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Jeep Grand Cherokee — MOT statistics 2024

The Jeep Grand Cherokee failed 24.82% of 9,934 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 80.0 (100 = expected for its age profile). This car fails its MOT about 20% less often than expected for its age.

MOT risk index 80.0, 95% CI 77.3–82.8 (100 = national average) 100 80.0 0 200
Index
80.0
100 = age-normal
Raw fail rate
24.82%
n = 9,934
Dangerous /100
9
national ≈11
Diesel − petrol
-2.8 pp
fail-rate gap
Rank
258 of 761
lower index = better

Age-adjusted peer: Toyota Prius (index 80.0) — the two published results are 0.0 index points apart.

Jeep Grand Cherokee common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Suspension is well below the reference at 12.5 per 100 tests, against 16.9 per 100 tests across UK vehicles of the same ages.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Jeep Grand Cherokee common problems: what actually fails the MOT — 2024 UK MOT data

family vs national — matched to UK vehicles of the same ages — top component groups, per 100 tests. Legend: This family · National avg. Combined labels: family / national average. A gap here reflects how these vehicles are driven, used and maintained as well as how they were built — an MOT defect is a test outcome, not a breakdown.

Component-group comparison table

Each ratio carries a 95% interval. With 6 groups compared here, roughly one apparent difference in twenty is chance alone, and 1 of these is already inside an interval that includes 1.00×.

GroupThis familyCases behind itUK, same agesFamily / national
Lamps & electrical20.314,23520.01.02×1.00–1.03 · not distinguishable
Brakes15.610,96513.21.18×1.16–1.20
Suspension12.58,73116.90.74×0.72–0.75
Visibility8.45,8578.60.98×0.95–1.00
Body & structure6.44,4976.80.94×0.91–0.97
Tyres5.13,5808.90.57×0.56–0.59
Named defects — items per 100 initial tests, this family vs UK national average; this model measured on 70,108 tests, 2019-2024, national column 2024
What failedper 100 tests (this family)per 100 tests (UK average)ratio family / UKWhat to check
Parking brake efficiency below minimum requirementParking brake efficiency below minimum requirement2.361.241.90×Feel for brake judder and pulling on the test drive
Suspension pin, bush or joint excessively wornA suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn5.794.871.19×Listen for knocks over bumps — worn joints show up on the test
Strength or continuity of the load bearing…The strength or continuity of the load bearing structure within 30cm of any sub-frame, spring or suspension component mounting (a 'prescribed area') is significantly reduced or inadequately repaired1.771.121.58×Look underneath for rust or cracks around subframe and suspension mountings
Brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mma brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm2.502.151.16×Feel for brake judder and pulling on the test drive
Rear registration plate lamp or light source…A rear registration plate lamp or light source missing or inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources3.132.831.11×Try every light and switch — lamps are a top failure
Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the…Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the windscreen2.182.220.98×Check wipers, washers and windscreen chips in the driver's view
Windscreen or window damaged or seriously…Windscreen or window damaged or seriously discoloured but not adversely affecting driver's view2.292.360.97×Check wipers, washers and windscreen chips in the driver's view
Lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a…A lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning1.792.090.86×Try every light and switch — lamps are a top failure
Aim of a headlamp is not within limits laid down…The aim of a headlamp is not within limits laid down in the requirements2.152.570.84×Try every light and switch — lamps are a top failure
Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the…Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements2.363.590.66×Check tyre tread depth across the full width

Named defects ranked by how much more often they appear than the national average — not by raw rate.

Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Brakes are highest at 46.3 per 100 tests; Body & structure are lowest at 4.5 per 100 tests — the gap is 41.8 per 100 tests.

higher bar = flagged more oftenadvisory items per 100 initial tests

Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT advisories: what gets flagged — 2024 UK MOT data
Advisory rates table
GroupAdvisories per 100
Brakes46.3
Suspension34.6
Tyres29.9
Emissions & leaks9.2
Non-component advisories5.9
Body & structure4.5

Advisories are wear the tester noted but didn't fail — what will need money soon.

Tyres, brakes and suspension: Jeep Grand Cherokee against cars of the same age

AgePartJeep Grand CherokeeSame age, petrol and dieselDifference
3 yearsTyres2.894.17-1.28
3 yearsBrakes2.681.770.91
3 yearsSuspension0.70.630.07
4 yearsTyres3.694.54-0.85
4 yearsBrakes3.482.431.05
4 yearsSuspension0.451.21-0.76
5 yearsTyres3.535.06-1.53
5 yearsBrakes5.433.092.34
5 yearsSuspension0.682.19-1.51
6 yearsTyres3.775.54-1.77
6 yearsBrakes5.393.811.58
6 yearsSuspension0.773.72-2.95
7 yearsTyres4.285.95-1.67
7 yearsBrakes6.244.551.69
7 yearsSuspension1.585.68-4.10
8 yearsTyres3.846.31-2.47
8 yearsBrakes6.245.380.86
8 yearsSuspension2.527.78-5.26

Failing items per 100 initial tests, 2019-2024. The comparison group is every petrol or diesel car tested at the same age, so weight and drivetrain show up rather than fleet age.

If a car like this fails, does it fail again?

A failure rate does not say whether a failure is a one-off or the start of something. This follows the same vehicles into their next ordinary MOT a year later — retests after a repair are excluded, because they follow a failure by definition. 2019-2024.

After this year's testFails next yearVehicles followed
It failed29.2%4,572
It passed21.4%38,325

A failed test raises next year's chance of failing again by 7.8 percentage points. The failure most likely to come back is lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment — 27.8% of those vehicles fail again next year. Some of this is the vehicle and some is the owner: a car that was let go once tends to be let go again. One caveat: a car that fails may be sold or scrapped rather than tested again, so these figures describe the vehicles that came back.

Adjusted for how much these are actually driven

The headline index adjusts for the fleet's age. Wear, though, follows mileage: a three-year-old taxi and a three-year-old garage queen sit in the same age band. These two rows compare every car with vehicles of the same age, and then with vehicles of the same age and the same annual mileage, 2019-2024, on 69,580 tests. Both stand on the six-year corpus so they are measured on identical data — compare them with each other, not with the headline index above, which is measured on 2024 alone.

Standardised forIndexReading
Age only84.2fails less often than expected
Age and annual mileage80.6fails less often than vehicles driven as much
Share doing under 3,000 miles a year2.5%a normal spread of use

Mileage changes little here (-3.6 points): this fleet is driven about as much as the vehicles it is compared with. One limit to keep in mind: mileage is partly a result of how often a car breaks down — one that spends weeks in the workshop covers fewer miles — so the mileage-matched figure can understate a real weakness. Tests with no usable odometer reading are left out of it.

How the Jeep Grand Cherokee compares with cars of its own age and size

Not against the whole fleet — against cars of the same size class tested at the same age, 2019-2024.

AgeJeep Grand CherokeeSame class, same ageDifferenceTests
3 years12.63%10.77%+1.87 pp2,873
4 years14.1%12.34%+1.76 pp4,198
5 years15.73%14.16%+1.57 pp5,576
6 years16.56%16.08%+0.49 pp6,369
7 years18.68%18.24%+0.44 pp6,521
8 years19.77%20.54%-0.77 pp5,867
9 years21.86%23.1%-1.24 pp4,781
10 years22.6%25.61%-3 pp3,380
11 years27.13%28.23%-1.1 pp2,160
12 years29.75%30.56%-0.81 pp1,499
13 years34.07%32.62%+1.45 pp2,122
14 years34.44%34.58%-0.14 pp2,805
15 years37.58%36.03%+1.55 pp3,297
16 years38.83%37.08%+1.75 pp3,363
17 years39.32%37.46%+1.87 pp3,372
18 years39.66%37.83%+1.83 pp3,033
19 years41.16%37.43%+3.73 pp2,432
20 years41.17%36.94%+4.23 pp1,812

Raw first-time failure rates within each age, so fleet age cannot flatter either side. A positive difference means this model fails more often than its own class at that age.

How does the Jeep Grand Cherokee perform as it gets older?

The Grand Cherokee at age 13 is well below the reference at 26.7%, against 38.2% for all vehicles of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

How does the Jeep Grand Cherokee perform as it gets older? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · failure-rate scale 0–47%.

Takeaway: a 10-year-old Grand Cherokee has roughly a 21% chance of failing its MOT.

Data table
AgeJeep Grand CherokeeAll vehiclesGap
513.9%15.1%-1.2 pp
614.6%17.5%-2.9 pp
715.8%20.2%-4.4 pp
818.3%23.3%-5.0 pp
919.9%26.5%-6.6 pp
1021.0%30.1%-9.1 pp
1126.5%33.2%-6.6 pp
1226.4%35.7%-9.3 pp
1326.7%38.2%-11.4 pp
1639.7%43.1%-3.4 pp
1733.9%43.1%-9.2 pp
1835.5%43.9%-8.4 pp
1934.7%43.5%-8.8 pp
2037.7%41.0%-3.4 pp

Is a Jeep Grand Cherokee ULEZ compliant?

The share of classifiable 2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT tests likely ULEZ compliant by first-registration date is 37.1%.

Based on 9,594 classifiable initial MOT tests. This describes the tested fleet, not a specific car. MOT data do not record Euro class, so likely compliance is inferred from fuel and first-registration date. For the only authoritative answer, check the registration with TfL's official ULEZ checker.

higher = larger share likely compliantinferred from fuel and first-registration date; not a recorded Euro class

Age-band estimate from classifiable initial MOT tests
Vehicle age at testLikely ULEZ-compliant shareTests
Under 3 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 6
3–5 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 325
6–7 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 1,275
8 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 1,021
9 years47.4%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 1,385
10–14 years2.5%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 3,168
15–17 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 476
18 years21.6%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 560
19 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 469
20+ years0.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 909

How dangerous are Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT failures?

Minor defects stand out at 16.4 per 100 tests, against 14.2 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

How dangerous are Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT failures? — 2024 UK MOT data
Severity table
SeverityThis family /100National /100Family / national
Minor16.3914.221.15×
Major53.6452.751.02×
Dangerous9.3811.150.84×

Chart values: Minor 16.4 · Major 53.6 · Dangerous 9.4.

Per 100 tests on this family. National average: Minor 14.2 · Major 52.8 · Dangerous 11.2 per 100.

Does the month of a Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT matter?

May is highest at 28.4%; Mar is lowest at 25.0% — the gap is 3.4 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Does the month of a Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT matter? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart scale: 24%–33%.

bars: Jeep Grand Cherokee · dashed: all class-4 cars

Month-by-month table
MonthJeep Grand CherokeeAll vehiclesGap
Jan28%31.12%-3.1 pp
Feb26.36%29.99%-3.6 pp
Mar25.01%28.26%-3.3 pp
Apr28.22%29.78%-1.6 pp
May28.38%28.79%-0.4 pp
Jun25.26%28.15%-2.9 pp
Jul25.93%29.33%-3.4 pp
Aug26.65%29.2%-2.6 pp
Sep26.72%28.19%-1.5 pp
Oct25.87%30.34%-4.5 pp
Nov25.15%30.58%-5.4 pp
Dec25.06%29.33%-4.3 pp

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 3.4 percentage points — noticeable seasonality. Seasonality partly reflects registration-date clustering, not weather.

Before reading the shape: most of it is not about cars. Britain changes its registration plates twice a year, and 18.9% of these cars were first registered in March with another17.1% in September — 36% in two months against the 17% an even spread would give. An MOT falls due three years after first registration, so the buying calendar becomes the testing calendar. That shapes how many cars are tested each month — not how often they fail: the busiest months here are not the worst ones, so read the failure line on its own and the volume behind it separately.

Jeep Grand Cherokee average mileage by age

At age 8, the middle half of Grand Cherokees runs from 50,759 miles to 82,405 miles, against 66,847 miles as the median.

further right = more milesmedian is the typical car; band is p25–p75

Bars: Jeep Grand Cherokee · dashed: all class-4 cars — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · odometer scale 0–151k mi.

Does high mileage mean more Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT failures at the same age?

Within the same age group, split by odometer (2024 MOTs), so this separates wear from age: at ages 6–9, 9.6% of those with under 40,000 miles failed first time versus 24.4% of those with 100,000–140,000 miles.Inside this age group, higher mileage goes with more failures.

Does high mileage mean more Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT failures at the same age? — 2024 UK MOT data
Jeep Grand Cherokee: first-time failure by mileage within each age group (2024)
AgeOdometer% failing95% intervalTests
3–5<40k miles12.9%9–18.1%210 (rough estimate)
3–540-70k miles18.7%12–27.9%91 (rough estimate)
6–9<40k miles9.6%7.4–12.5%509
6–940-70k miles16.5%14.8–18.4%1,592
6–970-100k miles21.2%18.9–23.7%1,124
6–9100-140k miles24.4%20.5–28.8%410 (rough estimate)
10–14<40k miles6.6%3.2–13%106 (rough estimate)
10–1440-70k miles17.8%15.2–20.9%695
10–1470-100k miles24.1%21.8–26.5%1,249
10–14100-140k miles29.3%26.5–32.4%917
10–14140k+ miles29.8%23.9–36.5%198 (rough estimate)
15+40-70k miles29.9%24.2–36.2%221 (rough estimate)
15+70-100k miles35.4%31.6–39.4%565
15+100-140k miles36.3%33.5–39.3%1,073
15+140k+ miles40.6%36.8–44.5%616

line: median · band: middle half of the fleet (p25–p75)

Mileage by age (p25 / median / p75)
Agep25Medianp75Tests
523,82936,21549,653252
639,08450,10064,026412
741,54857,06675,562863
850,75966,84782,4051,021
957,41174,70793,8071,387
1066,60184,907104,0451,436
1171,00489,214108,546973
1275,56295,970114,354526
1383,851105,492123,560217
16100,092118,455139,744199
1789,611111,213136,383227
1895,732117,626139,621572
1990,044115,327143,677493
20+90,401116,684141,694958

A typical 8-year-old Grand Cherokee has ~66,847 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the Jeep Grand Cherokee fails its MOT most

Truro area is highest at 38.9%; Romford area is lowest at 15.9% — the gap is 23.0 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Jeep Grand Cherokee line: median · band: middle half of the fleet (p25–p75) — 2024 UK MOT data
Toughest areas% failingvs model overall
Truro (TR)38.89%+12.6 pp
Plymouth (PL)38.67%+12.4 pp
Portsmouth (PO)38.02%+11.8 pp
Taunton (TA)37.98%+11.7 pp
Dundee (DD)36.15%+9.9 pp
Easiest areas% failingvs model overall
Romford (RM)15.87%-10.4 pp
Uxbridge (UB)16.86%-9.4 pp
Liverpool (L)18.49%-7.8 pp
Sheffield (S)18.57%-7.7 pp
Enfield (EN)18.58%-7.7 pp

Why do areas differ?

For each external factor we correlate the area fail rate with the factor across postcode areas that have ≥800 tests of this family, then compare the bottom vs top fifth (quintile) of the factor. Correlation, not causation — factors travel together (the north is colder and often poorer; urban areas are denser and less salted). Road surface condition is joined now, for the 91 English areas the DfT publishes, and it explains nothing: the correlation with suspension failures is −0.01 and with body and structure failures 0.07. Potholes wreck wheels and tyres between tests, but by the time a car reaches the bay the road it drives on leaves no measurable trace.

In areas with the highest income deprivation this model fails 6.3 pp less often than in the lowest fifth (r=-0.47, n=27 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest terrain gradient this model fails 5.9 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.44, n=16 areas with ≥800 tests).

In the most coastal fifth of areas this model fails 7.3 pp more often than in the most inland fifth (r=-0.43, n=27 areas with ≥800 tests).

Jeep Grand Cherokee Why do areas differ? — 2024 UK MOT data
Values shown in the quintile chart
FactorLow QHigh QGapCorrelation
Income deprivation27.1%20.7%-6.4 ppr=-0.47
Terrain gradient23.9%29.8%+5.9 ppr=0.44
Distance to coast29.8%22.5%-7.3 ppr=-0.43

Factors that only mean something combined

Some conditions are useless on their own and informative multiplied together. Frost days alone say little — Britain barely freezes. Salt tonnage alone says little — it tracks frost. Distance to the sea alone says little. Multiply the first two and divide by the third and you get an index of how hard an area attacks a car's underside, and it lines up with the corrosion defects we actually record. We built five such combinations and tested each against our own data. Three survived; two did not, and the failures are listed here on purpose — a proxy that was never checked is decoration. One survivor only survived on the second attempt: built from a crude stand-in for street parking it failed outright, and rebuilt from the census — terraced streets carrying more cars than they have driveways — it works, and carries information the salt index does not.

Composite area indicators, each tested against a defect rate we measure
CompositeBuilt fromTested againstrVerdict
Underbody corrosionfrost days × salt load ÷ (distance to coast + 1)share of tests with a corrosion defect+0.42holds (116 areas)
Tyre wearrain days × annual miles ÷ age at first tyre advisoryshare of tests failing on tyres+0.45holds (116 areas)
Overnight corrosionterraced housing × cars per household × frost daysshare with a corrosion defect+0.41holds (102 areas) — and adds signal beyond the first index
Deferred maintenancedeprivation × advisory-to-failure conversion ÷ labour ratecars repeating the same advisory−0.26fails (118 areas)
Powertrain stressengine capacity ÷ kerb weightsuspension, brake and emissions failures−0.16fails (22 models)

The deprivation result is the one worth dwelling on. The intuition that poorer areas defer repairs is strong enough that most people treat it as established. We tested it twice — once on raw failure rates (r = 0.04) and again, more fairly, on whether an advisory turns into a failure — and it did not hold any of the three times we tried it — on raw failure rates, on advisory-to-failure conversion, and again with deprivation measured properly inside each nation rather than England alone. We are closing it. What does predict local failure rates is the density of test centres, which is a statement about testing, not about cars.

All external-factor correlations (machine-readable)
Factorrn areasLow-Q fail %High-Q fail %Gap ppLow-Q factorHigh-Q factor
Income deprivation (score)-0.4712727.120.7-6.30.10.1
Terrain gradient (% grade)0.4371623.929.8+5.90.52.6
Distance to coast (km)-0.4302729.822.5-7.35.490.3
Road-salt proxy (g/m²-yr)-0.4052729.723.2-6.5200.4398
Frost days (days/year)-0.3382728.924.8-4.11022.2
Urban share (0–1)-0.1702726.723.8-3.00.50.9
MOT centre density (per 10k vehicles)0.0712726.025.5-0.55.47.2

Deprivation uses England IMD 2019 income score only (Scotland SIMD is a different scale). Salt proxy is a simplified NWSRG-style dry-salt sum from air Tmin; coastalness is distance from the area centroid to the nearest coastline.

Every dot is a postcode area — size = how many were tested there, colour = share failing. These figures are not age-adjusted: coastal and rural areas often run older fleets and salted roads, so higher raw fail rates do not automatically mean a worse local stock of this model.

Map labels: Scotland · N. England · Wales · London · S. West. Colour scale: 19%–35% failing.

Jeep Grand Cherokee survival: which cars are still on the road

By age 19 is well below the reference at 45.2%, against 100.0% at the ages 4–6 reference level.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Jeep Grand Cherokee survival: which cars are still on the road — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · survival vs ages 4–6 · scale 0–105%.

Survival vs fail rate by age
AgeTestsSurvival vs ages 4–6Fail %
32,87353.4%12.63%
44,19878%14.1%
55,576100%15.73%
66,369100%16.56%
76,521100%18.68%
85,867100%19.77%
94,78188.8%21.86%
103,38062.8%22.6%
112,16040.1%27.13%
121,49927.9%29.75%
132,12239.4%34.07%
142,80552.1%34.44%
153,29761.3%37.58%
163,36362.5%38.83%
173,37262.7%39.32%
183,03356.4%39.66%
192,43245.2%41.16%

By age 19, only about 45% as many cars of this family present for MOT as at ages 4–6 (reference n≈5,381); survivors still fail at 41.2% vs 14.1% at age 4. Older cars that still appear are a selected subset — weaker ones have already left.

How many miles does a Jeep Grand Cherokee last?

100,000+ miles is highest at 33.5%; 200,000+ miles is lowest at 1.2% — the gap is 32.3 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

OdometerTests ≥ thresholdShare of sample
100,000+ miles23,38633.48%
150,000+ miles5,0237.19%
200,000+ miles8141.17%

Of 69,845 tests of this family with a usable odometer in 2024, 33.5% had reached 100k miles, 7.2% had reached 150k miles, 1.2% had reached 200k miles. This is a cross-section of cars still presenting for MOT, not a full birth cohort.

How many years is a Jeep Grand Cherokee likely to last?

Bought at age 12 is highest at 14.1 years; Bought at age 15 is lowest at 4.2 years — the gap is 9.9 years.

bigger number = longer remaining lifeyears on the observed survival curve

Age nowTypical mileage (p50)Expected years left
5—9.5
8—6.5
10—7.6
12—14.1
15—at least 4.2

estimateEstimate only — not a warranty: a typical 10-year-old example of this family has about 7.6 expected years of further MOT-present life on the 2024 survival curve. Derived from how many cars of each age still appear for test, not from a longitudinal panel.

Jeep Grand Cherokee faults that come together

Identification + Seatbelts & SRS stand out at 6.43×, against 1.00× if the faults were independent.

above 1.0× = more than expectedbelow 1.0× = less

Group AGroup BTogetherLift
Identification of the vehicleSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems266.43× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksRoad Wheels486.29× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSuspension4136.01× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureNoise, emissions and leaks4825.49× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems1415.48× (rough estimate)
Road WheelsSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems235.42× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems2595.3× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSuspension5994.85×
Identification of the vehicleNoise, emissions and leaks354.82× (rough estimate)
Road WheelsSuspension964.71× (rough estimate)
BrakesSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems4204.63× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSuspension1,0454.45×
BrakesNoise, emissions and leaks7134.37×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentRoad Wheels1574.32× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems5214.25×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSteering1674.25× (rough estimate)
SteeringSuspension7734.1×
BrakesSuspension1,7504.01×
Identification of the vehicleTyres413.99× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaks8703.95×
Body, chassis, structureRoad Wheels563.86× (rough estimate)
BrakesRoad Wheels1033.83× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSteering5073.78×
BrakesIdentification of the vehicle973.78× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSteering2653.76× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureBrakes1,1533.72×
Road WheelsSteering433.69× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspension2,0943.56×
Body, chassis, structureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment1,4843.55×
BrakesSteering8183.29×
Identification of the vehicleSteering363.25× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleSuspension633.24× (rough estimate)
BrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment2,5023.22×
Noise, emissions and leaksVisibility3943.22× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksTyres2093.2× (rough estimate)
Road WheelsVisibility643.17× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsVisibility2153.16× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSteering1,0253.05×
Identification of the vehicleLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment1053.03× (rough estimate)
Road WheelsTyres322.97× (rough estimate)
BrakesTyres6682.9×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentVisibility1,6862.89×
TyresVisibility4762.75× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureIdentification of the vehicle382.75× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleVisibility522.71× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureVisibility6102.63×
BrakesVisibility1,1272.61×
SuspensionVisibility8402.57×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentTyres8012.57×
SteeringVisibility4632.48× (rough estimate)
SteeringTyres2362.37× (rough estimate)
SuspensionTyres3952.26× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsTyres812.23× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureTyres2471.99× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleRoad Wheels8too few (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSpeedometer and speed limiter5too few (rough estimate)

Defects in «Noise, emissions and leaks» and «Suspension» appear together 4.85× more often than chance (599 co-occurrences in the same test; lift≥1.3, n≥500).

Lift = how many times more often both groups appear on the same test than if independent. A pair is listed from 5 tests with both faults; the lift is shown from 20, and called above chance only when its 95% interval excludes 1 (see rough estimates).

Is low mileage better for a Jeep Grand Cherokee?

Cars driven under 5,000 miles a year is well below the reference at 11.2%, against 18.9% for cars driven 8,000–12,000 miles a year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

BandFail %Tests
<5k miles/year11.16%2,454
8–12k miles/year18.94%9,627
Gap (low − normal)-7.78 pp—
By fuel and age

Diesel

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
59.8849616.91,988-7.02 pp
611.2554217.252,394-6 pp
711.9355320.162,500-8.23 pp
811.5649322.382,368-10.82 pp
915.140424.062,032-8.97 pp
1011.6730025.11,482-13.43 pp
1119.3217630930-10.68 pp
1212.9311633.6625-20.67 pp
1320.7510637.86877-17.1 pp
1420.5917037.761,046-17.17 pp

Petrol

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
511.411414.02107-2.62 pp
61110013.497-2.4 pp
71010014.1499-4.14 pp
812.55621.6274-9.12 pp
1316.955931.8266-14.87 pp
1422.0210935.6387-13.61 pp

At matched ages 5–14, cars averaging under 5k miles/year fail at 11.2% vs 18.9% for 8–12k miles/year — 7.8 pp lower (n_low=2,454, n_normal=9,627). In this family low annual use is associated with fewer MOT fails, not more — the ‘garage queen’ penalty is not visible in overall fail rates. Diesel alone: 11.6% low-use vs 18.7% normal (-7.1 pp).

Best year for a Jeep Grand Cherokee, and the years to avoid

Build year 2011 is highest at 114.5; Build year 2019 is lowest at 75.4 — the gap is 39.1 points.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

build year vs the same model at the same age · 100 = as expected

Jeep Grand Cherokee build year vs the same model at the same age · 100 = as expected — 2024 UK MOT data
Jeep Grand Cherokee by build year, tests 2019–2024. Below 100 is better than the model's own age norm.
Every build year with its confidence interval
Build yearvs own age norm95% CIRaw fail %TestsVerdict
201975.459.1–91.810.5%781better
201892.780.6–104.813.46%1,687no different
201788.181.1–9513.46%4,555better
201698.592.4–104.615.95%6,270no different
201596.991.9–101.917.04%8,579no different
2014102.197.4–106.919.27%9,087no different
2013109.6103.9–115.422.33%6,199worse
2012106.298.9–113.623.34%3,432no different
2011114.5103.2–125.728.01%1,421worse
2009112.894.2–131.433.1%426no different
2008109.299.9–118.435.27%1,528no different
20079890.4–105.734%1,850no different
200693.188.9–97.234.77%5,470better
200593.388.8–97.735.84%4,662better
2004111.3104.9–117.644.43%2,665worse
2003102.995.2–110.741.84%1,611no different
2002103.295.7–110.742.92%1,687no different
200196.487.1–105.640.72%1,029no different

The best build year here is 2017 and the weakest is 2013. Comparing build years sounds simple and is not: within a single year of testing, a car's build year and its age are the same number, so a naive comparison of years is a comparison of ages wearing a disguise. Each year below is measured against the same model at the same age in other cohorts, across six years of testing — 4 of 18 years come out distinguishable from their own model's age norm.

Two limits worth knowing before you act on this. Age, test year and build year are locked together by arithmetic, so the test-year effect is taken from the observed national failure level of each year rather than estimated — it is an adjustment, not a solution.

Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT repair costs

The MOT-failure repair budget per test runs from £78.91 to £149.93, against £54.85 for the test itself.

bigger number = costs morepounds per test, MOT-failing faults only

MOT repairs, budget
£79–150
per test, repairs only
The test itself
£54.85
statutory cap, unchanged since 2010
How the figure is built: chance of failing × typical price of that repair
ComponentFails per 100 testsTypical repairIts priceContribution
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment20.3 (nat. 18.09)Battery replacement (standard 12V lead-acid)£140£28.42
Brakes15.6 (nat. 11.25)Front brake pads (parts + labour, typical hatchback)£150£23.40
Suspension12.5 (nat. 15.36)Suspension coil spring (single corner)£180£22.50
Tyres5.1 (nat. 8.7)Tyre (single mid-range 16" fitted)£90£4.59

Multiply how often each component fails on this model by what that repair usually costs, and you get the amount an owner should expect to budget per test for MOT-failing faults only — roughly £79 to £150, on top of the test fee itself. It is a budgeting figure, not a quote: the spread between a set of pads and a set of discs is most of the range.

Prices are modal quotes from a hand-kept catalogue of published UK garage guides — we do not scrape the booking sites, their terms forbid it, so this list is short and updated by hand with a source and date against each line. Each line prices one typical repair in that group, not a full remedy, and only groups our catalogue actually covers are counted. The contrast worth noticing is the second card: the legal maximum for the test has been £54.85 since 2010, while the repairs it uncovers have followed inflation the whole time.

For scale from a different direction: Warrantywise, which sees used-car warranty claims rather than test failures, puts the average claim at £2,052 across the ten highest-claim models it ranks and £539 for Honda, the lowest-claim make in its index (Warrantywise index 2026, 1.6 million claims, cars aged 3–15). Those sit an order of magnitude above the figures in this table, and the gap is the point: a warranty claim is a gearbox or an engine, which almost never fails an MOT, while the faults that do fail one are corrosion, lamps and tyres, which no warranty pays for. The two numbers answer different questions and neither replaces the other.

Jeep Grand Cherokee running costs for a fleet

Vehicles failing at age 10 stand out at 21.0%, against 14.0% at age 5, tested in the same year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fails per 100 at age 5
14
vehicles needing work (rough estimate: 252 tests)
At age 10
21
other cars of this model tested at age 10 in 2024 (rough estimate: 1,436 tests)
Repairs per 100
£7,891
plus £5,485 in test fees
Off the road
2d
median; 26.89% cleared same day
Failure rate and typical odometer by age
AgeFailsMedian odometerTestsGap vs age 5
513.89%36,215252+0.0 pp
614.56%50,100412+0.7 pp
715.76%57,066863+1.9 pp
818.32%66,8471,021+4.4 pp
919.9%74,7071,387+6.0 pp
1021.03%84,9071,436+7.1 pp
1126.52%89,214973+12.6 pp
1226.43%95,970526+12.5 pp
1326.73%105,492217+12.8 pp
1639.7%118,455199+25.8 pp
1733.92%111,213227+20.0 pp
1835.49%117,626572+21.6 pp
1934.69%115,327493+20.8 pp

No single year stands out as the point where this model starts costing more: the year-to-year steps in its failure rate are too small or rest on too few tests to name one (D1 rule: a step is named only with at least 2,000 tests on both sides and a jump above 3 percentage points).

Repair spend uses the same modal prices as the section above, so it inherits the same limits: one typical repair per component group, not a full remedy. Downtime is the gap between the failed test and the passed re-test, which is the window a vehicle is legally off the road.

Jeep Grand Cherokee rust problems: where they corrode

Age-standardised corrosion susceptibility stands out at 1.51×, against 1.00× for the national age-standardised rate.

above 1.0× = rusts more than averagebelow 1.0× = rusts less

How it rusts
1.51×
1.15% of tests record a corrosion defect vs 0.77% typical — age-standardised
Salt Belt exposure
53rd
percentile among the models published here, from its tests across 27 postcode areas

This Jeep Grand Cherokee fails on corrosion more often than average once age is held constant, and its owners live in areas that are about typical for the models we publish.

Corrosion is the one failure mode that is as much about geography as about the car. We keep the two apart on purpose: a model can look rusty simply because it is popular in Scotland, and a model can look clean simply because it is bought in Surrey. Blending them into a single score would hide which of the two is doing the work.

Exposure is this model's tests weighted by an area corrosion index built from frost days, salt load and distance to the coast — the composite validated at r = 0.42 against corrosion defects we actually record. It is published as a rank, not a raw score, because every mainstream model skews towards low-corrosion areas for the simple reason that most of Britain's cars are in the south. Susceptibility is standardised to the national age profile, so an old fleet does not get labelled a rusty model.

Does a Jeep Grand Cherokee advisory become a failure?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment are highest at 31.1%; Non-component advisories are lowest at 0.0% — the gap is 31.1 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

chance the same component fails at the next MOT, given an advisory now

Jeep Grand Cherokee chance the same component fails at the next MOT, given an advisory now — 2024 UK MOT data
Jeep Grand Cherokee, advisory → failure conversion by component group, chained tests 2019–2024. Chart labels and rates: Lamps & electrical 31.1% · Body & chassis 18.9% · Suspension 16.5% · Brakes 13.7% · Steering 10.9% · Noise, emissions, leaks 6.9% · Tyres 6.4% · Identification of the veh… 1.8%.
Advisory today → failure at the next test, with how long you have
ComponentFails next timeTypical lead timeMiles of warningAdvisories tracked
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment31.1%12.1 months3,4391,085
Body, chassis, structure18.9%12 months2,5981,720
Suspension16.5%12.1 months4,1838,399
Brakes13.7%12.1 months4,25213,001
Steering10.9%12.1 months4,2411,685
Noise, emissions and leaks6.9%12.2 months3,7053,820
Tyres6.4%12 months6,6749,458
Identification of the vehicle1.8%12.2 months5,487761
Non-component advisories0.0%——2,871

This is the question an advisory note actually raises, and it needs six years of test history to answer. We followed the same vehicles from one MOT to the next across 2019–2024 and measured how often a component that was merely advised came back as a genuine failure at the next test.

Read it as a budgeting horizon, not a prophecy: the most likely component above turns into a failure for about 31 in 100 cars, and the median gap is 12.1 months and roughly 3,439 miles. The rest were repaired, sold, scrapped, or simply held. Rows with fewer than 500 tracked advisories are not shown.

What will fail next on a Jeep Grand Cherokee?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment after a failure at age 20+ are highest at 29.7%; Tyres after a passed at age <3 are lowest at 2.8% — the gap is 26.9 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

Probability of each component failing at the next test, by age and last result
AgeLast testMost likely next failuresCars tracked
<3passedVisibility 4.2% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 3.6% · Tyres 2.8%1,406
<3advisoryVisibility 7.7% · Tyres 4.2% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 3.5%404 (rough estimate)
<3failureVisibility 7.7% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 6.4% · Brakes 4.7%234 (rough estimate)
3-5passedVisibility 4.2% · Brakes 4.0% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 3.2%8,054
3-5advisoryBrakes 7.8% · Visibility 5.3% · Tyres 4.8%3,602
3-5failureBrakes 7.6% · Visibility 7.2% · Tyres 5.7%2,074
6-8passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 5.6% · Brakes 5.2% · Visibility 3.9%7,711
6-8advisoryBrakes 7.8% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 7.3% · Visibility 6.4%4,089
6-8failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 10.5% · Brakes 9.5% · Visibility 6.9%2,902
9-11passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 10.1% · Brakes 6.0% · Suspension 5.0%2,160
9-11advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 13.1% · Suspension 7.6% · Brakes 6.5%1,418
9-11failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 17.9% · Brakes 9.5% · Suspension 8.2%1,271
12-14passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 14.6% · Suspension 9.1% · Brakes 8.2%1,972
12-14advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 19.6% · Suspension 12.8% · Brakes 11.0%2,118
12-14failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 24.9% · Suspension 15.2% · Brakes 14.3%2,088
15-19passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 14.5% · Suspension 10.8% · Brakes 8.5%2,708
15-19advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 22.5% · Suspension 15.7% · Brakes 15.1%3,706
15-19failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 27.9% · Brakes 18.1% · Suspension 17.5%4,213
20+passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 11.5% · Body, chassis, structure 10.1% · Brakes 9.8%843
20+advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 24.0% · Body, chassis, structure 20.6% · Brakes 14.5%1,117
20+failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 29.7% · Body, chassis, structure 22.3% · Brakes 19.5%1,335

The same chains, cut differently: given a car's age and how its last test went, which component most often causes trouble at the following one.

The pattern that repeats across every family: a failure at one test roughly doubles the chance of a failure on the same component at the next one, and an advisory sits about half-way between a clean pass and a failure. Age bands in years; probabilities are per car, not per defect item.

Jeep Grand Cherokee ownership: what six years of MOTs show

The ten-day re-test pass rate is highest at 65.6%; The later re-test pass rate is lowest at 7.5% — the gap is 58.1 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fixed same day
26.89%
of failures re-tested
Fails /10k miles
0.378
miles actually driven
Clean streaks
39.13%
3+ tests, nothing noted
Odometer anomaly
5.155%
reading went backwards

Failing is usually a same-week event, not a disaster. Of 12,178 failures followed through to their re-test, 26.89% were repaired and passed the same day and 65.59% within ten days; the median gap is 2 days. 31,989 defect items were cleared in the process.

Per mile driven, not per year. Dividing failures by the miles that actually went onto the odometers between consecutive tests gives 0.378 failures per 10,000 miles, on a median of 5,393 miles a year across 13,494 chains. This is the number to compare between models — an annual rate quietly rewards cars that barely leave the drive.

Two populations hide inside one model. 39.13% of these cars strung together three or more tests with nothing recorded at all, while 30.98% carried the same advisory three times or more — the same fault, noted, ignored, noted again. When you buy used you are buying one of those two histories, and the MOT record shows which.

Odometer anomalies: 5.155% of 13,541 chains show a reading lower than the previous test, with a median drop of 51,744 miles. We call this an anomaly and not fraud on purpose — instrument swaps, imports, unit mix-ups and keying errors all land in the same bucket. Obvious typos (drops under 100 miles or over 90% of the reading) are already excluded.

Jeep Grand Cherokee safety recalls and how to check yours

DVSA recall campaigns stand out at 38.

bigger number = more recorded casescompare like-for-like scope, not sample size alone

recall campaigns launched per year

Jeep Grand Cherokee recall campaigns launched per year — 2024 UK MOT data
Campaigns launched per year for the Jeep Grand Cherokee. Source: DVSA vehicle safety recalls. Chart values: 2012: 0 · 2013: 2 · 2014: 6 · 2015: 3 · 2016: 4 · 2017: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2019: 0 · 2020: 0 · 2021: 1 · 2022: 0 · 2023: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2026: 1.
Most recent safety recall campaigns for the Jeep Grand Cherokee
ReferenceLaunchedVehiclesConcern
R/2026/02916/02/20262592020-2025 Jeep Wrangler and 2022-2026 Jeep Grand Cherokee PHEV vehicles. High voltage bat
R/2025/49221/11/2025258JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE PHEV 2022-2026 HYBRID CONTROL PROCESSOR SOFTWARE UPDATE
R/2025/48519/11/20254,0312014-2020 Jeep Grand Cherokee 3.0L diesel. Loss of crankshaft reference position. Software
R/2025/38425/09/202567Jeep Grand Cherokee 2023-2024. 2nd row head restraints.
R/2025/28615/07/202543Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) blower motor inoperable
All 38 campaigns
ReferenceLaunchedBuild datesVehiclesConcern
R/2026/02916/02/202614/04/2021 – 15/10/20252592020-2025 Jeep Wrangler and 2022-2026 Jeep Grand Cherokee PHEV vehicles. High voltage bat
R/2025/49221/11/202517/05/2021 – 29/08/2025258JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE PHEV 2022-2026 HYBRID CONTROL PROCESSOR SOFTWARE UPDATE
R/2025/48519/11/202530/10/2012 – 14/09/20204,0312014-2020 Jeep Grand Cherokee 3.0L diesel. Loss of crankshaft reference position. Software
R/2025/38425/09/202516/05/2023 – 02/05/202467Jeep Grand Cherokee 2023-2024. 2nd row head restraints.
R/2025/28615/07/202502/11/2022 – 21/09/202343Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) blower motor inoperable
R/2024/33013/09/202427/03/2023 – 07/08/2023112023 Jeep Grand Cherokee steering column control module (SCCM) internal failure
R/2024/19628/06/202403/12/2020 – 30/05/202366Front upper control arm to steering knuckle pinch bolts
R/2024/18728/06/202412/06/2013 – 14/09/20208,074High pressure fuel pump
R/2024/15930/05/202431/08/2020 – 05/12/2023142Windscreen defrost
R/2023/27817/11/202305/12/2020 – 31/05/20232On affected vehicles the rear coil springs may not have been installed correctly which may
R/2023/27817/11/202305/12/2020 – 31/05/20232On affected vehicles the rear coil springs may not have been installed correctly which may
R/2022/34213/01/202311/12/2017 – 26/09/20191The Hydraulic Control Unit (HCU/ABS) Anti-lock Brake System module may have been built wit
R/2021/18413/08/202114/05/2014 – 26/04/20182,316THE ENGINE MAY LOSE ITS ABILITY TO SYNCHRONIZE INJECTOR PULSES AND CAMSHAFT TIMING
R/2018/18824/08/201827/10/2012 – 24/05/2018341VEHICLE SHORT CAUSING CAN-C BUS TO STOP COMMUNICATING
R/2017/32015/12/201701/08/2010 – 08/09/20142,421BRAKE BOOSTER WATER SHIELD MAY BE INCORRECTLY INSTALLED
R/2016/21421/10/201620/01/2010 – 01/09/20121,401FIRE MAY OCCUR
R/2016/21507/10/201613/01/2013 – 21/12/20154,621VEHICLE MAY ROLL AWAY
R/2015/19329/09/201611/02/2004 – 18/10/200710,511POSSIBLE LOSS OF VEHICLE SAFETY FEATURES
R/2016/02118/03/201601/01/2002 – 31/12/200414,551INADVERTENT DEPLOYMENT OF A FRONT AIRBAG
R/2015/18423/10/201504/02/2010 – 19/08/20131,770ENGINE MAY STALL
R/2015/09819/06/201525/07/2012 – 28/06/20141,069SHORT CIRCUIT MAY OCCUR
R/2014/16809/01/201503/10/2013 – 11/04/2014903VEHICLE MAY BECOME UNSTABLE
R/2014/13907/11/201405/01/2010 – 11/12/20133,250RISK OF FIRE
R/2014/13305/11/201411/10/2011 – 01/10/201220BRAKE PEDAL MAY NOT PERFORM CORRECTLY
R/2014/13205/11/201402/02/2013 – 30/04/20141,570INDICATORS MAY NOT FUNCTION CORRECTLY
R/2013/09330/09/201401/01/1992 – 27/10/199833,053RISK OF FIRE
R/2014/07902/09/201401/08/2010 – 08/08/20142,420INCREASED BRAKE PEDAL APPLICATION MAY BE REQUIRED
R/2013/15107/03/201408/01/2013 – 20/08/2013349INSTRUMENT CLUSTER MAY FAIL
R/2013/12031/10/201301/09/2001 – 28/03/200414,558INADVERTENT DEPLOYMENT OF AIRBAGS
R/2013/08716/08/201301/02/2004 – 31/03/201012,014VEHICLE MAY ROLL AWAY
R/2007/15815/02/200801/01/2006 – 26/10/20079,427ELECTRONIC BRAKE CONTROL MODULE MAY ALLOW A MOMENTARY DELAY IN BRAKE APPLICATION.
R/2007/15915/02/200801/01/2007 – 26/10/2007257FRONT BRAKE CALIPERS COULD BREAK UNDER CERTAIN OPERATING CONDITIONS.
R/2006/21101/03/200701/01/2002 – 31/12/20056,148FRONT SEAT HEATING ELEMENTS MAY OVERHEAT
R/2002/10406/01/200301/01/2002 – 23/07/20021,207SIDE AIRBAG MAY NOT DEPLOY
R/2002/06129/11/200201/01/2001 – 31/12/20021,651UNDERBONNET FIRE CONCERN
R/2001/16619/08/200201/01/1990 – 31/12/199944,314FRONT BRAKE ROTORS (DISCS) MAY FAIL.
R/1998/07001/02/19999,206INACCURATE INDICATION OF FUEL TANK CONTENTS
R/1996/06016/05/199625/08/1995 – 26/08/1995349POWER DISTRIBUTION FUSE LINK

DVSA lists 38 safety recall campaigns for the Jeep Grand Cherokee, covering roughly 192,653 vehicles in total. A recall is the manufacturer fixing a fault for free, so an open recall on your car costs nothing to clear.

Counter-intuitive, and measured on our own data: across the 25 families published here, more recalls go with a lower MOT Risk Index (r = −0.52). Heavily recalled models are not worse cars in the test bay — an active manufacturer removes the fault before it becomes an MOT failure.

Check whether a specific car has an outstanding recall — free, by registration — at DVSA's recall service. Source: DVSA vehicle safety recalls (check-vehicle-recalls.service.gov.uk), OGL.

Jeep Grand Cherokee technical service bulletins: what dealers are told

US market, Jeep GRAND CHEROKEE and its variants, model years 2015–2022 only. A count of bulletins, not a UK failure rate.

NHTSA manufacturer communications are 2,637.

bigger number = more recorded dealer communicationsnot affected vehicles or confirmed faults

These are the issues the manufacturer fixes quietly: service communications sent to dealers without a public recall campaign. They show what the service network has been told even when the issue never became news.

United States · NHTSA manufacturer communications

US technical service bulletins by communication year; leading subjects cover the full file
Communication yearBulletinsLeading subjects across all years
20131
  • Electrical system (961)
  • Equipment (591)
  • Powertrain (377)
  • Structure (267)
  • Engine and cooling (209)
  • Back Over Prevention (142)
  • Engine (121)
  • Visibility (120)
201465
2015124
2016169
2017108
201985
2020240
2021576
2022544
2023223
2024112
2025220
2026170

Caveat worth stating plainly: this is NHTSA data about US-specification cars. British cars sold under the same name often use different gearboxes, engines and equipment, so a bulletin may describe a component that was never fitted here. The file counts dealer communications, not affected vehicles or confirmed failures, and it cannot tell you whether an individual UK car has the issue. A communication can carry more than one subject tag, so topic counts do not have to add up to the total. Source: NHTSA Manufacturer Communications API (US-market vehicles; queried model years 2015-2022). Licence: U.S. Government work / public domain · retrieved 2026-09-25.

Jeep Grand Cherokee owner complaints: what goes wrong

US market, Jeep GRAND CHEROKEE and its variants, model years 2015–2022 only. A count of owner complaints, not a UK failure rate; NHTSA has no UK denominator.

Lamps & electrical are highest at 1,247; Steering is lowest at 284 — the gap is 963.

bigger number = more recorded casescompare like-for-like scope, not sample size alone

Owner complaints (US) against actual MOT failures (UK) for the same component groups
ComponentComplaintsShareMOT fail items per 100MOT rankAgreement
Lamps & electrical1,24728.3%20.3#1complained about and fails often
Engine (not MOT-tested)82418.7%not in top 6—complained about, rarely an MOT failure
Transmission (not MOT-tested)80818.3%not in top 6—complained about, rarely an MOT failure
Brakes3507.9%15.6#2complained about and fails often
Restraints3247.3%not in top 6—complained about, rarely an MOT failure
Steering2846.4%not in top 6—complained about, rarely an MOT failure

Two different populations answering two different questions: the MOT records what an inspector can measure once a year, the complaint file records what annoyed or frightened an owner on the road. A component high in one column and absent from the other is the interesting case — driver-assistance and electronics dominate complaints while almost never appearing as an MOT failure item.

What the reports actually say
My power lift gate closed unexpectedly and at a pace faster than usual. The lift gate came down on my head and compressed my neck. I have not tried the power lift gate again for fear of it breaking and not being able to be closed. The power lift gate has been sticking shut and not opening some times.
NHTSA complaint, filed 09/20/2026
I was driving home on the freeway from picking my kids up from school and all the sudden there was a loud crashing noise and my head was slammed forward and when I looked back to calm down my kids, I see that the headrest had just snapped and pushed forward, slamming me in the head
NHTSA complaint, filed 09/17/2026 · SEATS

US owners have filed 4,414 complaints about the equivalent Jeep Grand Cherokee to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, including 304 that mention a crash, 59 a fire and 210 an injury. These are owner reports, not verified findings — but they are the only large public record of what drivers themselves notice, and they cover the years between MOT tests.

Caveat worth stating plainly: US-specification cars, self-selected reporters, no denominator — complaint counts scale with how many cars were sold there and how motivated owners are to file. The mechanical gap matters as much as the statistical one: American cars of the same name often carry different gearboxes, engines and equipment — automatics where Britain buys manuals — so a drivetrain complaint filed in Ohio may describe a part that was never fitted here. Read the ranking inside a model, not between models, and treat drivetrain entries with particular caution. Source: NHTSA ODI consumer complaints (US market, public domain) — US-spec vehicles, indicative only.

Jeep Grand Cherokee inspection results in other countries

Netherlands APK stands out at 65.2%, against 50.8% nationally.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Same model, different national inspection regimes
CountryTestThis model failsNational averagePositionSample
United KingdomMOT (class 4)24.82%26.01%-1.2 pp9,934
NetherlandsAPK65.2%50.8%+14.4 pp1,774
FinlandKatsastus34.1%26.3%+7.8 pp1,086
NorwayPKK44.9%33.7%+11.2 pp668

The countries disagree about this car, and that is worth saying out loud rather than averaging away. A model can sit above its national average in one country and below it in another because the fleets are not the same cars: different model years, different engines, different roads and salt, and inspection rules that weight components differently. Treat each row as evidence from one regime, not as a verdict.

What Finland fails it for — share of recorded faults
Fault areaShare
Brake systems30.4%
Axles, wheels and suspension26.5%
Chassis and body22.6%
Environmental hazards7.6%
Steering equipment4.7%

Useful as a cross-check on the UK defect table above: the categories are named differently, but a component that dominates in both regimes is a genuine weak point of the model rather than an artefact of one country's testing style.

The exact faults Netherlands records — APK defect codes, 2024
CodeFaultRecordedType
AC4Steering or suspension ball joint worn up to 1.0 mm297advisory
210Tyre pressure not at the correct value281failure
RA2Excessive leak of other fluids218advisory
516Dipped headlight incorrectly aimed181failure
205Tyre with insufficient tread163failure
497Number-plate light not working or missing121failure
AC1Tyre down to 1.6–2.5 mm of tread108advisory
391Wipers leave insufficient visibility94failure

Worth dwelling on how mundane the top of that list is: tyre pressure, tread depth, headlight aim. The Dutch APK records 1.817 defects per inspection against a much higher national failure rate than Britain's, and the reason is not that Dutch cars are worse — it is that the two regimes draw the line between "note it" and "fail it" in different places. Codes are the RDW's own; the English wording here is our translation of the Dutch original.

Britain is not the only country that inspects every car every year, and the Jeep Grand Cherokee is on the road in all of them. Each national regime writes its own rules, so the pass rates below are not comparable to each other — what does travel across a border is whether a model sits above or below its own country's average.

Rows with fewer than 500 inspections are not published. Sources: RDW open data — Meldingen Keuringsinstantie + Geconstateerde Gebreken + Gekentekende voertuigen (2024), CC0. Not an RDW endorsement.; Traficom — Periodic inspections of cars by model / by model and fault object 2024, CC BY 4.0; Statens vegvesen — Periodisk kjøretøykontroll (PKK) 2024, CC BY 4.0. Adapted; licences and full notice.

Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT: quick answers

Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT Risk Index is well below the reference at 80.0, against 100 for a car with the same age profile.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

What is the Jeep Grand Cherokee first-time MOT pass rate?
75.18% of first attempts passed in 2024 (9,934 tests). This is the first-time figure: retests after repair are excluded. Basis: first-time, excluding retests.
Why does this number differ from other sites?
Other sites often report a pass rate that includes retests or counts all attempts. Our 24.82% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 9,934 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 80.0 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Jeep Grand Cherokee with other cars

Toyota Prius is highest at 80.0; Toyota Alphard is lowest at 79.8 — the gap is 0.2 points.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

Same brand

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Similar risk

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Same size class

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By build year

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By area

Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT failure rate by postcode area

By failure group

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Inspections abroad

Jeep Grand Cherokee in NorwayJeep Grand Cherokee in FinlandJeep Grand Cherokee in the Netherlands


Data details & how to cite

Scope: class-4 vehicles (cars), initial tests only, outcomes pass / fail / fixed-on-the-spot at the station (PRS counts towards the failure rate — the defect was present at arrival). Index = observed initial failures ÷ failures expected for this fleet's exact age profile, ×100; margin of error is a 95% confidence interval. Covers ALL generations together — a 3-year-old and a 15-year-old are very different cars; a generation split is on the roadmap. Dataset release dataset_release_id=dvsa-2024-v2, frozen baseline; headline claim_id=family-stats:jeep-grand-cherokee:dvsa-2024-v2. Full method: methodology.

Cite: MOT Risk Index (2026). Jeep Grand Cherokee MOT statistics 2024 (data release dvsa-2024-v2; downloadable dataset motriskindex-families-2024-v5, doi:10.5281/zenodo.22975051). https://motriskindex.co.uk/cars/jeep-grand-cherokee/ · Published 2026-07-30.