Pass rate
81.0%
Around average — 7.2 pts ahead of the 73.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 390 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £91–£253
2000 Jaguar Xjr MOT pass rate
- 2000
- typical 104,461 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
27.4% 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 2017 90.9% pass
- Avoid 2004 77.3% pass
Across the 14 years on record, a spread of 13.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 79.1%
- Typical mileage
- 104k mi
The 2000 Jaguar Xjr MOT pass rate is 81.0% of its MOT tests — 7.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 27.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Jaguar Xjr does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.3× the national share
Suspension accounts for 27.4% of everything recorded on the 2000 Jaguar Xjr, against 21.0% nationally — 6.4 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 73.8% and this one manages 81.0% — 7.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 15% 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 2000 Jaguar Xjr compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.8%, so this figure is 7.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 79.1%. The median 2000 Jaguar Xjr in this dataset had covered 104,461 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 80.8% of the time, April–September 81.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength", noted on 4.62% of tests.
- 390 recorded tests behind this page.
- 81.0% overall pass rate, 79.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jaguar Xjr, the average is 81.6% — best year 2017 (90.9%), worst 2004 (77.3%).
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
- 390
- Typical mileage (median)
- 104,461 mi
- Make and model
- Jaguar Xjr
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
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 Xjr MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 69% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Xjr
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 122 | 85.2% |
| East of England | 77 | 85.7% |
| West Midlands | 46 | 69.6% |
| South West | 41 | 70.7% |
| Yorkshire | 25 | 76.0% |
| North West | 22 | 81.8% |
| London | 15 | 86.7% |
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 2000 Xjr
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 2000 Xjr
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 4.6% 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 3.3% 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 exhaust and emissions 3.1% of tests
“catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits”
Listen for a blow at idle and have someone rev it gently. Then look at the tailpipe smoke: blue is oil, white when warm is coolant, black is over-fuelling. Any of those and the emissions test is the least of it.
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 2000 Xjr through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £91–£253 — and 15% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £91–£253
- Cheapest common item: washers not working
- £5–£15
- Dearest common item: component mounting prescribed areas…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 30%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 15%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 390 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 Xjr, side by side
14 model years on record, from 2000 to 2018. Across them the pass rate runs from 77.3% to 90.9% — a spread of 13.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 81.0%component mounting prescribed…
- 2001 80.0% component mounting prescribed…
- 2002 79.8% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2003 80.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2004 77.3% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2005 78.5% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2006 80.2% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2007 81.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2008 83.1% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2014 87.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2015 88.0% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2016 89.2% has a bulge, caused by separation…
- 2017 90.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 89.4% 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 2000 Jaguar Xjr 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 2000 cars with a similar record
- Porsche Boxster 80.4%
- Mercedes-Benz Slk 80.3%
- Land Rover Range Rover 80.0%
- Subaru Impreza 82.3%
- Rover Mini 79.4%
- Mercedes-Benz Clk 79.2%
Closest pass rates among 2000 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 2000 Jaguar Xjr 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 806 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 | 225 | 27.40% | 20.98% | +6.42 |
| Brakes | 156 | 19.00% | 20.89% | −1.89 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 97 | 11.80% | 5.57% | +6.23 |
| Tyres | 94 | 11.40% | 19.76% | −8.36 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 80 | 9.70% | 5.52% | +4.18 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 47 | 5.70% | 12.21% | −6.51 |
| Visibility | 40 | 4.90% | 4.97% | −0.07 |
| Non-component advisories | 33 | 4.00% | 4.18% | −0.18 |
| Steering | 20 | 2.40% | 2.57% | −0.17 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 14 | 1.70% | 1.76% | −0.06 |
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 | 4.6% | £180–450 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.3% | £80–200 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.1% | £60–250 |
| Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds manufacturer's specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.3% | £60–250 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 1.8% | £18–45 |
| Integral vehicle structure condition corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced Body, chassis, structure | Major | 1.8% | £180–450 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Major | 1.8% | £5–15 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.8% | £8–22 |
| Chassis condition corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced Body, chassis, structure | Major | 1.5% | £180–450 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.5% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 9.7% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 9.7% | £45–95 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 8.5% | £80–180 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 6.9% | £45–110 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 6.4% | £45–120 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 6.2% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 5 | 100.0% | 20,453 mi |
| 30-60k | 32 | 93.8% | 48,391 mi |
| 60-90k | 64 | 89.1% | 74,865 mi |
| 90-120k | 170 | 77.1% | 103,541 mi |
| 120k+ | 117 | 78.6% | 147,082 mi |
Source: 390 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.
2000 Xjr MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2000 Jaguar Xjr?
81.0% of the 390 2000 Jaguar Xjr tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.8% for cars first used in 2000. First-attempt pass rate: 79.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2000 Jaguar Xjr?
The three most recorded items are component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (4.62%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.33%), catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits (3.08%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2000 Jaguar Xjr MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 78.6% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2000 Jaguar Xjr in this dataset had covered 104,461 mi.
Does the season affect the 2000 Jaguar Xjr MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 80.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 81.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.