Pass rate
72.7%
Below average — 0.4 pts behind the 73.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 55 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £23–£57
2008 Jaguar Eagle MOT pass rate
- 2008
- typical 87,065 mi
Only 55 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
36.7% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 96.6% pass
- Avoid 2008 72.7% pass · this year
Across the 14 years on record, a spread of 23.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 64.3%
- Typical mileage
- 87k mi
The 2008 Jaguar Eagle MOT pass rate is 72.7% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 36.7% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.7× the national share
Suspension accounts for 36.7% of everything recorded on the 2008 Jaguar Eagle, against 21.0% nationally — 15.7 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.
- Based on a small sample. 55 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
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 Jaguar Eagle compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.1%, so this figure is 0.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 64.3%. The median 2008 Jaguar Eagle in this dataset had covered 87,065 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 9.09% of tests.
- 55 recorded tests behind this page.
- 72.7% overall pass rate, 64.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jaguar Eagle, the average is 88.3% — best year 2020 (96.6%), worst 2008 (72.7%).
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
- 55
- Typical mileage (median)
- 87,065 mi
- Make and model
- Jaguar Eagle
- 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 Eagle MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 58% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Jaguar Eagle is most common
Across all Eagle model years on record (2006–2020): 1,014 Jaguar Eagle cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 2,630 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 53 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) | 53 | 91.0% |
| 2 | Northampton (NN) | 44 | 85.7% |
| 3 | Coventry (CV) | 36 | 91.7% |
| 4 | Wigan (WN) | 31 | 80.4% |
| 5 | London (SE) | 30 | 85.9% |
| 6 | Peterborough (PE) | 28 | 90.9% |
| 7 | Oxford (OX) | 24 | 90.3% |
| 8 | Reading (RG) | 24 | 81.7% |
| 9 | Swansea (SA) | 21 | 91.5% |
| 10 | Crawley (RH) | 19 | 82.8% |
| 11 | Norwich (NR) | 17 | 85.4% |
| 12 | Telford (TF) | 17 | 95.1% |
| 13 | Croydon (CR) | 16 | 75.6% |
| 14 | Newport (NP) | 16 | 92.9% |
| 15 | Edinburgh (EH) | 16 | 85.4% |
| 16 | Middlesbrough (TS) | 16 | 97.3% |
| 17 | Bolton (BL) | 16 | — |
| 18 | Stoke On Trent (ST) | 15 | 95.3% |
| 19 | St Albans (AL) | 15 | 90.5% |
| 20 | Derby (DE) | 15 | 85.7% |
The twenty areas with the most Jaguar Eagle 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 Eagle
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 17 | 76.5% |
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 Eagle
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 Eagle
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 9.1% of tests
“ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated”
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 9.1% 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 7.3% 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 Eagle through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £23–£57 — and 42% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £23–£57
- 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
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 42%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 55 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 Eagle, side by side
14 model years on record, from 2006 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 72.7% to 96.6% — a spread of 23.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2006 78.2% wipers does not clear the…
- 2007 82.4% position lamp not working
- 2008 72.7%ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2010 73.1% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2011 81.8% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2012 85.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 88.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 84.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 88.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 94.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 92.0% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2018 92.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2019 93.2% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2020 96.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
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 Jaguar Eagle 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
- Honda Civic 72.7%
- Skoda Octavia 72.8%
- Volvo S40 72.8%
- Mitsubishi Shogun 72.8%
- Vauxhall Corsa 72.6%
- Ford Mondeo 72.5%
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 Jaguar Eagle 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 109 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 | 40 | 36.70% | 20.98% | +15.72 |
| Tyres | 18 | 16.50% | 19.76% | −3.26 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 14 | 12.80% | 12.21% | +0.59 |
| Visibility | 11 | 10.10% | 4.97% | +5.13 |
| Brakes | 10 | 9.20% | 20.89% | −11.69 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 9 | 8.30% | 5.52% | +2.78 |
| Steering | 3 | 2.80% | 2.57% | +0.23 |
| Non-component advisories | 2 | 1.80% | 4.18% | −2.38 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 0.90% | 5.57% | −4.67 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 0.90% | 0.82% | +0.08 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 9.1% | £18–45 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 9.1% | £3–12 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 9.1% | £5–20 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 7.3% | £18–45 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 7.3% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 7.3% | £80–200 |
| Electronic stability control warning lamp indicates a fault Brakes | Major | 5.5% | £3–15 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 5.5% | £18–45 |
| Mirrors slightly loose Visibility | Minor | 5.5% | £3–15 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 3.6% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 20.0% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 14.6% | £45–95 |
| Shock absorbers has an excessively worn bush Suspension | Advisory | 12.7% | £30–75 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.5% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 3.6% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 3.6% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 6 | 66.7% | 42,710 mi |
| 60-90k | 22 | 77.3% | 77,396 mi |
| 90-120k | 19 | 68.4% | 111,012 mi |
| 120k+ | 8 | 75.0% | 133,045 mi |
Source: 55 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 Eagle MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2008 Jaguar Eagle?
72.7% of the 55 2008 Jaguar Eagle tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.1% for cars first used in 2008. First-attempt pass rate: 64.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2008 Jaguar Eagle?
The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (9.09%), malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (9.09%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (9.09%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2008 Jaguar Eagle MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 66.7% of the time, falling to 75.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2008 Jaguar Eagle in this dataset had covered 87,065 mi.