Pass rate
73.4%
Below average — 0.5 pts ahead of the 72.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 4,763 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £66–£177
2002 Suzuki Jimny MOT pass rate
- 2002
- typical 90,149 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Brakes
22.4% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Part only £25–£55 for Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded. What fitting it takes →
13.8 pts down across model years — 14.5% in 2000, 0.7% in 2019.
Which year to buy
- Best 2024 100.0% pass
- Avoid 2006 71.8% pass
Across the 22 years on record, a spread of 28.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 67.8%
- Typical mileage
- 90k mi
The 2002 Suzuki Jimny MOT pass rate is 73.4% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 22.4% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Body & chassis: 2.8× the national share
Body & chassis accounts for 15.8% of everything recorded on the 2002 Suzuki Jimny, against 5.6% nationally — 10.2 points above. Brakes are still the single largest share at 22.4%, but at 20.9% nationally that one is ordinary. Look underneath for corrosion near the jacking points and suspension mounts; surface rust is normal, flaking metal is not.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 33% 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 2002 Suzuki Jimny compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.9%, so this figure is 0.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 67.8%. The median 2002 Suzuki Jimny in this dataset had covered 90,149 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 100% of tests, with a 73.4% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 74.1% of the time, April–September 72.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 5.48% of tests.
- 4,763 recorded tests behind this page.
- 73.4% overall pass rate, 67.8% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Suzuki Jimny, the average is 78.3% — best year 2024 (100.0%), worst 2006 (71.8%).
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
- 4,763
- Typical mileage (median)
- 90,149 mi
- Make and model
- Suzuki Jimny
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Jimny MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 62% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (100% of tests).
Where the Suzuki Jimny is most common
Across all Jimny model years on record (2000–2024): 33,791 Suzuki Jimny cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 81,779 tests. Exeter (EX) has the most, with 1,164 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 | Exeter (EX) | 1,164 | 76.5% |
| 2 | Ashford (TN) | 829 | 79.4% |
| 3 | Sheffield (S) | 799 | 82.1% |
| 4 | Plymouth (PL) | 768 | 73.4% |
| 5 | Bradford (BD) | 695 | 80.1% |
| 6 | Portsmouth (PO) | 616 | 78.1% |
| 7 | Newton Abbot (TQ) | 613 | 73.9% |
| 8 | Gloucester (GL) | 571 | 76.8% |
| 9 | Wrexham (LL) | 561 | 76.4% |
| 10 | Shrewsbury (SY) | 546 | 77.8% |
| 11 | Norwich (NR) | 531 | 76.6% |
| 12 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 529 | 79.0% |
| 13 | Birmingham (B) | 512 | 82.6% |
| 14 | Cardiff (CF) | 506 | 74.7% |
| 15 | Swansea (SA) | 501 | 74.1% |
| 16 | Guildford (GU) | 496 | 79.7% |
| 17 | Yeovil (BA) | 492 | 75.3% |
| 18 | Peterborough (PE) | 488 | 79.4% |
| 19 | Bristol (BS) | 471 | 75.5% |
| 20 | Maidstone (ME) | 458 | 84.5% |
The twenty areas with the most Suzuki Jimny 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 Jimny
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 1,048 | 78.1% |
| South West | 1,022 | 69.3% |
| West Midlands | 486 | 75.1% |
| East of England | 432 | 76.4% |
| North West | 388 | 71.9% |
| Yorkshire | 372 | 72.3% |
| Wales | 348 | 67.5% |
| East Midlands | 270 | 74.4% |
| Scotland | 168 | 67.9% |
| North East | 151 | 74.2% |
| London | 78 | 85.9% |
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 2002 Jimny
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 2002 Jimny
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 5.5% 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 windscreen 4.9% 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 corrosion 4.4% of tests
“chassis condition or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of a body mounting”
Look under the sills, around the jacking points and where the suspension mounts meet the body. Flaking, holed or crumbly metal fails; a brown stain on sound metal does not.
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 2002 Jimny through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £66–£177 — and 33% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £66–£177
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: chassis condition or chassis has excessive…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 40%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 33%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 4,763 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 Jimny, side by side
22 model years on record, from 2000 to 2024. Across them the pass rate runs from 71.8% to 100.0% — a spread of 28.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 72.9% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2001 72.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2002 73.4%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2003 73.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2004 72.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2005 72.7% chassis condition or chassis has…
- 2006 71.8% chassis condition or chassis has…
- 2007 72.8% chassis condition or chassis has…
- 2008 76.6% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2009 78.2% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2010 77.7% chassis condition or chassis has…
- 2011 79.7% service brake performance…
- 2012 81.4% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2013 83.8% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2014 84.2% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2015 83.3% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2016 85.6% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2017 86.6% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2018 88.1% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2019 94.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 96.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2024 100.0% no single leading item
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 2002 Suzuki Jimny 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 2002 cars with a similar record
- Volkswagen Lupo 73.4%
- Volkswagen Passat 73.3%
- Renault Megane 73.3%
- Vauxhall Vectra 73.3%
- Audi A4 73.6%
- Smart Mcc City 73.2%
Closest pass rates among 2002 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 2002 Suzuki Jimny 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 14,022 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 | 3,183 | 22.40% | 20.89% | +1.51 |
| Suspension | 2,716 | 19.10% | 20.98% | −1.88 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 2,242 | 15.80% | 5.57% | +10.23 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1,775 | 12.50% | 12.21% | +0.29 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1,021 | 7.20% | 5.52% | +1.68 |
| Non-component advisories | 881 | 6.20% | 4.18% | +2.02 |
| Tyres | 850 | 6.00% | 19.76% | −13.76 |
| Visibility | 610 | 4.30% | 4.97% | −0.67 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 402 | 2.80% | 0.82% | +1.98 |
| Steering | 342 | 2.40% | 2.57% | −0.17 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.5% | £5–20 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 4.9% | £80–200 |
| Chassis condition or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of a body mounting Body, chassis, structure | Major | 4.4% | £180–450 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.7% | £5–25 |
| Prescribed areas prescribed area strength or continuity significantly reduced Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 3.7% | £40–120 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 3.5% | £80–180 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.8% | £60–250 |
| Service brake imbalance across an axle Brakes | Major | 2.8% | £45–110 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.7% | £5–25 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 2.6% | £180–450 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 27.3% | £80–180 |
| Non-component advisories Fuel Pipe/s corroded Non-component advisories | Advisory | 12.1% | £180–450 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 11.5% | £25–65 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 9.7% | £45–95 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 8.0% | £200–700 |
| Integral vehicle structure condition corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 6.4% | £180–450 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 70 | 87.1% | 21,433 mi |
| 30-60k | 641 | 78.3% | 49,037 mi |
| 60-90k | 1,653 | 73.7% | 75,960 mi |
| 90-120k | 1,526 | 71.9% | 103,508 mi |
| 120k+ | 850 | 70.7% | 137,936 mi |
Source: 4,763 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.
2002 Jimny MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2002 Suzuki Jimny?
73.4% of the 4,763 2002 Suzuki Jimny tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.9% for cars first used in 2002. First-attempt pass rate: 67.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2002 Suzuki Jimny?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (5.48%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (4.87%), chassis condition or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of a body mounting (4.37%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2002 Suzuki Jimny MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 87.1% of the time, falling to 70.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2002 Suzuki Jimny in this dataset had covered 90,149 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2002 Suzuki Jimny?
Petrol: 73.4% pass rate across 4,753 tests. Diesel: 70.0% pass rate across 10 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2002 Suzuki Jimny MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 74.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 72.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.