Pass rate
74.5%
Below average — 1.4 pts ahead of the 73.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 145 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £29–£80
2008 Jeep Wrangler Sahara MOT pass rate
- 2008
- typical 89,094 mi
Most common fault
Brakes
24.3% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Part only £25–£40 for Brake pads under 1.5 mm. What fitting it takes →
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
- 68.1%
- Typical mileage
- 89k mi
The 2008 Jeep Wrangler Sahara MOT pass rate is 74.5% of its MOT tests — 1.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 24.3% 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
Lamps & electrics: 1.8× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 22.5% of everything recorded on the 2008 Jeep Wrangler Sahara, against 12.2% nationally — 10.3 points above. Brakes are still the single largest share at 24.3%, but at 20.9% nationally that one is ordinary. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- Based on a small sample. 145 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 2008 Jeep Wrangler Sahara compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.1%, so this figure is 1.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 68.1%. The median 2008 Jeep Wrangler Sahara in this dataset had covered 89,094 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 70.7% of the time, April–September 79.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements", noted on 4.83% of tests.
- 145 recorded tests behind this page.
- 74.5% overall pass rate, 68.1% 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
- 145
- Typical mileage (median)
- 89,094 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
Brake Discs and Pads Set
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Wrangler Sahara MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 52% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Wrangler Sahara
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 47 | 70.2% |
| North West | 19 | 73.7% |
| South West | 19 | 78.9% |
| West Midlands | 15 | 80.0% |
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 2008 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 2008 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 lights 4.1% 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.
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Check the brakes 2.8% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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 2008 Wrangler Sahara through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £29–£80 — and 44% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £29–£80
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints excessively worn
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 44%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 145 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 2008 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 2008 cars with a similar record
- Suzuki Grand Vitara 74.5%
- Chrysler Jeep 300 74.5%
- Volkswagen Scirocco 74.4%
- Land Rover Freelander 74.7%
- Volkswagen Passat 74.7%
- Toyota Rav-4 74.3%
Closest pass rates among 2008 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 2008 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 281 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 | 69 | 24.30% | 20.89% | +3.41 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 64 | 22.50% | 12.21% | +10.29 |
| Suspension | 48 | 16.90% | 20.98% | −4.08 |
| Steering | 25 | 8.80% | 2.57% | +6.23 |
| Tyres | 24 | 8.50% | 19.76% | −11.26 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 18 | 6.30% | 5.57% | +0.73 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 16 | 5.60% | 5.52% | +0.08 |
| Visibility | 8 | 2.80% | 4.97% | −2.17 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 5 | 1.80% | 0.82% | +0.98 |
| Non-component advisories | 4 | 1.40% | 4.18% | −2.78 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 4.8% | £45–110 |
| Side repeaters not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.8% | £5–25 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.1% | £5–25 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.1% | £3–15 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.5% | £30–80 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 3.5% | £60–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 2.8% | £18–45 |
| Joints excessively worn Body, chassis, structure | Major | 2.8% | £80–250 |
| Parking brake performance inoperative on one side Brakes | Major | 2.8% | £60–150 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.8% | £3–12 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 7.6% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 7.6% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.5% | £18–45 |
| Chassis condition corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 4.8% | £180–450 |
| Other components leaking Steering | Advisory | 4.8% | £60–200 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 10 | 70.0% | 44,639 mi |
| 60-90k | 68 | 77.9% | 77,117 mi |
| 90-120k | 47 | 76.6% | 103,278 mi |
| 120k+ | 20 | 60.0% | 144,588 mi |
Source: 145 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.
2008 Wrangler Sahara MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2008 Jeep Wrangler Sahara?
74.5% of the 145 2008 Jeep Wrangler Sahara tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.1% for cars first used in 2008. First-attempt pass rate: 68.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2008 Jeep Wrangler Sahara?
The three most recorded items are rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements (4.83%), side repeaters not working (4.83%), position lamp not working (4.14%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2008 Jeep Wrangler Sahara MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 70.0% of the time, falling to 60.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2008 Jeep Wrangler Sahara in this dataset had covered 89,094 mi.
Does the season affect the 2008 Jeep Wrangler Sahara MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 70.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 79.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.