McLaren 540 MOT reliability

McLaren 540s passed their MOT first time 90% of the time across 90 tests in 2025.

Example photo of a McLaren 540 — Photo: emperornie · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

These figures come from 90 MOT tests. That's a fairly small number of cars, so they may not be typical of these cars as a whole.

First-time pass rate

90%

MOTs analysed

90

Still licensed (GB)

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Body type

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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

2017 petrol

47 MOTs

Passed first time 92%. Typical mileage 21,857 (most between 16,740 and 27,643).

2019: 100% → 2020: 98% → 2021: 96% → 2022: 92% → 2023: 87% → 2024: 94% → 2025: 92%

Most common failures

Coil spring: fractured or broken (6.4%)
Malfunction indicator lamp: inoperative or indicates a malfunction (2.1%)

Where 2017 540s fail

Suspension & axles

6.4%

Exhaust, emissions & leaks

2.1%

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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.