Pass rate
96.5%
Above average — 5.3 pts ahead of the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 228 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £38–£100
2021 Porsche 911 GT3 MOT pass rate
- 2021
- typical 7,082 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
41.9% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2022 97.7% pass
- Avoid 2021 96.5% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 1.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 96.4%
- Typical mileage
- 7k mi
The 2021 Porsche 911 GT3 MOT pass rate is 96.5% of its MOT tests — 5.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 41.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Porsche 911 GT3 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.1× the national share
Tyres make up 41.9% of everything recorded on the 2021 Porsche 911 Gt3, against 19.8% nationally — 22.1 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.
- 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 91.2% and this one manages 96.5% — 5.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 8% 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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How does the 2021 Porsche 911 GT3 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 5.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 96.4%. The median 2021 Porsche 911 GT3 in this dataset had covered 7,082 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 95.7% of the time, April–September 96.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak", noted on 1.32% of tests.
- 228 recorded tests behind this page.
- 96.5% overall pass rate, 96.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Porsche 911 GT3, the average is 97.1% — best year 2022 (97.7%), worst 2021 (96.5%).
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
- 228
- Typical mileage (median)
- 7,082 mi
- Make and model
- Porsche 911 GT3
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Shock Absorber
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the 911 GT3 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 88% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the 911 GT3
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 59 | 98.3% |
| North West | 28 | 96.4% |
| Yorkshire | 26 | 92.3% |
| South West | 22 | 100.0% |
| East of England | 21 | 100.0% |
| East Midlands | 18 | 94.4% |
| Scotland | 18 | 94.4% |
| West Midlands | 16 | 87.5% |
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 2021 911 GT3
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 2021 911 GT3
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 shock absorbers 1.3% of tests
“shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak”
Press down hard on each corner of the car and let go. It should settle in one bounce; if it keeps rocking, or you can see oil weeping down a shock absorber, that is the fault a tester will find.
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Check the coil springs 0.4% 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 number plates 0.4% 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.
What it costs to get a 2021 911 GT3 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £38–£100 — and 8% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £38–£100
- Cheapest common item: washers not working
- £5–£15
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot split or…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 8%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 228 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 GT3, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2021 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 96.5% to 97.7% — a spread of 1.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2021 96.5%shock absorbers has a serious…
- 2022 97.7% 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 2021 Porsche 911 GT3 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 2021 cars with a similar record
- Suzuki Ignis 96.4%
- Toyota YARIS Cross 96.4%
- Lexus Ux 96.7%
- Lexus Nx 96.3%
- Levc Tx 96.3%
- Honda Jazz 96.1%
Closest pass rates among 2021 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 2021 Porsche 911 GT3 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 7 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 31 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 | 13 | 41.90% | 19.76% | +22.14 |
| Suspension | 8 | 25.80% | 20.98% | +4.82 |
| Brakes | 3 | 9.70% | 20.89% | −11.19 |
| Visibility | 3 | 9.70% | 4.97% | +4.73 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 2 | 6.50% | 5.57% | +0.93 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1 | 3.20% | 5.52% | −2.32 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1 | 3.20% | 1.76% | +1.44 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 1.3% | £30–75 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 0.44% | £25–65 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.44% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.44% | £45–95 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 0.44% | £80–250 |
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Rectified | 0.44% | £20–80 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Major | 0.44% | £45–95 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Major | 0.44% | £5–15 |
| Window damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.44% | £20–80 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.44% | £80–200 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 2.6% | £45–95 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 1.8% | £30–75 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 0.88% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 0.44% | £45–110 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 0.44% | £45–110 |
| Exhaust system noise is clearly in excess of that emitted by a similar vehicle fitted with a standard silencer in… Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 0.44% | £45–120 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 227 | 96.5% | 8,236 mi |
| 30-60k | 1 | 100.0% | 30,415 mi |
Source: 228 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.
2021 911 GT3 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Porsche 911 GT3?
96.5% of the 228 2021 Porsche 911 GT3 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 96.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Porsche 911 GT3?
The three most recorded items are shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak (1.32%), coil spring fractured or broken (0.44%), has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure (0.44%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Porsche 911 GT3 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 96.5% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Porsche 911 GT3 in this dataset had covered 7,082 mi.
Does the season affect the 2021 Porsche 911 GT3 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 95.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 96.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.