Ferrari 599 — MOT statistics 2024

The Ferrari 599 failed 6.72% of 387 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 16.4 (100 = expected for its age profile). This car fails its MOT about 84% less often than expected for its age. Small sample — treat with care.

Age-adjusted peer: Rolls-Royce Ghost (index 16.4) — the two published results are 0.0 index points apart.

Ferrari 599 common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment are well below the reference at 3.2 per 100 tests, against 27.3 per 100 tests across UK vehicles of the same ages.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

family vs national — matched to UK vehicles of the same ages — top component groups, per 100 tests. Legend: This family · National avg. Combined labels: family / national average. A gap here reflects how these vehicles are driven, used and maintained as well as how they were built — an MOT defect is a test outcome, not a breakdown.

Ferrari 599 MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Suspension is highest at 13.5 per 100 tests; Brakes are lowest at 2.1 per 100 tests — the gap is 11.4 per 100 tests.

higher bar = flagged more oftenadvisory items per 100 initial tests

Advisories are wear the tester noted but didn't fail — what will need money soon.

If a car like this fails, does it fail again?

A failure rate does not say whether a failure is a one-off or the start of something. This follows the same vehicles into their next ordinary MOT a year later — retests after a repair are excluded, because they follow a failure by definition. 2019-2024.

A failed test raises next year's chance of failing again by 8.2 percentage points. Some of this is the vehicle and some is the owner: a car that was let go once tends to be let go again. One caveat: a car that fails may be sold or scrapped rather than tested again, so these figures describe the vehicles that came back.

Adjusted for how much these are actually driven

The headline index adjusts for the fleet's age. Wear, though, follows mileage: a three-year-old taxi and a three-year-old garage queen sit in the same age band. These two rows compare every car with vehicles of the same age, and then with vehicles of the same age and the same annual mileage, 2019-2024, on 2,346 tests. Both stand on the six-year corpus so they are measured on identical data — compare them with each other, not with the headline index above, which is measured on 2024 alone.

Mileage matters here: matching on how much these are driven moves the figure by 14.0 points — this fleet is driven less than the vehicles it is measured against, so the age-only view flatters it — but it does not change which side of normal the car sits on. One limit to keep in mind: mileage is partly a result of how often a car breaks down — one that spends weeks in the workshop covers fewer miles — so the mileage-matched figure can understate a real weakness. Tests with no usable odometer reading are left out of it.

How the Ferrari 599 compares with cars of its own age and size

Not against the whole fleet — against cars of the same size class tested at the same age, 2019-2024.

Raw first-time failure rates within each age, so fleet age cannot flatter either side. A positive difference means this model fails more often than its own class at that age.

How does the Ferrari 599 perform as it gets older?

Chart axes: car age, years · failure-rate scale 0–47%.

Takeaway: solid line: this family; dashed: all cars.

How dangerous are Ferrari 599 MOT failures?

Major defects are well below the reference at 12.6 per 100 tests, against 52.8 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Chart values: Minor 5.3 · Major 12.6 · Dangerous 0.8.

Per 100 tests on this family. National average: Minor 14.2 · Major 52.8 · Dangerous 11.2 per 100.

Does the month of a Ferrari 599 MOT matter?

Dec is highest at 13.6%; Jul is lowest at 5.5% — the gap is 8.2 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart scale: 4%–33%.

bars: Ferrari 599 · dashed: all class-4 cars

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 8.2 percentage points — noticeable seasonality. Seasonality partly reflects registration-date clustering, not weather.

Before reading the shape: most of it is not about cars. Britain changes its registration plates twice a year, and 18.9% of these cars were first registered in March with another17.1% in September — 36% in two months against the 17% an even spread would give. An MOT falls due three years after first registration, so the buying calendar becomes the testing calendar. That shapes how many cars are tested each month — not how often they fail: the busiest months here are not the worst ones, so read the failure line on its own and the volume behind it separately.

Ferrari 599 average mileage by age

At age 17, the middle half of 599s runs from 12,528 miles to 34,138 miles, against 26,022 miles as the median.

further right = more milesmedian is the typical car; band is p25–p75

line: median · band: middle half of the fleet (p25–p75)

A typical 17-year-old 599 has ~26,022 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the Ferrari 599 fails its MOT most

London NW area is highest at 20.9%; Southampton area is lowest at 0.0% — the gap is 20.9 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Every dot is a postcode area — size = how many were tested there, colour = share failing. These figures are not age-adjusted: coastal and rural areas often run older fleets and salted roads, so higher raw fail rates do not automatically mean a worse local stock of this model.

Map labels: Scotland · N. England · Wales · London · S. West.

Ferrari 599 faults that come together

Defects in «Steering» and «Suspension» were seen together in 15 tests (66 pairs compared).

Lift = how many times more often both groups appear on the same test than if independent. A pair is listed from 5 tests with both faults; the lift is shown from 20, and called above chance only when its 95% interval excludes 1 (see rough estimates).

Ferrari 599 MOT repair costs

The MOT-failure repair budget per test runs from £17.47 to £33.19, against £54.85 for the test itself.

bigger number = costs morepounds per test, MOT-failing faults only

Multiply how often each component fails on this model by what that repair usually costs, and you get the amount an owner should expect to budget per test for MOT-failing faults only — roughly £17 to £33, on top of the test fee itself. It is a budgeting figure, not a quote: the spread between a set of pads and a set of discs is most of the range.

Prices are modal quotes from a hand-kept catalogue of published UK garage guides — we do not scrape the booking sites, their terms forbid it, so this list is short and updated by hand with a source and date against each line. Each line prices one typical repair in that group, not a full remedy, and only groups our catalogue actually covers are counted. The contrast worth noticing is the second card: the legal maximum for the test has been £54.85 since 2010, while the repairs it uncovers have followed inflation the whole time.

For scale from a different direction: Warrantywise, which sees used-car warranty claims rather than test failures, puts the average claim at £2,052 across the ten highest-claim models it ranks and £539 for Honda, the lowest-claim make in its index (Warrantywise index 2026, 1.6 million claims, cars aged 3–15). Those sit an order of magnitude above the figures in this table, and the gap is the point: a warranty claim is a gearbox or an engine, which almost never fails an MOT, while the faults that do fail one are corrosion, lamps and tyres, which no warranty pays for. The two numbers answer different questions and neither replaces the other.

Ferrari 599 rust problems: where they corrode

Salt-belt exposure is well below the reference at lowest percentile, against 50th percentile as the middle of published models.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

This Ferrari 599 has too few tests to judge for corrosion once age is held constant, and its owners live in areas that are gentler than most for the models we publish.

Corrosion is the one failure mode that is as much about geography as about the car. We keep the two apart on purpose: a model can look rusty simply because it is popular in Scotland, and a model can look clean simply because it is bought in Surrey. Blending them into a single score would hide which of the two is doing the work.

Exposure is this model's tests weighted by an area corrosion index built from frost days, salt load and distance to the coast — the composite validated at r = 0.42 against corrosion defects we actually record. It is published as a rank, not a raw score, because every mainstream model skews towards low-corrosion areas for the simple reason that most of Britain's cars are in the south. Susceptibility is standardised to the national age profile, so an old fleet does not get labelled a rusty model.

What will fail next on a Ferrari 599?

Brakes after a failure at age 9-11 are highest at 10.0%; Brakes after a passed at age 12-14 are lowest at 1.5% — the gap is 8.5 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

The same chains, cut differently: given a car's age and how its last test went, which component most often causes trouble at the following one.

The pattern that repeats across every family: a failure at one test roughly doubles the chance of a failure on the same component at the next one, and an advisory sits about half-way between a clean pass and a failure. Age bands in years; probabilities are per car, not per defect item.

Ferrari 599 MOT: quick answers

Ferrari 599 MOT Risk Index is well below the reference at 16.4, against 100 for a car with the same age profile.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

What is the Ferrari 599 first-time MOT pass rate?

93.28% of first attempts passed in 2024 (387 tests). This is the first-time figure: retests after repair are excluded. Basis: first-time, excluding retests.

Why does this number differ from other sites?

Other sites often report a pass rate that includes retests or counts all attempts. Our 6.72% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 387 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 16.4 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Ferrari 599 with other cars

Lamborghini Aventador is highest at 18.3; Ferrari 599 is lowest at 16.4 — the gap is 1.9 points.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

Same brand

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Similar risk

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Same size class

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By area

Ferrari 599 MOT failure rate by postcode area

By failure group

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