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Land Rover Freelander — MOT statistics 2024

The Land Rover Freelander failed 34.95% of 119,704 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 89.7 (100 = expected for its age profile). This car fails its MOT about 10% less often than expected for its age.

MOT risk index 89.7, 95% CI 89.0–90.4 (100 = national average) 100 89.7 0 200
Index
89.7
100 = age-normal
Raw fail rate
34.95%
n = 119,704
Dangerous /100
12
national ≈11
Diesel − petrol
-10.4 pp
fail-rate gap
Rank
343 of 761
lower index = better

Age-adjusted peer: Skoda Octavia (index 89.7) — the two published results are 0.0 index points apart.

Land Rover Freelander common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment are well below the reference at 22.2 per 100 tests, against 27.1 per 100 tests across UK vehicles of the same ages.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Land Rover Freelander 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.

GroupThis familyCases behind itUK, same agesFamily / national
Lamps & electrical22.2189,46327.10.82×0.82–0.82
Brakes20.0171,02316.81.19×1.19–1.20
Suspension19.6167,62123.50.83×0.83–0.84
Visibility8.673,6929.90.87×0.87–0.88
Steering7.462,9764.31.73×1.71–1.74
Body & structure7.362,6248.90.82×0.82–0.83
Named defects — items per 100 initial tests, this family vs UK national average; this model measured on 853,388 tests, 2019-2024, national column 2024
What failedper 100 tests (this family)per 100 tests (UK average)ratio family / UKWhat to check
Steering ball joint with excessive wear or free playA steering ball joint with excessive wear or free play3.921.223.21×Ask the seller about: A steering ball joint with excessive wear or free play
Brake pipe damaged or excessively corrodedBrake pipe damaged or excessively corroded4.001.412.85×Look underneath for rust or cracks around subframe and suspension mountings
Parking brake efficiency below minimum requirementParking brake efficiency below minimum requirement3.011.242.43×Feel for brake judder and pulling on the test drive
Suspension joint dust cover severely deterioratedA suspension joint dust cover severely deteriorated3.521.901.85×Listen for knocks over bumps — worn joints show up on the test
Stop lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of…Stop lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning2.711.501.81×Try every light and switch — lamps are a top failure
Suspension joint dust cover missing or no longer…A suspension joint dust cover missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc2.801.781.57×Listen for knocks over bumps — worn joints show up on the test
Suspension pin, bush or joint excessively wornA suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn5.544.871.14×Listen for knocks over bumps — worn joints show up on the test
Windscreen or window damaged or seriously…Windscreen or window damaged or seriously discoloured but not adversely affecting driver's view2.952.361.25×Check wipers, washers and windscreen chips in the driver's view
Aim of a headlamp is not within limits laid down…The aim of a headlamp is not within limits laid down in the requirements2.772.571.08×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 requirements3.473.590.97×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.

Land Rover Freelander MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Brakes are highest at 46.6 per 100 tests; Non-component advisories are lowest at 6.7 per 100 tests — the gap is 39.9 per 100 tests.

higher bar = flagged more oftenadvisory items per 100 initial tests

Land Rover Freelander MOT advisories: what gets flagged — 2024 UK MOT data
Advisory rates table
GroupAdvisories per 100
Brakes46.6
Tyres34.9
Suspension31.8
Emissions & leaks7.3
Body & structure6.9
Non-component advisories6.7

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

Tyres, brakes and suspension: Land Rover Freelander against cars of the same age

AgePartLand Rover FreelanderSame age, petrol and dieselDifference
5 yearsTyres2.885.06-2.18
5 yearsBrakes3.633.090.54
5 yearsSuspension0.542.19-1.65
6 yearsTyres3.185.54-2.36
6 yearsBrakes4.053.810.24
6 yearsSuspension1.193.72-2.53
7 yearsTyres3.235.95-2.72
7 yearsBrakes4.184.55-0.37
7 yearsSuspension2.035.68-3.65
8 yearsTyres3.466.31-2.85
8 yearsBrakes4.65.38-0.78
8 yearsSuspension3.037.78-4.75

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 failed36.6%56,712
It passed27.6%438,762

A failed test raises next year's chance of failing again by 9.0 percentage points. The failure most likely to come back is visibility — 34.7% 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 851,621 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 only88.5fails less often than expected
Age and annual mileage83.6fails less often than vehicles driven as much
Share doing under 3,000 miles a year1.5%a normal spread of use

Mileage matters here: matching on how much these are driven moves the figure by 4.9 points — this fleet works harder than the vehicles it is measured against, so the age-only view penalises it — but it does not change which side of normal the car sits on. 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 Land Rover Freelander 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.

AgeLand Rover FreelanderSame class, same ageDifferenceTests
5 years17.73%14.13%+3.6 pp12,084
6 years18.71%16.03%+2.69 pp25,366
7 years19.29%18.21%+1.08 pp35,843
8 years20.43%20.54%-0.11 pp48,450
9 years22.32%23.14%-0.82 pp63,144
10 years23.92%25.73%-1.81 pp73,332
11 years26.85%28.35%-1.5 pp73,968
12 years29.89%30.62%-0.73 pp77,329
13 years34.13%32.49%+1.65 pp76,421
14 years38.77%34.21%+4.56 pp74,812
15 years41.65%35.56%+6.09 pp70,052
16 years44.31%36.49%+7.82 pp64,523
17 years46.35%36.77%+9.59 pp54,509
18 years48.86%37.11%+11.75 pp37,925
19 years48.62%36.78%+11.84 pp27,071
20 years47.97%36.4%+11.57 pp17,516

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 Land Rover Freelander perform as it gets older?

The Rover Freelander at age 13 is well below the reference at 27.9%, against 38.2% for all vehicles of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

How does the Land Rover Freelander perform as it gets older? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · failure-rate scale 0–53%.

Takeaway: a 10-year-old Rover Freelander has roughly a 22% chance of failing its MOT; from about age 18 it stays above the national age curve.

Data table
AgeLand Rover FreelanderAll vehiclesGap
1021.7%30.1%-8.4 pp
1126.2%33.2%-6.9 pp
1227.4%35.7%-8.3 pp
1327.9%38.2%-10.2 pp
1434.4%40.4%-6.0 pp
1534.9%41.6%-6.6 pp
1639.0%43.1%-4.1 pp
1740.6%43.1%-2.5 pp
1848.8%43.9%+4.9 pp
1948.8%43.5%+5.3 pp
2048.0%41.0%+6.9 pp

Is a Land Rover Freelander ULEZ compliant?

The share of classifiable 2024 Land Rover Freelander MOT tests likely ULEZ compliant by first-registration date is 0.5%.

Based on 119,026 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 = 0
3–5 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 2
6–7 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
8 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 27
9 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 44
10–14 years0.2%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 61,372
15–17 years1.2%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 34,254
18 years1.1%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 6,200
19 years0.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 5,699
20+ years0.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 11,428

Land Rover Freelander petrol vs diesel: which ages best

Petrol is highest at 45.0%; Diesel is lowest at 34.6% — the gap is 10.4 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Land Rover Freelander petrol vs diesel: which ages best — 2024 UK MOT data
Fuel split table
FuelTests% failingGap vs best
Diesel115,94234.6%+0.0 pp
Petrol3,73045.0%+10.4 pp

Chart sample sizes: n=116k · n=3,730.

How dangerous are Land Rover Freelander MOT failures?

Major defects stand out at 69.1 per 100 tests, against 52.8 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

How dangerous are Land Rover Freelander MOT failures? — 2024 UK MOT data
Severity table
SeverityThis family /100National /100Family / national
Minor16.1314.221.13×
Major69.1052.751.31×
Dangerous11.6011.151.04×

Chart values: Minor 16.1 · Major 69.1 · Dangerous 11.6.

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

Does the month of a Land Rover Freelander MOT matter?

Apr is highest at 35.7%; Mar is lowest at 32.2% — the gap is 3.5 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Does the month of a Land Rover Freelander MOT matter? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart scale: 27%–37%.

bars: Land Rover Freelander · dashed: all class-4 cars

Month-by-month table
MonthLand Rover FreelanderAll vehiclesGap
Jan33.57%31.12%+2.4 pp
Feb33.4%29.99%+3.4 pp
Mar32.17%28.26%+3.9 pp
Apr35.67%29.78%+5.9 pp
May34.22%28.79%+5.4 pp
Jun33.04%28.15%+4.9 pp
Jul33.39%29.33%+4.1 pp
Aug33.65%29.2%+4.4 pp
Sep32.68%28.19%+4.5 pp
Oct33.98%30.34%+3.6 pp
Nov34.6%30.58%+4.0 pp
Dec33.17%29.33%+3.8 pp

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 3.5 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.

Land Rover Freelander average mileage by age

At age 15, the middle half of Rover Freelanders runs from 101,751 miles to 150,354 miles, against 125,628 miles as the median.

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

Bars: Land Rover Freelander · dashed: all class-4 cars — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · odometer scale 0–174k mi.

Does high mileage mean more Land Rover Freelander MOT failures at the same age?

Within the same age group, split by odometer (2024 MOTs), so this separates wear from age: at ages 10–14, 11.2% of those with under 40,000 miles failed first time versus 37.9% of those with over 140,000 miles.Inside this age group, higher mileage goes with more failures.

Does high mileage mean more Land Rover Freelander MOT failures at the same age? — 2024 UK MOT data
Land Rover Freelander: first-time failure by mileage within each age group (2024)
AgeOdometer% failing95% intervalTests
10–14<40k miles11.2%9.7–12.9%1,468
10–1440-70k miles17.8%17.1–18.7%8,837
10–1470-100k miles23.8%23.2–24.4%18,774
10–14100-140k miles31.6%30.9–32.2%22,257
10–14140k+ miles37.9%37–38.9%10,019
15+<40k miles24%19.9–28.7%362 (rough estimate)
15+40-70k miles27.9%26.1–29.7%2,491
15+70-100k miles37.6%36.6–38.6%8,549
15+100-140k miles42.4%41.7–43%22,853
15+140k+ miles46.2%45.6–46.9%23,231

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

Mileage by age (p25 / median / p75)
Agep25Medianp75Tests
1064,91983,801104,96211,566
1175,09995,165117,22713,171
1279,681101,128124,28810,432
1389,481111,408135,44212,246
1495,916119,182143,41213,958
15101,751125,628150,3549,875
16110,244134,376159,23010,737
17115,353140,118165,50013,658
18103,966126,801150,7156,202
19101,963124,606147,8225,700
20+101,164127,437154,66011,438

A typical 15-year-old Rover Freelander has ~125,628 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the Land Rover Freelander fails its MOT most

Kirkcaldy area is highest at 47.7%; Enfield area is lowest at 20.8% — the gap is 27.0 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Land Rover Freelander line: median · band: middle half of the fleet (p25–p75) — 2024 UK MOT data
Toughest areas% failingvs model overall
Kirkcaldy (KY)47.74%+14.2 pp
Dundee (DD)46.78%+13.2 pp
Aberdeen (AB)43.46%+9.9 pp
Falkirk (FK)42.53%+9.0 pp
Perth (PH)40.74%+7.2 pp
Easiest areas% failingvs model overall
Enfield (EN)20.75%-12.8 pp
Ilford (IG)23.87%-9.7 pp
Romford (RM)24.77%-8.8 pp
Southend-on-Sea (SS)25.32%-8.2 pp
Sutton (SM)26%-7.5 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 mot centre density this model fails 9.3 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.66, n=115 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest frost days this model fails 4.6 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.50, n=115 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest road-salt proxy this model fails 5.4 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.49, n=115 areas with ≥800 tests).

Land Rover Freelander Why do areas differ? — 2024 UK MOT data
Values shown in the quintile chart
FactorLow QHigh QGapCorrelation
MOT centre density28.3%37.7%+9.4 ppr=0.66
Frost days32.5%37.1%+4.6 ppr=0.50
Road-salt proxy31.7%37.1%+5.4 ppr=0.49

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
MOT centre density (per 10k vehicles)0.66411528.337.7+9.358.8
Frost days (days/year)0.50411532.537.1+4.611.838
Road-salt proxy (g/m²-yr)0.48711531.737.1+5.4223674.9
Urban share (0–1)-0.43911535.929.0-7.00.41
Distance to coast (km)-0.36911537.031.6-5.46.478.7
Terrain gradient (% grade)0.1766833.535.4+1.90.54.2
Income deprivation (score)0.1219731.333.0+1.60.10.2

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: 27%–40% failing.

Land Rover Freelander survival: which cars are still on the road

By age 19 is close to the reference at 100.0%, against 100.0% at the ages 4–6 reference level.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Land Rover Freelander 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 %
3520.3%13.46%
4990.5%12.12%
512,08464.5%17.73%
625,366100%18.71%
735,843100%19.29%
848,450100%20.43%
963,144100%22.32%
1073,332100%23.92%
1173,968100%26.85%
1277,329100%29.89%
1376,421100%34.13%
1474,812100%38.77%
1570,052100%41.65%
1664,523100%44.31%
1754,509100%46.35%
1837,925100%48.86%
1927,071100%48.62%

By age 19, at least as many cars of this family present for MOT as at ages 4–6 (reference n≈18,725): the older fleet has not thinned out here, so there is no survivor selection to allow for.

How many miles does a Land Rover Freelander last?

100,000+ miles is highest at 54.9%; 200,000+ miles is lowest at 1.7% — the gap is 53.2 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

OdometerTests ≥ thresholdShare of sample
100,000+ miles467,83054.89%
150,000+ miles121,48014.25%
200,000+ miles14,6341.72%

Of 852,266 tests of this family with a usable odometer in 2024, 54.9% had reached 100k miles, 14.2% had reached 150k miles, 1.7% 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 Land Rover Freelander likely to last?

Bought at age 5 is highest at 22.2 years; Bought at age 15 is lowest at 4.5 years — the gap is 17.7 years.

bigger number = longer remaining lifeyears on the observed survival curve

Age nowTypical mileage (p50)Expected years left
5—at least 22.2
8—at least 11.5
10—at least 9.5
12—at least 7.5
15—at least 4.5

estimateEstimate only — not a warranty: a typical 10-year-old example of this family has at least 9.5 expected years of further MOT-present life. The curve is observed only until age 19, so the true figure is likely higher.

Land Rover Freelander faults that come together

Identification + Road Wheels stand out at 6.46×, against 1.00× if the faults were independent.

above 1.0× = more than expectedbelow 1.0× = less

Group AGroup BTogetherLift
Identification of the vehicleRoad Wheels516.46× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureNoise, emissions and leaks5,5395.57×
Road WheelsSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems1715.31× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems1,1664.98×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSpeedometer and speed limiter264.82× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems2,9714.61×
Identification of the vehicleSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems1684.52× (rough estimate)
BrakesSpeedometer and speed limiter204.38× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureRoad Wheels5574.07×
Noise, emissions and leaksRoad Wheels2024.06× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment1,4493.95×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems5,8853.93×
Identification of the vehicleNoise, emissions and leaks2243.91× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentRoad Wheels1,2363.89×
BrakesSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems4,8953.86×
BrakesNoise, emissions and leaks7,4843.82×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaks8,5263.69×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSuspension5,3203.66×
Identification of the vehicleTyres4663.65× (rough estimate)
BrakesRoad Wheels9783.63×
Road WheelsTyres3963.57× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureIdentification of the vehicle5623.56×
BrakesIdentification of the vehicle1,0853.49×
Body, chassis, structureBrakes18,3453.41×
Buses and coaches supplementary testsSuspension323.39× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleVisibility6723.33×
Body, chassis, structureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment20,8873.29×
BrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment39,2533.14×
Noise, emissions and leaksTyres2,5053.11×
Body, chassis, structureSuspension18,9453.07×
Road WheelsSuspension9393.04×
Noise, emissions and leaksSuspension6,7423.01×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentTyres15,3282.98×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsTyres1,5472.97×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsVisibility2,4022.92×
Identification of the vehicleSuspension1,0392.92×
Road WheelsVisibility5112.92×
Road WheelsSteering4362.91× (rough estimate)
Buses and coaches supplementary testsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment282.88× (rough estimate)
BrakesSuspension34,1062.81×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspension39,9502.79×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSteering1,9612.78×
BrakesTyres12,0642.77×
Identification of the vehicleSteering4792.77× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksVisibility3,4402.7×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentVisibility21,5702.65×
Body, chassis, structureTyres5,8522.64×
Noise, emissions and leaksSteering2,8332.6×
SteeringSuspension17,4482.59×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSteering17,8732.57×
Body, chassis, structureSteering7,6772.56×
BrakesSteering14,8682.52×
TyresVisibility7,1412.52×
Body, chassis, structureVisibility8,6492.47×
SuspensionTyres11,7172.35×
SteeringTyres5,6802.34×
BrakesVisibility16,0302.33×
SuspensionVisibility16,4322.08×
SteeringVisibility7,3751.93×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSeat belt installation check19too few (rough estimate)
BrakesBuses and coaches supplementary tests19too few (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureBuses and coaches supplementary tests18too few (rough estimate)
BrakesSeat belt installation check16too few (rough estimate)
Seat belt installation checkSuspension16too few (rough estimate)
Speedometer and speed limiterSuspension15too few (rough estimate)
Buses and coaches supplementary testsSteering12too few (rough estimate)
Buses and coaches supplementary testsNoise, emissions and leaks11too few (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSpeedometer and speed limiter11too few (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSeat belt installation check11too few (rough estimate)
Speedometer and speed limiterVisibility11too few (rough estimate)
Buses and coaches supplementary testsVisibility11too few (rough estimate)
Seat belt installation checkTyres10too few (rough estimate)
Seat belt installation checkVisibility10too few (rough estimate)
Speedometer and speed limiterSteering9too few (rough estimate)
Buses and coaches supplementary testsTyres8too few (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSpeedometer and speed limiter6too few (rough estimate)
Seat belt installation checkSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems6too few (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSpeedometer and speed limiter6too few (rough estimate)
Speedometer and speed limiterTyres5too few (rough estimate)

Defects in «Body, chassis, structure» and «Noise, emissions and leaks» appear together 5.57× more often than chance (5,539 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 Land Rover Freelander?

Cars driven under 5,000 miles a year is well below the reference at 15.3%, against 29.0% for cars driven 8,000–12,000 miles a year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

BandFail %Tests
<5k miles/year15.32%39,198
8–12k miles/year28.96%262,139
Gap (low − normal)-13.64 pp—
By fuel and age

Diesel

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
59.7386318.444,930-8.7 pp
69.691,73418.9310,655-9.24 pp
710.932,62520.0115,374-9.08 pp
811.243,58721.121,255-9.87 pp
912.144,67223.2928,433-11.15 pp
1012.515,56225.8533,692-13.33 pp
1113.635,08628.8235,199-15.2 pp
1215.84,81732.537,705-16.71 pp
1319.64,7973737,793-17.4 pp
1425.494,71941.5435,765-16.05 pp

Petrol

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
1111.43352560-13.57 pp
1211.119934.55220-23.43 pp
1320.7211136.49222-15.77 pp
1435.7345950.15684-14.42 pp

At matched ages 5–14, cars averaging under 5k miles/year fail at 15.3% vs 29.0% for 8–12k miles/year — 13.6 pp lower (n_low=39,198, n_normal=262,139). 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: 15.1% low-use vs 28.8% normal (-13.7 pp).

Which Land Rover Freelander engine is best?

diesel 1.8–2.0 is highest at 106.8; petrol over 2.0 is lowest at 85.2 — the gap is 21.6 points.

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

Engine bands against this model's own failure rate at the same ages
FuelCapacityvs own age normRaw fail %Tests
petrolover 2.0 litre85.235.56%7,134
petrol1.8–2.0 litre95.441%1,017 (rough estimate)
dieselover 2.0 litre9627.72%596,293
diesel1.5–1.8 litre97.939.26%1,793 (rough estimate)
petrol1.5–1.8 litre106.749.13%36,660
diesel1.8–2.0 litre106.847.2%209,337

Splitting this model by fuel alone hides the thing that actually differs. Within the same badge, the diesel 1.8–2.0 runs at 106.8 against this model's own age norm while the petrol over 2.0 runs at 85.2 — a spread of 21.6 points between two cars that share a name.

Read this one with more care than the rest of the page. Age is held constant, but who buys which engine is not: the largest capacity in a range is often a performance or executive variant that is garaged, cherished and lightly driven, while the smallest is frequently a fleet or entry car worked hard from new. The gap below is real in the test records; how much of it is the engine and how much is the owner, this data cannot separate. Bands under 100 tests are not shown; bands under 5,000 tests are rough estimates.

Best year for a Land Rover Freelander, and the years to avoid

Build year 2006 is highest at 111.9; Build year 2011 is lowest at 89.4 — the gap is 22.5 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

Land Rover Freelander build year vs the same model at the same age · 100 = as expected — 2024 UK MOT data
Land Rover Freelander 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
2015105.776.7–134.720.32%251no different
201493.291.6–94.818.94%70,144better
2013104.4102.9–105.922.77%80,180worse
201296.494.8–9822.79%63,465better
201189.488.1–90.823.31%74,981better
2010100.699.4–101.829.21%86,902no different
200992.691.3–93.929.8%62,401better
200897.596.3–98.734.6%70,954better
200795.494.4–96.436.87%94,667better
2006111.9110.5–113.346.49%52,598worse
2005109.4108.1–110.748.28%54,623worse
2004105103.7–106.348.29%50,783worse
2003102.3100.8–103.848.5%35,977worse
200299.497.7–101.148.09%27,529no different
20019895.6–100.448.29%13,696no different
200097.193.2–100.947.9%5,100no different
199998.492.9–103.848.56%2,568no different
199899.191.8–106.349.01%1,461no different

The best build year here is 2011 and the weakest is 2006. 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 — 11 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.

Land Rover Freelander MOT repair costs

The MOT-failure repair budget per test runs from £96.36 to £183.08, against £54.85 for the test itself.

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

MOT repairs, budget
£96–183
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
Suspension19.6 (nat. 15.36)Suspension coil spring (single corner)£180£35.28
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment22.2 (nat. 18.09)Battery replacement (standard 12V lead-acid)£140£31.08
Brakes20.0 (nat. 11.25)Front brake pads (parts + labour, typical hatchback)£150£30.00

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 £96 to £183, 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.

Land Rover Freelander running costs for a fleet

Fails per 100 at age 10
22
vehicles needing work
Repairs per 100
£9,636
plus £5,485 in test fees
Off the road
1d
median; 33.83% cleared same day
Failure rate and typical odometer by age
AgeFailsMedian odometerTestsGap vs age 5
1021.73%83,80111,566—
1126.23%95,16513,171—
1227.35%101,12810,432—
1327.93%111,40812,246—
1434.43%119,18213,958—
1534.94%125,6289,875—
1639.04%134,37610,737—
1740.64%140,11813,658—
1848.76%126,8016,202—
1948.81%124,6065,700—

The number a fleet manager needs is not the failure rate, it is the year the car starts costing more. Between cars aged 17 and cars aged 18, both tested in 2024, the failure rate of this model is 8.12 percentage points higher — the steepest one-year step in this cross-section of different cars, and a natural planning point for replacement.

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.

Land Rover Freelander rust problems: where they corrode

Age-standardised corrosion susceptibility stands out at 2.52×, against 1.00× for the national age-standardised rate.

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

How it rusts
2.52×
1.93% of tests record a corrosion defect vs 0.77% typical — age-standardised
Salt Belt exposure
65th
percentile among the models published here, from its tests across 115 postcode areas

This Land Rover Freelander fails on corrosion far 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 Land Rover Freelander advisory become a failure?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment are highest at 22.8%; Non-component advisories are lowest at 0.0% — the gap is 22.8 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

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

Land Rover Freelander chance the same component fails at the next MOT, given an advisory now — 2024 UK MOT data
Land Rover Freelander, advisory → failure conversion by component group, chained tests 2019–2024. Chart labels and rates: Lamps & electrical 22.8% · Suspension 22.4% · Body & chassis 17.4% · Steering 17.3% · Brakes 16.8% · Tyres 7.8% · Seat belts & restraints 5.5% · Noise, emissions, leaks 4.4%.
Advisory today → failure at the next test, with how long you have
ComponentFails next timeTypical lead timeMiles of warningAdvisories tracked
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment22.8%12.1 months5,83228,550
Suspension22.4%12 months5,452106,138
Body, chassis, structure17.4%12.1 months4,36030,819
Steering17.3%12.1 months5,82534,576
Brakes16.8%12.1 months5,122167,533
Tyres7.8%12.1 months5,958136,290
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems5.5%12 months5,1205,453
Noise, emissions and leaks4.4%12.1 months4,76140,439
Identification of the vehicle3.2%12 months6,11213,999
Non-component advisories0.0%——39,647

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 23 in 100 cars, and the median gap is 12.1 months and roughly 5,832 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 Land Rover Freelander?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment after a failure at age 15-19 are highest at 28.3%; Steering after a passed at age 3-5 is lowest at 3.0% — the gap is 25.3 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
3-5passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 4.5% · Visibility 3.9% · Steering 3.0%15,905
3-5advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 6.8% · Visibility 5.9% · Brakes 5.3%6,366
3-5failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 9.3% · Visibility 6.4% · Steering 5.3%4,784
6-8passedSteering 5.0% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 4.7% · Visibility 4.0%67,828
6-8advisorySteering 7.1% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 7.0% · Visibility 6.2%34,172
6-8failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 9.4% · Steering 8.2% · Visibility 7.3%25,693
9-11passedSuspension 6.6% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 5.7% · Brakes 5.4%81,909
9-11advisorySuspension 9.8% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 8.6% · Brakes 8.6%54,646
9-11failureSuspension 12.9% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 12.5% · Brakes 11.3%47,495
12-14passedSuspension 11.7% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 9.6% · Brakes 8.3%58,184
12-14advisorySuspension 16.9% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 14.3% · Brakes 12.4%56,280
12-14failureSuspension 20.8% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 20.1% · Brakes 16.6%65,840
15-19passedSuspension 16.0% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 15.3% · Brakes 11.7%35,227
15-19advisorySuspension 22.7% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 21.3% · Brakes 16.7%48,946
15-19failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 28.3% · Suspension 26.4% · Brakes 21.7%70,906
20+passedSuspension 13.8% · Brakes 12.9% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 12.0%3,270
20+advisorySuspension 23.0% · Brakes 18.9% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 17.6%4,559
20+failureSuspension 26.0% · Brakes 24.1% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 24.1%6,533
unknownfailureSuspension 14.0%50 (rough estimate)

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.

Land Rover Freelander ownership: what six years of MOTs show

The ten-day re-test pass rate is highest at 61.7%; The later re-test pass rate is lowest at 4.5% — the gap is 57.3 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fixed same day
33.83%
of failures re-tested
Fails /10k miles
0.529
miles actually driven
Clean streaks
33.68%
3+ tests, nothing noted
Odometer anomaly
0.816%
reading went backwards

Failing is usually a same-week event, not a disaster. Of 208,309 failures followed through to their re-test, 33.83% were repaired and passed the same day and 61.72% within ten days; the median gap is 1 day. 582,595 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 0.529 failures per 10,000 miles, on a median of 5,423 miles a year across 156,415 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. 33.68% of these cars strung together three or more tests with nothing recorded at all, while 37.09% 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: 0.816% of 156,534 chains show a reading lower than the previous test, with a median drop of 16,869 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.

Land Rover Freelander safety recalls and how to check yours

DVSA recall campaigns stand out at 12.

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

recall campaigns launched per year

Land Rover Freelander recall campaigns launched per year — 2024 UK MOT data
Campaigns launched per year for the Land Rover Freelander. Source: DVSA vehicle safety recalls. Chart values: 2001: 1 · 2002: 1 · 2003: 0 · 2004: 2 · 2005: 2 · 2006: 0 · 2007: 0 · 2008: 3 · 2009: 0 · 2010: 0 · 2011: 0 · 2012: 0 · 2013: 1 · 2014: 0 · 2015: 1.
Most recent safety recall campaigns for the Land Rover Freelander
ReferenceLaunchedVehiclesConcern
R/2015/18607/10/2015429FIRE MAY OCCUR
R/2013/09127/08/201349,104FIRE MAY OCCUR
R/2008/18723/12/200828,924FIRE MAY OCCUR
R/2008/12502/10/200828,871BOOSTER HEATER -POSSIBILITY THAT VEHICLE MAY CATCH FIRE
R/2008/02407/04/200811,169SUNROOF MAY DETACH
All 12 campaigns
ReferenceLaunchedBuild datesVehiclesConcern
R/2015/18607/10/201519/05/2008 – 02/06/2008429FIRE MAY OCCUR
R/2013/09127/08/201301/01/2012 – 30/09/201349,104FIRE MAY OCCUR
R/2008/18723/12/200801/02/2007 – 23/05/200828,924FIRE MAY OCCUR
R/2008/12502/10/200801/02/2007 – 23/05/200828,871BOOSTER HEATER -POSSIBILITY THAT VEHICLE MAY CATCH FIRE
R/2008/02407/04/200801/11/2006 – 12/01/200811,169SUNROOF MAY DETACH
R/2005/08307/09/200501/11/2000 – 30/04/20059,834LEFT HAND REAR DOOR CHILD SAFETY LOCK LEVER MAY FAIL
R/2004/16512/01/200512/08/2003 – 29/08/2003129INCORRECT NUT INSTALLED INTO REAR SUBFRAME
R/2004/18404/11/200426/08/2004 – 01/10/2004610INCORRECT MANUFACTURER OF THE PASSENGER AIRBAG
R/2004/07611/08/200415/07/2002 – 27/09/20023,090POSSIBILITY OF THE LEFT HAND CHILD LOCK DISENGAGING
R/2002/04105/11/200207/07/2000 – 18/03/200222,624DIAGNOSTIC CONNECTOR CONCERN.
R/2001/01722/10/200101/08/2000 – 28/02/20014,368INSECURITY OF FRONT SEAT BACKREST.
R/1998/08006/11/199801/06/1997 – 01/06/199810,477POSSIBLE FAILURE OF REAR SUSPENSION LOCATING LINKS

DVSA lists 12 safety recall campaigns for the Land Rover Freelander, covering roughly 169,629 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.

Land Rover Freelander inspection results in other countries

Finland Katsastus stands out at 40.2%, against 26.3% nationally.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Same model, different national inspection regimes
CountryTestThis model failsNational averagePositionSample
United KingdomMOT (class 4)34.95%26.01%+8.9 pp119,704
NetherlandsAPK61.7%50.8%+10.9 pp2,032
FinlandKatsastus40.2%26.3%+13.9 pp809
NorwayPKK45.4%33.7%+11.7 pp776

The verdict is consistent across every regime where the difference is clear, which is the strongest form this comparison takes: independent inspectorates, different rulebooks, same direction of travel.

The exact faults Netherlands records — APK defect codes, 2024
CodeFaultRecordedType
210Tyre pressure not at the correct value373failure
205Tyre with insufficient tread267failure
RA2Excessive leak of other fluids167advisory
AC1Tyre down to 1.6–2.5 mm of tread160advisory
516Dipped headlight incorrectly aimed144failure
584Sidelight not working properly142failure
497Number-plate light not working or missing140failure
AC4Steering or suspension ball joint worn up to 1.0 mm100advisory

Worth dwelling on how mundane the top of that list is: tyre pressure, tread depth, headlight aim. The Dutch APK records 1.621 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 Land Rover Freelander 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.

One caveat before you read the UK row: these are raw failure rates, because no other country publishes the age detail our index needs. This model's raw UK rate looks worse than the national average while its age-adjusted index is 89.7 — the fleet here is unusually old, and the raw column silently credits that. The index above is the fair comparison; this table is for reading each country against itself.

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.

Land Rover Freelander MOT: quick answers

Land Rover Freelander MOT Risk Index is well below the reference at 89.7, 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 Land Rover Freelander first-time MOT pass rate?
65.05% of first attempts passed in 2024 (119,704 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 34.95% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 119,704 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 89.7 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Land Rover Freelander with other cars

Toyota Yaris is highest at 89.8; Toyota Aygo is lowest at 89.3 — the gap is 0.5 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

Land Rover Freelander MOT failure rate by postcode area

By failure group

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Inspections abroad

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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:land-rover-freelander:dvsa-2024-v2. Full method: methodology.

Cite: MOT Risk Index (2026). Land Rover Freelander MOT statistics 2024 (data release dvsa-2024-v2; downloadable dataset motriskindex-families-2024-v5, doi:10.5281/zenodo.22975051). https://motriskindex.co.uk/cars/land-rover-freelander/ · Published 2026-07-30.