Pass rate
100.0%
Above average — 27.4 pts ahead of the 72.6% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 56 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £62–£157
2003 Rolls-Royce Phantom MOT pass rate
- 2003
- typical 86,896 mi
Only 56 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.
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Most common fault
Tyres
30.4% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2003 100.0% pass · this year
- Avoid 2004 93.2% pass
Across the 17 years on record, a spread of 6.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 100.0%
- Typical mileage
- 87k mi
The 2003 Rolls-Royce Phantom MOT pass rate is 100.0% of its MOT tests — 27.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 30.4% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.5× the national share
Tyres make up 30.4% of everything recorded on the 2003 Rolls-Royce Phantom, against 19.8% nationally — 10.6 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 72.6% and this one manages 100.0% — 27.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 0% 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 2003 Rolls-Royce Phantom compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.6%, so this figure is 27.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 100.0%. The median 2003 Rolls-Royce Phantom in this dataset had covered 86,896 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 3.57% of tests.
- 56 recorded tests behind this page.
- 100.0% overall pass rate, 100.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Rolls-Royce Phantom, the average is 96.5% — best year 2003 (100.0%), worst 2004 (93.2%).
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
- 56
- Typical mileage (median)
- 86,896 mi
- Make and model
- Rolls-Royce Phantom
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
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 Phantom MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 92% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Rolls-Royce Phantom is most common
Across all Phantom model years on record (2003–2020): 1,337 Rolls-Royce Phantom cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 2,354 tests. Enfield (EN) has the most, with 103 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Enfield (EN) | 103 | 98.4% |
| 2 | Birmingham (B) | 93 | 97.3% |
| 3 | Hounslow (TW) | 87 | 95.5% |
| 4 | London (NW) | 71 | 95.6% |
| 5 | Chelmsford (CM) | 58 | 97.9% |
| 6 | Warrington (WA) | 43 | 91.3% |
| 7 | Bradford (BD) | 35 | 100.0% |
| 8 | Nottingham (NG) | 33 | 96.6% |
| 9 | London (SW) | 30 | 91.7% |
| 10 | London (E) | 28 | 100.0% |
| 11 | Slough (SL) | 27 | 97.8% |
| 12 | London (W) | 27 | 97.5% |
| 13 | Leicester (LE) | 24 | 95.7% |
| 14 | Edinburgh (EH) | 22 | 100.0% |
| 15 | Colchester (CO) | 22 | 96.8% |
| 16 | Hayes (UB) | 20 | 100.0% |
| 17 | Leeds (LS) | 19 | — |
| 18 | Blackburn (BB) | 17 | 90.2% |
| 19 | Romford (RM) | 17 | — |
| 20 | Derby (DE) | 17 | — |
The twenty areas with the most Rolls-Royce Phantom cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
What fails a 2003 Phantom
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 2003 Phantom
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 3.6% 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 brake pipes 1.8% of tests
“flexible brake hoses slightly damaged”
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.
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 2003 Phantom through its MOT
Across the 2 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £62–£157 — and 0% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 2 common items
- £62–£157
- Cheapest common item: flexible brake hoses slightly damaged
- £25–£70
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 0%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 56 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 Phantom, side by side
17 model years on record, from 2003 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 93.2% to 100.0% — a spread of 6.8 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2003 100.0%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2004 93.2% srs malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2005 96.5% headlamp aim too low
- 2006 96.2% rigid brake pipes excessively…
- 2007 95.1% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2008 94.0% registration plates does not…
- 2009 96.2% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2010 97.6% position lamp not working
- 2011 98.3% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2012 96.2% headlamp aim not tested unable to…
- 2013 96.6% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2014 97.6% tyre pressure monitoring system…
- 2015 99.0% service brake performance…
- 2016 96.7% ball joint dust cover no longer…
- 2018 98.5% shock absorbers has a serious…
- 2019 97.7% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2020 100.0% no single leading item
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 2003 Rolls-Royce Phantom 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 2003 cars with a similar record
- BMW M3 87.7%
- Porsche 911 85.5%
- Mercedes-Benz Sl 85.2%
- Honda S2000 83.5%
- Mercedes-Benz S-Class 81.7%
- Porsche Boxster 80.4%
Closest pass rates among 2003 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 2003 Rolls-Royce Phantom 2 failure items · 6 advisories · 7 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 23 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 | 7 | 30.40% | 19.76% | +10.64 |
| Brakes | 6 | 26.10% | 20.89% | +5.21 |
| Suspension | 4 | 17.40% | 20.98% | −3.58 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2 | 8.70% | 5.52% | +3.18 |
| Visibility | 2 | 8.70% | 4.97% | +3.73 |
| Non-component advisories | 1 | 4.30% | 4.18% | +0.12 |
| Steering | 1 | 4.30% | 2.57% | +1.73 |
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 | 3.6% | £80–200 |
| Flexible brake hoses slightly damaged Brakes | Minor | 1.8% | £25–70 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.4% | £18–45 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 5.4% | £80–180 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 3.6% | £200–700 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 3.6% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 3.6% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 3.6% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 4 | 100.0% | 27,551 mi |
| 30-60k | 8 | 100.0% | 40,653 mi |
| 60-90k | 20 | 100.0% | 76,458 mi |
| 90-120k | 11 | 100.0% | 102,925 mi |
| 120k+ | 13 | 100.0% | 143,328 mi |
Source: 56 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.
2003 Phantom MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2003 Rolls-Royce Phantom?
100.0% of the 56 2003 Rolls-Royce Phantom tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.6% for cars first used in 2003. First-attempt pass rate: 100.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2003 Rolls-Royce Phantom?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.57%), flexible brake hoses slightly damaged (1.79%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2003 Rolls-Royce Phantom MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2003 Rolls-Royce Phantom in this dataset had covered 86,896 mi.