Pass rate
80.7%
Around average — 2.1 pts ahead of the 78.6% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 39,002 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £27–£71
2013 Jaguar Xf MOT pass rate
- 2013
- 2 trims combined
- typical 91,163 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
29.9% 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 →
6.0 pts down across model years — 6.5% in 2008, 0.5% in 2020.
Which year to buy
- Best 2021 91.6% pass
- Avoid 2009 75.8% pass
Across the 15 years on record, a spread of 15.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 76.7%
- Typical mileage
- 91k mi
The 2013 Jaguar Xf MOT pass rate is 80.7% of its MOT tests — 2.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 29.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Jaguar Xf does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.4× the national share
Suspension accounts for 29.9% of everything recorded on the 2013 Jaguar Xf, against 21.0% nationally — 8.9 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 20% 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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Every Jaguar Xf first registered in 2013 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2013 Jaguar Xf compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 78.6%, so this figure is 2.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 76.7%. The median 2013 Jaguar Xf in this dataset had covered 91,163 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 98% of tests, with a 80.6% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 80.8% of the time, April–September 80.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 5.13% of tests.
- 39,002 recorded tests behind this page.
- 80.7% overall pass rate, 76.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jaguar Xf, the average is 82.1% — best year 2021 (91.6%), worst 2009 (75.8%).
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
- 39,002
- Typical mileage (median)
- 91,163 mi
- Make and model
- Jaguar Xf
- 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 Xf MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 69% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (98% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Xf
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 7,033 | 82.0% |
| East of England | 5,091 | 82.0% |
| North West | 4,939 | 80.9% |
| West Midlands | 4,252 | 81.5% |
| South West | 4,190 | 77.0% |
| Yorkshire | 3,805 | 81.3% |
| East Midlands | 3,376 | 80.7% |
| Scotland | 2,253 | 77.3% |
| North East | 1,818 | 82.3% |
| Wales | 1,789 | 78.6% |
| London | 453 | 86.5% |
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 2013 Xf
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 2013 Xf
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 5.1% 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 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 windscreen 2.9% 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 2013 Xf through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £27–£71 — and 20% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £27–£71
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 20%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 39,002 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 Xf, side by side
15 model years on record, from 2007 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 75.8% to 91.6% — a spread of 15.8 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2007 76.7% position lamp not working
- 2008 75.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 75.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 77.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 78.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 79.3% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2013 80.7%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 81.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 84.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 88.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 89.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 89.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 89.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 89.7% wipers does not clear the…
- 2021 91.6% wipers does not clear 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 2013 Jaguar Xf 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 2013 cars with a similar record
- Volkswagen Tiguan 80.7%
- Audi Q3 80.7%
- Citroen C1 80.9%
- Vauxhall Cascada 80.9%
- Mercedes-Benz B-Class 81.0%
- Suzuki Alto 81.1%
Closest pass rates among 2013 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 2013 Jaguar Xf 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 59,351 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 | 17,948 | 29.90% | 20.98% | +8.92 |
| Tyres | 14,246 | 23.70% | 19.76% | +3.94 |
| Brakes | 13,867 | 23.10% | 20.89% | +2.21 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 4,830 | 8.00% | 12.21% | −4.21 |
| Visibility | 2,780 | 4.60% | 4.97% | −0.37 |
| Non-component advisories | 1,506 | 2.50% | 4.18% | −1.68 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1,502 | 2.50% | 5.57% | −3.07 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1,221 | 2.00% | 5.52% | −3.52 |
| Road Wheels | 757 | 1.30% | 0.75% | +0.55 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 694 | 1.20% | 1.76% | −0.56 |
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 | 5.1% | £5–20 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 4.7% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.9% | £80–200 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 2.5% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.1% | £18–45 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 1.8% | £18–45 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 1.7% | £25–65 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.4% | £40–150 |
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 | 19.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 11.5% | £45–110 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 9.8% | £40–150 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 8.5% | £180–450 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 7.8% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 5.6% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 556 | 89.9% | 22,513 mi |
| 30-60k | 5,540 | 86.6% | 48,751 mi |
| 60-90k | 12,834 | 82.0% | 75,626 mi |
| 90-120k | 11,496 | 78.5% | 103,654 mi |
| 120k+ | 8,548 | 77.6% | 147,323 mi |
Source: 39,002 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.
2013 Xf MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2013 Jaguar Xf?
80.7% of the 39,002 2013 Jaguar Xf tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 78.6% for cars first used in 2013. First-attempt pass rate: 76.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2013 Jaguar Xf?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (5.13%), ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (4.66%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.86%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2013 Jaguar Xf MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 89.9% of the time, falling to 77.6% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2013 Jaguar Xf in this dataset had covered 91,163 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2013 Jaguar Xf?
Diesel: 80.6% pass rate across 38,228 tests. Petrol: 85.9% pass rate across 774 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2013 Jaguar Xf MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 80.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 80.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.