81.8% to 97.1% — a spread of 15.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2001 86.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2002 83.5% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2003 84.9% position lamp not working
- 2004 82.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 85.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 90.0%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2007 86.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2008 91.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2009 90.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2010 89.1% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2011 94.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2012 90.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2013 81.8% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2019 94.3% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2020 95.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 96.3% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2022 97.1% has a cut in excess of the…
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 2006 Porsche 911 Carrera 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 2006 cars with a similar record
- Bentley Continental 90.1%
- Aston Martin V8 Vantage 91.8%
- Mercedes-Benz Sl 85.4%
- Mercedes-Benz S-Class 83.6%
- Toyota Estima 82.9%
- Toyota Alphard 82.8%
Closest pass rates among 2006 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 2006 Porsche 911 Carrera 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 46 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 | 9 | 19.60% | 20.89% | −1.29 |
| Non-component advisories | 8 | 17.40% | 4.18% | +13.22 |
| Suspension | 6 | 13.00% | 20.98% | −7.98 |
| Tyres | 5 | 10.90% | 19.76% | −8.86 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 5 | 10.90% | 5.52% | +5.38 |
| Steering | 5 | 10.90% | 2.57% | +8.33 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 4 | 8.70% | 12.21% | −3.51 |
| Visibility | 2 | 4.30% | 4.97% | −0.67 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 2.20% | 5.57% | −3.37 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1 | 2.20% | 1.76% | +0.44 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 4.0% | £80–200 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.0% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 2.0% | £18–45 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 2.0% | £45–95 |
| Has a lump, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 2.0% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 2.0% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.0% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 2.0% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 2.0% | £30–80 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 2.0% | £80–250 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 10.0% | £45–110 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 10.0% | £200–700 |
| Non-component advisories Play in steering rack inner joint(s) Non-component advisories | Advisory | 6.0% | £120–300 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 4.0% | £45–110 |
| Drag link end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Advisory | 4.0% | £18–45 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 4.0% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 8 | 100.0% | 25,133 mi |
| 30-60k | 17 | 88.2% | 44,306 mi |
| 60-90k | 18 | 88.9% | 74,320 mi |
| 90-120k | 4 | 100.0% | 92,443 mi |
| 120k+ | 3 | 66.7% | 134,629 mi |
Source: 50 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.
2006 911 Carrera MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2006 Porsche 911 Carrera?
90.0% of the 50 2006 Porsche 911 Carrera tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.5% for cars first used in 2006. First-attempt pass rate: 88.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2006 Porsche 911 Carrera?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (4.00%), ball joint excessively worn (2.00%), ball joint has excessive play (2.00%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2006 Porsche 911 Carrera MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 66.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2006 Porsche 911 Carrera in this dataset had covered 59,380 mi.