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2010 Jaguar Xkr MOT pass rate

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Pass rate

84.5%

Around average — 9.8 pts ahead of the 74.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.

Across 2,849 recorded tests.

Typical repair bill £22–£55

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
82.1%
Typical mileage
60k mi

The 2010 Jaguar Xkr MOT pass rate is 84.5% of its MOT tests — 9.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 36.5% of what testers record.

MOT PASS RATES

The 2010 Jaguar Xkr on the real record

84.5% of 2010 Jaguar Xkr MOTs passed — 2,849 tests, 2023–2025

Pass rate

The answer from the DVSA's class-4 MOT records.

Expert verdict

Suspension: 1.7× the national share

Suspension accounts for 36.5% of everything recorded on the 2010 Jaguar Xkr, against 21.0% nationally — 15.5 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.

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 2010 Jaguar Xkr compare?

Cars of this age and mileage average 74.7%, so this figure is 9.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 82.1%. The median 2010 Jaguar Xkr in this dataset had covered 59,796 mi.

Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 84.7% of the time, April–September 84.3%.

The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 7.16% of tests.

  • 2,849 recorded tests behind this page.
  • 84.5% overall pass rate, 82.1% 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
2,849
Typical mileage (median)
59,796 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

Ball Joint

Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.

Does mileage affect the Xkr MOT pass rate?

0-30k 92.6%
30-60k 86.0%
60-90k 82.7%
90-120k 78.9%
120k+ 81.5%

Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 70% 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 Share of all Tests Pass rate
1 Ashford (TN) 342 3% 839 83.0%
2 High Wycombe (HP) 302 2.6% 617 85.9%
3 Guildford (GU) 292 2.5% 700 79.3%
4 Reading (RG) 292 2.5% 687 82.8%
5 Crawley (RH) 291 2.5% 727 76.8%
6 Birmingham (B) 270 2.3% 628 83.9%
7 Coventry (CV) 246 2.1% 560 84.5%
8 Nottingham (NG) 221 1.9% 452 85.0%
9 Chelmsford (CM) 216 1.9% 479 84.6%
10 Bristol (BS) 212 1.8% 545 75.6%
11 Sheffield (S) 206 1.8% 450 88.7%
12 Kingston upon Thames (KT) 199 1.7% 442 80.8%
13 Peterborough (PE) 196 1.7% 480 80.0%
14 Poole (BH) 193 1.7% 512 74.2%
15 Southampton (SO) 192 1.7% 453 79.5%
16 Leicester (LE) 182 1.6% 414 85.0%
17 Portsmouth (PO) 170 1.5% 467 76.9%
18 Oxford (OX) 168 1.5% 405 82.0%
19 Northampton (NN) 167 1.5% 421 77.2%
20 Norwich (NR) 161 1.4% 370 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 869 83.2%
East of England 415 86.5%
South West 309 83.2%
West Midlands 287 82.9%
Yorkshire 211 83.4%
North West 195 85.1%
East Midlands 189 87.3%
Scotland 105 81.0%
North East 99 88.9%
Wales 90 84.4%
London 80 92.5%

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 2010 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.

Suspension 36.5%
+15.5 pts vs national national 21.0% Price suspension parts
Tyres 21.4%
+1.6 pts vs national national 19.8% Compare tyre prices
Brakes 16.1%
−4.8 pts vs national national 20.9% Price brakes parts
Lamps & electrics 9.5%
−2.7 pts vs national national 12.2% Order bulbs & wipers
Show the other 6 fault categories
  • Visibility 4.8%
  • Road wheels 3.5%
  • Emissions & leaks 2.2%
  • Body & chassis 1.7%
  • Steering 1.6%
  • Advisories 1.6%

Shares are of every item recorded on 2010 Jaguar Xkr tests — a composition, so they add to 100% across all sections, not per test.

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 2010 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.

  1. Check the suspension joints 7.2% 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.

  2. Check the windscreen 1.6% 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.

  3. 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 2010 Xkr through its MOT

Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £22–£55 — and 16% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.

Average repair across the 10 common items
£22–£55
Cheapest common item: rear fog lamp with a multiple light source up…
£3–£15
Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
£80–£200
Common items a careful owner can do at home
90%
Repairs that still cost under £30
16%

Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 2,849 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.

  1. 2000 80.1% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
  2. 2001 79.2% windscreen damaged but not…
  3. 2002 78.3% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
  4. 2003 81.1% ball joint dust cover severely…
  5. 2004 80.7% malfunction indicator lamp…
  6. 2005 83.6% windscreen damaged but not…
  7. 2006 80.3% ball joint dust cover severely…
  8. 2007 80.9% ball joint dust cover severely…
  9. 2008 81.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
  10. 2009 83.2% ball joint dust cover severely…
  11. 2010 84.5%
    ball joint dust cover severely…
  12. 2011 86.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
  13. 2012 87.5% ball joint dust cover severely…
  14. 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 2010 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.

Compare 2010 with another year →

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Other 2010 cars with a similar record

Closest pass rates among 2010 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 2010 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 3,371 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 1,247 36.50% 20.98% +15.52
Tyres 730 21.40% 19.76% +1.64
Brakes 548 16.10% 20.89% −4.79
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 323 9.50% 12.21% −2.71
Visibility 163 4.80% 4.97% −0.17
Road Wheels 118 3.50% 0.75% +2.75
Noise, emissions and leaks 75 2.20% 5.52% −3.32
Body, chassis, structure 57 1.70% 5.57% −3.87
Steering 56 1.60% 2.57% −0.97
Non-component advisories 54 1.60% 4.18% −2.58

The exact failure items, in the tester's words

Share of the 2,849 tests on this vehicle that recorded each item
Recorded item Severity Tests Est. cost Part
Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension Minor 7.2% £18–45 Ball Joint →
Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension Major 4.6% £18–45 Ball Joint →
Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension Minor 2.9% £18–45 Ball Joint →
Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension Major 1.7% £18–45 Ball Joint →
Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility Minor 1.6% £80–200 Windscreen →
Rear fog lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment Minor 1.5% £3–15 Bulb →
Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment Minor 1.3% £5–20 Number Plate Lamp →
Wipers blade defective Visibility Minor 1.0% £8–22 Wiper Blade →
Has ply or cords exposed Tyres Major 0.91% £45–95 Tyres →
Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres Major 0.88% £45–95 Tyres →

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.

Items recorded as advisory on this vehicle
Recorded item Severity Tests Est. cost
Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres Advisory 10.5% £45–95
Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension Advisory 7.6% £180–450
Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres Advisory 6.9% £45–95
Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension Advisory 6.9% £40–150
Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes Advisory 5.5% £45–110
Badly distorted Road Wheels Advisory 3.9% £20–55

Pass rate by mileage

Mileage Tests Pass rate Median odometer
0-30k 258 92.6% 21,668 mi
30-60k 1,179 86.0% 46,305 mi
60-90k 977 82.7% 72,518 mi
90-120k 327 78.9% 101,509 mi
120k+ 108 81.5% 142,354 mi

Source: 2,849 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.

2010 Xkr MOT questions

What is the MOT pass rate for a 2010 Jaguar Xkr?

84.5% of the 2,849 2010 Jaguar Xkr tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 74.7% for cars first used in 2010. First-attempt pass rate: 82.1%.

What are the most common MOT failures on a 2010 Jaguar Xkr?

The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (7.16%), ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (4.56%), linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (2.91%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.

Does mileage affect the 2010 Jaguar Xkr MOT pass rate?

Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.6% of the time, falling to 81.5% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2010 Jaguar Xkr in this dataset had covered 59,796 mi.

Does the season affect the 2010 Jaguar Xkr MOT pass rate?

Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 84.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 84.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.