Pass rate
94.8%
Above average — 10.8 pts ahead of the 84.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 251 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £32–£93
2016 Jaguar Eagle MOT pass rate
- 2016
- typical 37,309 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
40.0% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 96.6% pass
- Avoid 2008 72.7% pass
Across the 14 years on record, a spread of 23.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 94.5%
- Typical mileage
- 37k mi
The 2016 Jaguar Eagle MOT pass rate is 94.8% of its MOT tests — 10.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 40.0% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Jaguar Eagle does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.0× the national share
Tyres make up 40.0% of everything recorded on the 2016 Jaguar Eagle, against 19.8% nationally — 20.2 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 84.0% and this one manages 94.8% — 10.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 56% 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 2016 Jaguar Eagle compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 84.0%, so this figure is 10.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 94.5%. The median 2016 Jaguar Eagle in this dataset had covered 37,309 mi.
87% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Diesel, which passed 94.0% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 93.6% of the time, April–September 96.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 3.19% of tests.
- 251 recorded tests behind this page.
- 94.8% overall pass rate, 94.5% 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
- 251
- Typical mileage (median)
- 37,309 mi
- Make and model
- Jaguar Eagle
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Eagle MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 85% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (87% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Eagle
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| East of England | 47 | 95.7% |
| North West | 40 | 97.5% |
| Scotland | 29 | 96.6% |
| West Midlands | 25 | 96.0% |
| East Midlands | 22 | 90.9% |
| South East | 20 | 90.0% |
| South West | 16 | 100.0% |
| London | 16 | 81.3% |
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 2016 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 2016 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 lights 3.2% 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 1.6% 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.
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Check tyre pressures and valves 0.8% of tests
“tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative”
Set the pressures to the figures on the door pillar, not the tyre wall, and check the valves do not hiss. A leaking valve is a two-minute fix that fails a test.
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 2016 Eagle through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £32–£93 — and 56% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £32–£93
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 56%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 251 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 2016 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 2016 cars with a similar record
- Porsche Cayman 94.8%
- Porsche Boxster 94.6%
- Lexus Rx 94.4%
- Bentley Continental 95.2%
- Porsche 911 95.7%
- Audi A8 92.7%
Closest pass rates among 2016 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 2016 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 143 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 | 58 | 40.00% | 19.76% | +20.24 |
| Brakes | 29 | 20.00% | 20.89% | −0.89 |
| Suspension | 13 | 9.00% | 20.98% | −11.98 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 12 | 8.30% | 12.21% | −3.91 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 12 | 8.30% | 5.52% | +2.78 |
| Visibility | 7 | 4.80% | 4.97% | −0.17 |
| Non-component advisories | 4 | 2.80% | 4.18% | −1.38 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 3 | 2.10% | 5.57% | −3.47 |
| Road Wheels | 3 | 2.10% | 0.75% | +1.35 |
| Steering | 2 | 1.40% | 2.57% | −1.17 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.2% | £5–20 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.6% | £80–200 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 0.80% | £80–250 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.80% | £3–12 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Rectified | 0.80% | £3–12 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Major | 0.80% | £45–95 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.80% | £8–22 |
| Catalyst emissions emissions likely to be affected by an exhaust leak Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.40% | £60–250 |
| Emissions not tested unable to be completed Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.40% | £60–250 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.40% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 13.9% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 4.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 2.8% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 2.8% | £18–45 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 2.8% | £80–180 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 1.6% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 79 | 96.2% | 22,541 mi |
| 30-60k | 142 | 93.7% | 42,276 mi |
| 60-90k | 29 | 96.6% | 72,267 mi |
| 90-120k | 1 | 100.0% | 98,693 mi |
Source: 251 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.
2016 Eagle MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2016 Jaguar Eagle?
94.8% of the 251 2016 Jaguar Eagle tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 84.0% for cars first used in 2016. First-attempt pass rate: 94.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2016 Jaguar Eagle?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (3.19%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.59%), joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (0.80%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2016 Jaguar Eagle MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 96.2% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2016 Jaguar Eagle in this dataset had covered 37,309 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2016 Jaguar Eagle?
Diesel: 94.0% pass rate across 218 tests. Petrol: 100.0% pass rate across 33 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2016 Jaguar Eagle MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 93.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 96.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.