Pass rate
89.5%
Above average — 16.4 pts ahead of the 73.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 57 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £29–£92
2008 Westfield Sport MOT pass rate
- 2008
- 3 trims combined
- typical 10,691 mi
Only 57 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.
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
34.8% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Which year to buy
- Best 2005 90.2% pass
- Avoid 2011 87.3% pass
Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 2.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 88.5%
- Typical mileage
- 11k mi
The 2008 Westfield Sport MOT pass rate is 89.5% of its MOT tests — 16.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 34.8% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Westfield Sport does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 2.9× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 34.8% of everything recorded on the 2008 Westfield Sport, against 12.2% nationally — 22.6 points above. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- 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 73.1% and this one manages 89.5% — 16.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 57 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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Every Westfield Sport first registered in 2008 is combined here — 3 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2008 Westfield Sport compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.1%, so this figure is 16.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 88.5%. The median 2008 Westfield Sport in this dataset had covered 10,691 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 1.75% of tests.
- 57 recorded tests behind this page.
- 89.5% overall pass rate, 88.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Westfield Sport, the average is 88.7% — best year 2005 (90.2%), worst 2011 (87.3%).
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
- 57
- Typical mileage (median)
- 10,691 mi
- Make and model
- Westfield Sport
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
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 Sport MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 0% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Sport
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 15 | 93.3% |
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 2008 Sport
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 2008 Sport
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 1.8% 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 battery 1.8% of tests
“battery(ies) insecure”
Check the battery is secure and its terminals are clean and tight — a loose battery is a fail on its own, and a weak one shows up as slow cranking on a cold morning.
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Check the exhaust and emissions 1.8% of tests
“catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds default 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 2008 Sport through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £29–£92 — and 40% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £29–£92
- Cheapest common item: individual direction indicators not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 40%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 57 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 Sport, side by side
4 model years on record, from 2004 to 2011. Across them the pass rate runs from 87.3% to 90.2% — a spread of 2.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2004 87.7% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2005 90.2% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2008 89.5%ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2011 87.3% catalyst emissions carbon…
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 2008 Westfield Sport 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 2008 cars with a similar record
- Porsche Boxster 89.4%
- BMW M3 90.0%
- Porsche 911 91.0%
- Bentley Continental 91.4%
- Audi A8 87.0%
- Mercedes-Benz Sl 86.7%
Closest pass rates among 2008 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 2008 Westfield Sport 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 8 | 34.80% | 12.21% | +22.59 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 5 | 21.70% | 5.52% | +16.18 |
| Suspension | 3 | 13.00% | 20.98% | −7.98 |
| Brakes | 2 | 8.70% | 20.89% | −12.19 |
| Steering | 2 | 8.70% | 2.57% | +6.13 |
| Tyres | 1 | 4.30% | 19.76% | −15.46 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 4.30% | 5.57% | −1.27 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1 | 4.30% | 1.76% | +2.54 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 1.8% | £18–45 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.8% | £60–140 |
| Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds default limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Rectified | 1.8% | £60–250 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.8% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.8% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.8% | £5–25 |
| Individual direction indicators not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.8% | £3–12 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 1.8% | £80–250 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.8% | £5–25 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.8% | £3–15 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transmission oil leaks leaking excessively from transmission Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 3.5% | £200–700 |
| 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 |
| Other leaks leak harmful to the environment or a risk to other road users Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 1.8% | £60–250 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 1.8% | £40–150 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Advisory | 1.8% | £60–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 48 | 91.7% | 11,121 mi |
| 30-60k | 3 | 100.0% | 32,185 mi |
| 90-120k | 1 | 0.0% | 96,145 mi |
Source: 57 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.
2008 Sport MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2008 Westfield Sport?
89.5% of the 57 2008 Westfield Sport tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.1% for cars first used in 2008. First-attempt pass rate: 88.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2008 Westfield Sport?
The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (1.75%), battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier (1.75%), catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds default limits (1.75%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2008 Westfield Sport MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.7% of the time, falling to 0.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2008 Westfield Sport in this dataset had covered 10,691 mi.