Pass rate
79.5%
Around average — 6.5 pts ahead of the 73.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 176 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £13–£37
2007 Jaguar XK8 MOT pass rate
- 2007
- typical 75,957 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
25.9% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2004 82.1% pass
- Avoid 2000 77.0% pass
Across the 9 years on record, a spread of 5.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 75.2%
- Typical mileage
- 76k mi
The 2007 Jaguar XK8 MOT pass rate is 79.5% of its MOT tests — 6.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 25.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Jaguar XK8 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.6× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 20.1% of everything recorded on the 2007 Jaguar Xk8, against 12.2% nationally — 7.9 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 25.9%, but at 21.0% nationally that one is ordinary. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- 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 73.0% and this one manages 79.5% — 6.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 176 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
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 2007 Jaguar XK8 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.0%, so this figure is 6.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 75.2%. The median 2007 Jaguar XK8 in this dataset had covered 75,957 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 80.2% of the time, April–September 78.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 5.11% of tests.
- 176 recorded tests behind this page.
- 79.5% overall pass rate, 75.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jaguar XK8, the average is 80.2% — best year 2004 (82.1%), worst 2000 (77.0%).
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
- 176
- Typical mileage (median)
- 75,957 mi
- Make and model
- Jaguar XK8
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
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 XK8 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 58% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the XK8
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 61 | 73.8% |
| North West | 26 | 92.3% |
| East of England | 22 | 86.4% |
| Yorkshire | 20 | 75.0% |
| South West | 19 | 73.7% |
| West Midlands | 16 | 87.5% |
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 2007 XK8
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 2007 XK8
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 5.1% 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 4.0% of tests
“position lamp not working”
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 2007 XK8 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £13–£37 — and 40% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £13–£37
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated
- £18–£45
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 100%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 40%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 176 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 XK8, side by side
9 model years on record, from 2000 to 2008. Across them the pass rate runs from 77.0% to 82.1% — a spread of 5.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 77.0% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2001 80.6% anti-lock braking system warning…
- 2002 79.8% anti-lock braking system warning…
- 2003 79.6% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2004 82.1% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2005 82.0% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2006 80.5% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2007 79.5%ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2008 80.8% 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 2007 Jaguar XK8 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 2007 cars with a similar record
- Toyota Prius 79.3%
- Subaru Impreza 79.7%
- BMW 525 79.7%
- Nissan Elgrand 79.3%
- BMW 5 Series 79.7%
- Lexus IS220 79.2%
Closest pass rates among 2007 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 2007 Jaguar XK8 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 272 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 | 72 | 25.90% | 20.98% | +4.92 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 56 | 20.10% | 12.21% | +7.89 |
| Brakes | 45 | 16.20% | 20.89% | −4.69 |
| Tyres | 44 | 15.80% | 19.76% | −3.96 |
| Steering | 17 | 6.10% | 2.57% | +3.53 |
| Visibility | 13 | 4.70% | 4.97% | −0.27 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 12 | 4.30% | 5.52% | −1.22 |
| Road Wheels | 5 | 1.80% | 0.75% | +1.05 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 4 | 1.40% | 5.57% | −4.17 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 4 | 1.40% | 1.76% | −0.36 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 5.1% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 4.5% | £18–45 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 4.0% | £18–45 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.0% | £5–25 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 3.4% | £18–45 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover excessively damaged or deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of… Steering | Major | 3.4% | £18–45 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.8% | £5–20 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.3% | £5–25 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.3% | £5–25 |
| Headlamp not working on main beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.3% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 15.3% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 11.9% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 9.1% | £40–150 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 7.4% | £180–450 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 4.0% | £45–95 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 4.0% | £80–180 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 24 | 95.8% | 26,448 mi |
| 30-60k | 30 | 83.3% | 46,744 mi |
| 60-90k | 65 | 76.9% | 76,938 mi |
| 90-120k | 21 | 85.7% | 101,264 mi |
| 120k+ | 36 | 66.7% | 154,177 mi |
Source: 176 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.
2007 XK8 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2007 Jaguar XK8?
79.5% of the 176 2007 Jaguar XK8 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.0% for cars first used in 2007. First-attempt pass rate: 75.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2007 Jaguar XK8?
The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (5.11%), ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (4.55%), linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (3.98%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2007 Jaguar XK8 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.8% of the time, falling to 66.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2007 Jaguar XK8 in this dataset had covered 75,957 mi.
Does the season affect the 2007 Jaguar XK8 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 80.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 78.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.