Pass rate
96.2%
Above average — 20.3 pts ahead of the 75.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 319 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £44–£142
2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost MOT pass rate
- 2011
- 3 trims combined
- typical 44,125 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
27.8% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2021 99.0% pass
- Avoid 2017 95.3% pass
Across the 13 years on record, a spread of 3.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 96.1%
- Typical mileage
- 44k mi
The 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost MOT pass rate is 96.2% of its MOT tests — 20.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 27.8% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Rolls-Royce Ghost does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Emissions & leaks: 4.5× the national share
Emissions & leaks make up 25.0% of everything recorded on the 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost, against 5.5% nationally — 19.5 points above. Tyres are still the single largest share at 27.8%, but at 19.8% nationally that one is ordinary. A smoky diesel or a leaking joint fails on emissions more often than on wear, so ask for a recent emissions printout.
- 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 75.9% and this one manages 96.2% — 20.3 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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Every Rolls-Royce Ghost first registered in 2011 is combined here — 3 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 75.9%, so this figure is 20.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 96.1%. The median 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost in this dataset had covered 44,125 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 94.3% of the time, April–September 98.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements", noted on 0.94% of tests.
- 319 recorded tests behind this page.
- 96.2% overall pass rate, 96.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Rolls-Royce Ghost, the average is 96.5% — best year 2021 (99.0%), worst 2017 (95.3%).
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
- 319
- Typical mileage (median)
- 44,125 mi
- Make and model
- Rolls-Royce Ghost
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Replacement Service Parts
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Ghost MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 82% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Ghost
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 69 | 95.7% |
| West Midlands | 42 | 100.0% |
| London | 42 | 90.5% |
| Yorkshire | 41 | 100.0% |
| North West | 40 | 97.5% |
| East of England | 36 | 91.7% |
| Wales | 15 | 100.0% |
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 2011 Ghost
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 2011 Ghost
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 number plates 0.9% 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.
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Check the lights 0.3% of tests
“all position lamps have a product on the lenses 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 suspension joints 0.3% 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 2011 Ghost through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £44–£142 — and 8% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £44–£142
- Cheapest common item: all position lamps have a product on the…
- £5–£25
- Dearest common item: engine oil leaks leaking excessively from…
- £200–£700
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 8%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 319 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 Ghost, side by side
13 model years on record, from 2010 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 95.3% to 99.0% — a spread of 3.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2010 95.8% has a bulge, caused by separation…
- 2011 96.2%registration plates does not…
- 2012 98.6% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2013 95.9% has ply or cords exposed
- 2014 96.3% has ply or cords exposed
- 2015 96.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 96.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 95.3% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2018 96.5% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2019 96.7% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2020 95.7% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 99.0% has a bulge, caused by separation…
- 2022 97.1% 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 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost 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 2011 cars with a similar record
- Porsche 911 93.4%
- Porsche Boxster 91.5%
- BMW M3 90.9%
- Audi A8 90.3%
- Honda Fit 86.9%
- Porsche Cayenne 86.8%
Closest pass rates among 2011 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 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost 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 | 20 | 27.80% | 19.76% | +8.04 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 18 | 25.00% | 5.52% | +19.48 |
| Brakes | 8 | 11.10% | 20.89% | −9.79 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 6 | 8.30% | 12.21% | −3.91 |
| Visibility | 5 | 6.90% | 4.97% | +1.93 |
| Non-component advisories | 5 | 6.90% | 4.18% | +2.72 |
| Suspension | 4 | 5.60% | 20.98% | −15.38 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 4 | 5.60% | 1.76% | +3.84 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 1.40% | 0.82% | +0.58 |
| Road Wheels | 1 | 1.40% | 0.75% | +0.65 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Major | 0.94% | £20–80 |
| All position lamps have a product on the lenses or light sources which obviously reduces light intensity Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.31% | £5–25 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 0.31% | £18–45 |
| Buckle not functioning as intended Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Rectified | 0.31% | £40–120 |
| Emissions not tested unable to be completed Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.31% | £60–250 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.31% | £200–700 |
| Fractured Road Wheels | Major | 0.31% | £20–55 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.31% | £45–95 |
| Has a lump, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.31% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.31% | £30–80 |
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 | 4.4% | £45–95 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 3.1% | £200–700 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Transmission oil leaks leaking excessively from transmission Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 1.3% | £200–700 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 0.94% | £18–45 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 0.63% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 92 | 95.7% | 17,745 mi |
| 30-60k | 123 | 96.7% | 43,930 mi |
| 60-90k | 79 | 97.5% | 71,803 mi |
| 90-120k | 21 | 90.5% | 101,397 mi |
| 120k+ | 4 | 100.0% | 164,499 mi |
Source: 319 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.
2011 Ghost MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost?
96.2% of the 319 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 75.9% for cars first used in 2011. First-attempt pass rate: 96.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost?
The three most recorded items are registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements (0.94%), all position lamps have a product on the lenses or light sources which obviously reduces light intensity (0.31%), ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (0.31%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.7% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost in this dataset had covered 44,125 mi.
Does the season affect the 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 94.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 98.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.