2001 Mazda MX-5 1.6L Petrol · J350 TNC

The most recent test on 13 January 2022 returned a pass at 130,152 miles with no defects recorded, leaving the roadworthiness status formally acceptable at that date. Relative to today's date of 8 July 2026, the vehicle has stood without a recorded MOT for over four years, so the maintenance trend cannot be called stable, worsening, or improving from this record; it simply goes stale. The prior day's failure on 12 January 2022 at the same mileage with no defects logged points to an administrative or presentation issue rather than a mechanical fault, and the owner cleared it within twenty-four hours. The odometer shows 130,152 miles against a 2001 build, an average of roughly 5,206 miles per year, which is low for a twenty-five-year-old sports car. The entire MOT history supplied captures only January 2022, with identical mileages on both the fail and pass entries, so no accumulation or gap across years can be judged from the data. A low annual figure of this sort often means the MX-5 spent long periods idle, a pattern that raises the risk of perished rubber components and seized mechanisms even where the record stays clean. A buyer should physically inspect the suspension bushes, coil springs, and brake calipers for binding or corrosion after the long stationary stretch since the last test. The lack of advisories in January 2022 gives no prior warning on structural integrity, yet a quarter-century old Mazda of this type commonly hides chassis rail rust and exhaust degradation unseen by the tester. Confirm the fuel system and tyre sidewalls have not cracked from disuse before any road use.