Pass rate
96.5%
Above average — 24.1 pts ahead of the 72.4% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 170 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £27–£73
2005 Rolls-Royce Phantom MOT pass rate
- 2005
- typical 70,038 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
31.4% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2003 100.0% pass
- Avoid 2004 93.2% pass
Across the 17 years on record, a spread of 6.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 96.4%
- Typical mileage
- 70k mi
The 2005 Rolls-Royce Phantom MOT pass rate is 96.5% of its MOT tests — 24.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 31.4% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.6× the national share
Tyres make up 31.4% of everything recorded on the 2005 Rolls-Royce Phantom, against 19.8% nationally — 11.6 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 72.4% and this one manages 96.5% — 24.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 170 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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How does the 2005 Rolls-Royce Phantom compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.4%, so this figure is 24.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 96.4%. The median 2005 Rolls-Royce Phantom in this dataset had covered 70,038 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 94.4% of the time, April–September 98.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp aim too low", noted on 1.18% of tests.
- 170 recorded tests behind this page.
- 96.5% overall pass rate, 96.4% 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
- 170
- Typical mileage (median)
- 70,038 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
Headlight Alignment
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 84% 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 →
Regional pass rates for the Phantom
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 49 | 95.9% |
| East Midlands | 27 | 100.0% |
| West Midlands | 24 | 100.0% |
| London | 21 | 95.2% |
| North West | 16 | 87.5% |
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 2005 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 2005 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 lights 1.2% 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 wipers and washers 1.2% of tests
“wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively”
Run the wipers with the screen wet: they should clear it in one sweep without smearing or juddering. Top the washer bottle up and check both jets hit the screen.
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Check the exhaust and emissions 0.6% of tests
“catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits”
Listen for a blow at idle and have someone rev it gently. Then look at the tailpipe smoke: blue is oil, white when warm is coolant, black is over-fuelling. Any of those and the emissions test is the least of it.
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 2005 Phantom through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £27–£73 — and 38% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £27–£73
- Cheapest common item: srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 38%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 170 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 2005 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 2005 cars with a similar record
- Aston Martin DB9 91.3%
- Bentley Continental 90.2%
- Porsche 911 88.6%
- BMW M3 88.1%
- Honda S2000 87.1%
- Mercedes-Benz Sl 86.1%
Closest pass rates among 2005 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 2005 Rolls-Royce Phantom 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 8 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 35 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 | 11 | 31.40% | 19.76% | +11.64 |
| Brakes | 8 | 22.90% | 20.89% | +2.01 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 5 | 14.30% | 5.52% | +8.78 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 3 | 8.60% | 12.21% | −3.61 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 3 | 8.60% | 0.82% | +7.78 |
| Suspension | 2 | 5.70% | 20.98% | −15.28 |
| Visibility | 2 | 5.70% | 4.97% | +0.73 |
| Non-component advisories | 1 | 2.90% | 4.18% | −1.28 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.2% | £30–80 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 1.2% | £3–12 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.59% | £60–250 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.59% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Rectified | 0.59% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.59% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.59% | £30–80 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.59% | £3–12 |
| Obviously under inflated Tyres | Minor | 0.59% | £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 | 3.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 1.8% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 1.8% | £18–45 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 1.8% | £200–700 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 1.2% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 0.59% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 27 | 96.3% | 22,208 mi |
| 30-60k | 40 | 97.5% | 45,144 mi |
| 60-90k | 38 | 92.1% | 73,698 mi |
| 90-120k | 35 | 100.0% | 103,901 mi |
| 120k+ | 30 | 96.7% | 140,805 mi |
Source: 170 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.
2005 Phantom MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2005 Rolls-Royce Phantom?
96.5% of the 170 2005 Rolls-Royce Phantom tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.4% for cars first used in 2005. First-attempt pass rate: 96.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2005 Rolls-Royce Phantom?
The three most recorded items are headlamp aim too low (1.18%), srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault (1.18%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.18%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2005 Rolls-Royce Phantom MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 96.3% of the time, falling to 96.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2005 Rolls-Royce Phantom in this dataset had covered 70,038 mi.
Does the season affect the 2005 Rolls-Royce Phantom MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 94.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 98.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.