Pass rate
72.7%
Below average — 0.6 pts behind the 73.3% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 502 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £37–£97
2001 Jeep Wrangler MOT pass rate
- 2001
- 4 trims combined
- typical 80,145 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
26.0% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 94.1% pass
- Avoid 2008 70.7% pass
Across the 23 years on record, a spread of 23.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 66.7%
- Typical mileage
- 80k mi
The 2001 Jeep Wrangler MOT pass rate is 72.7% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 26.0% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Jeep Wrangler does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Fewer problems with tyres
Tyres are 4.2% of this car’s recorded faults, against 19.8% nationally — the mirror image of the usual story on a car of this age.
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 Wrangler first registered in 2001 is combined here — 4 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2001 Jeep Wrangler compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.3%, so this figure is 0.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 66.7%. The median 2001 Jeep Wrangler in this dataset had covered 80,145 mi.
98% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 72.6% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 77.2% of the time, April–September 69.6%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Service brake imbalance across an axle", noted on 6.37% of tests.
- 502 recorded tests behind this page.
- 72.7% overall pass rate, 66.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jeep Wrangler, the average is 84.6% — best year 2020 (94.1%), worst 2008 (70.7%).
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
- 502
- Typical mileage (median)
- 80,145 mi
- Make and model
- Jeep Wrangler
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Brake Discs and Pads Set
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Wrangler MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 56% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (98% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Wrangler
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 138 | 75.4% |
| South West | 100 | 67.0% |
| Yorkshire | 48 | 66.7% |
| Wales | 47 | 70.2% |
| East of England | 46 | 80.4% |
| North West | 36 | 75.0% |
| West Midlands | 34 | 82.4% |
| London | 23 | 73.9% |
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 2001 Wrangler
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 2001 Wrangler
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 3.6% of tests
“rear fog 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.
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Check the windscreen 3.6% 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 brake pipes 2.4% of tests
“rigid brake pipes excessively corroded”
Brake pipes run under the car, usually in front of the rear wheels. Flaking or crusty metal is what fails; a light dusting of surface rust does not. Worth asking a garage to look while it is on a ramp.
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 2001 Wrangler through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £37–£97 — and 37% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £37–£97
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 37%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 502 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 Wrangler, side by side
23 model years on record, from 2000 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 70.7% to 94.1% — a spread of 23.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 77.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2001 72.7%service brake imbalance across an…
- 2002 75.8% service brake imbalance across an…
- 2003 79.0% rear fog lamp not working
- 2004 79.8% rear fog lamp not working
- 2005 84.9% linkage ball joint dust cover…
- 2006 81.4% headlamp aim projected beam image…
- 2007 77.6% position lamp not working
- 2008 70.7% headlamp aim projected beam image…
- 2009 73.2% side repeaters not working
- 2010 78.2% position lamp not working
- 2011 83.3% rear fog lamp not working
- 2012 81.6% anti-lock braking system warning…
- 2013 77.2% position lamp not working
- 2014 80.2% position lamp not working
- 2015 82.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 82.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 83.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 86.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 91.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 94.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 92.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2022 90.6% shock absorbers has a serious…
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 2001 Jeep Wrangler 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 2001 cars with a similar record
- Suzuki Jimny 72.7%
- Volkswagen Passat 72.8%
- Renault Megane 72.8%
- Ford Ranger 72.8%
- Mercedes-Benz A-Class 72.6%
- Toyota YARIS 72.9%
Closest pass rates among 2001 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 2001 Jeep Wrangler 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 1,208 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 | 317 | 26.00% | 20.98% | +5.02 |
| Brakes | 287 | 23.50% | 20.89% | +2.61 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 153 | 12.60% | 12.21% | +0.39 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 121 | 9.90% | 5.52% | +4.38 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 97 | 8.00% | 5.57% | +2.43 |
| Steering | 70 | 5.70% | 2.57% | +3.13 |
| Visibility | 56 | 4.60% | 4.97% | −0.37 |
| Tyres | 51 | 4.20% | 19.76% | −15.56 |
| Non-component advisories | 33 | 2.70% | 4.18% | −1.48 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 23 | 1.90% | 0.82% | +1.08 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service brake imbalance across an axle Brakes | Major | 6.4% | £45–110 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.6% | £3–15 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.6% | £80–200 |
| Service brake performance efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 2.8% | £60–150 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.8% | £3–12 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.6% | £5–25 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 2.4% | £80–180 |
| Linkage pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.2% | £40–150 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 2.2% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.0% | £30–80 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 15.7% | £80–180 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 10.6% | £200–700 |
| Linkage pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 10.6% | £40–150 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 10.4% | £40–150 |
| Transmission oil leaks leaking excessively from transmission Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 7.8% | £200–700 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 6.2% | £25–65 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 13 | 84.6% | 24,411 mi |
| 30-60k | 105 | 76.2% | 50,224 mi |
| 60-90k | 206 | 74.8% | 76,673 mi |
| 90-120k | 119 | 68.9% | 101,720 mi |
| 120k+ | 59 | 64.4% | 142,228 mi |
Source: 502 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.
2001 Wrangler MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2001 Jeep Wrangler?
72.7% of the 502 2001 Jeep Wrangler tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.3% for cars first used in 2001. First-attempt pass rate: 66.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2001 Jeep Wrangler?
The three most recorded items are service brake imbalance across an axle (6.37%), rear fog lamp not working (3.59%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.59%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2001 Jeep Wrangler MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 84.6% of the time, falling to 64.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2001 Jeep Wrangler in this dataset had covered 80,145 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2001 Jeep Wrangler?
Petrol: 72.6% pass rate across 492 tests. LPG: 80.0% pass rate across 10 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2001 Jeep Wrangler MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 77.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 69.6%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.