MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Jaguar XJS MOT pass rate
The Jaguar XJS passed 81.91% of its 3,112 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 4.6 percentage points better than average.
How the Jaguar XJS holds up with age
Every car fails the MOT more often as it gets older. What matters when you are buying is how steeply that happens for this particular model. These are the 2025 pass rates for the Jaguar XJS grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 1 | 100% |
| 6–10 years | 2 | 50% |
| 11 years and over | 3,108 | 81.92% |
The Jaguar XJS drops 18.1 percentage points between its early years and the 11-plus bracket, which is a steep decline. On an older example, the MOT history is worth reading closely before you buy.
Why the Jaguar XJS fails its MOT
Across every Jaguar XJS that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment, accounting for 25.75% of all recorded failure items. These are the areas worth having checked before you buy, and worth budgeting for on an older example.
| Failure area | Share of failure items | Recorded items |
|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 25.75% | 495 |
| Brakes | 23.83% | 458 |
| Suspension | 13.53% | 260 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 8.79% | 169 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 8.12% | 156 |
| Visibility | 7.75% | 149 |
How the Jaguar XJS compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Jaguar XJS sits 281st of 651 models in this data , and 7th of the 14 Jaguar models covered . Jaguar as a whole averaged 82.23%, so this model runs level with its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Jaguar XJS
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Jaguar XJS came to its 2025 test at 80,500 miles and 34.2 years old. Most examples tested were petrol.
The useful check is the individual car's own MOT record: how many times it has failed, what for, and whether advisories keep reappearing. A recurring advisory on corrosion, suspension or brakes tells you far more than a model-wide average, and a mileage that does not move consistently between tests is a warning in itself.
Check a specific Jaguar XJS
Run the registration through a free MOT history check to see that car's test results, advisories and recorded mileages. For the risks an MOT never covers — outstanding finance, insurance write-off records, stolen markers and ownership history — a full car history check brings them together in one £15 report.
Also useful: mileage check · write-off check · free car check
Other Jaguar models
- Jaguar XF 78.03% pass rate · 92,467 tests
- Jaguar F-Pace 87.53% pass rate · 55,127 tests
- Jaguar XE 84.61% pass rate · 41,828 tests
- Jaguar E-Pace 89.57% pass rate · 29,355 tests
- Jaguar I-Pace 92.8% pass rate · 22,468 tests
- Jaguar XJ 79.09% pass rate · 22,157 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Toyota Aygo 81.42% pass rate
- Land Rover Discovery 81.32% pass rate
- BMW 118 83.02% pass rate
- Audi A6 83.04% pass rate
- Volvo XC60 82.51% pass rate
- BMW 1 Series 81.74% pass rate
Figures aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025, class 4 initial tests only, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Retests are excluded, so these are first-time pass rates.