Pass rate
78.3%
Around average — 5.4 pts ahead of the 72.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,826 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £45–£135
2002 Jaguar Xkr MOT pass rate
- 2002
- typical 82,526 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
30.7% 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 →
1.1 pts down across model years — 4.2% in 2000, 3.1% in 2012.
Which year to buy
- Best 2013 94.4% pass
- Avoid 2002 78.3% pass · this year
Across the 14 years on record, a spread of 16.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 74.6%
- Typical mileage
- 83k mi
The 2002 Jaguar Xkr MOT pass rate is 78.3% of its MOT tests — 5.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 30.7% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.5× the national share
Suspension accounts for 30.7% of everything recorded on the 2002 Jaguar Xkr, against 21.0% nationally — 9.7 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 72.9% and this one manages 78.3% — 5.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 33% 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 2002 Jaguar Xkr compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.9%, so this figure is 5.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 74.6%. The median 2002 Jaguar Xkr in this dataset had covered 82,526 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 76.2% of the time, April–September 79.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits", noted on 3.18% of tests.
- 1,826 recorded tests behind this page.
- 78.3% overall pass rate, 74.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jaguar Xkr, the average is 82.0% — best year 2013 (94.4%), worst 2002 (78.3%).
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
- 1,826
- Typical mileage (median)
- 82,526 mi
- Make and model
- Jaguar Xkr
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Emissions Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Xkr MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 62% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Jaguar Xkr is most common
Across all Xkr model years on record (2000–2013): 11,515 Jaguar Xkr cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 26,432 tests. Ashford (TN) has the most, with 342 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 | Ashford (TN) | 342 | 83.0% |
| 2 | High Wycombe (HP) | 302 | 85.9% |
| 3 | Guildford (GU) | 292 | 79.3% |
| 4 | Reading (RG) | 292 | 82.8% |
| 5 | Crawley (RH) | 291 | 76.8% |
| 6 | Birmingham (B) | 270 | 83.9% |
| 7 | Coventry (CV) | 246 | 84.5% |
| 8 | Nottingham (NG) | 221 | 85.0% |
| 9 | Chelmsford (CM) | 216 | 84.6% |
| 10 | Bristol (BS) | 212 | 75.6% |
| 11 | Sheffield (S) | 206 | 88.7% |
| 12 | Kingston upon Thames (KT) | 199 | 80.8% |
| 13 | Peterborough (PE) | 196 | 80.0% |
| 14 | Poole (BH) | 193 | 74.2% |
| 15 | Southampton (SO) | 192 | 79.5% |
| 16 | Leicester (LE) | 182 | 85.0% |
| 17 | Portsmouth (PO) | 170 | 76.9% |
| 18 | Oxford (OX) | 168 | 82.0% |
| 19 | Northampton (NN) | 167 | 77.2% |
| 20 | Norwich (NR) | 161 | 84.3% |
The twenty areas with the most Jaguar Xkr 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 Xkr
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 524 | 80.5% |
| South West | 283 | 70.7% |
| East of England | 261 | 82.8% |
| West Midlands | 162 | 77.2% |
| East Midlands | 137 | 84.7% |
| North West | 104 | 77.9% |
| Scotland | 102 | 73.5% |
| Yorkshire | 86 | 80.2% |
| London | 74 | 79.7% |
| Wales | 51 | 70.6% |
| North East | 41 | 73.2% |
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 2002 Xkr
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 2002 Xkr
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 exhaust and emissions 3.2% 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.
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Check the lights 2.9% of tests
“anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an ABS fault”
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 2.5% of tests
“pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn”
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 2002 Xkr through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £45–£135 — and 33% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £45–£135
- 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
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 33%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,826 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 Xkr, side by side
14 model years on record, from 2000 to 2013. Across them the pass rate runs from 78.3% to 94.4% — a spread of 16.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 80.1% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2001 79.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2002 78.3%catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2003 81.1% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2004 80.7% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2005 83.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2006 80.3% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2007 80.9% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2008 81.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2009 83.2% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2010 84.5% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2011 86.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2012 87.5% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2013 94.4% position lamp with a multiple…
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 2002 Jaguar Xkr 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 2002 cars with a similar record
- Land Rover Range Rover 77.4%
- BMW 3 Series 77.2%
- BMW 530 77.2%
- Lexus IS200 77.2%
- MG Tf 77.1%
- Mercedes-Benz Clk 77.1%
Closest pass rates among 2002 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 2002 Jaguar Xkr 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 3,724 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 | 1,167 | 30.70% | 20.98% | +9.72 |
| Brakes | 672 | 17.70% | 20.89% | −3.19 |
| Tyres | 495 | 13.00% | 19.76% | −6.76 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 345 | 9.10% | 5.52% | +3.58 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 320 | 8.40% | 5.57% | +2.83 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 282 | 7.40% | 12.21% | −4.81 |
| Visibility | 152 | 4.00% | 4.97% | −0.97 |
| Non-component advisories | 113 | 3.00% | 4.18% | −1.18 |
| Steering | 101 | 2.70% | 2.57% | +0.13 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 77 | 2.00% | 0.82% | +1.18 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.2% | £60–250 |
| Anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an ABS fault Brakes | Major | 2.9% | £3–15 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.5% | £3–12 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.5% | £40–150 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 2.1% | £180–450 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 1.9% | £45–110 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 1.7% | £18–45 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Major | 1.7% | £5–15 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.6% | £80–200 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 1.4% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 11.9% | £45–95 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 10.5% | £80–180 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 8.1% | £40–150 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 7.7% | £45–95 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 7.6% | £200–700 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 6.3% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 62 | 88.7% | 21,147 mi |
| 30-60k | 386 | 83.2% | 47,988 mi |
| 60-90k | 606 | 82.0% | 75,375 mi |
| 90-120k | 489 | 73.4% | 103,436 mi |
| 120k+ | 280 | 70.4% | 141,193 mi |
Source: 1,826 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.
2002 Xkr MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2002 Jaguar Xkr?
78.3% of the 1,826 2002 Jaguar Xkr tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.9% for cars first used in 2002. First-attempt pass rate: 74.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2002 Jaguar Xkr?
The three most recorded items are catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits (3.18%), anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an abs fault (2.90%), malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (2.46%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2002 Jaguar Xkr MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 88.7% of the time, falling to 70.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2002 Jaguar Xkr in this dataset had covered 82,526 mi.
Does the season affect the 2002 Jaguar Xkr MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 76.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 79.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.