Pass rate
77.3%
Around average — 4.9 pts ahead of the 72.4% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,320 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £43–£113
2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd MOT pass rate
- 2005
- 3 trims combined
- typical 121,309 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
29.0% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2003 77.9% pass
- Avoid 2002 70.8% pass
Across the 8 years on record, a spread of 7.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 72.8%
- Typical mileage
- 121k mi
The 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd MOT pass rate is 77.3% of its MOT tests — 4.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 29.0% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.4× the national share
Suspension accounts for 29.0% of everything recorded on the 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd, against 21.0% nationally — 8.0 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 72.4% and this one manages 77.3% — 4.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 35% 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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Every Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd first registered in 2005 is combined here — 3 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.4%, so this figure is 4.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 72.8%. The median 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd in this dataset had covered 121,309 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 99% of tests, with a 77.4% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 78.3% of the time, April–September 76.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 6.97% of tests.
- 1,320 recorded tests behind this page.
- 77.3% overall pass rate, 72.8% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd, the average is 75.6% — best year 2003 (77.9%), worst 2002 (70.8%).
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
- 1,320
- Typical mileage (median)
- 121,309 mi
- Make and model
- Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Grand Cherokee Crd MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 68% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (99% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Grand Cherokee Crd
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 323 | 79.3% |
| East of England | 211 | 76.3% |
| South West | 169 | 71.0% |
| West Midlands | 143 | 81.1% |
| East Midlands | 118 | 78.8% |
| Yorkshire | 94 | 75.5% |
| North West | 88 | 72.7% |
| Scotland | 72 | 75.0% |
| Wales | 61 | 78.7% |
| London | 25 | 100.0% |
| North East | 16 | 81.3% |
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 2005 Grand Cherokee Crd
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 2005 Grand Cherokee Crd
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 lights 7.0% 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.
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Check the battery 4.5% 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 suspension joints 3.5% 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.
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 2005 Grand Cherokee Crd through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £43–£113 — and 35% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £43–£113
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: component mounting prescribed areas…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 35%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,320 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 Grand Cherokee Crd, side by side
8 model years on record, from 2002 to 2009. Across them the pass rate runs from 70.8% to 77.9% — a spread of 7.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2002 70.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2003 77.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2004 71.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 77.3%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 77.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 74.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 74.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 75.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
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 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd 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 2005 cars with a similar record
- Lexus IS200 77.4%
- BMW 3 Series 77.1%
- Toyota Hiace 77.1%
- Toyota RAV4 77.6%
- BMW 525 77.6%
- Land Rover Defender 76.9%
Closest pass rates among 2005 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 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd 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 3,870 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 | 1,138 | 29.00% | 20.98% | +8.02 |
| Brakes | 642 | 16.40% | 20.89% | −4.49 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 544 | 13.90% | 12.21% | +1.69 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 462 | 11.80% | 5.52% | +6.28 |
| Tyres | 289 | 7.40% | 19.76% | −12.36 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 265 | 6.80% | 5.57% | +1.23 |
| Steering | 184 | 4.70% | 2.57% | +2.13 |
| Visibility | 167 | 4.30% | 4.97% | −0.67 |
| Non-component advisories | 102 | 2.60% | 4.18% | −1.58 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 7.0% | £5–20 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 4.5% | £60–140 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 3.5% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.2% | £18–45 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 3.0% | £180–450 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.0% | £5–25 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.8% | £80–200 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 2.6% | £80–250 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 2.4% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.0% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 21.8% | £200–700 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 11.8% | £45–95 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 11.1% | £25–65 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 10.8% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 10.8% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 9.2% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 39 | 87.2% | 50,839 mi |
| 60-90k | 199 | 78.4% | 77,952 mi |
| 90-120k | 403 | 76.9% | 106,103 mi |
| 120k+ | 678 | 76.7% | 149,258 mi |
Source: 1,320 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.
2005 Grand Cherokee Crd MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd?
77.3% of the 1,320 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.4% for cars first used in 2005. First-attempt pass rate: 72.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (6.97%), battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier (4.55%), ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (3.48%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 87.2% of the time, falling to 76.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd in this dataset had covered 121,309 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd?
Diesel: 77.4% pass rate across 1,306 tests. Petrol: 71.4% pass rate across 14 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Crd MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 78.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 76.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.