Pass rate
93.1%
Above average — 1.1 pts ahead of the 92.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 305 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £42–£99
2022 BMW X5 MOT pass rate
- 2022
- 4 trims combined
- typical 25,716 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
56.1% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2022 93.1% pass · this year
- Avoid 2006 73.6% pass
Across the 23 years on record, a spread of 19.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 92.7%
- Typical mileage
- 26k mi
The 2022 BMW X5 MOT pass rate is 93.1% of its MOT tests — 1.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 56.1% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.8× the national share
Tyres make up 56.1% of everything recorded on the 2022 BMW X5, against 19.8% nationally — 36.3 points above. Check all four tyres yourself, including the inner shoulders, and look at the date stamp — a tyre can pass on tread and still be six years old.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 19% of this model’s typical repairs come in under £30 in parts — the failures here tend to be the kind that need a garage rather than a bulb.
- Based on a small sample. 305 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
Written from this page's own figures: fault shares against the national composition, the like-for-like pass rate, and the priced repair list. How these are worked out
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Every BMW X5 first registered in 2022 is combined here — 4 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2022 BMW X5 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 92.0%, so this figure is 1.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 92.7%. The median 2022 BMW X5 in this dataset had covered 25,716 mi.
82% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 92.4% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 95.0% of the time, April–September 91.5%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords", noted on 1.64% of tests.
- 305 recorded tests behind this page.
- 93.1% overall pass rate, 92.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the BMW X5, the average is 84.2% — best year 2022 (93.1%), worst 2006 (73.6%).
Figures count every completed test on this vehicle-year in the dataset, including retests. See methodology for the exact definition.
This page's data
- Tests analysed
- 305
- Typical mileage (median)
- 25,716 mi
- Make and model
- BMW X5
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the X5 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 81% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (82% of tests).
Where the BMW X5 is most common
Across all X5 model years on record (2000–2022): 134,555 BMW X5 cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 283,019 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 4,766 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birmingham (B) | 4,766 | 89.6% |
| 2 | Peterborough (PE) | 2,739 | 84.0% |
| 3 | Sheffield (S) | 2,410 | 86.0% |
| 4 | Reading (RG) | 2,293 | 83.4% |
| 5 | Nottingham (NG) | 2,277 | 83.3% |
| 6 | Manchester (M) | 2,265 | 86.5% |
| 7 | Guildford (GU) | 2,160 | 81.7% |
| 8 | Romford (RM) | 2,138 | 90.7% |
| 9 | Leicester (LE) | 2,114 | 85.8% |
| 10 | Glasgow (G) | 2,089 | 86.1% |
| 11 | Coventry (CV) | 1,981 | 86.5% |
| 12 | High Wycombe (HP) | 1,918 | 85.0% |
| 13 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 1,848 | 86.2% |
| 14 | London (E) | 1,842 | 93.3% |
| 15 | Chelmsford (CM) | 1,792 | 84.6% |
| 16 | Luton (LU) | 1,784 | 89.7% |
| 17 | Slough (SL) | 1,747 | 87.6% |
| 18 | Ashford (TN) | 1,733 | 81.5% |
| 19 | Blackburn (BB) | 1,712 | 88.6% |
| 20 | Derby (DE) | 1,689 | 85.6% |
The twenty areas with the most BMW X5 cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the X5
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 77 | 93.5% |
| North West | 40 | 82.5% |
| East of England | 32 | 93.8% |
| London | 31 | 96.8% |
| Yorkshire | 26 | 100.0% |
| East Midlands | 25 | 96.0% |
| West Midlands | 25 | 84.0% |
| Scotland | 21 | 100.0% |
Regions come from the postcode area recorded at the test station. Areas on region borders are assigned to the region with the majority of their population.
What fails a 2022 X5
Everything a tester recorded on this vehicle, grouped into the inspection sections that produced it. The notch on each bar is the national share, so you can see at a glance whether this car is unusual or just ordinary.
A test can record several items, so these percentages do not add up to 100%. The exact strings, with prices, are in the full DVSA record at the bottom of this page.
Before your test
Three checks worth doing on a 2022 X5
These are not generic tips — they are the faults recorded most often on this exact model, rewritten as things you can check yourself. All three take about ten minutes and cost nothing.
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Check the windscreen 1.6% of tests
“windscreen damaged”
Check the driver’s side of the screen within the swept area for chips and cracks; anything larger than 10mm in the driver’s central view is a fail. Most chips can be resin-repaired for far less than a new screen.
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Check the number plates 0.7% of tests
“registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements”
Check both plates are present, legible and correctly spaced, with the postcode of the supplier and the BS AU 145e mark. A private plate in the wrong style is a fail before the car is even looked at.
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Check the wipers and washers 0.7% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
Run the wipers with the screen wet: they should clear it in one sweep without smearing or juddering. Top the washer bottle up and check both jets hit the screen.
Shares are the proportion of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item, so they overlap: one test can record several.
What it costs to get a 2022 X5 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £42–£99 — and 19% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £42–£99
- Cheapest common item: electrical wiring insulation slightly damaged…
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 19%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 305 MOT tests on this vehicle. They exclude diagnostics, retest fees and garage labour where the part is a DIY fit, and they are not figures from the DVSA dataset. Older and higher-mileage examples cost more than the average. How these estimates are built → · All MOT repair costs → · Cheapest cars to put through a test →
Every year of the X5, side by side
23 model years on record, from 2000 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 73.6% to 93.1% — a spread of 19.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 78.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2001 74.4% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2002 74.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2003 74.3% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2004 74.5% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2005 74.1% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2006 73.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2007 79.1% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2008 80.5% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2009 80.8% position lamp with a multiple…
- 2010 82.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 82.7% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2012 82.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2013 84.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2014 88.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2015 89.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 89.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 89.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 89.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 89.6% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2020 90.4% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 90.8% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2022 93.1%has a cut in excess of the…
Colour is the pass rate on a fixed scale, so a block means the same thing on any model. Each year links to its own page with the full fault breakdown.
Compare the 2022 BMW X5 with another year
The raw pass rate mostly measures age. The year comparison adds the like-for-like figure, the mileage bands and the repair bill.
Other 2022 cars with a similar record
- Nissan Qashqai 93.1%
- Peugeot 2008 93.1%
- Mercedes-Benz Glc 93.1%
- Kia Sportage GT-Line 93.1%
- Audi A1 93.0%
- MINI Countryman 93.0%
Closest pass rates among 2022 cars with at least 2,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. See the full rankings: best and worst MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2022 BMW X5 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 7 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 114 individual items recorded on this vehicle, and the same share across all cars nationally. A single test can record several items, so a row is not a percentage of tests.
| Category | Items | This car | Nationally | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 64 | 56.10% | 19.76% | +36.34 |
| Non-component advisories | 21 | 18.40% | 4.18% | +14.22 |
| Visibility | 11 | 9.60% | 4.97% | +4.63 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 7 | 6.10% | 12.21% | −6.11 |
| Brakes | 6 | 5.30% | 20.89% | −15.59 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 3 | 2.60% | 5.52% | −2.92 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 2 | 1.80% | 1.76% | +0.04 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.6% | £80–200 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.66% | £45–95 |
| Has a lump, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.66% | £45–95 |
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Major | 0.66% | £20–80 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.66% | £8–22 |
| Electrical wiring inadequately secured Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.33% | £5–25 |
| Electrical wiring insulation slightly damaged or deteriorated Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.33% | £3–15 |
| Electronic stability control warning lamp indicates a fault Brakes | Major | 0.33% | £3–15 |
Severity is as recorded: Major and Dangerous fail the test outright; Minor and Advisory do not. Costs are estimates from typical UK parts prices — see how they are built.
What testers noted without failing the car
Advisories are the early warnings — the same parts a year or two before they fail. Reading them is how you tell a car that has been maintained from one that has been patched.
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 8.5% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 5.3% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 2.6% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 2.0% | £45–95 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 1.3% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 184 | 94.6% | 19,061 mi |
| 30-60k | 107 | 89.7% | 40,853 mi |
| 60-90k | 11 | 100.0% | 70,982 mi |
| 90-120k | 2 | 100.0% | 95,474 mi |
| 120k+ | 1 | 100.0% | 123,727 mi |
Source: 305 recorded tests on this vehicle-year. Every row above is recomputed from the same DVSA extract as the rest of the page — see the methodology.
2022 X5 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2022 BMW X5?
93.1% of the 305 2022 BMW X5 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 92.0% for cars first used in 2022. First-attempt pass rate: 92.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2022 BMW X5?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.64%), has ply or cords exposed (1.64%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.64%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2022 BMW X5 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.6% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2022 BMW X5 in this dataset had covered 25,716 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2022 BMW X5?
Petrol: 92.4% pass rate across 250 tests. Other: 100.0% pass rate across 27 tests. Diesel: 100.0% pass rate across 19 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2022 BMW X5 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 95.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 91.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.