Pass rate
91.9%
Above average — 1.2 pts ahead of the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 10,116 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £30–£76
2020 Jaguar E-Pace MOT pass rate
- 2020
- typical 29,225 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Brakes
39.1% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Part only £25–£40 for Brake pads under 1.5 mm. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2021 93.9% pass
- Avoid 2017 89.3% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 4.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 91.3%
- Typical mileage
- 29k mi
The 2020 Jaguar E-Pace MOT pass rate is 91.9% of its MOT tests — 1.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 39.1% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 1.9× the national share
Brakes make up 39.1% of everything recorded on the 2020 Jaguar E-Pace, against 20.9% nationally — 18.2 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
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 2020 Jaguar E-Pace compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 1.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 91.3%. The median 2020 Jaguar E-Pace in this dataset had covered 29,225 mi.
75% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Diesel, which passed 91.2% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 92.3% 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 1.79% of tests.
- 10,116 recorded tests behind this page.
- 91.9% overall pass rate, 91.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jaguar E-Pace, the average is 90.5% — best year 2021 (93.9%), worst 2017 (89.3%).
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
- 10,116
- Typical mileage (median)
- 29,225 mi
- Make and model
- Jaguar E-Pace
- 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 E-Pace 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. Diesel is the most common here (75% of tests).
Where the Jaguar E-Pace is most common
Across all E-Pace model years on record (2017–2022): 39,447 Jaguar E-Pace cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 77,495 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 930 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) | 930 | 90.5% |
| 2 | Glasgow (G) | 835 | 89.0% |
| 3 | Sheffield (S) | 819 | 92.7% |
| 4 | Chelmsford (CM) | 795 | 92.0% |
| 5 | Coventry (CV) | 757 | 93.2% |
| 6 | Peterborough (PE) | 751 | 92.1% |
| 7 | Northampton (NN) | 731 | 85.3% |
| 8 | Doncaster (DN) | 695 | 90.2% |
| 9 | Nottingham (NG) | 676 | 93.1% |
| 10 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 672 | 92.4% |
| 11 | Reading (RG) | 646 | 90.7% |
| 12 | Leicester (LE) | 633 | 92.5% |
| 13 | York (YO) | 608 | 89.1% |
| 14 | Cardiff (CF) | 587 | 87.8% |
| 15 | Manchester (M) | 582 | 89.9% |
| 16 | Derby (DE) | 580 | 92.0% |
| 17 | Ashford (TN) | 537 | 89.4% |
| 18 | Leeds (LS) | 527 | 89.8% |
| 19 | Bristol (BS) | 515 | 90.0% |
| 20 | Liverpool (L) | 509 | 89.1% |
The twenty areas with the most Jaguar E-Pace 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 E-Pace
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 2,080 | 91.8% |
| North West | 1,330 | 91.4% |
| Scotland | 1,120 | 89.1% |
| East of England | 1,076 | 92.4% |
| Yorkshire | 1,015 | 93.7% |
| South West | 819 | 90.2% |
| West Midlands | 779 | 92.6% |
| East Midlands | 652 | 93.4% |
| North East | 467 | 91.9% |
| Wales | 448 | 93.1% |
| London | 330 | 95.2% |
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 2020 E-Pace
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 2020 E-Pace
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 wipers and washers 1.6% 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.
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Check the lights 1.3% 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 windscreen 1.0% 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 2020 E-Pace through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £30–£76 — and 40% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £30–£76
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: on or after 01/01/2014 emissions exceed…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 40%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 10,116 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 E-Pace, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2017 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 89.3% to 93.9% — a spread of 4.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2017 89.3% wipers does not clear the…
- 2018 90.0% wipers does not clear the…
- 2019 90.4% wipers does not clear the…
- 2020 91.9%has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 93.9% wipers blade defective
- 2022 91.2% 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 2020 Jaguar E-Pace 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 2020 cars with a similar record
- Kia Niro 91.9%
- Ford Kuga 91.9%
- Fiat 500 91.9%
- Audi E-Tron 91.9%
- Mitsubishi Outlander Exceed 91.9%
- Volkswagen Touareg V6 91.9%
Closest pass rates among 2020 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 2020 Jaguar E-Pace 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 7,331 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 2,873 | 39.10% | 20.89% | +18.21 |
| Tyres | 2,730 | 37.10% | 19.76% | +17.34 |
| Non-component advisories | 543 | 7.40% | 4.18% | +3.22 |
| Visibility | 489 | 6.70% | 4.97% | +1.73 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 244 | 3.30% | 5.52% | −2.22 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 192 | 2.60% | 12.21% | −9.61 |
| Suspension | 157 | 2.10% | 20.98% | −18.88 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 55 | 0.70% | 1.76% | −1.06 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 27 | 0.40% | 0.82% | −0.42 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 21 | 0.30% | 5.57% | −5.27 |
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 | 1.8% | £45–95 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.6% | £8–22 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.3% | £3–12 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.1% | £30–80 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.0% | £80–200 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.70% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.51% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.41% | £45–95 |
| On or after 01/01/2014 emissions exceed manufacturer's specified limit Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.40% | £60–250 |
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 | 16.3% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 11.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.5% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.8% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.5% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 2.5% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 5,303 | 93.9% | 20,324 mi |
| 30-60k | 4,233 | 90.1% | 40,637 mi |
| 60-90k | 502 | 87.8% | 69,458 mi |
| 90-120k | 64 | 79.7% | 99,727 mi |
| 120k+ | 13 | 76.9% | 136,976 mi |
Source: 10,116 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.
2020 E-Pace MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Jaguar E-Pace?
91.9% of the 10,116 2020 Jaguar E-Pace tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 91.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Jaguar E-Pace?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.79%), wipers blade defective (1.55%), malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (1.25%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Jaguar E-Pace MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.9% of the time, falling to 76.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Jaguar E-Pace in this dataset had covered 29,225 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2020 Jaguar E-Pace?
Diesel: 91.2% pass rate across 7,598 tests. Petrol: 94.0% pass rate across 2,515 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2020 Jaguar E-Pace MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 92.3% 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.