Pass rate
80.3%
Around average — 7.0 pts ahead of the 73.3% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,864 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £68–£182
2001 Jaguar Xj MOT pass rate
- 2001
- typical 91,793 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
31.6% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 94.3% pass
- Avoid 2004 77.7% pass
Across the 21 years on record, a spread of 16.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 77.7%
- Typical mileage
- 92k mi
The 2001 Jaguar Xj MOT pass rate is 80.3% of its MOT tests — 7.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 31.6% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.5× the national share
Suspension accounts for 31.6% of everything recorded on the 2001 Jaguar Xj, against 21.0% nationally — 10.6 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.
- 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 80.3% — 7.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 28% 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 2001 Jaguar Xj compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.3%, so this figure is 7.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 77.7%. The median 2001 Jaguar Xj in this dataset had covered 91,793 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 79.4% of the time, April–September 81.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength", noted on 4.02% of tests.
- 1,864 recorded tests behind this page.
- 80.3% overall pass rate, 77.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jaguar Xj, the average is 82.3% — best year 2020 (94.3%), worst 2004 (77.7%).
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
- 1,864
- Typical mileage (median)
- 91,793 mi
- Make and model
- Jaguar Xj
- 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 Xj MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 66% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Jaguar Xj is most common
Across all Xj model years on record (2000–2020): 30,481 Jaguar Xj cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 68,447 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 1,079 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) | 1,079 | 85.4% |
| 2 | Peterborough (PE) | 736 | 81.4% |
| 3 | Coventry (CV) | 662 | 83.6% |
| 4 | Sheffield (S) | 645 | 88.2% |
| 5 | Nottingham (NG) | 554 | 84.1% |
| 6 | Reading (RG) | 537 | 80.8% |
| 7 | Leicester (LE) | 528 | 82.8% |
| 8 | Chelmsford (CM) | 498 | 86.5% |
| 9 | Liverpool (L) | 481 | 84.3% |
| 10 | Derby (DE) | 469 | 85.9% |
| 11 | Northampton (NN) | 462 | 81.7% |
| 12 | Doncaster (DN) | 459 | 82.9% |
| 13 | Glasgow (G) | 446 | 81.5% |
| 14 | Guildford (GU) | 429 | 79.1% |
| 15 | Ashford (TN) | 424 | 81.9% |
| 16 | Manchester (M) | 414 | 88.4% |
| 17 | Portsmouth (PO) | 413 | 77.4% |
| 18 | Bristol (BS) | 407 | 78.3% |
| 19 | Milton Keynes (MK) | 407 | 84.2% |
| 20 | Cardiff (CF) | 406 | 78.4% |
The twenty areas with the most Jaguar Xj 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 Xj
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 427 | 84.3% |
| West Midlands | 222 | 77.9% |
| South West | 218 | 76.6% |
| North West | 194 | 76.3% |
| East of England | 193 | 84.5% |
| Yorkshire | 142 | 81.7% |
| London | 132 | 78.0% |
| East Midlands | 108 | 77.8% |
| Scotland | 105 | 79.0% |
| Wales | 75 | 78.7% |
| North East | 46 | 87.0% |
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 Xj
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 Xj
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 4.0% 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 windscreen 2.8% 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 the suspension joints 2.7% 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.
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 Xj through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £68–£182 — and 28% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £68–£182
- 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
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 28%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,864 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 Xj, side by side
21 model years on record, from 2000 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 77.7% to 94.3% — a spread of 16.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 78.3% component mounting prescribed…
- 2001 80.3%component mounting prescribed…
- 2002 78.1% component mounting prescribed…
- 2003 78.8% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2004 77.7% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2005 79.6% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2006 79.2% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2007 79.2% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2008 81.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 81.9% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2010 81.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 82.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 84.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 83.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 84.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 87.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 87.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 90.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 91.0% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2019 92.1% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2020 94.3% windscreen damaged but not…
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 Xj 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 Xj 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 4,066 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 | 1,307 | 31.60% | 20.98% | +10.62 |
| Brakes | 705 | 17.00% | 20.89% | −3.89 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 489 | 11.80% | 5.57% | +6.23 |
| Tyres | 468 | 11.30% | 19.76% | −8.46 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 294 | 7.10% | 5.52% | +1.58 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 219 | 5.30% | 12.21% | −6.91 |
| Non-component advisories | 197 | 4.80% | 4.18% | +0.62 |
| Visibility | 181 | 4.40% | 4.97% | −0.57 |
| Steering | 148 | 3.60% | 2.57% | +1.03 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 58 | 1.40% | 1.76% | −0.36 |
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 | 4.0% | £180–450 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.8% | £80–200 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.7% | £18–45 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.5% | £3–12 |
| Anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an ABS fault Brakes | Major | 2.1% | £3–15 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.9% | £60–250 |
| Prescribed areas prescribed area strength or continuity significantly reduced Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 1.5% | £40–120 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.5% | £8–22 |
| Integral vehicle structure condition corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced Body, chassis, structure | Major | 1.4% | £180–450 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.3% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 12.5% | £80–180 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 10.8% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 9.1% | £45–95 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 7.5% | £25–65 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 7.2% | £40–150 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 6.5% | £200–700 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 27 | 92.6% | 19,722 mi |
| 30-60k | 275 | 86.2% | 48,442 mi |
| 60-90k | 606 | 83.7% | 75,816 mi |
| 90-120k | 551 | 77.7% | 104,784 mi |
| 120k+ | 401 | 74.1% | 142,871 mi |
Source: 1,864 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 Xj MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2001 Jaguar Xj?
80.3% of the 1,864 2001 Jaguar Xj tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.3% for cars first used in 2001. First-attempt pass rate: 77.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2001 Jaguar Xj?
The three most recorded items are component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (4.02%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.79%), ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (2.68%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2001 Jaguar Xj MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.6% of the time, falling to 74.1% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2001 Jaguar Xj in this dataset had covered 91,793 mi.
Does the season affect the 2001 Jaguar Xj MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 79.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 81.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.