Pass rate
94.5%
Above average — 3.3 pts ahead of the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 218 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £34–£81
2021 Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag MOT pass rate
- 2021
- 2 trims combined
- typical 26,697 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
40.4% 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 2021 94.5% pass · this year
- Avoid 2019 92.0% pass
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 2.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 94.1%
- Typical mileage
- 27k mi
The 2021 Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag MOT pass rate is 94.5% of its MOT tests — 3.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 40.4% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.0× the national share
Tyres make up 40.4% of everything recorded on the 2021 Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag, against 19.8% nationally — 20.6 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.
- 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 91.2% and this one manages 94.5% — 3.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 21% 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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Every Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag first registered in 2021 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2021 Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 3.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 94.1%. The median 2021 Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag in this dataset had covered 26,697 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 86% of tests, with a 94.1% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 95.4% of the time, April–September 93.1%.
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 1.38% of tests.
- 218 recorded tests behind this page.
- 94.5% overall pass rate, 94.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag, the average is 93.0% — best year 2021 (94.5%), worst 2019 (92.0%).
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
- 218
- Typical mileage (median)
- 26,697 mi
- Make and model
- Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag
- 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 Chequered Flag MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 58% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (86% of tests).
Where the Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag is most common
Across all E-Pace Chequered Flag model years on record (2019–2021): 7,472 Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 14,108 tests. Glasgow (G) has the most, with 222 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 | Glasgow (G) | 222 | 91.9% |
| 2 | Birmingham (B) | 176 | 93.0% |
| 3 | Coventry (CV) | 170 | 97.4% |
| 4 | Sheffield (S) | 159 | 95.0% |
| 5 | Peterborough (PE) | 134 | 93.7% |
| 6 | Edinburgh (EH) | 128 | 90.0% |
| 7 | Reading (RG) | 128 | 93.2% |
| 8 | Chelmsford (CM) | 127 | 95.0% |
| 9 | Northampton (NN) | 124 | 94.3% |
| 10 | Nottingham (NG) | 121 | 93.3% |
| 11 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 117 | 95.2% |
| 12 | Liverpool (L) | 116 | 94.9% |
| 13 | Middlesbrough (TS) | 115 | 94.0% |
| 14 | Wakefield (WF) | 115 | 97.9% |
| 15 | Ayr (KA) | 113 | 92.0% |
| 16 | Derby (DE) | 113 | 91.7% |
| 17 | Leeds (LS) | 113 | 90.1% |
| 18 | Doncaster (DN) | 105 | 97.6% |
| 19 | Stockport (SK) | 104 | 94.2% |
| 20 | Aberdeen (AB) | 102 | 89.2% |
The twenty areas with the most Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag 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 Chequered Flag
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 44 | 90.9% |
| North West | 41 | 97.6% |
| South East | 25 | 96.0% |
| Yorkshire | 22 | 100.0% |
| East Midlands | 18 | 88.9% |
| Wales | 18 | 94.4% |
| West Midlands | 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 2021 E-Pace Chequered Flag
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 2021 E-Pace Chequered Flag
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 1.4% of tests
“headlamp aim too high”
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 brakes 0.9% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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Check the tyre tread 0.9% 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 2021 E-Pace Chequered Flag through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £34–£81 — and 21% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £34–£81
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £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
- 21%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 218 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 Chequered Flag, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2019 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 92.0% to 94.5% — a spread of 2.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 92.0% wipers blade defective
- 2020 93.5% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 94.5%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 2021 Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag 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 2021 cars with a similar record
- Audi Q2 94.4%
- Mazda Cx-30 94.4%
- Porsche Cayenne 94.6%
- Volvo XC40 Inscript Pro 94.3%
- Toyota C-Hr 94.2%
- Toyota Gr YARIS Circuit 94.2%
Closest pass rates among 2021 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 2021 Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 8 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 146 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 | 59 | 40.40% | 19.76% | +20.64 |
| Brakes | 54 | 37.00% | 20.89% | +16.11 |
| Non-component advisories | 13 | 8.90% | 4.18% | +4.72 |
| Suspension | 6 | 4.10% | 20.98% | −16.88 |
| Visibility | 6 | 4.10% | 4.97% | −0.87 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 4 | 2.70% | 12.21% | −9.51 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 3 | 2.10% | 5.52% | −3.42 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 0.70% | 5.57% | −4.87 |
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 | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.4% | £30–80 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.92% | £18–45 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.92% | £3–12 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.92% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.92% | £80–200 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.92% | £8–22 |
| Brake pads worn down to wear indicator Brakes | Major | 0.46% | £18–45 |
| Exhaust system fumes entering cabin Body, chassis, structure | Major | 0.46% | £45–120 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.46% | £45–95 |
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 | 15.6% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 15.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 7.3% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 4.6% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 4.1% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 2.3% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 130 | 97.7% | 20,131 mi |
| 30-60k | 81 | 91.4% | 39,889 mi |
| 60-90k | 3 | 66.7% | 62,205 mi |
| 90-120k | 4 | 75.0% | 106,154 mi |
Source: 218 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.
2021 E-Pace Chequered Flag MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag?
94.5% of the 218 2021 Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 94.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.38%), headlamp aim too high (1.38%), brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (0.92%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 97.7% of the time, falling to 75.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag in this dataset had covered 26,697 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2021 Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag?
Diesel: 94.1% pass rate across 187 tests. Petrol: 96.8% pass rate across 31 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2021 Jaguar E-Pace Chequered Flag MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 95.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 93.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.