Pass rate
76.6%
Around average — 4.1 pts ahead of the 72.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 432 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £35–£91
2006 Jeep Commander MOT pass rate
- 2006
- 3 trims combined
- typical 127,081 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
28.4% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2009 80.8% pass
- Avoid 2006 76.6% pass · this year
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 4.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 71.1%
- Typical mileage
- 127k mi
The 2006 Jeep Commander MOT pass rate is 76.6% of its MOT tests — 4.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 28.4% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.4× the national share
Suspension accounts for 28.4% of everything recorded on the 2006 Jeep Commander, against 21.0% nationally — 7.4 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 72.5% and this one manages 76.6% — 4.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
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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Every Jeep Commander first registered in 2006 is combined here — 3 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2006 Jeep Commander compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.5%, so this figure is 4.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 71.1%. The median 2006 Jeep Commander in this dataset had covered 127,081 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 77% of tests, with a 75.7% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 75.0% of the time, April–September 78.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 7.18% of tests.
- 432 recorded tests behind this page.
- 76.6% overall pass rate, 71.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jeep Commander, the average is 78.3% — best year 2009 (80.8%), worst 2006 (76.6%).
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
- 432
- Typical mileage (median)
- 127,081 mi
- Make and model
- Jeep Commander
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Commander MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 66% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (77% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Commander
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 100 | 75.0% |
| South West | 60 | 71.7% |
| East of England | 48 | 81.3% |
| North West | 42 | 76.2% |
| East Midlands | 38 | 73.7% |
| West Midlands | 35 | 82.9% |
| Scotland | 29 | 75.9% |
| Wales | 27 | 70.4% |
| London | 26 | 76.9% |
| Yorkshire | 20 | 85.0% |
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 2006 Commander
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 2006 Commander
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 windscreen 7.2% 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 battery 6.0% of tests
“battery(ies) insecure”
Check the battery is secure and its terminals are clean and tight — a loose battery is a fail on its own, and a weak one shows up as slow cranking on a cold morning.
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Check the lights 6.0% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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 2006 Commander through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £35–£91 — and 38% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £35–£91
- Cheapest common item: mirrors slightly damaged
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 38%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 432 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 Commander, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2006 to 2009. Across them the pass rate runs from 76.6% to 80.8% — a spread of 4.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2006 76.6%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2007 78.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2009 80.8% windscreen damaged but not…
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 2006 Jeep Commander 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 2006 cars with a similar record
- Mercedes-Benz Slk 76.7%
- Volkswagen Touareg 76.7%
- Land Rover Defender 76.8%
- BMW X3 76.8%
- BMW 116 76.8%
- BMW 120 76.9%
Closest pass rates among 2006 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 2006 Jeep Commander 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 1,156 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 | 332 | 28.40% | 20.98% | +7.42 |
| Brakes | 201 | 17.20% | 20.89% | −3.69 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 172 | 14.70% | 12.21% | +2.49 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 114 | 9.70% | 5.52% | +4.18 |
| Tyres | 92 | 7.90% | 19.76% | −11.86 |
| Visibility | 79 | 6.80% | 4.97% | +1.83 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 59 | 5.00% | 5.57% | −0.57 |
| Non-component advisories | 43 | 3.70% | 4.18% | −0.48 |
| Steering | 41 | 3.50% | 2.57% | +0.93 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 23 | 2.00% | 0.82% | +1.18 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 7.2% | £80–200 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 6.0% | £60–140 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 6.0% | £5–20 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.4% | £5–25 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 4.2% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.7% | £18–45 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 3.0% | £5–25 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 2.1% | £80–250 |
| Mirrors slightly damaged Visibility | Minor | 2.1% | £3–15 |
| Decelerometer (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 1.9% | £45–110 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 19.4% | £200–700 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 12.3% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 12.3% | £45–95 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 11.1% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 9.0% | £40–150 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 8.8% | £25–65 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 2 | 100.0% | 21,334 mi |
| 30-60k | 14 | 85.7% | 50,552 mi |
| 60-90k | 67 | 79.1% | 81,347 mi |
| 90-120k | 92 | 78.3% | 106,357 mi |
| 120k+ | 257 | 74.7% | 151,412 mi |
Source: 432 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.
2006 Commander MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2006 Jeep Commander?
76.6% of the 432 2006 Jeep Commander tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.5% for cars first used in 2006. First-attempt pass rate: 71.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2006 Jeep Commander?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (7.18%), battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier (6.02%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (6.02%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2006 Jeep Commander MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 74.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2006 Jeep Commander in this dataset had covered 127,081 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2006 Jeep Commander?
Diesel: 75.7% pass rate across 334 tests. Petrol: 80.0% pass rate across 90 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2006 Jeep Commander MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 75.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 78.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.