Pass rate
83.2%
Around average — 9.2 pts ahead of the 74.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 2,190 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £21–£54
2009 Jaguar Xkr MOT pass rate
- 2009
- typical 64,157 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
36.3% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2013 94.4% pass
- Avoid 2002 78.3% pass
Across the 14 years on record, a spread of 16.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 80.4%
- Typical mileage
- 64k mi
The 2009 Jaguar Xkr MOT pass rate is 83.2% of its MOT tests — 9.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 36.3% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Jaguar Xkr does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.7× the national share
Suspension accounts for 36.3% of everything recorded on the 2009 Jaguar Xkr, against 21.0% nationally — 15.3 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 74.0% and this one manages 83.2% — 9.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 14% 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 2009 Jaguar Xkr compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 74.0%, so this figure is 9.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 80.4%. The median 2009 Jaguar Xkr in this dataset had covered 64,157 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 83.1% of the time, April–September 83.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 8.54% of tests.
- 2,190 recorded tests behind this page.
- 83.2% overall pass rate, 80.4% 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
- 2,190
- Typical mileage (median)
- 64,157 mi
- Make and model
- Jaguar Xkr
- 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 Xkr MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 65% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Xkr
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 590 | 81.0% |
| East of England | 339 | 83.8% |
| South West | 247 | 80.2% |
| North West | 214 | 89.3% |
| West Midlands | 186 | 86.6% |
| Yorkshire | 184 | 83.7% |
| East Midlands | 142 | 78.9% |
| Wales | 92 | 79.3% |
| Scotland | 85 | 81.2% |
| London | 63 | 92.1% |
| North East | 48 | 89.6% |
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 2009 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 2009 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 suspension joints 8.5% 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 2.1% 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 1.5% of tests
“rear fog 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 2009 Xkr through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £21–£54 — and 14% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £21–£54
- Cheapest common item: srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 14%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 2,190 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 2009 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 2009 cars with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2009 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 2009 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 2,768 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 | 1,026 | 36.30% | 20.98% | +15.32 |
| Tyres | 599 | 21.20% | 19.76% | +1.44 |
| Brakes | 429 | 15.20% | 20.89% | −5.69 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 238 | 8.40% | 12.21% | −3.81 |
| Visibility | 138 | 4.90% | 4.97% | −0.07 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 104 | 3.70% | 5.52% | −1.82 |
| Steering | 72 | 2.50% | 2.57% | −0.07 |
| Road Wheels | 68 | 2.40% | 0.75% | +1.65 |
| Non-component advisories | 49 | 1.70% | 4.18% | −2.48 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 45 | 1.60% | 5.57% | −3.97 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 8.5% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 5.4% | £18–45 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 3.7% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.1% | £80–200 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 2.0% | £18–45 |
| Rear fog lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.5% | £3–15 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.3% | £5–20 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 1.2% | £25–65 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 1.1% | £3–12 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover excessively damaged or deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of… Steering | Major | 1.1% | £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 | 12.0% | £45–95 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 8.0% | £180–450 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 6.8% | £40–150 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 5.6% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 3.8% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 180 | 87.2% | 21,487 mi |
| 30-60k | 785 | 84.1% | 47,314 mi |
| 60-90k | 837 | 83.8% | 73,318 mi |
| 90-120k | 303 | 79.2% | 103,236 mi |
| 120k+ | 84 | 73.8% | 142,985 mi |
Source: 2,190 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.
2009 Xkr MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2009 Jaguar Xkr?
83.2% of the 2,190 2009 Jaguar Xkr tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 74.0% for cars first used in 2009. First-attempt pass rate: 80.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2009 Jaguar Xkr?
The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (8.54%), ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (5.39%), linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (3.74%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2009 Jaguar Xkr MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 87.2% of the time, falling to 73.8% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2009 Jaguar Xkr in this dataset had covered 64,157 mi.
Does the season affect the 2009 Jaguar Xkr MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 83.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 83.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.