Pass rate
88.5%
Above average — 11.3 pts ahead of the 77.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,789 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £23–£57
2012 Jaguar Xk MOT pass rate
- 2012
- typical 49,819 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
30.8% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2014 91.2% pass
- Avoid 2007 81.0% pass
Across the 11 years on record, a spread of 10.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 87.3%
- Typical mileage
- 50k mi
The 2012 Jaguar Xk MOT pass rate is 88.5% of its MOT tests — 11.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 30.8% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.5× the national share
Suspension accounts for 30.8% of everything recorded on the 2012 Jaguar Xk, against 21.0% nationally — 9.8 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 77.2% and this one manages 88.5% — 11.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 22% 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 2012 Jaguar Xk compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 77.2%, so this figure is 11.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 87.3%. The median 2012 Jaguar Xk in this dataset had covered 49,819 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 87.9% of the time, April–September 89.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 5.59% of tests.
- 1,789 recorded tests behind this page.
- 88.5% overall pass rate, 87.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jaguar Xk, the average is 85.2% — best year 2014 (91.2%), worst 2007 (81.0%).
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
- 1,789
- Typical mileage (median)
- 49,819 mi
- Make and model
- Jaguar Xk
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Ball Joint
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Xk MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 72% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Jaguar Xk is most common
Across all Xk model years on record (2005–2015): 11,780 Jaguar Xk cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 26,749 tests. High Wycombe (HP) has the most, with 328 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 | High Wycombe (HP) | 328 | 89.4% |
| 2 | Birmingham (B) | 303 | 88.0% |
| 3 | Guildford (GU) | 301 | 81.6% |
| 4 | Coventry (CV) | 278 | 87.1% |
| 5 | Reading (RG) | 266 | 82.5% |
| 6 | Crawley (RH) | 262 | 80.3% |
| 7 | Nottingham (NG) | 256 | 88.5% |
| 8 | Ashford (TN) | 241 | 81.7% |
| 9 | Sheffield (S) | 229 | 89.7% |
| 10 | Chelmsford (CM) | 205 | 85.2% |
| 11 | Derby (DE) | 192 | 91.5% |
| 12 | Leicester (LE) | 190 | 89.5% |
| 13 | Peterborough (PE) | 186 | 84.7% |
| 14 | Portsmouth (PO) | 175 | 81.2% |
| 15 | Oxford (OX) | 175 | 85.1% |
| 16 | Poole (BH) | 171 | 82.3% |
| 17 | Southampton (SO) | 169 | 84.1% |
| 18 | Bristol (BS) | 169 | 83.0% |
| 19 | Kingston upon Thames (KT) | 167 | 85.9% |
| 20 | Doncaster (DN) | 163 | 89.0% |
The twenty areas with the most Jaguar Xk 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 Xk
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 527 | 86.0% |
| East of England | 220 | 88.2% |
| South West | 194 | 85.6% |
| North West | 183 | 92.3% |
| West Midlands | 150 | 92.7% |
| Yorkshire | 141 | 92.2% |
| East Midlands | 122 | 88.5% |
| Scotland | 106 | 88.7% |
| London | 67 | 95.5% |
| Wales | 45 | 82.2% |
| North East | 34 | 88.2% |
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 2012 Xk
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 2012 Xk
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 suspension joints 5.6% 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 1.9% 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.
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Check the lights 1.3% of tests
“position lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning”
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 2012 Xk through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £23–£57 — and 22% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £23–£57
- Cheapest common item: washers not working
- £5–£15
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 22%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,789 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 Xk, side by side
11 model years on record, from 2005 to 2015. Across them the pass rate runs from 81.0% to 91.2% — a spread of 10.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2005 84.1% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2006 81.5% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2007 81.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2008 82.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2009 83.8% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2010 85.5% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2011 86.7% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2012 88.5%ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2013 90.5% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2014 91.2% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2015 91.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
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 2012 Jaguar Xk 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 2012 cars with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2012 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 2012 Jaguar Xk 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 1,626 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 | 505 | 30.80% | 20.98% | +9.82 |
| Tyres | 481 | 29.30% | 19.76% | +9.54 |
| Brakes | 239 | 14.60% | 20.89% | −6.29 |
| Visibility | 121 | 7.40% | 4.97% | +2.43 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 100 | 6.10% | 12.21% | −6.11 |
| Road Wheels | 63 | 3.80% | 0.75% | +3.05 |
| Non-component advisories | 42 | 2.60% | 4.18% | −1.58 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 31 | 1.90% | 5.52% | −3.62 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 26 | 1.60% | 1.76% | −0.16 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 18 | 1.10% | 5.57% | −4.47 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 5.6% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 2.7% | £18–45 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.6% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.9% | £80–200 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 1.5% | £18–45 |
| Position lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.3% | £5–25 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.1% | £8–22 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Major | 1.0% | £5–15 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.95% | £8–22 |
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 | 12.2% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.2% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.7% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 5.1% | £45–110 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 3.9% | £180–450 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Advisory | 3.3% | £20–55 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 314 | 92.7% | 20,473 mi |
| 30-60k | 866 | 88.3% | 45,490 mi |
| 60-90k | 479 | 87.9% | 71,658 mi |
| 90-120k | 115 | 82.6% | 101,899 mi |
| 120k+ | 15 | 80.0% | 148,473 mi |
Source: 1,789 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.
2012 Xk MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2012 Jaguar Xk?
88.5% of the 1,789 2012 Jaguar Xk tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 77.2% for cars first used in 2012. First-attempt pass rate: 87.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2012 Jaguar Xk?
The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (5.59%), ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (2.68%), linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (2.57%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2012 Jaguar Xk MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.7% of the time, falling to 80.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2012 Jaguar Xk in this dataset had covered 49,819 mi.
Does the season affect the 2012 Jaguar Xk MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 87.9% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 89.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.