SILVER SPUR

Rolls-Royce Silver Spur Problems

What actually breaks on the Rolls-Royce Silver Spur — 6 owner complaints filed with NHTSA across 1981–1998, sorted by model year and by system, with what owners wrote in their own words.

NHTSA owner complaints · 6 reports · 5 builds · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Quick answer

Owners have filed 6 complaints on the Rolls-Royce Silver Spur, covering 1981–1998. The system named most often is Service Brakes (2 reports). Worst years by volume: 1998, 1981, 1987; cleanest: 1986, 1987, 1981. On average the car was 13.0 years old when the problem happened.

What breaks on Rolls-Royce Silver Spur

Grouped by the system owners named — percentages are shares of all 6 Silver Spur complaints. Open any row for the full reports in owners' own words.

Service Brakes 33% 2 Read
1987 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur

The contact owns a 1987 Rolls Royce Silver Spur. The contact stated while driving approximately 35 MPH, he depressed the brake pedal and the vehicle would not slow. The contact stated that the brake pedal had to be pumped several times to the floorboard to stop the vehicle. The contact used the gear shift lever to…

1986 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur

The contact owns a 1986 Rolls Royce Silver Spur. The contact stated while driving approximately 35 MPH, he depressed the brake pedal the vehicle would not slow. The contact stated that the brake pedal had to be pumped several times to the floorboard to stop the vehicle. The contact drove the vehicle back to his…

Tires 17% 1 Read
1998 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur

Tire tread separated and caused vehicle damage

Power Train 17% 1 Read
1998 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur

The contact owns a 1998 roll royce silver spur; long wheel base. The contact stated that he was unable to shift from park (five incidents) or drive (three incidents). The vehicle was taken to two different local mechanics, where fuses, actuator relays and other associated components were replaced for a total of eight…

Visibility 17% 1 Read
1981 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur

Windshield wiper parking rest became sticky that it jammed drivers wiper causing it to be inoperable

Vehicle Speed Control 17% 1 Read
1981 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur

Speed control intermittently goes into resume mode after brake pedal has been depressed causing driver to re-brake

Silver Spur years to avoid — and the clean ones

Complaints per model year. More reports usually means more cars on the road as well as more trouble, so read the crash and fire columns alongside the count.

FIG.02·Rolls-Royce Silver Spur complaints by model year
Model yearComplaintsTop systemCrashesFires
19982Power Train
19871Service Brakes, Hydraulic
19861Service Brakes, Hydraulic
19812Vehicle Speed Control
ROWS 4·SOURCE NHTSA owner complaints

The same model year, different builds

Every complaint carries the first 11 characters of the VIN — plant, year, body and engine. That is a production series, and complaints are spread across them very unevenly.

FIG.03·Rolls-Royce Silver Spur complaints by production series
MeasureValue
Distinct production series5
Average complaints per series1.2
Worst single series2 complaints
Average age at failure13.0 years
ROWS 4·SOURCE NHTSA owner complaints + ForCar

A model average of 1.2 hides a worst series at 2. Enter a VIN above to see the numbers for that exact build instead of the model as a whole.

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How we count

Every figure here comes from complaints owners filed with NHTSA — 1,100,006 of them, covering 1,982 models built between 1981 and 2026.

A complaint is an unverified report: someone wrote down what happened to their car. It is not a confirmed defect and not a recall. What makes the volume useful is the pattern — when thousands of owners of the same build describe the same failure, that is a signal no marketing brochure will give you.

Two things we do that the source does not. First, we compute the age of the car at the moment of failure from the incident date and the model year. Second, we group complaints by the first 11 characters of the VIN — the production series — so a bad plant run does not disappear into a model-wide average.

Frequently asked questions

What are the worst years for the Silver Spur?

By complaint volume, 1998, 1981, 1987 drew the most owner reports. Bear in mind that popular years put more cars on the road, so check the crash and fire columns too.

Which Silver Spur years are the cleanest?

1986, 1987, 1981 have the fewest complaints on file. For recent years that can simply mean the cars are young.

How many complaints does the Rolls-Royce Silver Spur have?

6 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, covering 1981–1998. Of those, 0 describe a crash and 0 a fire.

Are these complaints verified?

No. They are unverified reports from owners. NHTSA publishes them as filed and investigates only a fraction. The value is in the pattern, not in any single report.

Can I check complaints for one specific car?

Yes — enter its VIN above. We match the first 11 characters, which identify the plant, year, body and engine, so you get complaints on that exact production series rather than the whole model.

Owner complaints from NHTSA, published as filed and unverified. Age at failure computed by ForCar from incident date and model year; production series grouped by the first 11 VIN characters. Last updated Aug 2026. — ForCar Reviewed by , founder of ForCar.