Land Rover Defender Hse D Mhev Auto: MOT pass rate and reliability data

The Land Rover Defender Hse D Mhev Auto passes its MOT first time more often than the average UK car, by 17.8 percentage points. These figures come from the DVSA's full year of anonymised MOT results, covering 545 individual Land Rover Defender Hse D Mhev Auto tests. Nothing here is an estimate or a survey.

The numbers

What this means if you are buying one

A 94.5% first-time pass rate means roughly 6 in every 100 Land Rover Defender Hse D Mhev Autos presented for MOT fail on the first attempt. That is better than average, so a well-kept example is a reasonably safe used buy. The average Land Rover Defender Hse D Mhev Auto tested had covered 31,784 miles and was built around 2021.

What this means at salvage auction

Pass rate is a proxy for what a car costs to keep on the road. The Land Rover Defender Hse D Mhev Auto sits 17.8 points above the national average, ranked 93 of 2,005 models. On one bought as repairable salvage, the mechanical side is less likely to spring surprises, so your repair estimate should hold up reasonably well.

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Common failure reasons

We hold no separate DVSA failure-reason breakdown for the Land Rover Defender Hse D Mhev Auto itself, which fails on much the same things as most cars. National car failure mix, DVSA latest quarter:

1. Lights and electrics, 10.36% of tests
2. Suspension, 8.65% of tests
3. Tyres, 6.23% of tests
4. Brakes, 6.1% of tests
5. Visibility (wipers, washers, glass), 4.65% of tests

Most common MOT advisories on a Land Rover Defender Hse D Mhev Auto

An advisory doesn't fail the car - the tester flags it as worth watching, but it still passes. A different list from the failures above: what testers are noting on a Land Rover Defender Hse D Mhev Auto before it actually fails on it.

1. Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements, 17.6% of tests
2. Brake disc or drum excessively weakened, insecure or fractured, 5% of tests
3. A tyre seriously damaged, 4.8% of tests
4. a brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm, 4.2% of tests
5. A suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn, 0.7% of tests
6. Brake disc or drum significantly and obviously worn, 0.6% of tests
7. Excessive fluctuation in brake effort through each wheel revolution., 0.6% of tests
8. Fluid leaking excessively and likely to harm the environment or to pose a safety risk to other road users, 0.4% of tests
9. A shock absorber damaged to the extent that it does not function or showing signs of severe leakage, 0.4% of tests
10. An obstruction significantly affecting the driver's view of the road through the swept area of the windscreen or an obligatory external mirror not visible, 0.2% of tests (2.24x the national rate for this advisory)

From 545 DVSA-tracked Land Rover Defender Hse D Mhev Auto tests, 2024.

Other Land Rover models

• Land Rover Discovery - 75.6%
• Land Rover Range Rover Evoque - 84%
• Land Rover Freelander - 70.6%
• Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 82%
• Land Rover Defender - 73%
• Land Rover Discovery Sport - 84.8%
• Land Rover Range Rover - 79.9%
• Land Rover Range Rover Velar - 86.7%

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If this car is a salvage or write-off

• What does Cat N mean? Category N explained
• What does Cat S mean? Category S explained
• Cat S vs Cat N: the real differences
• Do you need an HPI check on a car you know is a write-off?

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