Alfa Romeo 147 MOT reliability

Alfa Romeo 147s passed their MOT first time 60% of the time across 1,470 tests in 2025. 1,027 are still licensed in Great Britain.

First-time pass rate

60%

MOTs analysed

1,470

Still licensed (GB)

1,027

Body type

Hatchback

Pass rate by year of first registration

Older cars fail more often, so compare a car with others of the same age. Years with very few MOTs can show extreme pass rates, even 0% or 100%, so give more weight to years with more tests.

In detail:

First registered

2007 petrol

135 MOTs

Passed first time 56%. Typical mileage 86,792 (most between 64,378 and 107,093).

2009: 70% → 2010: 78% → 2011: 74% → 2012: 68% → 2013: 67% → 2014: 60% → 2015: 59% → 2016: 59% → 2017: 55% → 2018: 59% → 2019: 54% → 2020: 57% → 2021: 56% → 2022: 55% → 2023: 54% → 2024: 46% → 2025: 56%

Most common failures

Washers: provides insufficient washer liquid (7.4%)
Pins and bushes: pin or bush excessively worn (6.7%)
Malfunction indicator lamp: inoperative or indicates a malfunction (4.4%)
Position lamp: not working (4.4%)
Stop lamp: not working (3.7%)

2007 diesel

83 MOTs

These figures come from 83 MOT tests. That's a fairly small number of cars, so they may not be typical of these cars as a whole.

Passed first time 46%. Typical mileage 112,952 (most between 97,034 and 144,711).

2008: 100% → 2009: 50% → 2010: 76% → 2011: 69% → 2012: 67% → 2013: 62% → 2014: 56% → 2015: 50% → 2016: 51% → 2017: 49% → 2018: 53% → 2019: 51% → 2020: 48% → 2021: 49% → 2022: 48% → 2023: 48% → 2024: 48% → 2025: 46%

Most common failures

Component mounting prescribed areas: prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (13.3%)
Rbt (sp): efficiency below requirements (10.8%)
Position lamp: not working (7.2%)
Joints: constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (6.0%)
Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (6.0%)

Where 2007 147s fail

Suspension & axles

15.6%

Lights & electrics

14.8%

Visibility & wipers

14.1%

Body, structure & corrosion

12.6%

Brakes

9.6%

Exhaust, emissions & leaks

7.4%

Wheels & tyres

5.2%

Seat belts & other equipment

2.2%

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Based on 2025 initial MOT tests in DVSA's anonymised MOT dataset (cars and light vans). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Model details: Vehicle data by VehiclesDB.