Land Rover Range Rover Sport: MOT pass rate and reliability data

The Land Rover Range Rover Sport passes its MOT first time more often than the average UK car, by 5.3 percentage points. These figures come from the DVSA's full year of anonymised MOT results, covering 115,798 individual Land Rover Range Rover Sport tests. Nothing here is an estimate or a survey.

The numbers

What this means if you are buying one

A 82% first-time pass rate means roughly 18 in every 100 Land Rover Range Rover Sports 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 Range Rover Sport tested had covered 84,364 miles and was built around 2014.

What this means at salvage auction

Pass rate is a proxy for what a car costs to keep on the road. On a Land Rover Range Rover Sport bought as a repairable salvage, the mechanical side is less likely to spring surprises, so your repair estimate should hold up reasonably well.

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Most common MOT failures on a Land Rover Range Rover Sport

1. Number plate does not conform to the specified requirements, 0.6% of tests (3.48x the national rate for this defect)
2. An SRS malfunction indicator lamp (MIL) indicates a system malfunction, 0.7% of tests (2.39x the national rate for this defect)
3. Brake pipe damaged or excessively corroded, 1.3% of tests (1.56x the national rate for this defect)
4. A suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn, 2.2% of tests
5. A tyre seriously damaged, 1.7% of tests
6. a brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm, 1.3% of tests
7. A suspension joint dust cover missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc, 1.1% of tests
8. A tyre cords visible or damaged, 1.1% of tests
9. Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements, 0.8% of tests
10. Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the windscreen, 0.7% of tests

From 297,198 DVSA-tracked Land Rover Range Rover Sport tests, 2024. DVSA testers marked 4.83% of these flagged Land Rover Range Rover Sport defects as "dangerous", meaning the tester judged the car unsafe to drive away, against 4.97% nationally.

Land Rover Range Rover Sport pass rate by model year

Pass rates fall steadily as cars age, so the model year matters as much as the model. First-time pass rate for each Land Rover Range Rover Sport year:

• 2005 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 74.7% first-time pass, 3,272 tests
• 2006 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 73.2% first-time pass, 5,498 tests
• 2007 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 74.2% first-time pass, 5,063 tests
• 2008 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 74.1% first-time pass, 4,202 tests
• 2009 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 75.3% first-time pass, 4,358 tests
• 2010 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 77.8% first-time pass, 5,410 tests
• 2011 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 78.7% first-time pass, 5,354 tests
• 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 81.2% first-time pass, 5,947 tests
• 2013 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 81.3% first-time pass, 6,328 tests
• 2014 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 83.1% first-time pass, 8,586 tests
• 2015 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 82.9% first-time pass, 10,780 tests
• 2016 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 83.6% first-time pass, 10,828 tests
• 2017 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 86.3% first-time pass, 10,249 tests
• 2018 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 89.2% first-time pass, 10,786 tests
• 2019 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 90.4% first-time pass, 10,691 tests
• 2020 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 90.5% first-time pass, 6,268 tests
• 2021 Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 91.1% first-time pass, 1,186 tests

Land Rover Range Rover Sport by fuel type

Diesel and petrol versions of the same car fail on different things, so the fuel type moves the number:

• Diesel Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 81.9% first-time pass, 97,932 tests
• Petrol Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 87% first-time pass, 11,968 tests
• Hybrid Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 90.6% first-time pass, 4,657 tests

Other Land Rover models

• Land Rover Discovery - 75.6%
• Land Rover Range Rover Evoque - 84%
• Land Rover Freelander - 70.6%
• Land Rover Defender - 73%
• Land Rover Discovery Sport - 84.8%
• Land Rover Range Rover - 79.9%
• Land Rover Range Rover Velar - 86.7%
• Land Rover Range Rover Evoque R-Dyn S D A - 87.8%

Models with a similar pass rate

• Mercedes-Benz Eqc 400 Amg Line Premium 4m - 82.1%
• MG B GT - 82.1%
• Vauxhall Crossland X Sport - 82.1%
• Lexus Ls430 - 82%
• Morris Minor - 82%
• BMW 118 - 81.9%

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

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