2018 Renault Kadjar: MOT pass rate and reliability

82.7% of 2018 Renault Kadjars pass the MOT first time, measured across 11,011 DVSA tests on that model year alone. The average one had covered 47,849 miles.

How the 2018 compares

  • Against all Renault Kadjars (82%, 69,010 tests): +0.7 points
  • Against all 2018 cars (85.9%): -3.2 points
  • National first-time pass rate, all cars and years: 77%

Every Renault Kadjar 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 Renault Kadjar:

Year Pass rate Tests Avg mileage
2015 73.8% 3,029 74,011
2016 76.8% 19,068 66,289
2017 82% 14,583 56,655
2018 82.7% 11,011 47,849
2019 85.4% 11,687 36,366
2020 89.6% 8,021 30,111
2021 92.5% 1,596 23,899

What this means if you are buying a 2018 Kadjar

The 2018 sits close to the Renault Kadjar average, so there is no strong model-year signal either way. Judge the individual car on its own history. 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 Renault Kadjar the average at test was 47,849 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 2021 at 92.5%, and the weakest in our data is 2015 at 73.8%. That 18.7 point spread across the model's life is why comparing a 2018 car against a newer one tells you very little.

Nearby model years

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