2009 Jeep Patriot MOT pass rate

2009
3 trims combined
typical 107,291 mi

Pass rate

67.7%

Below average — 6.3 pts behind the 74.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.

Across 810 recorded tests.

Typical repair bill £42–£116

Most common fault

Suspension

36.6% 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 →

Every failure, with what it costs →

Which year to buy

Best 2010 68.1% pass
Avoid 2007 66.5% pass

Across the 5 years on record, a spread of 1.6 points. See every year →

First-attempt pass: 58.2%
Typical mileage: 107k mi

The 2009 Jeep Patriot MOT pass rate is 67.7% of its MOT tests — 6.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 36.6% of what testers record.

Check your postcode

MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Jeep Patriot does in your corner of the country.

How one model's pass rate varies by postcode →

Expert verdict

Suspension: 1.7× the national share

Suspension accounts for 36.6% of everything recorded on the 2009 Jeep Patriot, against 21.0% nationally — 15.6 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.

Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 74.0%; this one manages 67.7% — 6.3 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
When it fails, it costs. Only 31% 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

Every Jeep Patriot first registered in 2009 is combined here — 3 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.

How does the 2009 Jeep Patriot compare?

Cars of this age and mileage average 74.0%, so this figure is 6.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 58.2%. The median 2009 Jeep Patriot in this dataset had covered 107,291 mi.

The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 91% of tests, with a 66.9% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 67.5% of the time, April–September 67.8%.

The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint excessively worn", noted on 7.78% of tests.

810 recorded tests behind this page.
67.7% overall pass rate, 58.2% on a first attempt.
Across every year of the Jeep Patriot, the average is 67.5% — best year 2010 (68.1%), worst 2007 (66.5%).

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: 810
Typical mileage (median): 107,291 mi
Make and model: Jeep Patriot
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 Patriot MOT pass rate?

0-30k 100.0%

30-60k 72.1%

60-90k 68.3%

90-120k 66.4%

120k+ 67.5%

Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 58% so small gaps stay visible.

Fuel type and reliability

Diesel 66.9%

Petrol 75.0%

Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (91% of tests).

Regional pass rates for the Patriot

Region	Tests	Pass rate
South East	124	71.0%
South West	108	62.0%
West Midlands	100	69.0%
Yorkshire	96	70.8%
East of England	92	67.4%
Scotland	75	58.7%
North West	74	67.6%
Wales	52	65.4%
East Midlands	43	72.1%
North East	29	72.4%
London	17	82.4%

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 Patriot

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 36.6%

+15.6 pts vs national national 21.0% Price suspension parts

Brakes 16.7%

−4.2 pts vs national national 20.9% Price brakes parts

Tyres 11.1%

−8.7 pts vs national national 19.8% Compare tyre prices

Lamps & electrics 10.7%

−1.5 pts vs national national 12.2% Order bulbs & wipers

Show the other 6 fault categories

Steering 4.8%
Advisories 4.6%
Emissions & leaks 4.6%
Body & chassis 4.3%
Visibility 3.8%
Seat belts 1.3%

Shares are of every item recorded on 2009 Jeep Patriot 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 2009 Patriot

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.

Check the suspension joints 7.8% of tests

“ball joint 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.
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.

What testers look for →
Check the windscreen 5.1% 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.

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 Patriot through its MOT

Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £42–£116 — and 31% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.

Average repair across the 10 common items: £42–£116
Cheapest common item: anti-lock braking system warning lamp…: £3–£15
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: 31%

Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 810 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 Patriot, side by side

5 model years on record, from 2007 to 2011. Across them the pass rate runs from 66.5% to 68.1% — a spread of 1.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.

2007 66.5% ball joint excessively worn
2008 67.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
2009 67.7%
ball joint excessively worn
2010 68.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
2011 67.9% ball joint excessively worn

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 Jeep Patriot 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 2009 with another year →

Compare two different cars instead →

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 Jeep Patriot 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 2,591 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	963	36.60%	20.98%	+15.62
Brakes	439	16.70%	20.89%	−4.19
Tyres	291	11.10%	19.76%	−8.66
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment	281	10.70%	12.21%	−1.51
Steering	127	4.80%	2.57%	+2.23
Non-component advisories	122	4.60%	4.18%	+0.42
Noise, emissions and leaks	121	4.60%	5.52%	−0.92
Body, chassis, structure	112	4.30%	5.57%	−1.27
Visibility	101	3.80%	4.97%	−1.17
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems	34	1.30%	0.82%	+0.48

The exact failure items, in the tester's words

Share of the 810 tests on this vehicle that recorded each item
Recorded item	Severity	Tests	Est. cost	Part
Ball joint excessively worn Suspension	Major	7.8%	£18–45	Ball Joint →
Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment	Minor	7.0%	£5–20	Number Plate Lamp →
Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension	Major	6.7%	£40–150	Suspension Component →
Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering	Major	5.3%	£18–45	Ball Joint →
Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment	Major	5.1%	£5–25	Headlight Bulb →
Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility	Minor	5.1%	£80–200	Windscreen →
Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension	Minor	3.0%	£18–45	Ball Joint →
Anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an ABS fault Brakes	Major	2.8%	£3–15	Bulb →
Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension	Major	2.8%	£180–450	Corrosion Welding Repair →
Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension	Major	2.8%	£180–450	Corrosion Welding Repair →

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	21.9%	£45–95
Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension	Advisory	21.6%	£40–150
Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes	Advisory	18.9%	£45–110
Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension	Advisory	15.3%	£180–450
Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension	Advisory	14.8%	£30–75
Non-component advisories Play in steering rack inner joint(s) Non-component advisories	Advisory	10.5%	£120–300

Pass rate by mileage

Mileage	Tests	Pass rate	Median odometer
0-30k	1	100.0%	28,740 mi
30-60k	61	72.1%	45,682 mi
60-90k	167	68.3%	78,493 mi
90-120k	301	66.4%	104,421 mi
120k+	277	67.5%	143,646 mi

Source: 810 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 Patriot MOT questions

What is the MOT pass rate for a 2009 Jeep Patriot?

67.7% of the 810 2009 Jeep Patriot tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 74.0% for cars first used in 2009. First-attempt pass rate: 58.2%.

What are the most common MOT failures on a 2009 Jeep Patriot?

The three most recorded items are ball joint excessively worn (7.78%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (7.04%), pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (6.67%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.

Does mileage affect the 2009 Jeep Patriot MOT pass rate?

Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 67.5% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2009 Jeep Patriot in this dataset had covered 107,291 mi.

Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2009 Jeep Patriot?

Diesel: 66.9% pass rate across 738 tests. Petrol: 75.0% pass rate across 72 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.

Does the season affect the 2009 Jeep Patriot MOT pass rate?

Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 67.5% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 67.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.