Pass rate
87.6%
Above average — 1.6 pts ahead of the 86.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 52,128 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £31–£80
2017 Land Rover Range Rover MOT pass rate
- 2017
- typical 62,591 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Brakes
32.0% 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 →
1.7 pts up across model years — 2.2% in 2000, 3.9% in 2022.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 96.6% pass
- Avoid 2004 76.0% pass
Across the 24 years on record, a spread of 20.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 86.0%
- Typical mileage
- 63k mi
The 2017 Land Rover Range Rover MOT pass rate is 87.6% of its MOT tests — 1.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 32.0% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 1.5× the national share
Brakes make up 32.0% of everything recorded on the 2017 Land Rover Range Rover, against 20.9% nationally — 11.1 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 19% 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 2017 Land Rover Range Rover compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 86.0%, so this figure is 1.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 86.0%. The median 2017 Land Rover Range Rover in this dataset had covered 62,591 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 90% of tests, with a 87.3% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 87.7% of the time, April–September 87.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 5.37% of tests.
- 52,128 recorded tests behind this page.
- 87.6% overall pass rate, 86.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Land Rover Range Rover, the average is 84.5% — best year 2023 (96.6%), worst 2004 (76.0%).
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
- 52,128
- Typical mileage (median)
- 62,591 mi
- Make and model
- Land Rover Range Rover
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Ball Joint
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Range Rover MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 75% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (90% of tests).
Where the Land Rover Range Rover is most common
Across all Range Rover model years on record (2000–2023): 331,934 Land Rover Range Rover cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 679,058 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 9,122 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birmingham (B) | 9,122 | 89.1% |
| 2 | Sheffield (S) | 7,123 | 88.2% |
| 3 | Chelmsford (CM) | 6,766 | 86.8% |
| 4 | Peterborough (PE) | 6,564 | 84.7% |
| 5 | Derby (DE) | 6,471 | 85.5% |
| 6 | Reading (RG) | 6,361 | 85.4% |
| 7 | Ashford (TN) | 5,811 | 84.3% |
| 8 | Leicester (LE) | 5,377 | 86.7% |
| 9 | Nottingham (NG) | 5,371 | 84.2% |
| 10 | Guildford (GU) | 5,116 | 83.0% |
| 11 | Coventry (CV) | 4,861 | 86.6% |
| 12 | Manchester (M) | 4,693 | 86.8% |
| 13 | Doncaster (DN) | 4,248 | 84.2% |
| 14 | High Wycombe (HP) | 4,167 | 87.1% |
| 15 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 4,139 | 84.4% |
| 16 | Gloucester (GL) | 4,121 | 81.7% |
| 17 | Crawley (RH) | 4,074 | 83.7% |
| 18 | Oxford (OX) | 4,034 | 84.9% |
| 19 | Northampton (NN) | 3,981 | 83.6% |
| 20 | Milton Keynes (MK) | 3,967 | 87.6% |
The twenty areas with the most Land Rover Range Rover cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the Range Rover
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 12,499 | 87.4% |
| East of England | 6,020 | 88.7% |
| North West | 6,004 | 87.0% |
| Yorkshire | 4,642 | 87.2% |
| South West | 4,509 | 85.5% |
| West Midlands | 4,430 | 89.5% |
| Scotland | 3,844 | 85.5% |
| East Midlands | 3,515 | 87.8% |
| London | 3,354 | 89.1% |
| Wales | 1,714 | 88.5% |
| North East | 1,586 | 87.6% |
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 2017 Range Rover
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 2017 Range Rover
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 suspension joints 5.4% of tests
“ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated”
With the car parked on level ground, rock the top of each front wheel in and out while someone watches the suspension arm. Clunks, or rubber boots split and greasy, are what testers record here.
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Check the windscreen 3.0% 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 lights 1.8% of tests
“srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault”
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 2017 Range Rover through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £31–£80 — and 19% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £31–£80
- Cheapest common item: srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 19%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 52,128 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 Range Rover, side by side
24 model years on record, from 2000 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 76.0% to 96.6% — a spread of 20.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 80.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2001 78.9% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2002 77.4% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2003 76.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2004 76.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2005 78.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2006 77.4% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2007 78.5% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2008 78.9% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2009 79.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2010 81.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 81.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 82.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 84.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2014 85.7% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2015 85.7% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2016 85.7% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2017 87.6%ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2018 90.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 91.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 91.3% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 92.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2022 92.0% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2023 96.6% 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 2017 Land Rover Range Rover 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 2017 cars with a similar record
- Smart Mcc Fortwo 87.6%
- Mercedes-Benz Slc 87.6%
- Jaguar Xe 87.5%
- Volkswagen Touran 87.5%
- Volkswagen Sharan 87.5%
- Jaguar F-Pace 87.7%
Closest pass rates among 2017 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 2017 Land Rover Range Rover 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 46,689 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 | 15,083 | 32.00% | 20.89% | +11.11 |
| Tyres | 11,779 | 25.00% | 19.76% | +5.24 |
| Suspension | 8,726 | 18.50% | 20.98% | −2.48 |
| Visibility | 3,094 | 6.60% | 4.97% | +1.63 |
| Non-component advisories | 2,148 | 4.60% | 4.18% | +0.42 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2,010 | 4.30% | 5.52% | −1.22 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1,191 | 2.50% | 0.82% | +1.68 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1,076 | 2.30% | 5.57% | −3.27 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1,020 | 2.20% | 12.21% | −10.01 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 562 | 1.20% | 1.76% | −0.56 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 5.4% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.0% | £80–200 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 2.7% | £18–45 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 1.8% | £3–12 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.2% | £18–45 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.91% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.87% | £8–22 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 0.73% | £40–150 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 0.72% | £80–250 |
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 | 10.4% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 6.9% | £45–110 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 6.4% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 3.5% | £45–110 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 3.1% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 2,673 | 92.0% | 22,977 mi |
| 30-60k | 20,953 | 89.2% | 47,512 mi |
| 60-90k | 21,394 | 86.4% | 72,940 mi |
| 90-120k | 5,973 | 85.0% | 100,871 mi |
| 120k+ | 1,125 | 83.3% | 137,166 mi |
Source: 52,128 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.
2017 Range Rover MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2017 Land Rover Range Rover?
87.6% of the 52,128 2017 Land Rover Range Rover tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 86.0% for cars first used in 2017. First-attempt pass rate: 86.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2017 Land Rover Range Rover?
The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (5.37%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.01%), ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (2.67%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2017 Land Rover Range Rover MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.0% of the time, falling to 83.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2017 Land Rover Range Rover in this dataset had covered 62,591 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2017 Land Rover Range Rover?
Diesel: 87.3% pass rate across 46,739 tests. Petrol: 89.9% pass rate across 5,295 tests. Other: 84.1% pass rate across 69 tests. Hybrid: 100.0% pass rate across 25 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2017 Land Rover Range Rover MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 87.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 87.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.