Pass rate
80.2%
Around average — 6.9 pts ahead of the 73.3% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 81 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £49–£130
2001 Jaguar Sovereign MOT pass rate
- 2001
- typical 95,040 mi
Only 81 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
36.8% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Part only £35–£75 for Suspension pin or bush excessively worn. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2001 80.2% pass · this year
- Avoid 2000 79.8% pass
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 0.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 77.1%
- Typical mileage
- 95k mi
The 2001 Jaguar Sovereign MOT pass rate is 80.2% of its MOT tests — 6.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 36.8% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.8× the national share
Suspension accounts for 36.8% of everything recorded on the 2001 Jaguar Sovereign, against 21.0% nationally — 15.8 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.
- 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 73.3% and this one manages 80.2% — 6.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 81 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 2001 Jaguar Sovereign compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.3%, so this figure is 6.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 77.1%. The median 2001 Jaguar Sovereign in this dataset had covered 95,040 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 83.7% of the time, April–September 76.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an ABS fault", noted on 4.94% of tests.
- 81 recorded tests behind this page.
- 80.2% overall pass rate, 77.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jaguar Sovereign, the average is 80.0% — best year 2001 (80.2%), worst 2000 (79.8%).
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
- 81
- Typical mileage (median)
- 95,040 mi
- Make and model
- Jaguar Sovereign
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Sovereign MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 56% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Sovereign
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 32 | 75.0% |
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 2001 Sovereign
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 2001 Sovereign
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 4.9% of tests
“anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an ABS fault”
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 corrosion 3.7% of tests
“chassis condition corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced”
Look under the sills, around the jacking points and where the suspension mounts meet the body. Flaking, holed or crumbly metal fails; a brown stain on sound metal does not.
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Check the suspension joints 2.5% of tests
“ball joint excessively worn”
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.
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 2001 Sovereign through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £49–£130 — and 44% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £49–£130
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: chassis condition corroded to the extent that…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 44%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 81 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 Sovereign, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2000 to 2001. Across them the pass rate runs from 79.8% to 80.2% — a spread of 0.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 79.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2001 80.2%anti-lock braking system warning…
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 2001 Jaguar Sovereign 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 2001 cars with a similar record
- Mercedes-Benz Slk 80.3%
- Porsche Boxster 80.5%
- BMW Z3 79.5%
- Subaru Impreza 79.3%
- Mercedes-Benz Clk 79.0%
- Land Rover Range Rover 78.9%
Closest pass rates among 2001 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 2001 Jaguar Sovereign 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 132 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 | 49 | 36.80% | 20.98% | +15.82 |
| Brakes | 29 | 21.80% | 20.89% | +0.91 |
| Tyres | 11 | 8.30% | 19.76% | −11.46 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 10 | 7.50% | 5.57% | +1.93 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 9 | 6.80% | 5.52% | +1.28 |
| Visibility | 8 | 6.00% | 4.97% | +1.03 |
| Non-component advisories | 6 | 4.50% | 4.18% | +0.32 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 5 | 3.80% | 12.21% | −8.41 |
| Steering | 4 | 3.00% | 2.57% | +0.43 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 0.80% | 0.82% | −0.02 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an ABS fault Brakes | Major | 4.9% | £3–15 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 4.9% | £3–12 |
| Chassis condition corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced Body, chassis, structure | Major | 3.7% | £180–450 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.5% | £18–45 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 2.5% | £25–65 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 2.5% | £180–450 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.5% | £40–150 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Major | 2.5% | £5–15 |
| Ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 1.2% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 1.2% | £18–45 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Advisory | 9.9% | £180–450 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 7.4% | £80–180 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 6.2% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 6.2% | £45–110 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 6.2% | £25–65 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 6.2% | £200–700 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 3 | 100.0% | 26,898 mi |
| 30-60k | 13 | 100.0% | 47,680 mi |
| 60-90k | 17 | 70.6% | 75,955 mi |
| 90-120k | 34 | 82.4% | 100,851 mi |
| 120k+ | 14 | 64.3% | 139,842 mi |
Source: 81 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.
2001 Sovereign MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2001 Jaguar Sovereign?
80.2% of the 81 2001 Jaguar Sovereign tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.3% for cars first used in 2001. First-attempt pass rate: 77.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2001 Jaguar Sovereign?
The three most recorded items are anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an abs fault (4.94%), malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (4.94%), chassis condition corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced (3.70%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2001 Jaguar Sovereign MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 64.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2001 Jaguar Sovereign in this dataset had covered 95,040 mi.
Does the season affect the 2001 Jaguar Sovereign MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 83.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 76.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.