Pass rate
89.3%
Above average — 1.4 pts behind the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 745 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £37–£90
2020 Land Rover Discovery HSE SDV6 MOT pass rate
- 2020
- typical 40,892 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
33.2% 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 →
Which year to buy
- Best 2019 90.2% pass
- Avoid 2020 89.3% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 0.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 88.1%
- Typical mileage
- 41k mi
The 2020 Land Rover Discovery HSE SDV6 MOT pass rate is 89.3% of its MOT tests — 1.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 33.2% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Land Rover Discovery HSE SDV6 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.7× the national share
Tyres make up 33.2% of everything recorded on the 2020 Land Rover Discovery Hse Sdv6, against 19.8% nationally — 13.4 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 35% 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 2020 Land Rover Discovery HSE SDV6 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, 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 88.1%. The median 2020 Land Rover Discovery HSE SDV6 in this dataset had covered 40,892 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 89.0% of the time, April–September 89.6%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 3.89% of tests.
- 745 recorded tests behind this page.
- 89.3% overall pass rate, 88.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Land Rover Discovery HSE SDV6, the average is 90.1% — best year 2019 (90.2%), worst 2020 (89.3%).
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
- 745
- Typical mileage (median)
- 40,892 mi
- Make and model
- Land Rover Discovery HSE SDV6
- 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 Discovery HSE SDV6 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 75% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Discovery HSE SDV6
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 160 | 85.6% |
| East of England | 95 | 96.8% |
| South West | 89 | 84.3% |
| Yorkshire | 78 | 84.6% |
| East Midlands | 78 | 91.0% |
| North West | 72 | 90.3% |
| Scotland | 59 | 88.1% |
| West Midlands | 53 | 92.5% |
| North East | 21 | 100.0% |
| Wales | 21 | 90.5% |
| London | 19 | 94.7% |
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 2020 Discovery HSE SDV6
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 2020 Discovery HSE SDV6
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 3.9% 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 2.3% 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 lights 1.3% of tests
“headlamp aim too high”
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 2020 Discovery HSE SDV6 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £37–£90 — and 35% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £37–£90
- 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
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 35%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 745 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 Discovery HSE SDV6, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2019 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 89.3% to 90.2% — a spread of 0.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 90.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 89.3%windscreen damaged but not…
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 2020 Land Rover Discovery HSE SDV6 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 2020 cars with a similar record
- BMW 3 Series 89.3%
- Volvo XC90 89.3%
- Volkswagen Amarok 89.4%
- Renault Zoe I Iconc 89.4%
- SEAT Alhambra 89.4%
- MG Zs 89.1%
Closest pass rates among 2020 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 2020 Land Rover Discovery HSE SDV6 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 532 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 | 178 | 33.20% | 19.76% | +13.44 |
| Brakes | 161 | 30.00% | 20.89% | +9.11 |
| Visibility | 68 | 12.70% | 4.97% | +7.73 |
| Non-component advisories | 57 | 10.60% | 4.18% | +6.42 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 30 | 5.60% | 12.21% | −6.61 |
| Suspension | 15 | 2.80% | 20.98% | −18.18 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 10 | 1.90% | 5.52% | −3.62 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 6 | 1.10% | 0.82% | +0.28 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 5 | 0.90% | 5.57% | −4.67 |
| Steering | 2 | 0.40% | 2.57% | −2.17 |
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 | 3.9% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.5% | £45–95 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 2.3% | £8–22 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.9% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.3% | £30–80 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.94% | £18–45 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.81% | £3–12 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.81% | £45–95 |
| Front fog lamps insecure Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.54% | £3–15 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.54% | £45–95 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 11.5% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 9.1% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 7.0% | £45–110 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 4.7% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 3.2% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 3.0% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 177 | 91.0% | 23,365 mi |
| 30-60k | 431 | 88.4% | 43,512 mi |
| 60-90k | 119 | 90.8% | 70,408 mi |
| 90-120k | 18 | 83.3% | 97,547 mi |
Source: 745 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.
2020 Discovery HSE SDV6 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Land Rover Discovery HSE SDV6?
89.3% of the 745 2020 Land Rover Discovery HSE SDV6 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 88.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Land Rover Discovery HSE SDV6?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.89%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.55%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (2.28%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Land Rover Discovery HSE SDV6 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.0% of the time, falling to 83.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Land Rover Discovery HSE SDV6 in this dataset had covered 40,892 mi.
Does the season affect the 2020 Land Rover Discovery HSE SDV6 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 89.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 89.6%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.