Pass rate
88.9%
Above average — 11.7 pts ahead of the 77.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 350 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £32–£80
2012 Porsche Panamera D V6 MOT pass rate
- 2012
- 2 trims combined
- typical 95,807 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
30.1% 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 →
Which year to buy
- Best 2012 88.9% pass · this year
- Avoid 2011 84.5% pass
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 4.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 87.6%
- Typical mileage
- 96k mi
The 2012 Porsche Panamera D V6 MOT pass rate is 88.9% of its MOT tests — 11.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 30.1% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Porsche Panamera D V6 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.5× the national share
Tyres make up 30.1% of everything recorded on the 2012 Porsche Panamera D V6, against 19.8% nationally — 10.3 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 77.2% and this one manages 88.9% — 11.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 350 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 Panamera D V6 first registered in 2012 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2012 Porsche Panamera D V6 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 77.2%, so this figure is 11.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 87.6%. The median 2012 Porsche Panamera D V6 in this dataset had covered 95,807 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 88.3% of the time, April–September 89.6%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 4.29% of tests.
- 350 recorded tests behind this page.
- 88.9% overall pass rate, 87.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Porsche Panamera D V6, the average is 86.9% — best year 2012 (88.9%), worst 2011 (84.5%).
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
- 350
- Typical mileage (median)
- 95,807 mi
- Make and model
- Porsche Panamera D V6
- 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 Panamera D V6 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 78% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Panamera D V6
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 69 | 89.9% |
| North West | 51 | 86.3% |
| East of England | 43 | 86.0% |
| West Midlands | 37 | 89.2% |
| Yorkshire | 31 | 87.1% |
| East Midlands | 26 | 96.2% |
| London | 22 | 86.4% |
| Scotland | 21 | 81.0% |
| South West | 21 | 95.2% |
| Wales | 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 2012 Panamera D V6
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 2012 Panamera D V6
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 4.3% 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 2.9% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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 coil springs 2.6% 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.
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 2012 Panamera D V6 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £32–£80 — and 46% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £32–£80
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 46%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 350 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 D V6, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2011 to 2012. Across them the pass rate runs from 84.5% to 88.9% — a spread of 4.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2011 84.5% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2012 88.9%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 2012 Porsche Panamera D V6 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 2012 cars with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2012 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 2012 Porsche Panamera D V6 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 335 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 | 102 | 30.10% | 19.76% | +10.34 |
| Brakes | 93 | 27.40% | 20.89% | +6.51 |
| Visibility | 32 | 9.40% | 4.97% | +4.43 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 29 | 8.60% | 5.52% | +3.08 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 26 | 7.70% | 12.21% | −4.51 |
| Suspension | 23 | 6.80% | 20.98% | −14.18 |
| Non-component advisories | 18 | 5.30% | 4.18% | +1.12 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 5 | 1.50% | 0.82% | +0.68 |
| Road Wheels | 4 | 1.20% | 0.75% | +0.45 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 3 | 0.90% | 1.76% | −0.86 |
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 | 4.3% | £80–200 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.9% | £5–20 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 2.6% | £25–65 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.7% | £45–95 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.4% | £8–22 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.1% | £3–12 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 1.1% | £3–12 |
| Headlamp levelling device inoperative Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.86% | £5–25 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Major | 0.86% | £5–15 |
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 | 16.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 11.7% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 7.4% | £45–110 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 5.7% | £200–700 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 2.9% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.6% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 2 | 100.0% | 22,108 mi |
| 30-60k | 36 | 86.1% | 51,252 mi |
| 60-90k | 115 | 91.3% | 74,459 mi |
| 90-120k | 114 | 87.7% | 103,611 mi |
| 120k+ | 83 | 88.0% | 144,472 mi |
Source: 350 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.
2012 Panamera D V6 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2012 Porsche Panamera D V6?
88.9% of the 350 2012 Porsche Panamera D V6 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 77.2% for cars first used in 2012. First-attempt pass rate: 87.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2012 Porsche Panamera D V6?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (4.29%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (2.86%), coil spring fractured or broken (2.57%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2012 Porsche Panamera D V6 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 88.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2012 Porsche Panamera D V6 in this dataset had covered 95,807 mi.
Does the season affect the 2012 Porsche Panamera D V6 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 88.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 89.6%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.