Used car guide · 1995–2004

Aston Martin DB7 common problems and MOT failures

What goes wrong on a used Aston Martin DB7, year by year: known faults from UK buying guides, the parts flagged at MOT more than on other cars (from 5,594 MOTs done during 2023–2025), and what to check before you buy one.

5,594MOTs done in 2023–2025, all years of this model
2,396on the UK register

Pick the year

Most years have their own guide. The year is when the car was first registered (it’s on the logbook, or check the reg below).

2004200320022001200019991998199719961995

What usually goes wrong with an Aston Martin DB7?

We haven’t found widely reported faults for the Aston Martin DB7 in the UK buying guides we use yet. That doesn’t mean it has none, so check the car carefully and look at the MOT weak spots below.

Aston Martin DB7 MOT pass rate by year

Older cars fail more, so compare each year with all cars registered the same year.

YearPass first timeAll cars that yearMOT tests
200489%57% +32321 (small sample)
200388%57% +31645
200288%58% +30709
200186%60% +26846
200084%61% +23816
199980%63% +17485 (small sample)
199886%65% +21459 (small sample)
199786%65% +21521
199686%66% +20395 (small sample)
199582%67% +15397 (small sample)

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Where this comes from: MOT figures are the DVSA’s anonymised results for every MOT test done in Great Britain during 2023–2025, grouped by the year each car was first registered. How many are on the road is from the Department for Transport’s vehicle licensing statistics. Known faults are from UK buying guides, in our own words, with links. How we score