Wheel bearings has excessive play on the Land Rover Discovery
Wheel bearings has excessive play on the Land Rover Discovery is recorded on 12,788 tests — 1.6% of all its MOT tests, against 0.6% across every car in the data. That is 2.7× the national share.
Is this unusual for this model?
| Compared with | What it says |
|---|---|
| Every car in the data | 0.6% of tests record it — this model is 2.7× that share |
| The 252 models compared | 41 of 252, highest first |
| The model's own record | 816,484 tests · every year of the Discovery → |
A share of tests is not a probability for your car: it counts every Land Rover Discovery tested, whatever its mileage, service history and use. The like-for-like comparison on the model page is the fairer number.
Year by year
In 2000, 1.9% of this model's tests recorded it; in 2015, 0.2%. The share has fallen 1.7 points over that time. Worst year 2007 at 2.8%; best 2015 at 0.2%.
| Year | Failures recorded | Tests | Share of tests |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 312 | 16,192 | 1.9% |
| 2001 | 616 | 25,502 | 2.4% |
| 2002 | 673 | 48,579 | 1.4% |
| 2003 | 713 | 60,090 | 1.2% |
| 2004 | 876 | 68,547 | 1.3% |
| 2005 | 1,414 | 84,291 | 1.7% |
| 2006 | 1,595 | 84,054 | 1.9% |
| 2007 | 1,348 | 48,162 | 2.8% |
| 2008 | 910 | 53,721 | 1.7% |
| 2009 | 799 | 56,457 | 1.4% |
| 2010 | 629 | 69,075 | 0.9% |
| 2011 | 412 | 43,176 | 0.9% |
| 2012 | 537 | 48,670 | 1.1% |
| 2013 | 518 | 45,138 | 1.1% |
| 2014 | 398 | 79,206 | 0.5% |
| 2015 | 587 | 247,305 | 0.2% |
Years with fewer than 0.2% of tests recording the item are left out: a year with two failures in 400 tests is noise, and this table is not here to make noise look like a trend.
What it costs
A typical UK repair for this item is £20–£55 fitted. It is a job a careful owner can do at home. What the part is, and what to buy →
Prices are typical UK supply-and-fitting estimates, not quotes. What happens if it fails covers the retest rules.
Where this sits
- Wheel bearings has excessive play: every model, every year → — the item's own page, with the part guide.
- Land Rover Discovery MOT pass rate by year → — the model's whole record, and what else it fails on.
- Every Land Rover model →