Pass rate
79.8%
Around average — 7.3 pts ahead of the 72.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 84 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £12–£41
2006 Chrysler Jeep Wrangler MOT pass rate
- 2006
- typical 56,890 mi
Only 84 tests of this exact model and year are in the DVSA data, below the 100 we ask for before a page goes in the index. The figures are still shown, because they are the only ones there are.
Most common fault
Suspension
33.5% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2002 83.6% pass
- Avoid 2008 68.4% pass
Across the 11 years on record, a spread of 15.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 75.7%
- Typical mileage
- 57k mi
The 2006 Chrysler Jeep Wrangler MOT pass rate is 79.8% of its MOT tests — 7.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 33.5% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Chrysler Jeep Wrangler does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.6× the national share
Suspension accounts for 33.5% of everything recorded on the 2006 Chrysler Jeep Wrangler, against 21.0% nationally — 12.5 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 72.5% and this one manages 79.8% — 7.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 79% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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 2006 Chrysler Jeep Wrangler compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.5%, so this figure is 7.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 75.7%. The median 2006 Chrysler Jeep Wrangler in this dataset had covered 56,890 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 80.6% of the time, April–September 79.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction", noted on 4.76% of tests.
- 84 recorded tests behind this page.
- 79.8% overall pass rate, 75.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Chrysler Jeep Wrangler, the average is 74.7% — best year 2002 (83.6%), worst 2008 (68.4%).
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
- 84
- Typical mileage (median)
- 56,890 mi
- Make and model
- Chrysler Jeep Wrangler
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Indicator Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Wrangler MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 61% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Wrangler
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 16 | 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 2006 Wrangler
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 2006 Wrangler
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 lights 4.8% of tests
“malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction”
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.
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Check the suspension joints 3.6% of tests
“linkage 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 wipers and washers 3.6% 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 2006 Wrangler through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £12–£41 — and 79% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £12–£41
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: linkage pins
- £40–£150
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 79%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 84 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 Wrangler, side by side
11 model years on record, from 2000 to 2011. Across them the pass rate runs from 68.4% to 83.6% — a spread of 15.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 74.5% rear fog lamp not working
- 2001 74.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2002 83.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2003 78.8% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2004 76.2% rear fog lamp not working
- 2006 79.8%malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2007 72.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2008 68.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 73.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 76.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2011 83.3% rear fog lamp not working
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 2006 Chrysler Jeep Wrangler 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 2006 cars with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2006 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 2006 Chrysler Jeep Wrangler 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 172 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 | 58 | 33.50% | 20.98% | +12.52 |
| Brakes | 30 | 17.30% | 20.89% | −3.59 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 29 | 16.80% | 12.21% | +4.59 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 18 | 10.40% | 5.52% | +4.88 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 17 | 9.80% | 5.57% | +4.23 |
| Tyres | 7 | 4.00% | 19.76% | −15.76 |
| Visibility | 4 | 2.30% | 4.97% | −2.67 |
| Non-component advisories | 4 | 2.30% | 4.18% | −1.88 |
| Steering | 4 | 2.30% | 2.57% | −0.27 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1 | 0.60% | 1.76% | −1.16 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 4.8% | £3–12 |
| Linkage pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.6% | £40–150 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 3.6% | £3–15 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.6% | £5–20 |
| Service brake imbalance across an axle Brakes | Major | 3.6% | £45–110 |
| Side repeaters lens defective which has no effect on emitted light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.6% | £3–15 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.6% | £3–12 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 3.6% | £8–22 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 2.4% | £5–25 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.4% | £5–25 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 15.5% | £45–110 |
| Linkage pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 11.9% | £40–150 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 10.7% | £200–700 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 10.7% | £40–150 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 8.3% | £25–65 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 7.1% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 5 | 80.0% | 21,447 mi |
| 30-60k | 41 | 85.4% | 44,574 mi |
| 60-90k | 23 | 69.6% | 74,047 mi |
| 90-120k | 14 | 85.7% | 103,289 mi |
Source: 84 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.
2006 Wrangler MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2006 Chrysler Jeep Wrangler?
79.8% of the 84 2006 Chrysler Jeep Wrangler tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.5% for cars first used in 2006. First-attempt pass rate: 75.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2006 Chrysler Jeep Wrangler?
The three most recorded items are malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (4.76%), linkage pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (3.57%), rear fog lamp not working (3.57%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2006 Chrysler Jeep Wrangler MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 80.0% of the time, falling to 85.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2006 Chrysler Jeep Wrangler in this dataset had covered 56,890 mi.
Does the season affect the 2006 Chrysler Jeep Wrangler MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 80.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 79.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.