2007 Fiat Punto 1.2L Petrol · AD07 NFO

The 2007 Fiat Punto presents a currently roadworthy status following its most recent test on 9 April 2026 at 90,438 miles, where the vehicle passed with no defects recorded. The maintenance trend across the supplied history is stable, showing no escalating mechanical concerns. Two earlier failures dated 9 April 2026 and 18 April 2025, both at identical mileages to their subsequent passes on the same days, were logged with no defects recorded, indicating administrative or presentation issues at the test centre rather than latent faults. Recorded mileage stands at 90,438 against an April 2026 test, equating to roughly 4,760 miles per year from new. The odometer moved only 1,738 miles between the April 2024 pass at 87,994 and the April 2025 pass at 88,700, then 1,738 miles again to the 2026 pass at 90,438. Such low annual use for a nineteen-year-old car suggests extended standing periods, which typically accelerates perishing of rubber suspension bushes, tyre sidewalls, and brake caliper seizing despite the clean test sheet. A buyer should still commission a physical inspection of structural integrity beneath the sills and subframes, as DVSA corrosion checks on low-mileage elderly vehicles often miss incipient rust where moisture has gathered during storage. The tester flagged no advisories on brake discs or exhaust emissions, yet binding calipers and flat-spotted tyres remain plausible from disuse and warrant a road trial. Given the absence of recorded advisories across three consecutive annual tests, previous keepers appear to have maintained basic statutory compliance. The duplicated fail-and-pass entries on single dates imply clerical rejections rather than mechanical neglect, but the buyer should confirm the V5C and seek evidence of fluid changes given the car's long dormant intervals.