Pass rate
73.6%
Below average — 0.2 pts behind the 73.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 174 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £60–£156
2000 Jeep Wrangler Sahara MOT pass rate
- 2000
- typical 81,413 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
23.8% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2004 77.0% pass
- Avoid 2009 66.7% pass
Across the 8 years on record, a spread of 10.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 67.8%
- Typical mileage
- 81k mi
The 2000 Jeep Wrangler Sahara MOT pass rate is 73.6% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 23.8% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Jeep Wrangler Sahara does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Fewer problems with tyres
Tyres are 8.5% of this car’s recorded faults, against 19.8% nationally — the mirror image of the usual story on a car of this age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 30% 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. 174 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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How does the 2000 Jeep Wrangler Sahara compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.8%, so this figure is 0.2 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 67.8%. The median 2000 Jeep Wrangler Sahara in this dataset had covered 81,413 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 78.3% of the time, April–September 70.5%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 5.17% of tests.
- 174 recorded tests behind this page.
- 73.6% overall pass rate, 67.8% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Jeep Wrangler Sahara, the average is 73.6% — best year 2004 (77.0%), worst 2009 (66.7%).
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
- 174
- Typical mileage (median)
- 81,413 mi
- Make and model
- Jeep Wrangler Sahara
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Wrangler Sahara MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 54% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Wrangler Sahara
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| East of England | 50 | 70.0% |
| South East | 35 | 80.0% |
| South West | 29 | 75.9% |
| Yorkshire | 15 | 73.3% |
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 2000 Wrangler Sahara
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 2000 Wrangler Sahara
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 windscreen 5.2% 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 3.5% 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.
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Check the battery 2.9% of tests
“battery(ies) insecure”
Check the battery is secure and its terminals are clean and tight — a loose battery is a fail on its own, and a weak one shows up as slow cranking on a cold morning.
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 2000 Wrangler Sahara through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £60–£156 — and 30% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £60–£156
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: chassis condition or chassis has excessive…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 30%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 174 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 Sahara, side by side
8 model years on record, from 2000 to 2009. Across them the pass rate runs from 66.7% to 77.0% — a spread of 10.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 73.6%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2001 74.3% service brake imbalance across an…
- 2002 72.5% service brake imbalance across an…
- 2003 74.0% service brake imbalance across an…
- 2004 77.0% ball joint excessively worn
- 2007 74.5% position lamp not working
- 2008 74.5% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2009 66.7% anti-lock braking system warning…
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 2000 Jeep Wrangler Sahara 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 2000 cars with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2000 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 2000 Jeep Wrangler Sahara 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 504 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 | 123 | 23.80% | 20.98% | +2.82 |
| Brakes | 120 | 23.20% | 20.89% | +2.31 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 62 | 12.00% | 12.21% | −0.21 |
| Tyres | 44 | 8.50% | 19.76% | −11.26 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 43 | 8.30% | 5.57% | +2.73 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 36 | 7.00% | 5.52% | +1.48 |
| Visibility | 27 | 5.20% | 4.97% | +0.23 |
| Steering | 21 | 4.10% | 2.57% | +1.53 |
| Non-component advisories | 14 | 2.70% | 4.18% | −1.48 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 14 | 2.70% | 0.82% | +1.88 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 5.2% | £80–200 |
| Service brake performance efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 4.0% | £60–150 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 3.5% | £8–22 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.9% | £60–140 |
| Linkage pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.9% | £40–150 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.9% | £5–20 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.9% | £5–20 |
| Chassis condition or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of a body mounting Body, chassis, structure | Major | 2.3% | £180–450 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 2.3% | £180–450 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.3% | £18–45 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 17.2% | £40–150 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 16.7% | £80–180 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 13.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 12.1% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 10.9% | £18–45 |
| Linkage pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 10.9% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 6 | 100.0% | 18,059 mi |
| 30-60k | 34 | 79.4% | 50,454 mi |
| 60-90k | 64 | 71.9% | 74,791 mi |
| 90-120k | 35 | 77.1% | 103,321 mi |
| 120k+ | 35 | 62.9% | 131,038 mi |
Source: 174 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.
2000 Wrangler Sahara MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2000 Jeep Wrangler Sahara?
73.6% of the 174 2000 Jeep Wrangler Sahara tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.8% for cars first used in 2000. First-attempt pass rate: 67.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2000 Jeep Wrangler Sahara?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (5.17%), service brake performance efficiency below requirements (4.02%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (3.45%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2000 Jeep Wrangler Sahara MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 62.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2000 Jeep Wrangler Sahara in this dataset had covered 81,413 mi.
Does the season affect the 2000 Jeep Wrangler Sahara MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 78.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 70.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.