66.9%
Jeep Cherokee
Jeep Cherokee MOT pass rate and common problems
The Jeep Cherokee passed 66.9% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 5.4 percentage points below the 72.3% UK average. The item testers recorded most often was pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn.
Checking a specific car? Its own results, advisories and recorded mileages are in a free MOT history check.
How the Cherokee compares
Initial MOT tests in 2025, retests excluded. A car that failed and was repaired at the test station counts as a fail.
71.9%
Jeep average
72.3%
UK average, all cars
The Cherokee runs 5 points behind the Jeep average. It is 5th of the 6 Jeep models in the data. The average Cherokee arrived at its test 16 years old with 97,993 miles recorded.
A pass rate records whether cars met the roadworthiness standard on test day. It is not a reliability score, and part of any gap reflects how old the tested cars were.
Cherokee MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Jeep Cherokee cars aged 6 to 10 years passed 74.9% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 60.7%, a drop of 14.2 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years (small sample) | 25 | 80% | 7.7 pts above |
| 6 to 10 years | 5,000 | 74.9% | 2.6 pts above |
| 11 years and over | 6,427 | 60.7% | 11.6 pts below |
That is a steep decline with age, so the headline rate flatters older examples. The UK average of 72.3% covers cars of every age, so compare like with like.
Where Cherokee failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Jeep Cherokee cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment and suspension together account for 45.3% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Cherokee MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Jeep Cherokee cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 34.2% of everything testers recorded against failed Jeep Cherokee cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Cherokee
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Suspension
Recorded most often: pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn, component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength, ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt and ball joint excessively worn. 16.7% of failure items.
2
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: position lamp not working and headlamp not working on dipped beam. 6.4% of failure items.
3
Noise, emissions and leaks
Recorded most often: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction. 3.1% of failure items.
4
Visibility
Recorded most often: wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively. 2.9% of failure items.
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Jeep Cherokee MOT FAQs
What is the Jeep Cherokee MOT pass rate?
66.9% of Jeep Cherokee cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 11,452 tests. That is 5.4 percentage points below the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 405th of 575 models.
What does a Jeep Cherokee most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Jeep Cherokee cars failing their 2025 MOT was pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn, on 6.9% of failure items. Next were component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (4.1%) and position lamp not working (3.3%).
Which area causes the most Jeep Cherokee MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 23.3%, followed by suspension at 22.1%.
Do older Jeep Cherokee cars fail their MOT more often?
Jeep Cherokee cars aged 6 to 10 years passed 74.9% of MOT tests in 2025, against 60.7% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Jeep Cherokee has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Jeep Cherokee that failed in 2025. They show where the model most often needs attention, not the condition of any individual car.
How do I see a specific Jeep Cherokee's MOT history?
Enter its registration on the free Carpeep MOT history check to see that car's own test results, failures, advisories and recorded mileages.
MOT figures are aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025: class 4 initial tests, retests excluded, with failure items from failed tests (advisories and minor defects excluded), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. MOT results describe roadworthiness at test, not mechanical reliability.