Does the Alfa Romeo Giulia fail the MOT on seat belts and airbags more than it should?

The Alfa Romeo Giulia records 0.20 seat belts and airbags failure items per 100 initial MOT tests (2019–2024), against 0.33 expected for a car of the same age mix: about as expected for its class and age (the difference is within its interval or under 0.5 items per 100 tests) (−0.13, 95% interval −0.20 to −0.06). It ranks 337 of 627 models on seat belts and airbags (1 = most failures above expected).

Data release dvsa-2024-v2 (24 Sep 2026) · page updated 30 Sep 2026 · all models on seat belts and airbags · check a Alfa Romeo Giulia by registration

No single seat belts and airbags defect wording reaches 30 items on the Alfa Romeo Giulia; the failures are spread across several.