Pass rate
90.7%
Above average — 0.5 pts behind the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 653 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £47–£109
2021 Porsche Panamera MOT pass rate
- 2021
- 4 trims combined
- typical 26,911 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
56.9% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
1.3 pts up across model years — 5.0% in 2010, 6.3% in 2020.
Which year to buy
- Best 2017 92.0% pass
- Avoid 2011 87.0% pass
Across the 14 years on record, a spread of 5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 89.7%
- Typical mileage
- 27k mi
The 2021 Porsche Panamera MOT pass rate is 90.7% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 56.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Porsche Panamera does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.9× the national share
Tyres make up 56.9% of everything recorded on the 2021 Porsche Panamera, against 19.8% nationally — 37.1 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 13% 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 Panamera first registered in 2021 is combined here — 4 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2021 Porsche Panamera compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 0.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 89.7%. The median 2021 Porsche Panamera in this dataset had covered 26,911 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Hybrid — 62% of tests, with a 89.8% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 92.3% of the time, April–September 88.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has ply or cords exposed", noted on 3.52% of tests.
- 653 recorded tests behind this page.
- 90.7% overall pass rate, 89.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Porsche Panamera, the average is 89.9% — best year 2017 (92.0%), worst 2011 (87.0%).
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
- 653
- Typical mileage (median)
- 26,911 mi
- Make and model
- Porsche Panamera
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Panamera MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 79% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Hybrid is the most common here (62% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Panamera
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 153 | 89.5% |
| North West | 74 | 89.2% |
| East of England | 72 | 91.7% |
| London | 65 | 95.4% |
| East Midlands | 62 | 83.9% |
| South West | 56 | 94.6% |
| West Midlands | 44 | 86.4% |
| Yorkshire | 40 | 95.0% |
| Scotland | 39 | 89.7% |
| North East | 25 | 100.0% |
| Wales | 23 | 87.0% |
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 2021 Panamera
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 Panamera
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 3.2% 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 lights 0.8% of tests
“srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault”
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 number plates 0.5% 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 Panamera through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £47–£109 — and 13% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £47–£109
- Cheapest common item: srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 13%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 653 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 Panamera, side by side
14 model years on record, from 2009 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 87.0% to 92.0% — a spread of 5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2009 88.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2010 87.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2011 87.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2012 88.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2013 87.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2014 89.3% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2015 88.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 89.7% tread depth below requirements of…
- 2017 92.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 91.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 91.9% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2020 91.9% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 90.7%has ply or cords exposed
- 2022 89.1% has ply or cords exposed
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 Panamera 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
- Renault Zoe 90.7%
- BMW 420I 90.7%
- BMW X3 XDRIVE30E 90.7%
- Audi Q7 Sln 90.7%
- Skoda Fabia 90.8%
- Vauxhall Astra Griffin 90.8%
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 Panamera 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 341 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 | 195 | 56.90% | 19.76% | +37.14 |
| Brakes | 41 | 12.00% | 20.89% | −8.89 |
| Visibility | 29 | 8.50% | 4.97% | +3.53 |
| Non-component advisories | 29 | 8.50% | 4.18% | +4.32 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 13 | 3.80% | 12.21% | −8.41 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 8 | 2.30% | 5.52% | −3.22 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 7 | 2.00% | 1.76% | +0.24 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 7 | 2.00% | 0.82% | +1.18 |
| Road Wheels | 7 | 2.00% | 0.75% | +1.25 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 5 | 1.50% | 5.57% | −4.07 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 3.5% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.2% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.8% | £45–95 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.77% | £45–95 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 0.77% | £3–12 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.61% | £30–80 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.46% | £3–12 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.46% | £5–20 |
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Major | 0.46% | £20–80 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.46% | £45–95 |
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 | 14.2% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 4.0% | £18–45 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 3.1% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.8% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 1.7% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.5% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 389 | 92.3% | 19,801 mi |
| 30-60k | 241 | 87.6% | 39,421 mi |
| 60-90k | 21 | 100.0% | 68,770 mi |
| 90-120k | 1 | 100.0% | 90,207 mi |
Source: 653 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 Panamera MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Porsche Panamera?
90.7% of the 653 2021 Porsche Panamera tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 89.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Porsche Panamera?
The three most recorded items are has ply or cords exposed (3.52%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.22%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.76%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Porsche Panamera MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.3% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Porsche Panamera in this dataset had covered 26,911 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2021 Porsche Panamera?
Hybrid: 89.8% pass rate across 402 tests. Petrol: 92.0% pass rate across 251 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2021 Porsche Panamera MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 92.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 88.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.