Pass rate
90.8%
Above average — 2.9 pts ahead of the 87.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 2,371 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £39–£88
2018 Jaguar I-Pace MOT pass rate
- 2018
- typical 37,299 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
49.9% 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 →
3.5 pts down across model years — 6.2% in 2018, 2.7% in 2022.
Which year to buy
- Best 2022 94.7% pass
- Avoid 2018 90.8% pass · this year
Across the 5 years on record, a spread of 3.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 90.0%
- Typical mileage
- 37k mi
The 2018 Jaguar I-Pace MOT pass rate is 90.8% of its MOT tests — 2.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 49.9% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.5× the national share
Tyres make up 49.9% of everything recorded on the 2018 Jaguar I-Pace, against 19.8% nationally — 30.1 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 0% 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 2018 Jaguar I-Pace compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 87.9%, so this figure is 2.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 90.0%. The median 2018 Jaguar I-Pace in this dataset had covered 37,299 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 90.8% of the time, April–September 90.8%.
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 2.74% of tests.
- 2,371 recorded tests behind this page.
- 90.8% overall pass rate, 90.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jaguar I-Pace, the average is 93.4% — best year 2022 (94.7%), worst 2018 (90.8%).
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
- 2,371
- Typical mileage (median)
- 37,299 mi
- Make and model
- Jaguar I-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 I-Pace MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 73% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Jaguar I-Pace is most common
Across all I-Pace model years on record (2018–2022): 33,106 Jaguar I-Pace cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 49,913 tests. Coventry (CV) has the most, with 1,013 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 | Coventry (CV) | 1,013 | 95.2% |
| 2 | Peterborough (PE) | 919 | 92.5% |
| 3 | Birmingham (B) | 900 | 94.0% |
| 4 | Reading (RG) | 781 | 90.4% |
| 5 | Northampton (NN) | 693 | 93.7% |
| 6 | Oxford (OX) | 693 | 93.9% |
| 7 | High Wycombe (HP) | 642 | 96.3% |
| 8 | Nottingham (NG) | 641 | 95.7% |
| 9 | Sheffield (S) | 627 | 95.9% |
| 10 | York (YO) | 627 | 91.1% |
| 11 | Milton Keynes (MK) | 620 | 94.6% |
| 12 | Leeds (LS) | 590 | 92.5% |
| 13 | Ashford (TN) | 561 | 89.7% |
| 14 | Chelmsford (CM) | 551 | 91.4% |
| 15 | London (NW) | 531 | 93.9% |
| 16 | Liverpool (L) | 515 | 94.1% |
| 17 | Southampton (SO) | 504 | 91.4% |
| 18 | Leicester (LE) | 498 | 95.6% |
| 19 | Stockport (SK) | 493 | 90.4% |
| 20 | Bristol (BS) | 492 | 91.1% |
The twenty areas with the most Jaguar I-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 I-Pace
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 751 | 88.9% |
| East of England | 307 | 91.2% |
| North West | 200 | 92.0% |
| West Midlands | 200 | 91.5% |
| Yorkshire | 196 | 89.8% |
| South West | 193 | 89.1% |
| East Midlands | 163 | 95.7% |
| London | 143 | 97.9% |
| Scotland | 126 | 86.5% |
| Wales | 47 | 91.5% |
| North East | 45 | 95.6% |
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 2018 I-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 2018 I-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 suspension joints 1.1% of tests
“track rod end ball joint has excessive play”
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 0.8% of tests
“headlamp aim too low”
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 0.6% 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.
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 2018 I-Pace through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £39–£88 — and 0% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £39–£88
- Cheapest common item: track rod end ball joint has excessive play
- £18–£45
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 0%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 2,371 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 I-Pace, side by side
5 model years on record, from 2018 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 90.8% to 94.7% — a spread of 3.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2018 90.8%has a cut in excess of the…
- 2019 92.1% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2020 94.1% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 94.0% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2022 94.7% 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 2018 Jaguar I-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 2018 cars with a similar record
- Hyundai I20 90.8%
- Hyundai Kona 90.8%
- Fiat 124 90.8%
- Volkswagen Golf 90.7%
- BMW X1 90.7%
- BMW 6 Series 90.7%
Closest pass rates among 2018 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 2018 Jaguar I-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 1,277 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 | 641 | 49.90% | 19.76% | +30.14 |
| Steering | 159 | 12.40% | 2.57% | +9.83 |
| Brakes | 156 | 12.10% | 20.89% | −8.79 |
| Non-component advisories | 136 | 10.60% | 4.18% | +6.42 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 46 | 3.60% | 12.21% | −8.61 |
| Visibility | 45 | 3.50% | 4.97% | −1.47 |
| Suspension | 42 | 3.30% | 20.98% | −17.68 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 30 | 2.30% | 1.76% | +0.54 |
| Road Wheels | 12 | 0.90% | 0.75% | +0.15 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 10 | 0.80% | 5.57% | −4.77 |
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 | 2.7% | £45–95 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 1.1% | £18–45 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.97% | £45–95 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 0.84% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.76% | £30–80 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.63% | £80–200 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.42% | £45–95 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover excessively damaged or deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of… Steering | Major | 0.42% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.42% | £45–95 |
| Pedal anti-slip provision missing Brakes | Major | 0.34% | £45–110 |
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 | 12.0% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 4.1% | £45–95 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Advisory | 3.6% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 3.1% | £45–110 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 3.1% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.5% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 819 | 92.4% | 20,950 mi |
| 30-60k | 1,183 | 91.2% | 42,927 mi |
| 60-90k | 321 | 86.6% | 70,900 mi |
| 90-120k | 44 | 81.8% | 99,022 mi |
| 120k+ | 4 | 100.0% | 137,085 mi |
Source: 2,371 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.
2018 I-Pace MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2018 Jaguar I-Pace?
90.8% of the 2,371 2018 Jaguar I-Pace tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 87.9% for cars first used in 2018. First-attempt pass rate: 90.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2018 Jaguar I-Pace?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.74%), track rod end ball joint has excessive play (1.14%), has ply or cords exposed (0.97%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2018 Jaguar I-Pace MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.4% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2018 Jaguar I-Pace in this dataset had covered 37,299 mi.
Does the season affect the 2018 Jaguar I-Pace MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 90.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 90.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.