Pass rate
78.9%
Around average — 5.8 pts ahead of the 73.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 95 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £29–£76
2008 Dodge Journey MOT pass rate
- 2008
- typical 114,064 mi
Only 95 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.
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Most common fault
Suspension
24.8% 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 2008 78.9% pass · this year
- Avoid 2009 69.9% pass
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 75.0%
- Typical mileage
- 114k mi
The 2008 Dodge Journey MOT pass rate is 78.9% of its MOT tests — 5.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 24.8% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Fewer problems with tyres
Tyres are 12.3% of this car’s recorded faults, against 19.8% nationally — the mirror image of the usual story on a car of this age.
- 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 73.1% and this one manages 78.9% — 5.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 34% 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 2008 Dodge Journey compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.1%, so this figure is 5.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 75.0%. The median 2008 Dodge Journey in this dataset had covered 114,064 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 74.5% of the time, April–September 85.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint excessively worn", noted on 10.53% of tests.
- 95 recorded tests behind this page.
- 78.9% overall pass rate, 75.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Dodge Journey, the average is 70.4% — best year 2008 (78.9%), worst 2009 (69.9%).
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
- 95
- Typical mileage (median)
- 114,064 mi
- Make and model
- Dodge Journey
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Ball Joint
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Journey MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 65% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Dodge Journey is most common
Across all Journey model years on record (2008–2010): 905 Dodge Journey cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 2,023 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 38 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) | 38 | 79.5% |
| 2 | Peterborough (PE) | 30 | 70.1% |
| 3 | Sheffield (S) | 28 | 75.9% |
| 4 | Leicester (LE) | 20 | 77.1% |
| 5 | Manchester (M) | 18 | 67.4% |
| 6 | Reading (RG) | 16 | 63.6% |
| 7 | Nottingham (NG) | 16 | 65.9% |
| 8 | Wakefield (WF) | 16 | 70.6% |
| 9 | Maidstone (ME) | 16 | 68.8% |
| 10 | Hull (HU) | 15 | 65.9% |
| 11 | Leeds (LS) | 15 | 71.0% |
| 12 | Doncaster (DN) | 15 | — |
| 13 | Wolverhampton (WV) | 14 | 61.0% |
| 14 | Middlesbrough (TS) | 14 | 76.3% |
| 15 | Poole (BH) | 14 | 57.9% |
| 16 | Glasgow (G) | 14 | — |
| 17 | Coventry (CV) | 14 | — |
| 18 | Portsmouth (PO) | 13 | 58.3% |
| 19 | Bradford (BD) | 13 | — |
| 20 | Dartford (DA) | 13 | — |
The twenty areas with the most Dodge Journey 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 Journey
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 29 | 86.2% |
| North West | 17 | 64.7% |
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 2008 Journey
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 2008 Journey
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 10.5% of tests
“ball joint 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 lights 6.3% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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 windscreen 6.3% 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.
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 2008 Journey through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £29–£76 — and 34% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £29–£76
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 34%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 95 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 Journey, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2008 to 2010. Across them the pass rate runs from 69.9% to 78.9% — a spread of 9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2008 78.9%ball joint excessively worn
- 2009 69.9% ball joint excessively worn
- 2010 70.0% ball joint excessively worn
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 2008 Dodge Journey 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 2008 cars with a similar record
- Land Rover Range Rover 78.9%
- Mazda Mx-5 78.8%
- Audi A5 78.8%
- Audi A6 78.6%
- Land Rover Defender 78.6%
- Toyota Corolla 79.4%
Closest pass rates among 2008 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 2008 Dodge Journey 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 298 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 | 75 | 24.80% | 20.98% | +3.82 |
| Brakes | 67 | 22.20% | 20.89% | +1.31 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 42 | 13.90% | 12.21% | +1.69 |
| Tyres | 37 | 12.30% | 19.76% | −7.46 |
| Steering | 19 | 6.30% | 2.57% | +3.73 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 15 | 5.00% | 5.52% | −0.52 |
| Non-component advisories | 14 | 4.60% | 4.18% | +0.42 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 11 | 3.60% | 5.57% | −1.97 |
| Visibility | 10 | 3.30% | 4.97% | −1.67 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 8 | 2.60% | 0.82% | +1.78 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 10.5% | £18–45 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 9.5% | £45–110 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 6.3% | £5–20 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 6.3% | £3–12 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 6.3% | £80–200 |
| Parking brake performance inoperative on one side Brakes | Major | 5.3% | £60–150 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 5.3% | £18–45 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.2% | £5–25 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Rectified | 4.2% | £3–12 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.2% | £40–150 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 30.5% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 20.0% | £45–95 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 15.8% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 13.7% | £45–110 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 11.6% | £200–700 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Advisory | 9.5% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60-90k | 23 | 73.9% | 73,796 mi |
| 90-120k | 30 | 76.7% | 104,843 mi |
| 120k+ | 42 | 83.3% | 147,328 mi |
Source: 95 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.
2008 Journey MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2008 Dodge Journey?
78.9% of the 95 2008 Dodge Journey tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.1% for cars first used in 2008. First-attempt pass rate: 75.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2008 Dodge Journey?
The three most recorded items are ball joint excessively worn (10.53%), rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements (9.47%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (6.32%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2008 Dodge Journey MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 73.9% of the time, falling to 83.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2008 Dodge Journey in this dataset had covered 114,064 mi.
Does the season affect the 2008 Dodge Journey MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 74.5% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 85.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.