Pass rate
90.6%
Above average — 1.4 pts behind the 92.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 374 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £38–£106
2022 Jeep Wrangler MOT pass rate
- 2022
- 3 trims combined
- typical 21,350 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
36.5% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Part only £40–£65 for Shock absorber leaking. What fitting it takes →
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
- 90.1%
- Typical mileage
- 21k mi
The 2022 Jeep Wrangler MOT pass rate is 90.6% of its MOT tests — 1.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 36.5% 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
Suspension: 1.7× the national share
Suspension accounts for 36.5% of everything recorded on the 2022 Jeep Wrangler, against 21.0% nationally — 15.5 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 18% 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.
- Based on a small sample. 374 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
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 2022 is combined here — 3 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2022 Jeep Wrangler compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 92.0%, so this figure is 1.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 90.1%. The median 2022 Jeep Wrangler in this dataset had covered 21,350 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 93.2% of the time, April–September 88.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak", noted on 4.55% of tests.
- 374 recorded tests behind this page.
- 90.6% overall pass rate, 90.1% 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
- 374
- Typical mileage (median)
- 21,350 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
Shock Absorber
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Wrangler MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 78% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Wrangler
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 119 | 89.1% |
| East of England | 55 | 90.9% |
| South West | 33 | 90.9% |
| North West | 33 | 93.9% |
| Yorkshire | 31 | 93.5% |
| London | 23 | 82.6% |
| East Midlands | 20 | 95.0% |
| Scotland | 19 | 94.7% |
| West Midlands | 16 | 100.0% |
| Wales | 15 | 86.7% |
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 2022 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 2022 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 shock absorbers 4.5% of tests
“shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak”
Press down hard on each corner of the car and let go. It should settle in one bounce; if it keeps rocking, or you can see oil weeping down a shock absorber, that is the fault a tester will find.
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Check the windscreen 1.9% 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 wipers and washers 1.1% of tests
“wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively”
Run the wipers with the screen wet: they should clear it in one sweep without smearing or juddering. Top the washer bottle up and check both jets hit the 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 2022 Wrangler through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £38–£106 — and 18% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £38–£106
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot split or…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 18%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 374 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 2022 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 2022 cars with a similar record
- MG Hs Excite 90.6%
- Kia Ceed 90.6%
- Land Rover Range Rover Velar 90.6%
- Mercedes-Benz Cla 90.5%
- Ford Ecosport 90.5%
- Hyundai I20 90.5%
Closest pass rates among 2022 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 2022 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 191 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 | 70 | 36.50% | 20.98% | +15.52 |
| Brakes | 24 | 12.50% | 20.89% | −8.39 |
| Non-component advisories | 21 | 10.90% | 4.18% | +6.72 |
| Visibility | 20 | 10.40% | 4.97% | +5.43 |
| Tyres | 19 | 9.90% | 19.76% | −9.86 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 16 | 8.30% | 12.21% | −3.91 |
| Steering | 9 | 4.70% | 2.57% | +2.13 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 5 | 2.60% | 5.57% | −2.97 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 4 | 2.10% | 1.76% | +0.34 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 3 | 1.60% | 5.52% | −3.92 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 4.5% | £30–75 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.9% | £80–200 |
| Fluid level below minimum Steering | Minor | 1.6% | £60–200 |
| Window excessively tinted but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.1% | £20–80 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.1% | £8–22 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.80% | £5–20 |
| Decelerometer (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 0.53% | £45–110 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 0.53% | £80–250 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 0.53% | £18–45 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.53% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 12.6% | £30–75 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.8% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 2.4% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.1% | £20–80 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 0.80% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 280 | 91.8% | 18,368 mi |
| 30-60k | 91 | 86.8% | 38,121 mi |
| 60-90k | 3 | 100.0% | 67,815 mi |
Source: 374 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.
2022 Wrangler MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2022 Jeep Wrangler?
90.6% of the 374 2022 Jeep Wrangler tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 92.0% for cars first used in 2022. First-attempt pass rate: 90.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2022 Jeep Wrangler?
The three most recorded items are shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak (4.55%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.87%), fluid level below minimum (1.60%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2022 Jeep Wrangler MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.8% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2022 Jeep Wrangler in this dataset had covered 21,350 mi.
Does the season affect the 2022 Jeep Wrangler MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 93.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 88.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.