Pass rate
96.4%
Above average — 12.4 pts ahead of the 84.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 336 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £34–£82
2016 Rolls-Royce Dawn MOT pass rate
- 2016
- typical 18,942 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
59.7% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2017 97.7% pass
- Avoid 2018 93.5% pass
Across the 5 years on record, a spread of 4.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 96.3%
- Typical mileage
- 19k mi
The 2016 Rolls-Royce Dawn MOT pass rate is 96.4% of its MOT tests — 12.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 59.7% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 3.0× the national share
Tyres make up 59.7% of everything recorded on the 2016 Rolls-Royce Dawn, against 19.8% nationally — 39.9 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 84.0% and this one manages 96.4% — 12.4 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 2016 Rolls-Royce Dawn compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 84.0%, so this figure is 12.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 96.3%. The median 2016 Rolls-Royce Dawn in this dataset had covered 18,942 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 95.0% of the time, April–September 97.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has ply or cords exposed", noted on 1.19% of tests.
- 336 recorded tests behind this page.
- 96.4% overall pass rate, 96.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Rolls-Royce Dawn, the average is 95.6% — best year 2017 (97.7%), worst 2018 (93.5%).
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
- 336
- Typical mileage (median)
- 18,942 mi
- Make and model
- Rolls-Royce Dawn
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
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 Dawn MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 84% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Dawn
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 91 | 95.6% |
| East of England | 57 | 100.0% |
| West Midlands | 42 | 100.0% |
| North West | 32 | 93.8% |
| Yorkshire | 27 | 92.6% |
| London | 24 | 100.0% |
| East Midlands | 19 | 94.7% |
| South West | 19 | 89.5% |
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 2016 Dawn
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 2016 Dawn
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 brake pipes 0.3% of tests
“flexible brake hoses excessively twisted”
Brake pipes run under the car, usually in front of the rear wheels. Flaking or crusty metal is what fails; a light dusting of surface rust does not. Worth asking a garage to look while it is on a ramp.
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Check the lights 0.3% of tests
“headlamp aim too low”
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 0.3% 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 2016 Dawn through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £34–£82 — and 8% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £34–£82
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements
- £45–£110
- 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 336 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 Dawn, side by side
5 model years on record, from 2016 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 93.5% to 97.7% — a spread of 4.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2016 96.4%has ply or cords exposed
- 2017 97.7% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2018 93.5% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2019 94.6% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2020 94.9% 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 2016 Rolls-Royce Dawn 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 2016 cars with a similar record
- Porsche 911 95.7%
- Bentley Continental 95.2%
- Porsche Cayman 94.8%
- Porsche Boxster 94.6%
- Lexus Rx 94.4%
- Jaguar F-Type 93.9%
Closest pass rates among 2016 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 2016 Rolls-Royce Dawn 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 72 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 | 43 | 59.70% | 19.76% | +39.94 |
| Brakes | 9 | 12.50% | 20.89% | −8.39 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 5 | 6.90% | 1.76% | +5.14 |
| Road Wheels | 4 | 5.60% | 0.75% | +4.85 |
| Suspension | 3 | 4.20% | 20.98% | −16.78 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 3 | 4.20% | 12.21% | −8.01 |
| Non-component advisories | 2 | 2.80% | 4.18% | −1.38 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 1.40% | 5.57% | −4.17 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1 | 1.40% | 5.52% | −4.12 |
| Visibility | 1 | 1.40% | 4.97% | −3.57 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.2% | £45–95 |
| Flexible brake hoses excessively twisted Brakes | Major | 0.30% | £25–70 |
| Fractured Road Wheels | Major | 0.30% | £20–55 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.30% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.30% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.30% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.30% | £30–80 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 0.30% | £45–110 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.30% | £5–20 |
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Rectified | 0.30% | £20–80 |
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 | 6.8% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 2.1% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 1.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 1.5% | £45–110 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Advisory | 0.89% | £20–55 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 0.60% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 259 | 97.3% | 15,619 mi |
| 30-60k | 69 | 92.8% | 40,396 mi |
| 60-90k | 6 | 100.0% | 71,349 mi |
| 90-120k | 2 | 100.0% | 113,404 mi |
Source: 336 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.
2016 Dawn MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2016 Rolls-Royce Dawn?
96.4% of the 336 2016 Rolls-Royce Dawn tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 84.0% for cars first used in 2016. First-attempt pass rate: 96.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2016 Rolls-Royce Dawn?
The three most recorded items are has ply or cords exposed (1.19%), flexible brake hoses excessively twisted (0.30%), fractured (0.30%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2016 Rolls-Royce Dawn MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 97.3% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2016 Rolls-Royce Dawn in this dataset had covered 18,942 mi.
Does the season affect the 2016 Rolls-Royce Dawn MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 95.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 97.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.