Pass rate
79.6%
Around average — 6.7 pts ahead of the 72.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 245 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £53–£151
2002 Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT pass rate
- 2002
- typical 117,266 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
26.7% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Part only £35–£75 for Suspension pin or bush excessively worn. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2012 84.2% pass
- Avoid 2004 74.7% pass
Across the 13 years on record, a spread of 9.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 76.7%
- Typical mileage
- 117k mi
The 2002 Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT pass rate is 79.6% of its MOT tests — 6.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 26.7% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.3× the national share
Suspension accounts for 26.7% of everything recorded on the 2002 Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee, against 21.0% nationally — 5.7 points above. Ask for the front and rear suspension to be checked on a ramp before you buy — worn bushes and broken springs are cheap to look at and expensive to discover at test time.
- Beats its own age and mileage. Once you allow for how old and how far these cars have been driven, the expected pass rate is 72.9% and this one manages 79.6% — 6.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 7% 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 2002 Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.9%, so this figure is 6.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 76.7%. The median 2002 Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee in this dataset had covered 117,266 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 56% of tests, with a 83.2% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 78.3% of the time, April–September 81.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn", noted on 5.31% of tests.
- 245 recorded tests behind this page.
- 79.6% overall pass rate, 76.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee, the average is 77.0% — best year 2012 (84.2%), worst 2004 (74.7%).
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
- 245
- Typical mileage (median)
- 117,266 mi
- Make and model
- Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Suspension Component
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Grand Cherokee MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 68% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (56% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Grand Cherokee
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 58 | 81.0% |
| South West | 32 | 78.1% |
| Wales | 28 | 78.6% |
| West Midlands | 26 | 76.9% |
| East of England | 23 | 82.6% |
| East Midlands | 19 | 73.7% |
| London | 17 | 82.4% |
| Scotland | 16 | 75.0% |
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 2002 Grand Cherokee
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 2002 Grand Cherokee
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 suspension joints 5.3% 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 windscreen 4.1% 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 lights 2.9% of tests
“headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect”
Switch everything on and walk round the car: both headlamps on dip and main, every indicator, both brake lights, reverse, fog and the two number-plate lamps. A bulb is a few pounds and a five-minute job.
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 2002 Grand Cherokee through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £53–£151 — and 7% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £53–£151
- Cheapest common item: mirrors slightly damaged
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 40%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 7%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 245 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 Grand Cherokee, side by side
13 model years on record, from 2000 to 2012. Across them the pass rate runs from 74.7% to 84.2% — a spread of 9.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 76.8% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2001 74.9% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2002 79.6%pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2003 76.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2004 74.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 75.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 75.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 77.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 75.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 79.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 80.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 80.3% headlamp not working on main beam
- 2012 84.2% ball joint dust cover severely…
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 2002 Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee 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 2002 cars with a similar record
- Jaguar XK8 79.8%
- Porsche Boxster 80.3%
- Subaru Impreza 80.5%
- BMW Z3 80.7%
- Mercedes-Benz Slk 81.2%
- Land Rover Range Rover 77.4%
Closest pass rates among 2002 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 2002 Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee 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 652 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 176 | 26.70% | 20.98% | +5.72 |
| Brakes | 145 | 22.00% | 20.89% | +1.11 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 90 | 13.60% | 12.21% | +1.39 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 51 | 7.70% | 5.52% | +2.18 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 50 | 7.60% | 5.57% | +2.03 |
| Tyres | 46 | 7.00% | 19.76% | −12.76 |
| Steering | 38 | 5.80% | 2.57% | +3.23 |
| Non-component advisories | 23 | 3.50% | 4.18% | −0.68 |
| Visibility | 22 | 3.30% | 4.97% | −1.67 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 11 | 1.70% | 0.82% | +0.88 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 5.3% | £40–150 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 4.1% | £80–200 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 3.3% | £80–250 |
| Decelerometer (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 2.9% | £45–110 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.9% | £30–80 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 2.9% | £80–250 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.5% | £18–45 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 2.5% | £80–180 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.0% | £60–140 |
| Mirrors slightly damaged Visibility | Minor | 2.0% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 18.8% | £80–180 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 12.7% | £45–110 |
| Linkage pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 10.6% | £40–150 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 10.2% | £200–700 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 9.8% | £25–65 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 9.8% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 16 | 87.5% | 49,925 mi |
| 60-90k | 30 | 86.7% | 72,811 mi |
| 90-120k | 84 | 76.2% | 106,200 mi |
| 120k+ | 113 | 79.6% | 151,420 mi |
Source: 245 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.
2002 Grand Cherokee MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2002 Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee?
79.6% of the 245 2002 Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.9% for cars first used in 2002. First-attempt pass rate: 76.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2002 Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee?
The three most recorded items are pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (5.31%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (4.08%), joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (3.27%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2002 Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 87.5% of the time, falling to 79.6% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2002 Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee in this dataset had covered 117,266 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2002 Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee?
Petrol: 83.2% pass rate across 137 tests. Diesel: 71.6% pass rate across 74 tests. LPG: 82.4% pass rate across 34 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2002 Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 78.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 81.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.