Pass rate
69.2%
Below average — 3.0 pts behind the 72.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 9,924 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £57–£152
2004 Jaguar X-Type MOT pass rate
- 2004
- typical 97,882 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
30.6% 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 →
1.6 pts down across model years — 4.4% in 2001, 2.8% in 2009.
Which year to buy
- Best 2010 77.3% pass
- Avoid 2004 69.2% pass · this year
Across the 10 years on record, a spread of 8.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 60.9%
- Typical mileage
- 98k mi
The 2004 Jaguar X-Type MOT pass rate is 69.2% of its MOT tests — 3.0 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 30.6% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.5× the national share
Suspension accounts for 30.6% of everything recorded on the 2004 Jaguar X-Type, against 21.0% nationally — 9.6 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 72.2%; this one manages 69.2% — 3.0 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 17% 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 2004 Jaguar X-Type compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.2%, so this figure is 3.0 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 60.9%. The median 2004 Jaguar X-Type in this dataset had covered 97,882 mi.
60% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 71.1% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 68.6% of the time, April–September 69.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength", noted on 5.48% of tests.
- 9,924 recorded tests behind this page.
- 69.2% overall pass rate, 60.9% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jaguar X-Type, the average is 71.3% — best year 2010 (77.3%), worst 2004 (69.2%).
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
- 9,924
- Typical mileage (median)
- 97,882 mi
- Make and model
- Jaguar X-Type
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Corrosion Welding Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the X-Type MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 55% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (60% of tests).
Where the Jaguar X-Type is most common
Across all X-Type model years on record (2001–2010): 37,853 Jaguar X-Type cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 93,217 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 1,352 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) | 1,352 | 76.9% |
| 2 | Sheffield (S) | 1,024 | 73.2% |
| 3 | Peterborough (PE) | 899 | 70.8% |
| 4 | Nottingham (NG) | 760 | 69.3% |
| 5 | Coventry (CV) | 757 | 74.1% |
| 6 | Leicester (LE) | 654 | 75.9% |
| 7 | Portsmouth (PO) | 650 | 69.6% |
| 8 | Norwich (NR) | 610 | 70.1% |
| 9 | Reading (RG) | 584 | 73.7% |
| 10 | Ashford (TN) | 566 | 71.4% |
| 11 | Southampton (SO) | 536 | 71.3% |
| 12 | Bristol (BS) | 532 | 67.8% |
| 13 | Cardiff (CF) | 527 | 67.3% |
| 14 | Derby (DE) | 526 | 72.0% |
| 15 | Manchester (M) | 524 | 74.4% |
| 16 | Poole (BH) | 520 | 69.7% |
| 17 | Guildford (GU) | 520 | 72.8% |
| 18 | Basildon (SS) | 515 | 79.6% |
| 19 | Ipswich (IP) | 502 | 67.6% |
| 20 | Chelmsford (CM) | 501 | 76.8% |
The twenty areas with the most Jaguar X-Type 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 X-Type
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 2,441 | 72.5% |
| East of England | 1,338 | 71.4% |
| South West | 1,122 | 62.6% |
| West Midlands | 1,056 | 68.8% |
| North West | 926 | 68.1% |
| East Midlands | 679 | 68.3% |
| Yorkshire | 674 | 68.5% |
| London | 538 | 79.0% |
| Wales | 471 | 61.6% |
| Scotland | 356 | 62.6% |
| North East | 323 | 66.9% |
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 2004 X-Type
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 2004 X-Type
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 corrosion 5.5% of tests
“component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength”
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 4.7% 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 3.9% 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.
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 2004 X-Type through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £57–£152 — and 17% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £57–£152
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: component mounting prescribed areas…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 40%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 17%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 9,924 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 X-Type, side by side
10 model years on record, from 2001 to 2010. Across them the pass rate runs from 69.2% to 77.3% — a spread of 8.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2001 71.5% component mounting prescribed…
- 2002 70.8% component mounting prescribed…
- 2003 71.4% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2004 69.2%component mounting prescribed…
- 2005 69.7% component mounting prescribed…
- 2006 70.7% component mounting prescribed…
- 2007 71.0% component mounting prescribed…
- 2008 72.2% component mounting prescribed…
- 2009 73.5% component mounting prescribed…
- 2010 77.3% component mounting prescribed…
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 2004 Jaguar X-Type 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 2004 cars with a similar record
- Kia Picanto 69.2%
- Volkswagen Golf 69.3%
- Citroen C3 69.3%
- Hyundai Getz 69.3%
- Vauxhall Astravan 69.1%
- Mercedes-Benz Vito 69.1%
Closest pass rates among 2004 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 2004 Jaguar X-Type 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 31,368 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 | 9,753 | 30.60% | 20.98% | +9.62 |
| Brakes | 6,354 | 19.90% | 20.89% | −0.99 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 3,847 | 12.10% | 5.52% | +6.58 |
| Tyres | 3,389 | 10.60% | 19.76% | −9.16 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 3,007 | 9.40% | 12.21% | −2.81 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 2,165 | 6.80% | 5.57% | +1.23 |
| Visibility | 1,071 | 3.40% | 4.97% | −1.57 |
| Non-component advisories | 774 | 2.40% | 4.18% | −1.78 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 602 | 1.90% | 0.82% | +1.08 |
| Steering | 406 | 1.30% | 2.57% | −1.27 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 5.5% | £180–450 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 4.7% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 4.1% | £40–150 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.9% | £3–12 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 3.5% | £45–110 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.9% | £30–80 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.9% | £80–200 |
| Prescribed areas prescribed area strength or continuity significantly reduced Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 2.9% | £40–120 |
| Parking brake performance inoperative on one side Brakes | Major | 2.4% | £60–150 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.2% | £5–25 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 25.0% | £200–700 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 17.1% | £45–110 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 17.1% | £25–65 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 16.4% | £45–95 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 11.9% | £80–180 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 10.8% | £180–450 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 148 | 93.2% | 22,142 mi |
| 30-60k | 1,268 | 77.6% | 49,051 mi |
| 60-90k | 2,674 | 72.1% | 76,647 mi |
| 90-120k | 3,001 | 67.0% | 103,944 mi |
| 120k+ | 2,827 | 63.7% | 149,753 mi |
Source: 9,924 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.
2004 X-Type MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2004 Jaguar X-Type?
69.2% of the 9,924 2004 Jaguar X-Type tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.2% for cars first used in 2004. First-attempt pass rate: 60.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2004 Jaguar X-Type?
The three most recorded items are component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (5.48%), ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (4.73%), pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (4.06%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2004 Jaguar X-Type MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.2% of the time, falling to 63.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2004 Jaguar X-Type in this dataset had covered 97,882 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2004 Jaguar X-Type?
Petrol: 71.1% pass rate across 5,938 tests. Diesel: 66.3% pass rate across 3,964 tests. LPG: 63.2% pass rate across 19 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2004 Jaguar X-Type MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 68.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 69.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.