Pass rate
80.2%
Around average — 7.2 pts ahead of the 73.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 86 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £45–£125
2007 Land Rover Sport MOT pass rate
- 2007
- typical 131,865 mi
Only 86 tests of this exact model and year are in the DVSA data, below the 100 we ask for before a page goes in the index. The figures are still shown, because they are the only ones there are.
Most common fault
Suspension
21.7% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Part only £35–£75 for Suspension pin or bush excessively worn. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2014 85.7% pass
- Avoid 2007 80.2% pass · this year
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 5.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 76.4%
- Typical mileage
- 132k mi
The 2007 Land Rover Sport MOT pass rate is 80.2% of its MOT tests — 7.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 21.7% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Land Rover Sport does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Beats its own age and mileage
Once you allow for how old and how far these cars have been driven, the expected pass rate is 73.0% and this one manages 80.2% — 7.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 24% 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. 86 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 2007 Land Rover Sport compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.0%, so this figure is 7.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 76.4%. The median 2007 Land Rover Sport in this dataset had covered 131,865 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 79.2% of the time, April–September 81.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 8.14% of tests.
- 86 recorded tests behind this page.
- 80.2% overall pass rate, 76.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Land Rover Sport, the average is 84.5% — best year 2014 (85.7%), worst 2007 (80.2%).
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
- 86
- Typical mileage (median)
- 131,865 mi
- Make and model
- Land Rover Sport
- 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 Sport MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 58% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Sport
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| West Midlands | 19 | 78.9% |
| South East | 19 | 84.2% |
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 2007 Sport
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 2007 Sport
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 8.1% 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 5.8% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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 3.5% 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 2007 Sport through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £45–£125 — and 24% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £45–£125
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 24%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 86 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 Sport, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2007 to 2014. Across them the pass rate runs from 80.2% to 85.7% — a spread of 5.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2007 80.2%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2008 81.7% position lamp not working
- 2014 85.7% 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 2007 Land Rover Sport 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 2007 cars with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2007 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 2007 Land Rover Sport 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 206 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 | 45 | 21.70% | 20.98% | +0.72 |
| Brakes | 43 | 20.80% | 20.89% | −0.09 |
| Tyres | 40 | 19.30% | 19.76% | −0.46 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 22 | 10.60% | 12.21% | −1.61 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 18 | 8.70% | 5.57% | +3.13 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 15 | 7.20% | 5.52% | +1.68 |
| Visibility | 12 | 5.80% | 4.97% | +0.83 |
| Steering | 7 | 3.40% | 2.57% | +0.83 |
| Road Wheels | 3 | 1.40% | 0.75% | +0.65 |
| Non-component advisories | 1 | 0.50% | 4.18% | −3.68 |
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 | 8.1% | £80–200 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.8% | £5–20 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 4.7% | £80–250 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 3.5% | £18–45 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 3.5% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.5% | £40–150 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.5% | £5–25 |
| Fractured Road Wheels | Major | 2.3% | £20–55 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 2.3% | £45–95 |
| Prop shaft bearing excessively worn Body, chassis, structure | Major | 2.3% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 24.4% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 22.1% | £40–150 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 12.8% | £200–700 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 11.6% | £18–45 |
| Flexible brake hoses ferrule excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 7.0% | £25–70 |
| Wheel bearings has excessive play Suspension | Advisory | 7.0% | £20–55 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60-90k | 3 | 66.7% | 85,401 mi |
| 90-120k | 23 | 87.0% | 107,391 mi |
| 120k+ | 60 | 78.3% | 145,740 mi |
Source: 86 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.
2007 Sport MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2007 Land Rover Sport?
80.2% of the 86 2007 Land Rover Sport tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.0% for cars first used in 2007. First-attempt pass rate: 76.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2007 Land Rover Sport?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (8.14%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (5.81%), joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (4.65%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2007 Land Rover Sport MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 66.7% of the time, falling to 78.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2007 Land Rover Sport in this dataset had covered 131,865 mi.
Does the season affect the 2007 Land Rover Sport MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 79.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 81.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.