Pass rate
78.0%
Around average — 4.1 pts behind the 82.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 21,972 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £26–£65
2015 Jeep Renegade MOT pass rate
- 2015
- 2 trims combined
- typical 69,796 mi
Most common fault
Brakes
21.8% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Which year to buy
- Best 2021 92.3% pass
- Avoid 2015 78.0% pass · this year
Across the 8 years on record, a spread of 14.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 72.3%
- Typical mileage
- 70k mi
The 2015 Jeep Renegade MOT pass rate is 78.0% of its MOT tests — 4.1 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 21.8% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Jeep Renegade does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Steering: 3.5× the national share
Steering accounts for 9.1% of everything recorded on the 2015 Jeep Renegade, against 2.6% nationally — 6.5 points above. Brakes are still the single largest share at 21.8%, but at 20.9% nationally that one is ordinary. Ask for the steering to be checked for play with the wheels on the ground, not on a jack.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 82.1%; this one manages 78.0% — 4.1 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 29% 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 Renegade first registered in 2015 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2015 Jeep Renegade compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 82.1%, so this figure is 4.1 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 72.3%. The median 2015 Jeep Renegade in this dataset had covered 69,796 mi.
62% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Diesel, which passed 77.1% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 78.1% of the time, April–September 77.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt", noted on 6.00% of tests.
- 21,972 recorded tests behind this page.
- 78.0% overall pass rate, 72.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jeep Renegade, the average is 82.6% — best year 2021 (92.3%), worst 2015 (78.0%).
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
- 21,972
- Typical mileage (median)
- 69,796 mi
- Make and model
- Jeep Renegade
- 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 Renegade MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 62% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (62% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Renegade
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 3,917 | 79.2% |
| North West | 2,525 | 78.7% |
| Scotland | 2,497 | 73.0% |
| Yorkshire | 2,330 | 78.1% |
| South West | 2,120 | 76.2% |
| East of England | 2,053 | 80.5% |
| West Midlands | 2,048 | 79.4% |
| East Midlands | 1,464 | 77.9% |
| Wales | 1,355 | 75.4% |
| North East | 938 | 77.1% |
| London | 725 | 84.8% |
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 2015 Renegade
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 2015 Renegade
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 6.0% of tests
“track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or 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 3.8% 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 3.8% of tests
“position lamp not working”
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 2015 Renegade through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £26–£65 — and 29% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £26–£65
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £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
- 29%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 21,972 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 Renegade, side by side
8 model years on record, from 2015 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 78.0% to 92.3% — a spread of 14.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2015 78.0%track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2016 81.3% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2017 84.2% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2018 86.4% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2019 90.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 92.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 92.3% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2022 91.3% has a cut in excess of the…
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 2015 Jeep Renegade 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 2015 cars with a similar record
- SEAT Ibiza 78.0%
- Peugeot 2008 78.1%
- Ford Ranger 78.2%
- Renault Twingo 77.8%
- Fiat 500L 77.8%
- SsangYong Tivoli 78.2%
Closest pass rates among 2015 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 2015 Jeep Renegade 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 35,758 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 7,844 | 21.80% | 20.89% | +0.91 |
| Tyres | 7,702 | 21.40% | 19.76% | +1.64 |
| Suspension | 6,222 | 17.30% | 20.98% | −3.68 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 3,345 | 9.30% | 12.21% | −2.91 |
| Steering | 3,258 | 9.10% | 2.57% | +6.53 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2,244 | 6.20% | 5.52% | +0.68 |
| Non-component advisories | 1,817 | 5.10% | 4.18% | +0.92 |
| Visibility | 1,614 | 4.50% | 4.97% | −0.47 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1,196 | 3.30% | 5.57% | −2.27 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 516 | 1.40% | 1.76% | −0.36 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 6.0% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.8% | £80–200 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.8% | £5–25 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.5% | £3–12 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover excessively damaged or deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of… Steering | Major | 3.3% | £18–45 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 3.0% | £25–65 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Major | 2.3% | £45–95 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 2.2% | £18–45 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.0% | £5–20 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.9% | £45–95 |
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 | 19.0% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 16.5% | £45–110 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 10.8% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 7.6% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.0% | £45–95 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 4.6% | £200–700 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 708 | 89.7% | 23,081 mi |
| 30-60k | 6,731 | 81.9% | 48,102 mi |
| 60-90k | 9,675 | 77.0% | 73,881 mi |
| 90-120k | 3,793 | 73.5% | 101,671 mi |
| 120k+ | 1,061 | 70.3% | 137,826 mi |
Source: 21,972 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.
2015 Renegade MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2015 Jeep Renegade?
78.0% of the 21,972 2015 Jeep Renegade tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 82.1% for cars first used in 2015. First-attempt pass rate: 72.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2015 Jeep Renegade?
The three most recorded items are track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt (6.00%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.80%), position lamp not working (3.76%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2015 Jeep Renegade MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 89.7% of the time, falling to 70.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2015 Jeep Renegade in this dataset had covered 69,796 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2015 Jeep Renegade?
Diesel: 77.1% pass rate across 13,666 tests. Petrol: 79.3% pass rate across 8,306 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2015 Jeep Renegade MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 78.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 77.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.