MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Land Rover Discovery MOT pass rate
The Land Rover Discovery passed 81.32% of its 251,981 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 4 percentage points better than average.
How the Land Rover Discovery 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 Land Rover Discovery grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 29,073 | 87.38% |
| 6–10 years | 137,470 | 84.71% |
| 11 years and over | 85,259 | 73.76% |
The Land Rover Discovery drops 13.6 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 Land Rover Discovery fails its MOT
Across every Land Rover Discovery that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was brakes, accounting for 20.27% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 20.27% | 24,663 |
| Suspension | 20.24% | 24,625 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 15.76% | 19,175 |
| Tyres | 14.58% | 17,733 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 10.49% | 12,759 |
| Visibility | 6.14% | 7,469 |
How the Land Rover Discovery compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Land Rover Discovery sits 293rd of 651 models in this data , and 7th of the 9 Land Rover models covered . Land Rover as a whole averaged 80.86%, so this model runs 0.5 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Land Rover Discovery
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Land Rover Discovery came to its 2025 test at 94,704 miles and 11 years old. Most examples tested were diesel.
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 Land Rover Discovery
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 Land Rover models
- Land Rover Range 83.61% pass rate · 387,957 tests
- Land Rover Defender 77.05% pass rate · 116,187 tests
- Land Rover Freelander 70.79% pass rate · 110,102 tests
- Land Rover R Rover 90.05% pass rate · 31,488 tests
- Land Rover Rrover 88.89% pass rate · 3,717 tests
- Land Rover RR 89.89% pass rate · 3,174 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Toyota Yaris 80.34% pass rate
- Honda Jazz 80.64% pass rate
- Kia Sportage 80.57% pass rate
- Toyota Aygo 81.42% pass rate
- Toyota Auris 80.35% pass rate
- Audi A5 80.48% 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.