Pass rate
86.4%
Above average — 1.5 pts behind the 87.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 7,688 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £32–£77
2018 Jeep Renegade MOT pass rate
- 2018
- typical 42,727 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
31.5% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
2.2 pts up across model years — 7.0% in 2015, 9.2% in 2021.
Which year to buy
- Best 2021 92.3% pass
- Avoid 2015 78.0% pass
Across the 8 years on record, a spread of 14.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 84.5%
- Typical mileage
- 43k mi
The 2018 Jeep Renegade MOT pass rate is 86.4% of its MOT tests — 1.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 31.5% 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
Tyres: 1.6× the national share
Tyres make up 31.5% of everything recorded on the 2018 Jeep Renegade, against 19.8% nationally — 11.7 points above. Check all four tyres yourself, including the inner shoulders, and look at the date stamp — a tyre can pass on tread and still be six years old.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 21% 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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How does the 2018 Jeep Renegade compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 87.9%, so this figure is 1.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 84.5%. The median 2018 Jeep Renegade in this dataset had covered 42,727 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 58% of tests, with a 87.3% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 87.0% of the time, April–September 85.9%.
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 3.66% of tests.
- 7,688 recorded tests behind this page.
- 86.4% overall pass rate, 84.5% 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
- 7,688
- Typical mileage (median)
- 42,727 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 63% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (58% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Renegade
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 1,457 | 87.0% |
| Scotland | 1,079 | 81.1% |
| North West | 760 | 88.3% |
| West Midlands | 718 | 89.1% |
| East of England | 699 | 86.6% |
| South West | 682 | 85.2% |
| Yorkshire | 624 | 86.9% |
| East Midlands | 610 | 89.0% |
| North East | 401 | 86.5% |
| Wales | 367 | 83.9% |
| London | 291 | 90.0% |
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 2018 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 2018 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 3.7% 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 3.1% 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.
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Check the lights 1.6% of tests
“malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction”
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 2018 Renegade through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £32–£77 — and 21% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £32–£77
- 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
- 21%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 7,688 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 2018 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 2018 cars with a similar record
- Skoda Fabia 86.4%
- Mercedes-Benz Cla 86.4%
- Ford S-Max 86.4%
- SEAT Leon 86.5%
- Volkswagen Amarok 86.5%
- Peugeot 2008 86.3%
Closest pass rates among 2018 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 2018 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 8,300 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 2,632 | 31.50% | 19.76% | +11.74 |
| Brakes | 1,858 | 22.20% | 20.89% | +1.31 |
| Suspension | 906 | 10.80% | 20.98% | −10.18 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 683 | 8.20% | 12.21% | −4.01 |
| Non-component advisories | 581 | 6.90% | 4.18% | +2.72 |
| Steering | 517 | 6.20% | 2.57% | +3.63 |
| Visibility | 461 | 5.50% | 4.97% | +0.53 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 353 | 4.20% | 5.52% | −1.32 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 171 | 2.00% | 5.57% | −3.57 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 138 | 1.60% | 1.76% | −0.16 |
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 | 3.7% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.1% | £80–200 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover excessively damaged or deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of… Steering | Major | 2.0% | £18–45 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.6% | £3–12 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.4% | £18–45 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.2% | £5–25 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.94% | £45–95 |
| Daytime running lamps not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.86% | £3–15 |
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 | 16.3% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 10.7% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 8.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 6.2% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 4.0% | £45–110 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 3.4% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 1,817 | 92.5% | 21,470 mi |
| 30-60k | 4,212 | 86.3% | 43,779 mi |
| 60-90k | 1,458 | 80.5% | 70,719 mi |
| 90-120k | 180 | 77.2% | 99,649 mi |
| 120k+ | 21 | 71.4% | 127,497 mi |
Source: 7,688 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.
2018 Renegade MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2018 Jeep Renegade?
86.4% of the 7,688 2018 Jeep Renegade tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 87.9% for cars first used in 2018. First-attempt pass rate: 84.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2018 Jeep Renegade?
The three most recorded items are track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt (3.66%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.15%), track rod end ball joint dust cover excessively damaged or deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of… (1.96%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2018 Jeep Renegade MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.5% of the time, falling to 71.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2018 Jeep Renegade in this dataset had covered 42,727 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2018 Jeep Renegade?
Petrol: 87.3% pass rate across 4,464 tests. Diesel: 85.2% pass rate across 3,224 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2018 Jeep Renegade MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 87.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 85.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.