Pass rate
88.4%
Above average — 14.6 pts ahead of the 73.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 95 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £41–£126
2000 Porsche Carrera MOT pass rate
- 2000
- 3 trims combined
- typical 96,605 mi
Only 95 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
23.6% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Which year to buy
- Best 2009 96.8% pass
- Avoid 2003 79.7% pass
Across the 10 years on record, a spread of 17.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 87.2%
- Typical mileage
- 97k mi
The 2000 Porsche Carrera MOT pass rate is 88.4% of its MOT tests — 14.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 23.6% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Porsche Carrera does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.7× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 20.3% of everything recorded on the 2000 Porsche Carrera, against 12.2% nationally — 8.1 points above. Brakes are still the single largest share at 23.6%, but at 20.9% nationally that one is ordinary. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- 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 73.8% and this one manages 88.4% — 14.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 95 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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Every Porsche Carrera first registered in 2000 is combined here — 3 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2000 Porsche Carrera compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.8%, so this figure is 14.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 87.2%. The median 2000 Porsche Carrera in this dataset had covered 96,605 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Mirrors slightly damaged", noted on 6.32% of tests.
- 95 recorded tests behind this page.
- 88.4% overall pass rate, 87.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Porsche Carrera, the average is 87.8% — best year 2009 (96.8%), worst 2003 (79.7%).
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
- 95
- Typical mileage (median)
- 96,605 mi
- Make and model
- Porsche Carrera
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Carrera MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 72% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Carrera
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 44 | 84.1% |
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 2000 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 2000 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 lights 6.3% of tests
“mirrors slightly damaged”
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 windscreen 4.2% 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 2.1% of tests
“ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated”
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.
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 2000 Carrera through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £41–£126 — and 36% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £41–£126
- Cheapest common item: mirrors slightly damaged
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 36%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 95 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 Carrera, side by side
10 model years on record, from 2000 to 2010. Across them the pass rate runs from 79.7% to 96.8% — a spread of 17.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 88.4%mirrors slightly damaged
- 2001 80.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2002 89.3% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2003 79.7% rigid brake pipes excessively…
- 2004 93.8% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2005 91.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 87.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2007 92.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2009 96.8% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2010 85.1% joints constant velocity boot…
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 2000 Porsche 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 2000 cars with a similar record
- Subaru Impreza 82.3%
- Mercedes-Benz Slk 80.3%
- Land Rover Range Rover 80.0%
- Rover Mini 79.4%
- Mercedes-Benz Clk 79.2%
- BMW Z3 78.4%
Closest pass rates among 2000 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 2000 Porsche 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 146 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 | 35 | 23.60% | 20.89% | +2.71 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 30 | 20.30% | 12.21% | +8.09 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 19 | 12.80% | 5.52% | +7.28 |
| Visibility | 16 | 10.80% | 4.97% | +5.83 |
| Suspension | 12 | 8.10% | 20.98% | −12.88 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 11 | 7.40% | 5.57% | +1.83 |
| Tyres | 8 | 5.40% | 19.76% | −14.36 |
| Non-component advisories | 7 | 4.70% | 4.18% | +0.52 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 5 | 3.40% | 1.76% | +1.64 |
| Road Wheels | 3 | 2.00% | 0.75% | +1.25 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mirrors slightly damaged Visibility | Minor | 6.3% | £3–15 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.2% | £5–25 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 4.2% | £80–200 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.1% | £18–45 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.1% | £60–250 |
| Catalyst emissions emissions likely to be affected by an exhaust leak Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.1% | £60–250 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 2.1% | £80–250 |
| Lever pivot obviously worn Brakes | Minor | 2.1% | £45–110 |
| Passenger's seat backrest cannot be secured in the upright position. Body, chassis, structure | Major | 2.1% | £80–250 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 2.1% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 11.6% | £200–700 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 10.5% | £80–180 |
| Flexible brake hoses excessively deteriorated Brakes | Advisory | 9.5% | £25–70 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 7.4% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Play in steering rack inner joint(s) Non-component advisories | Advisory | 6.3% | £120–300 |
| Registration plates inscription illegible Identification of the vehicle | Advisory | 5.3% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 18 | 94.4% | 43,640 mi |
| 60-90k | 20 | 90.0% | 71,521 mi |
| 90-120k | 31 | 90.3% | 103,546 mi |
| 120k+ | 25 | 80.0% | 136,290 mi |
Source: 95 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.
2000 Carrera MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2000 Porsche Carrera?
88.4% of the 95 2000 Porsche Carrera tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.8% for cars first used in 2000. First-attempt pass rate: 87.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2000 Porsche Carrera?
The three most recorded items are mirrors slightly damaged (6.32%), position lamp not working (4.21%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (4.21%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2000 Porsche Carrera MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.4% of the time, falling to 80.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2000 Porsche Carrera in this dataset had covered 96,605 mi.