Land Rover MOT failure rates by model
Land Rover cars fail 23.6% of MOT tests. Here is every Land Rover model ranked by failure rate, and the item each loses most tests to.
What is the MOT failure rate for Land Rover cars?
Across 18,791,693 MOT tests in the DVSA record, 23.6% of Land Rover cars fail. That is 2.1 points below the 25.7% national average across all cars. The Land Rover models below are ranked worst to best by failure rate, each with the failure area it loses most tests to.
| Model | Failure rate | Tests | Top failure area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Land Rover County | 33.6% | 1,359 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Lr | 32.7% | 2,682 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover 88 | 30.6% | 174,298 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Lwb | 30.1% | 2,102 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover 110 | 29.6% | 22,391 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover 109 | 29.4% | 37,424 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover 127 | 28.8% | 2,094 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Series3 | 28.6% | 1,584 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover 90 | 27.9% | 22,865 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Pick | 27.8% | 2,606 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Series | 27.6% | 55,005 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Defender | 27.2% | 3,072,057 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Swb | 27.2% | 7,836 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Land Rover | 27.2% | 4,939 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Landrover | 27.0% | 2,685 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Lightweight | 26.4% | 3,431 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Series2 | 26.2% | 1,363 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Rangerover | 26.1% | 9,740 | Brakes |
| Land Rover Forward | 26.1% | 1,836 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover 4x4 | 26.0% | 1,771 | Brakes |
| Land Rover Light | 25.6% | 4,331 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Freelander | 25.3% | 4,365,968 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Discovery | 25.1% | 5,344,151 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Jeep | 24.7% | 2,481 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover 2 | 23.9% | 1,291 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover 80 | 22.8% | 1,650 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover 2a | 22.1% | 6,361 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover 101 | 21.9% | 3,804 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Vogue | 21.4% | 2,378 | Brakes |
| Land Rover Sport | 19.4% | 5,199 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Range Rover | 18.6% | 5,428,316 | Brakes |
| Land Rover Unknown | 16.8% | 9,570 | Lamps & electrical |
| Land Rover Discovry | 14.7% | 4,533 | Tyres |
| Land Rover Rrover | 11.0% | 12,488 | Tyres |
| Land Rover R | 10.8% | 123,471 | Tyres |
| Land Rover Rr | 10.7% | 8,854 | Tyres |
| Land Rover R-Rover | 9.4% | 4,329 | Tyres |
| Land Rover Disco-Y | 7.0% | 1,934 | , |
Which Land Rover fails its MOT most, and which least?
The Land Rover County has the highest failure rate at 33.6%, and the Land Rover Disco-Y the lowest at 7.0%. A higher rate reflects how old and how hard a model tends to be used as much as how it was built, so the oldest models in the range usually sit near the top.
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Sources: DVSA MOT History API: MOT test results and defect data ยท DVSA MOT testing data for Great Britain