Does the Land Rover Defender fail the MOT on road wheels more than it should?

The Land Rover Defender records 0.14 road wheels failure items per 100 initial MOT tests (2019–2024), against 0.44 expected for a car of the same age mix: about as expected for its class and age (the difference is within its interval or under 0.5 items per 100 tests) (−0.30, 95% interval −0.31 to −0.28). It ranks 471 of 516 models on road wheels (1 = most failures above expected).

Data release dvsa-2024-v2 (24 Sep 2026) · page updated 30 Sep 2026 · all models on road wheels · check a Land Rover Defender by registration

What exactly fails on road wheels?

The most frequent DVSA defect wording in this group on the Land Rover Defender is “A wheel with a loose or missing wheel nut, bolt or stud”, recorded 593 times in 2019–2024.

Land Rover Defender: most frequent road wheels defect wordings, 2019–2024 (30+ items each)
DVSA defect wording	Items	Per 100 tests
A wheel with a loose or missing wheel nut, bolt or stud	593	0.09
A wheel with more than one loose or missing wheel nut, bolt or stud	117	0.02
A spigot mounted wheel hub excessively worn or damaged	74	0.01
A wheel and its fixings not compatible	54	0.01
A spigot mounted wheel hub worn or damaged to the extent that wheel security is adversely affected	39	0.01

Source: DVSA MOT bulk data (OGL v3.0) · Window: 2019–2024 · n = 648,232 (initial tests) · Method: failure items (major and minor) grouped by DVSA's defect tree; wordings with 30+ items · Updated: 30 Sep 2026 · Release: dvsa-2024-v2 · CSV

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Does the Land Rover Defender fail the MOT on road wheels more than it should?

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