2018 Jaguar I-Pace: MOT pass rate and reliability

89.8% of 2018 Jaguar I-Paces pass the MOT first time, measured across 732 DVSA tests on that model year alone. The average one had covered 40,754 miles.

How the 2018 compares

  • Against all Jaguar I-Paces (93.1%, 16,233 tests): -3.3 points
  • Against all 2018 cars (85.9%): +3.9 points
  • National first-time pass rate, all cars and years: 77%

Every Jaguar I-Pace model year

Pass rates fall as cars age, so the only fair comparison for a 2018 car is other cars of the same age. The full run for the Jaguar I-Pace:

Year Pass rate Tests Avg mileage
2018 89.8% 732 40,754
2019 91.2% 4,018 40,221
2020 94.4% 8,031 35,455
2021 93.3% 3,451 29,756

What this means if you are buying a 2018 I-Pace

The 2018 is a weaker year for this model, passing 3.3 points less often than the Jaguar I-Pace average. Some of that is simply age, so compare it against the 2018 figure for all cars above rather than against newer examples. Check the exact car with the free MOT history checker before you buy, and run its VIN and mileage through our free VIN decoder and clocking check.

What an 8-year-old car fails on

A 2018 car is 8 years old now, and age drives the failure mix more than the badge does. Across all cars tested, these are the categories that actually cause failures:

  • Lights and electrical: 10.36% of all cars tested
  • Suspension: 8.65% of all cars tested
  • Tyres: 6.23% of all cars tested
  • Brakes: 6.1% of all cars tested
  • Visibility: wipers, washers, glass: 4.65% of all cars tested
  • Body, chassis and structure: 3.18% of all cars tested

That is below average for a car this age, worth a mileage-consistency check since an unusually low reading is sometimes clocking rather than luck. On a 2018 Jaguar I-Pace the average at test was 40,754 miles, so treat anything far above that as a car that has worked harder than its peers, and anything far below as one worth checking for the faults that come from standing still.

The strongest year for this model is 2020 at 94.4%, and the weakest in our data is 2018 at 89.8%. That 4.6 point spread across the model's life is why comparing a 2018 car against a newer one tells you very little.

Nearby model years

All Jaguar I-Pace MOT data · Every model