Pass rate
86.2%
Above average — 3.3 pts behind the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 884 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £44–£103
2019 BMW X5 XDRIVE45E MOT pass rate
- 2019
- typical 43,557 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
60.3% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 88.2% pass
- Avoid 2021 85.9% pass
Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 2.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 84.2%
- Typical mileage
- 44k mi
The 2019 BMW X5 XDRIVE45E MOT pass rate is 86.2% of its MOT tests — 3.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 60.3% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how BMW X5 XDRIVE45E does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 3.1× the national share
Tyres make up 60.3% of everything recorded on the 2019 BMW X5 Xdrive45e, against 19.8% nationally — 40.5 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 89.5%; this one manages 86.2% — 3.3 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 15% 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.
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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How does the 2019 BMW X5 XDRIVE45E compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 89.5%, so this figure is 3.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 84.2%. The median 2019 BMW X5 XDRIVE45E in this dataset had covered 43,557 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 86.1% of the time, April–September 86.5%.
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 4.86% of tests.
- 884 recorded tests behind this page.
- 86.2% overall pass rate, 84.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the BMW X5 XDRIVE45E, the average is 86.5% — best year 2020 (88.2%), worst 2021 (85.9%).
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
- 884
- Typical mileage (median)
- 43,557 mi
- Make and model
- BMW X5 XDRIVE45E
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
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 XDRIVE45E MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 70% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the X5 XDRIVE45E
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 286 | 84.3% |
| East of England | 90 | 85.6% |
| North West | 89 | 80.9% |
| London | 89 | 95.5% |
| Yorkshire | 80 | 86.3% |
| East Midlands | 67 | 89.6% |
| West Midlands | 60 | 83.3% |
| South West | 53 | 88.7% |
| Scotland | 34 | 82.4% |
| North East | 21 | 90.5% |
| Wales | 15 | 93.3% |
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 2019 X5 XDRIVE45E
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 2019 X5 XDRIVE45E
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 1.9% 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 suspension joints 0.7% of tests
“pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn”
With the car parked on level ground, rock the top of each front wheel in and out while someone watches the suspension arm. Clunks, or rubber boots split and greasy, are what testers record here.
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Check the tyre tread 0.7% of tests
“tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm”
Check all four tyres cold, including the inner shoulder where wear hides — 1.6mm across the central three-quarters is the legal limit, and most testers fail at 1.6mm without argument.
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 2019 X5 XDRIVE45E through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £44–£103 — and 15% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £44–£103
- Cheapest common item: washers provides insufficient washer liquid
- £5–£15
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 15%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 884 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 XDRIVE45E, side by side
4 model years on record, from 2019 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 85.9% to 88.2% — a spread of 2.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 86.2%has a cut in excess of the…
- 2020 88.2% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 85.9% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2022 85.9% 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 2019 BMW X5 XDRIVE45E 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 2019 cars with a similar record
- SEAT Leon Fr 86.3%
- SEAT Leon 86.4%
- Peugeot 5008 86.4%
- Citroen C4 86.0%
- Dacia Logan 86.0%
- Ford Allied 86.0%
Closest pass rates among 2019 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 2019 BMW X5 XDRIVE45E 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 10 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 469 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 | 285 | 60.30% | 19.76% | +40.54 |
| Non-component advisories | 61 | 12.90% | 4.18% | +8.72 |
| Suspension | 33 | 7.00% | 20.98% | −13.98 |
| Visibility | 33 | 7.00% | 4.97% | +2.03 |
| Brakes | 18 | 3.80% | 20.89% | −17.09 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 18 | 3.80% | 12.21% | −8.41 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 10 | 2.10% | 1.76% | +0.34 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 7 | 1.50% | 0.82% | +0.68 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 2 | 0.40% | 5.57% | −5.17 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2 | 0.40% | 5.52% | −5.12 |
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 | 4.9% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 2.1% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.9% | £80–200 |
| Side repeaters not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.0% | £5–25 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.68% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 0.68% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.68% | £45–95 |
| Buckle not functioning as intended Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 0.57% | £40–120 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Major | 0.57% | £5–15 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.45% | £8–22 |
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 | 12.4% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 5.0% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 3.9% | £20–80 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 3.2% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.6% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 2.4% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 199 | 85.4% | 23,326 mi |
| 30-60k | 455 | 87.5% | 43,776 mi |
| 60-90k | 176 | 85.2% | 71,852 mi |
| 90-120k | 42 | 78.6% | 102,865 mi |
| 120k+ | 12 | 91.7% | 128,144 mi |
Source: 884 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.
2019 X5 XDRIVE45E MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2019 BMW X5 XDRIVE45E?
86.2% of the 884 2019 BMW X5 XDRIVE45E tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 89.5% for cars first used in 2019. First-attempt pass rate: 84.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2019 BMW X5 XDRIVE45E?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (4.86%), has ply or cords exposed (2.15%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.92%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2019 BMW X5 XDRIVE45E MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 85.4% of the time, falling to 91.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2019 BMW X5 XDRIVE45E in this dataset had covered 43,557 mi.
Does the season affect the 2019 BMW X5 XDRIVE45E MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 86.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 86.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.