Pass rate
90.7%
Above average — 16.9 pts ahead of the 73.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 107 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £16–£43
2000 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph MOT pass rate
- 2000
- typical 51,903 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
28.7% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Part only £40–£65 for Shock absorber leaking. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2001 95.1% pass
- Avoid 2000 90.7% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 4.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 90.0%
- Typical mileage
- 52k mi
The 2000 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph MOT pass rate is 90.7% of its MOT tests — 16.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 28.7% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 1.4× the national share
Brakes make up 28.7% of everything recorded on the 2000 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph, against 20.9% nationally — 7.8 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 28.7%, but at 21.0% nationally that one is ordinary. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
- 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 73.8% and this one manages 90.7% — 16.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 107 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 2000 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.8%, so this figure is 16.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 90.0%. The median 2000 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph in this dataset had covered 51,903 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 95.7% of the time, April–September 86.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 5.61% of tests.
- 107 recorded tests behind this page.
- 90.7% overall pass rate, 90.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph, the average is 92.6% — best year 2001 (95.1%), worst 2000 (90.7%).
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
- 107
- Typical mileage (median)
- 51,903 mi
- Make and model
- Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Ball Joint
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Silver Seraph MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 58% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Silver Seraph
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 37 | 89.2% |
| East of England | 20 | 90.0% |
| North West | 17 | 76.5% |
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 2000 Silver Seraph
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 2000 Silver Seraph
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 suspension joints 5.6% 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.
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Check the horn 1.9% of tests
“horn not working”
Press it. That is the whole check, and a surprising number of cars fail on it.
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Check the lights 1.9% of tests
“malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction”
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.
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 2000 Silver Seraph through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £16–£43 — and 37% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £16–£43
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements
- £45–£110
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 100%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 37%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 107 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 Silver Seraph, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2000 to 2001. Across them the pass rate runs from 90.7% to 95.1% — a spread of 4.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 90.7%ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2001 95.1% ball joint dust cover severely…
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 2000 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph 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 2000 cars with a similar record
- Porsche 911 85.5%
- Subaru Impreza 82.3%
- Porsche Boxster 80.4%
- Mercedes-Benz Slk 80.3%
- Land Rover Range Rover 80.0%
- Rover Mini 79.4%
Closest pass rates among 2000 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 2000 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph 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 93 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 27 | 28.70% | 20.98% | +7.72 |
| Brakes | 27 | 28.70% | 20.89% | +7.81 |
| Tyres | 13 | 13.80% | 19.76% | −5.96 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 9 | 9.60% | 12.21% | −2.61 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 5 | 5.30% | 5.52% | −0.22 |
| Steering | 4 | 4.30% | 2.57% | +1.73 |
| Visibility | 3 | 3.20% | 4.97% | −1.77 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 3 | 3.20% | 0.82% | +2.38 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 1.10% | 5.57% | −4.47 |
| Non-component advisories | 1 | 1.10% | 4.18% | −3.08 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 5.6% | £18–45 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.8% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 1.9% | £18–45 |
| Horn not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.9% | £8–25 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.9% | £3–12 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 1.9% | £45–110 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 1.9% | £30–75 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 1.9% | £3–12 |
| Switch faulty Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.9% | £5–25 |
| All direction indicators not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.93% | £3–12 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 7.5% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 7.5% | £45–95 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Advisory | 3.7% | £60–150 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 2.8% | £80–180 |
| Shock absorbers has an excessively worn bush Suspension | Advisory | 2.8% | £30–75 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 2.8% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 22 | 95.5% | 23,903 mi |
| 30-60k | 43 | 88.4% | 45,123 mi |
| 60-90k | 21 | 95.2% | 79,656 mi |
| 90-120k | 15 | 93.3% | 105,109 mi |
| 120k+ | 6 | 66.7% | 156,847 mi |
Source: 107 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.
2000 Silver Seraph MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2000 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph?
90.7% of the 107 2000 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.8% for cars first used in 2000. First-attempt pass rate: 90.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2000 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph?
The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (5.61%), linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (2.80%), ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (1.87%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2000 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.5% of the time, falling to 66.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2000 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph in this dataset had covered 51,903 mi.
Does the season affect the 2000 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 95.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 86.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.