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Land Rover Range Rover — MOT statistics 2024

The Land Rover Range Rover failed 21.55% of 89,169 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 70.9 (100 = expected for its age profile). This car fails its MOT about 29% less often than expected for its age.

MOT risk index 70.9, 95% CI 70.0–71.8 (100 = national average) 100 70.9 0 200
Index
70.9
100 = age-normal
Raw fail rate
21.55%
n = 89,169
Dangerous /100
10
national ≈11
Diesel − petrol
-2.6 pp
fail-rate gap
Rank
185 of 761
lower index = better

Age-adjusted peer: Audi A6 (index 71.9) — the two published results are 1.0 index points apart.

Land Rover Range Rover common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment are well below the reference at 8.9 per 100 tests, against 20.5 per 100 tests across UK vehicles of the same ages.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Land Rover Range Rover 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
Suspension16.590,69017.30.96×0.95–0.96
Brakes14.881,05813.41.10×1.09–1.11
Lamps & electrical8.948,60020.40.44×0.43–0.44
Visibility7.943,5018.60.92×0.91–0.93
Body & structure7.742,3687.01.09×1.09–1.11
Tyres6.937,7448.80.78×0.77–0.79
Named defects — items per 100 initial tests, this family vs UK national average; this model measured on 548,947 tests, 2019-2024, national column 2024
What failedper 100 tests (this family)per 100 tests (UK average)ratio family / UKWhat to check
Brake pipe damaged or excessively corrodedBrake pipe damaged or excessively corroded4.561.413.25×Look underneath for rust or cracks around subframe and suspension mountings
Suspension pin, bush or joint excessively wornA suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn8.024.871.65×Listen for knocks over bumps — worn joints show up on the test
Transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot…A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot severely deteriorated2.721.481.84×Ask the seller about: A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot severely d
Suspension joint dust cover severely deterioratedA suspension joint dust cover severely deteriorated3.141.901.65×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 view3.322.361.41×Check wipers, washers and windscreen chips in the driver's view
Tyre seriously damagedA tyre seriously damaged3.082.541.21×Check tyre tread depth across the full width
Brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mma brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm2.512.151.17×Feel for brake judder and pulling on the test drive
Suspension joint dust cover missing or no longer…A suspension joint dust cover missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc2.001.781.12×Listen for knocks over bumps — worn joints show up on the test
Transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot…A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc1.761.561.13×Ask the seller about: A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot missing or
Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the…Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the windscreen1.692.220.76×Check wipers, washers and windscreen chips in the driver's view

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

Land Rover Range Rover MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Brakes are highest at 43.8 per 100 tests; Non-component advisories are lowest at 4.7 per 100 tests — the gap is 39.1 per 100 tests.

higher bar = flagged more oftenadvisory items per 100 initial tests

Land Rover Range Rover MOT advisories: what gets flagged — 2024 UK MOT data
Advisory rates table
GroupAdvisories per 100
Brakes43.8
Suspension32.8
Tyres29.5
Emissions & leaks9.6
Body & structure4.9
Non-component advisories4.7

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

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

AgePartLand Rover Range RoverSame age, petrol and dieselDifference
3 yearsTyres5.494.171.32
3 yearsBrakes1.621.77-0.15
3 yearsSuspension0.260.63-0.37
4 yearsTyres5.714.541.17
4 yearsBrakes2.612.430.18
4 yearsSuspension0.591.21-0.62
5 yearsTyres5.585.060.52
5 yearsBrakes3.193.090.10
5 yearsSuspension1.562.19-0.63
6 yearsTyres5.295.54-0.25
6 yearsBrakes4.13.810.29
6 yearsSuspension3.383.72-0.34
7 yearsTyres5.275.95-0.68
7 yearsBrakes4.594.550.04
7 yearsSuspension6.155.680.47
8 yearsTyres5.366.31-0.95
8 yearsBrakes5.215.38-0.17
8 yearsSuspension7.997.780.21

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 failed25.3%26,903
It passed20.2%301,369

A failed test raises next year's chance of failing again by 5.1 percentage points. The failure most likely to come back is lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment — 26.5% 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 537,222 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 only74.2fails less often than expected
Age and annual mileage69.1fails less often than vehicles driven as much
Share doing under 3,000 miles a year2.5%a normal spread of use

Mileage matters here: matching on how much these are driven moves the figure by 5.1 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 Range Rover 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 Range RoverSame class, same ageDifferenceTests
3 years10.85%10.77%+0.08 pp32,635
4 years13.05%12.32%+0.73 pp33,141
5 years14.59%14.15%+0.44 pp35,170
6 years16.15%16.08%+0.07 pp39,846
7 years18.09%18.25%-0.16 pp38,390
8 years20%20.56%-0.55 pp36,729
9 years20.51%23.18%-2.66 pp34,517
10 years22.08%25.71%-3.64 pp30,898
11 years24.55%28.34%-3.79 pp28,005
12 years27.16%30.65%-3.49 pp23,480
13 years28.63%32.73%-4.1 pp22,956
14 years29.6%34.71%-5.11 pp22,395
15 years31.64%36.15%-4.51 pp23,380
16 years32.74%37.22%-4.48 pp24,384
17 years32.88%37.61%-4.73 pp23,221
18 years34.12%37.97%-3.85 pp19,516
19 years33.62%37.58%-3.96 pp15,733
20 years33.63%37.08%-3.45 pp12,278

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 Range Rover perform as it gets older?

The Rover Range Rover at age 14 is well below the reference at 25.6%, against 40.4% for all vehicles of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

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

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

Takeaway: a 10-year-old Rover Range Rover has roughly a 18% chance of failing its MOT.

Data table
AgeLand Rover Range RoverAll vehiclesGap
39.7%12.4%-2.7 pp
411.0%13.1%-2.1 pp
511.1%15.1%-4.0 pp
611.8%17.5%-5.7 pp
716.6%20.2%-3.6 pp
819.5%23.3%-3.9 pp
917.8%26.5%-8.8 pp
1017.5%30.1%-12.6 pp
1121.5%33.2%-11.6 pp
1224.3%35.7%-11.4 pp
1327.2%38.2%-10.9 pp
1425.6%40.4%-14.8 pp
1528.2%41.6%-13.4 pp
1629.2%43.1%-13.9 pp
1728.9%43.1%-14.2 pp
1831.6%43.9%-12.2 pp
1932.4%43.5%-11.1 pp
2030.9%41.0%-10.1 pp

Is a Land Rover Range Rover ULEZ compliant?

The share of classifiable 2024 Land Rover Range Rover MOT tests likely ULEZ compliant by first-registration date is 41.4%.

Based on 84,665 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 = 183
3–5 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 12,814
6–7 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 10,771
8 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 5,345
9 years40.7%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 6,102
10–14 years5.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 26,490
15–17 years10.8%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 8,728
18 years36.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 3,185
19 years0.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 2,643
20+ years0.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 8,404

Land Rover Range Rover petrol vs diesel: which ages best

Petrol is highest at 24.2%; Hybrid is lowest at 10.0% — the gap is 14.2 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Land Rover Range Rover petrol vs diesel: which ages best — 2024 UK MOT data
Fuel split table
FuelTests% failingGap vs best
Diesel71,95521.6%+11.6 pp
Petrol13,24624.2%+14.2 pp
Hybrid3,14610.0%+0.0 pp

Chart sample sizes: n=72k · n=13k · n=3,146.

How dangerous are Land Rover Range Rover MOT failures?

Major defects are well below the reference at 45.8 per 100 tests, against 52.8 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

How dangerous are Land Rover Range Rover MOT failures? — 2024 UK MOT data
Severity table
SeverityThis family /100National /100Family / national
Minor15.7414.221.11×
Major45.7952.750.87×
Dangerous9.7211.150.87×

Chart values: Minor 15.7 · Major 45.8 · Dangerous 9.7.

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 Range Rover MOT matter?

Apr is highest at 24.1%; Dec is lowest at 22.2% — the gap is 1.9 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

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

Chart scale: 21%–33%.

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

Month-by-month table
MonthLand Rover Range RoverAll vehiclesGap
Jan23.74%31.12%-7.4 pp
Feb23.82%29.99%-6.2 pp
Mar22.55%28.26%-5.7 pp
Apr24.07%29.78%-5.7 pp
May23.32%28.79%-5.5 pp
Jun23.48%28.15%-4.7 pp
Jul23.66%29.33%-5.7 pp
Aug24%29.2%-5.2 pp
Sep23.41%28.19%-4.8 pp
Oct23.92%30.34%-6.4 pp
Nov23.63%30.58%-6.9 pp
Dec22.17%29.33%-7.2 pp

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 1.9 percentage points — booking month barely matters for this family. 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 Range Rover average mileage by age

At age 8, the middle half of Rover Range Rovers runs from 56,261 miles to 90,030 miles, against 72,714 miles as the median.

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

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

Chart axes: car age, years · odometer scale 0–176k mi.

Does high mileage mean more Land Rover Range Rover 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, 11.3% of those with under 40,000 miles failed first time versus 28.6% of those with over 140,000 miles.Inside this age group, higher mileage goes with more failures.

Does high mileage mean more Land Rover Range Rover MOT failures at the same age? — 2024 UK MOT data
Land Rover Range Rover: first-time failure by mileage within each age group (2024)
AgeOdometer% failing95% intervalTests
3–5<40k miles9.5%8.9–10.2%7,291
3–540-70k miles11.7%10.8–12.6%4,734
3–570-100k miles13.9%11.6–16.6%712
3–5100-140k miles14.3%7.7–25%63 (rough estimate)
6–9<40k miles11.2%10.1–12.5%2,687
6–940-70k miles15.2%14.5–16%9,251
6–970-100k miles17.8%17–18.7%7,400
6–9100-140k miles21.9%20.3–23.6%2,503
6–9140k+ miles19.9%16.2–24.2%372 (rough estimate)
10–14<40k miles11.3%9.1–14%627
10–1440-70k miles17.1%15.9–18.4%3,674
10–1470-100k miles21.4%20.6–22.2%9,421
10–14100-140k miles24.3%23.5–25.2%9,785
10–14140k+ miles28.6%27–30.3%2,978
15+<40k miles14.4%10.2–20.1%194 (rough estimate)
15+40-70k miles20.8%18.2–23.7%830
15+70-100k miles25.5%24–27.2%2,799
15+100-140k miles30.4%29.4–31.3%8,661
15+140k+ miles32.2%31.3–33.1%10,256

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

Mileage by age (p25 / median / p75)
Agep25Medianp75Tests
322,56830,16939,6544,216
426,96036,23547,6853,661
533,30644,52957,0474,937
641,09853,38066,8345,338
749,70364,50680,4375,433
856,26172,71490,0305,345
963,95381,49398,6826,102
1070,52688,469107,7285,775
1175,30693,186112,5979,137
1282,422101,911123,6944,453
1391,702111,565132,7913,814
1496,132116,507139,1113,315
15101,956124,015147,4932,568
16111,494132,857156,6922,532
17116,094138,156161,0843,640
18113,345136,663160,4093,217
19117,812141,490167,4232,672
20+109,250136,632163,7598,721

A typical 8-year-old Rover Range Rover has ~72,714 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the Land Rover Range Rover fails its MOT most

Exeter area is highest at 35.2%; London E area is lowest at 12.8% — the gap is 22.3 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Where in Britain the Land Rover Range Rover fails its MOT most — 2024 UK MOT data
Toughest areas% failingvs model overall
Exeter (EX)35.18%+11.7 pp
Perth (PH)34.44%+11.0 pp
Dorchester (DT)34.2%+10.7 pp
Kirkcaldy (KY)34.07%+10.6 pp
Bath (BA)33.94%+10.5 pp
Easiest areas% failingvs model overall
London E (E)12.84%-10.6 pp
Enfield (EN)13.21%-10.3 pp
Ilford (IG)13.76%-9.7 pp
Uxbridge (UB)14.4%-9.1 pp
Southend-on-Sea (SS)14.78%-8.7 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 mot centre density this model fails 10.9 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.70, n=114 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest urban share this model fails 10.7 pp less often than in the lowest fifth (r=-0.64, n=114 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest frost days this model fails 3.2 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.36, n=114 areas with ≥800 tests).

Land Rover Range Rover Why do areas differ? — 2024 UK MOT data
Values shown in the quintile chart
FactorLow QHigh QGapCorrelation
MOT centre density18.3%29.2%+10.9 ppr=0.70
Urban share28.7%18.1%-10.6 ppr=-0.64
Frost days23.7%26.9%+3.2 ppr=0.36

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)0.69611418.329.2+10.958.7
Urban share (0–1)-0.63511428.718.1-10.70.41
Frost days (days/year)0.36111423.726.9+3.211.638.1
Distance to coast (km)-0.35311427.522.4-5.16.279.5
Road-salt proxy (g/m²-yr)0.35211421.927.0+5.1221.2675.1
Terrain gradient (% grade)0.3186723.627.8+4.10.53.7
Income deprivation (score)-0.1539723.421.2-2.10.10.2

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: 15%–33% failing.

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

By age 19 is well below the reference at 43.6%, against 100.0% at the ages 4–6 reference level.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Land Rover Range Rover 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 %
332,63590.5%10.85%
433,14191.9%13.05%
535,17097.6%14.59%
639,846100%16.15%
738,390100%18.09%
836,729100%20%
934,51795.7%20.51%
1030,89885.7%22.08%
1128,00577.7%24.55%
1223,48065.1%27.16%
1322,95663.7%28.63%
1422,39562.1%29.6%
1523,38064.9%31.64%
1624,38467.6%32.74%
1723,22164.4%32.88%
1819,51654.1%34.12%
1915,73343.6%33.62%

By age 19, only about 44% as many cars of this family present for MOT as at ages 4–6 (reference n≈36,052); survivors still fail at 33.6% vs 13.1% at age 4. Older cars that still appear are a selected subset — weaker ones have already left.

How many miles does a Land Rover Range Rover last?

100,000+ miles is highest at 42.0%; 200,000+ miles is lowest at 2.1% — the gap is 39.9 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

OdometerTests ≥ thresholdShare of sample
100,000+ miles227,40442%
150,000+ miles71,58713.22%
200,000+ miles11,3152.09%

Of 541,396 tests of this family with a usable odometer in 2024, 42.0% had reached 100k miles, 13.2% had reached 150k miles, 2.1% 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 Range Rover likely to last?

Bought at age 5 is highest at 11.2 years; Bought at age 15 is lowest at 4.0 years — the gap is 7.2 years.

bigger number = longer remaining lifeyears on the observed survival curve

Age nowTypical mileage (p50)Expected years left
5—11.2
8—7.9
10—7.1
12—7
15—at least 4

estimateEstimate only — not a warranty: a typical 10-year-old example of this family has about 7.1 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.

Land Rover Range Rover faults that come together

Lamps & electrical + Speedometer stand out at 8.50×, against 1.00× if the faults were independent.

above 1.0× = more than expectedbelow 1.0× = less

Group AGroup BTogetherLift
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSpeedometer and speed limiter268.5× (rough estimate)
Speedometer and speed limiterVisibility257.35× (rough estimate)
BrakesSpeedometer and speed limiter307.3× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems9145.75×
Noise, emissions and leaksSteering1,1685.53×
Identification of the vehicleRoad Wheels635.47× (rough estimate)
Road WheelsSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems1775.21× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSteering1,0044.96×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaks2,7954.88×
Body, chassis, structureNoise, emissions and leaks2,7214.83×
Identification of the vehicleSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems2464.77× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems2,5994.74×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentRoad Wheels5604.57×
BrakesNoise, emissions and leaks3,5124.56×
BrakesSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems3,3194.5×
Road WheelsTyres4534.5× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSteering3,2514.46×
Noise, emissions and leaksRoad Wheels1574.42× (rough estimate)
SteeringSuspension5,3234.39×
Body, chassis, structureSteering3,1074.33×
BrakesRoad Wheels7134.33×
Identification of the vehicleNoise, emissions and leaks2254.18× (rough estimate)
BrakesSteering4,0584.14×
Body, chassis, structureSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems2,1513.99×
BrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment10,2983.88×
Body, chassis, structureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment7,2993.76×
BrakesSuspension16,3503.7×
Body, chassis, structureRoad Wheels4463.7× (rough estimate)
Buses and coaches supplementary testsSuspension293.68× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSuspension3,4933.66×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSuspension3,3403.66×
Road WheelsSuspension7203.54×
Body, chassis, structureBrakes9,1253.49×
Identification of the vehicleTyres5263.45×
BrakesBuses and coaches supplementary tests223.45× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspension11,3083.44×
Identification of the vehicleLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment6303.39×
Body, chassis, structureSuspension10,7923.34×
Road WheelsSteering1513.34× (rough estimate)
BrakesIdentification of the vehicle8223.29×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsVisibility1,9493.19×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentVisibility6,9283.15×
Road WheelsVisibility4203.08× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsTyres1,3783.06×
Noise, emissions and leaksVisibility1,8932.97×
BrakesTyres6,2312.86×
Noise, emissions and leaksTyres1,3392.84×
Identification of the vehicleVisibility5632.73×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentTyres4,3332.67×
SteeringVisibility2,1682.67×
BrakesVisibility7,4512.52×
Identification of the vehicleSuspension7772.52×
TyresVisibility4,5242.51×
Body, chassis, structureVisibility5,2662.44×
SuspensionTyres6,4032.37×
Body, chassis, structureIdentification of the vehicle4332.37× (rough estimate)
SuspensionVisibility8,3812.29×
Identification of the vehicleSteering1552.26× (rough estimate)
SteeringTyres1,3152.2×
Body, chassis, structureTyres3,4132.14×
Speedometer and speed limiterSuspension19too few (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureBuses and coaches supplementary tests16too few (rough estimate)
Buses and coaches supplementary testsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment16too few (rough estimate)
Buses and coaches supplementary testsTyres14too few (rough estimate)
Buses and coaches supplementary testsVisibility14too few (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSeat belt installation check12too few (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSpeedometer and speed limiter12too few (rough estimate)
Speedometer and speed limiterSteering11too few (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSpeedometer and speed limiter9too few (rough estimate)
Seat belt installation checkSuspension9too few (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSpeedometer and speed limiter7too few (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSeat belt installation check7too few (rough estimate)
BrakesSeat belt installation check7too few (rough estimate)
Buses and coaches supplementary testsSteering5too few (rough estimate)
Speedometer and speed limiterTyres5too few (rough estimate)

Defects in «Noise, emissions and leaks» and «Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems» appear together 5.75× more often than chance (914 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 Range Rover?

Cars driven under 5,000 miles a year is well below the reference at 13.4%, against 21.2% for cars driven 8,000–12,000 miles a year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

BandFail %Tests
<5k miles/year13.43%21,365
8–12k miles/year21.19%147,454
Gap (low − normal)-7.76 pp—
By fuel and age

Diesel

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
59.442,21514.9612,537-5.52 pp
612.042,49116.4915,825-4.44 pp
711.662,41018.8316,328-7.17 pp
812.522,20520.6216,474-8.1 pp
912.331,93021.3615,869-9.02 pp
1014.621,66923.0214,578-8.4 pp
1115.741,48026.2513,416-10.51 pp
1219.2798127.9111,558-8.65 pp
1319.7486129.9910,908-10.24 pp
1419.2880430.5910,160-11.31 pp

Petrol

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
59.3555614.37884-5.01 pp
67.9248013.35809-5.43 pp
712.7544718.86668-6.11 pp
81037018.84568-8.84 pp
913.7736318.51589-4.73 pp
1016.9233122.46610-5.54 pp
1114.4829725.09546-10.61 pp
1219.7726328.36737-8.59 pp
1319.3533627.961,370-8.61 pp
1418.6941232.581,725-13.89 pp

At matched ages 5–14, cars averaging under 5k miles/year fail at 13.4% vs 21.2% for 8–12k miles/year — 7.8 pp lower (n_low=21,365, n_normal=147,454). 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: 13.5% low-use vs 21.2% normal (-7.7 pp).

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

Build year 2011 is highest at 111.2; Build year 2019 is lowest at 86.2 — the gap is 25.0 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 Range Rover build year vs the same model at the same age · 100 = as expected — 2024 UK MOT data
Land Rover Range Rover 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
202092.385.8–98.710.68%7,390better
201986.282–90.410.66%15,495better
201888.885.5–92.211.75%22,854better
201795.992.9–98.913.47%29,457better
2016107.1104.3–109.916.33%34,176worse
201596.794.4–99.116.33%39,298better
201493.691.3–95.917.23%37,103better
201398.396.5–100.119.72%58,092no different
2012106.9104.3–109.423.39%28,431worse
2011111.2108.5–113.926.3%24,376worse
20109996.4–101.624.96%21,699no different
2009101.198.2–10427.32%17,420no different
200899.797–102.428.72%18,133no different
200796.994.7–9929.31%27,067better
2006100.998.6–103.131.72%24,211no different
200510299.6–104.432.99%21,077no different
2004101.699.4–103.833.71%24,585no different
2003105.3102.9–107.635.43%22,045worse
200210198.1–103.834.02%14,098no different
200196.793.1–100.232.69%8,694no different
200097.292.9–101.532.88%5,968no different
199999.594–10533.96%3,704no different
1998102.395.7–10935.09%2,585no different

The best build year here is 2019 and the weakest is 2011. 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 23 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 Range Rover MOT repair costs

The MOT-failure repair budget per test runs from £70.57 to £134.08, against £54.85 for the test itself.

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

MOT repairs, budget
£71–134
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
Suspension16.5 (nat. 15.36)Suspension coil spring (single corner)£180£29.70
Brakes14.8 (nat. 11.25)Front brake pads (parts + labour, typical hatchback)£150£22.20
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment8.9 (nat. 18.09)Battery replacement (standard 12V lead-acid)£140£12.46
Tyres6.9 (nat. 8.7)Tyre (single mid-range 16" fitted)£90£6.21

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 £71 to £134, 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 Range Rover running costs for a fleet

Vehicles failing at age 10 stand out at 18.0%, against 11.0% at age 5, tested in the same year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fails per 100 at age 5
11
vehicles needing work
At age 10
18
other cars of this model tested at age 10 in 2024
Repairs per 100
£7,057
plus £5,485 in test fees
Off the road
2d
median; 26.14% cleared same day
Failure rate and typical odometer by age
AgeFailsMedian odometerTestsGap vs age 5
39.7%30,1694,216-1.4 pp
410.98%36,2353,661-0.1 pp
511.1%44,5294,937+0.0 pp
611.76%53,3805,338+0.7 pp
716.57%64,5065,433+5.5 pp
819.48%72,7145,345+8.4 pp
917.75%81,4936,102+6.7 pp
1017.54%88,4695,775+6.4 pp
1121.54%93,1869,137+10.4 pp
1224.3%101,9114,453+13.2 pp
1327.24%111,5653,814+16.1 pp
1425.58%116,5073,315+14.5 pp
1528.19%124,0152,568+17.1 pp
1629.23%132,8572,532+18.1 pp
1728.9%138,1563,640+17.8 pp
1831.64%136,6633,217+20.5 pp
1932.41%141,4902,672+21.3 pp

The number a fleet manager needs is not the failure rate, it is the year the car starts costing more. Between cars aged 6 and cars aged 7, both tested in 2024, the failure rate of this model is 4.81 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 Range Rover rust problems: where they corrode

Age-standardised corrosion susceptibility stands out at 3.07×, against 1.00× for the national age-standardised rate.

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

How it rusts
3.07×
2.35% of tests record a corrosion defect vs 0.77% typical — age-standardised
Salt Belt exposure
49th
percentile among the models published here, from its tests across 114 postcode areas

This Land Rover Range Rover 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. Those two point in opposite directions, which is the informative case: it rusts more than average despite living in gentler places, so the cause is the car, not the postcode.

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 Range Rover advisory become a failure?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment are highest at 19.1%; Road wheels are lowest at 1.4% — the gap is 17.7 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 Range Rover chance the same component fails at the next MOT, given an advisory now — 2024 UK MOT data
Land Rover Range Rover, advisory → failure conversion by component group, chained tests 2019–2024. Chart labels and rates: Lamps & electrical 19.1% · Suspension 18.6% · Body & chassis 17.1% · Brakes 12.7% · Steering 11.4% · Tyres 8% · Seat belts & restraints 6% · Noise, emissions, leaks 4.6%.
Advisory today → failure at the next test, with how long you have
ComponentFails next timeTypical lead timeMiles of warningAdvisories tracked
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment19.1%12.1 months3,3423,145
Suspension18.6%12.1 months4,87568,944
Body, chassis, structure17.1%12.1 months3,04612,817
Brakes12.7%12.1 months4,68399,817
Steering11.4%12.1 months3,1327,506
Tyres8.0%12.1 months5,95474,600
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems6.0%12.2 months2,9853,006
Noise, emissions and leaks4.6%12.2 months3,08234,559
Identification of the vehicle2.5%12.1 months4,8683,367
Road wheels1.4%12.1 months8,4041,319

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 19 in 100 cars, and the median gap is 12.1 months and roughly 3,342 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 Range Rover?

Suspension after a failure at age 15-19 is highest at 21.1%; Brakes after a passed at age <3 are lowest at 1.9% — the gap is 19.2 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 5.1% · Tyres 4.9% · Brakes 1.9%13,765
<3advisoryVisibility 7.5% · Tyres 6.9% · Brakes 2.8%3,312
<3failureVisibility 7.9% · Tyres 7.4% · Brakes 3.1%1,993
3-5passedTyres 4.5% · Visibility 4.5% · Brakes 2.5%54,615
3-5advisoryVisibility 7.1% · Tyres 6.4% · Brakes 4.8%19,513
3-5failureTyres 7.1% · Visibility 7.0% · Brakes 4.5%12,433
6-8passedSuspension 6.3% · Tyres 4.1% · Visibility 4.1%49,829
6-8advisorySuspension 9.0% · Brakes 6.6% · Visibility 6.4%25,836
6-8failureSuspension 10.0% · Tyres 6.9% · Brakes 6.9%17,892
9-11passedSuspension 8.2% · Brakes 5.4% · Body, chassis, structure 4.8%28,460
9-11advisorySuspension 12.5% · Brakes 9.1% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 7.4%21,297
9-11failureSuspension 14.4% · Brakes 9.9% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 9.5%16,036
12-14passedSuspension 10.8% · Brakes 8.2% · Body, chassis, structure 7.4%19,503
12-14advisorySuspension 15.5% · Brakes 12.3% · Body, chassis, structure 10.5%19,209
12-14failureSuspension 18.3% · Brakes 14.9% · Body, chassis, structure 12.1%16,451
15-19passedSuspension 13.0% · Brakes 10.1% · Body, chassis, structure 8.8%23,550
15-19advisorySuspension 19.0% · Brakes 14.6% · Body, chassis, structure 13.1%27,141
15-19failureSuspension 21.1% · Brakes 18.2% · Body, chassis, structure 14.9%25,533
20+passedSuspension 10.9% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 7.4% · Body, chassis, structure 6.9%12,908
20+advisorySuspension 19.2% · Body, chassis, structure 12.8% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 12.3%12,090
20+failureSuspension 18.2% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 15.8% · Body, chassis, structure 14.1%11,461
unknownpassedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 15.2% · Visibility 15.2% · Suspension 13.6%66 (rough estimate)
unknownfailureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 13.9% · Visibility 9.4% · Suspension 9.0%223 (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 Range Rover ownership: what six years of MOTs show

The ten-day re-test pass rate is highest at 67.5%; The later re-test pass rate is lowest at 6.4% — the gap is 61.1 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fixed same day
26.14%
of failures re-tested
Fails /10k miles
0.358
miles actually driven
Clean streaks
39.98%
3+ tests, nothing noted
Odometer anomaly
1.553%
reading went backwards

Failing is usually a same-week event, not a disaster. Of 92,795 failures followed through to their re-test, 26.14% were repaired and passed the same day and 67.49% within ten days; the median gap is 2 days. 226,699 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 0.358 failures per 10,000 miles, on a median of 5,376 miles a year across 106,991 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. 39.98% of these cars strung together three or more tests with nothing recorded at all, while 30.35% 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: 1.553% of 107,242 chains show a reading lower than the previous test, with a median drop of 23,433 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 Range Rover safety recalls and how to check yours

DVSA recall campaigns stand out at 67.

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

recall campaigns launched per year

Land Rover Range Rover recall campaigns launched per year — 2024 UK MOT data
Campaigns launched per year for the Land Rover Range Rover. Source: DVSA vehicle safety recalls. Chart values: 2012: 3 · 2013: 1 · 2014: 3 · 2015: 6 · 2016: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2018: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2021: 0 · 2022: 2 · 2023: 8 · 2024: 8 · 2025: 5 · 2026: 6.
Most recent safety recall campaigns for the Land Rover Range Rover
ReferenceLaunchedVehiclesConcern
R/2026/24126/06/20261,044AJ20-D6 Idler Pulley Clash
R/2026/24519/06/202630,444Driver’s Airbag Potential Non-Deployment
R/2026/19827/05/20263Range Rover Range Rover Sport and Range Rover Velar Audio Amplifier Water Damage
R/2026/07921/05/202635Range Rover and Range Rover Sport Panoramic Roof Side Finisher Loose
R/2026/07828/04/2026541Range Rover and Range Rover Sport Plug-in Hybrid Battery Capacity
All 67 campaigns
ReferenceLaunchedBuild datesVehiclesConcern
R/2026/24126/06/202603/01/2024 – 06/12/20241,044AJ20-D6 Idler Pulley Clash
R/2026/24519/06/202625/09/2020 – 04/06/202630,444Driver’s Airbag Potential Non-Deployment
R/2026/19827/05/202617/02/2026 – 27/02/20263Range Rover Range Rover Sport and Range Rover Velar Audio Amplifier Water Damage
R/2026/07921/05/202612/08/2021 – 12/10/202535Range Rover and Range Rover Sport Panoramic Roof Side Finisher Loose
R/2026/07828/04/202626/01/2023 – 05/01/2025541Range Rover and Range Rover Sport Plug-in Hybrid Battery Capacity
R/2025/49111/02/202624/07/2018 – 11/09/201819Range Rover and Range Rover Sport Samsung PHEV Battery Cell Degradation
R/2025/43630/10/202519/08/2025 – 29/08/2025113Gear Shift Module Moisture Ingress
R/2025/30206/08/202508/10/2014 – 26/03/201542Range Rover (L405) Front Suspension Knuckle Crack – Incorrect Repair
R/2025/14909/05/202517/01/2013 – 19/06/201514,179Security Guidance
R/2025/10211/03/202519/12/2024 – 19/02/2025178Range Rover and Range Rover Sport Second Row Centre Seat Belt Buckle Cable Misaligned
R/2024/14627/01/202502/02/2015 – 06/11/201716,299Security Enhancement
R/2024/43520/11/202428/06/2024 – 01/07/2024148V Harness Clash with Cross Brace
R/2024/22719/07/202406/09/2023 – 01/12/2023222024 Model Year Range Rover and Range Rover Sport Loss of Drive
R/2024/25514/06/202414/04/2021 – 05/03/2024291AJ20-D6 and AJ20-P6 Engine Oil Filter Housing Cracked
R/2024/16725/04/202411/01/2024 – 18/01/20241PHEV Traction Battery Busbar Weld Penetration
R/2024/10027/03/202424/11/2023 – 24/11/20231AJ20-D6 Fuel Injector Clamp Cracked
R/2024/14515/03/202402/11/2020 – 04/05/2022524Security Enhancement
R/2024/14714/03/202425/09/2020 – 26/02/202414,517Security Enhancement
R/2023/36008/01/202403/10/2023 – 13/10/20234On affected vehicles there is concern that the structural adhesive applied to the bodyshel
R/2023/33806/12/202304/09/2023 – 20/10/202367On affected Range Rover vehicles fitted with V8 Gasoline NC11 engines the fixings used to
R/2023/24424/08/202306/01/2023 – 08/02/20232For certain vehicles the bolt connecting the busbar to the traction battery module connect
R/2022/34116/08/202301/10/2014 – 31/03/20154,507On Certain 2014 - 2016 Model Year Land Rover Range Rover vehicles the front suspension upp
R/2022/34116/08/202302/11/2015 – 16/03/20162,796On Certain 2014 - 2016 Model Year Land Rover Range Rover vehicles the front suspension upp
R/2023/16313/07/202323/09/2020 – 29/11/20225,299On affected 2022 - 2023 Model Year Land Rover Range Rover vehicles the external rear lamp
R/2023/09705/06/202308/12/2021 – 06/07/2022192On affected vehicles the second row 60% seat frame may have a latch installed with a defec
R/2023/04418/05/202324/08/2022 – 09/01/2023499For certain 2023 Model Year 3.0L AJ20-P6 Land Rover Range Rover Range Rover Sport Range Ro
R/2023/08709/05/202306/04/2017 – 10/12/202118,151On affected vehicles there is a risk where the water pump pully drive belt can become dama
R/2022/26212/09/202225/09/2020 – 07/06/20221,392SOME OF THE HOT END EXHAUST BRACKET FIXINGS MAY NOT HAVE BEEN FASTENED OR NOT HAVE BEEN FA
R/2022/13920/05/202229/11/2021 – 31/03/2022254THE FRONT CRASH SENSOR FIXINGS MAY NOT HAVE BEEN INSTALLED TO THE SPECIFIED TORQUE
R/2020/29304/12/202027/08/2020 – 29/09/2020144EXHAUST GAS RECIRCULATION CROSSOVER PIPE MAY NOT BE TO SPECIFICATION
R/2019/11209/04/201915/02/2019 – 20/02/201938THE ROUTING OF THE ELECTRICAL HARNESS HAS INSUFFICIENT CLEARANCE TO THE METALWORK WITHIN
R/2019/01531/01/201910/11/2017 – 18/12/20182,331THE DIRECTIONAL INDICATORS FAIL TO OPERATE WHEN THE STEERING COLUMN MOUNTED CONTROL STALKS
R/2019/01331/01/201910/10/2018 – 19/12/2018219CRANKSHAFT PULLEY RETAINING BOLT MAY FRACTURE
R/2018/24325/09/201813/11/2017 – 17/03/201824AUTONOMOUS EMERGENCY BRAKING FEATURE WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE
R/2018/16025/06/201828/03/2017 – 25/05/20181,000FUEL GAUGE DISPLAYS AN INACCURATE READING
R/2018/03613/03/201805/05/2016 – 31/01/20181,537FUEL MAY LEAK
R/2017/28824/11/201704/09/2016 – 17/08/201714,932INSTRUMENT CLUSTER MAY INTERMITTENTLY GO BLANK
R/2017/13802/05/201712/04/2016 – 31/10/20165,170PASSENGR SEAT BELT LOCKING RETRACTOR MAY NOT FUNCTION CORRECTLY
R/2017/10301/05/201720/09/2016 – 25/10/2016139FRONT PASSENGER AIRBAG MAY NOT DEPLOY
R/2016/30731/12/201612/07/2016 – 26/10/2016452FRONT PASSENGER AIRBAG MAY NOT DEPLOY
R/2016/30331/12/201612/07/2016 – 26/10/20168,628SEAT BELT PRETENSIONER MAY NOT DEPLOY
R/2016/09823/06/201602/04/2012 – 02/05/201311,290ENGINE MAY CUT OUT
R/2015/18701/11/201501/06/2015 – 12/06/2015152REAR PASSENGER SEATBELT MAY FAIL IN A COLLISION
R/2015/11904/08/201529/03/2012 – 23/05/201535,250VEHICLE DOOR(S) MAY OPEN WHEN CAR IS IN MOTION
R/2015/03613/04/201506/01/2015 – 23/01/2015926WHEEL NUTS MAY DETACH
R/2015/03810/04/201514/10/2014 – 02/02/20154,860FIRE MAY OCCUR
R/2015/01317/02/201516/08/2012 – 08/01/20141,575POSSIBLE LOSS OF BRAKING EFFICIENCY
R/2015/01423/01/201514/03/2005 – 26/07/201234,134POSSIBLE LOSS OF BRAKING EFFICIENCY
R/2014/09110/11/201409/03/2012 – 22/01/20131,331RISK OF FIRE
R/2014/04002/05/201402/11/2013 – 10/01/20149VEHICLE MAY BECOME UNSTABLE
R/2014/03904/04/201407/05/2013 – 10/10/20131,886FRONT DIRECTION LAMP INDICATOR WARNING LIGHT MAY FAIL
R/2013/09127/08/201301/01/2012 – 31/10/201349,104FIRE MAY OCCUR
R/2012/15318/12/201211/06/2012 – 11/06/201251BRAKES MAY FAIL
R/2012/15411/12/201220/08/2012 – 18/09/2012182STEERING MAY FAIL
R/2012/11610/12/201224/11/2011 – 24/11/20115WINDSCREEN MAY NOT BE SECURE
R/2010/14703/12/201001/09/2006 – 30/06/2009255FIRE MAY OCCUR
R/2009/06905/08/200901/04/2009 – 31/05/200977FULL WINDSCREEN RETENTION MAY NOT BE ACHIEVED IN THE EVENT OF AN AIR-BAG DEPLOYMENT
R/2006/21801/01/200704/07/2002 – 03/10/200623BRAKE FLUID MAY LEAK FROM BRAKE PIPE
R/2005/15630/11/200516/08/2005 – 15/09/2005917THE PARKING FUNCTION OF THE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION MAY NOT OPERATE CORRECTLY
R/2004/06905/05/200519/04/1993 – 19/02/199621,191POSSIBILITY OF STRESS CRACKS IN THE PLASTIC FUEL TANK
R/2005/00807/03/200524/08/2004 – 15/11/2004891TV SCREEN MAY NOT SWITCH OFF WHILST THE VEHICLE IS IN MOTION
R/2004/19307/12/200422/06/2004 – 09/07/200449YAW RATE SENSOR MAY SUFFER INTERNAL DELAMINATION
R/2002/03514/03/200201/12/2001 – 31/03/20021,097RISK OF FIRE
R/2000/07405/12/200001/01/1994 – 31/12/199917,603COOLING SYSTEM LEAKS
R/1998/00320/03/199801/01/1994 – 31/03/199715,175INVOLUNTARY OPERATION OF AIR BAG
R/1996/03229/03/199601/06/1994 – 31/03/19952,805CRACKING OF REAR SUSPENSION COMPOSITE LINKS
R/1993/03202/07/199310/08/1992 – 15/09/19921,415POSSIBLE MALFUNCTION OF ELECTRIC WINDOW SWITCH

DVSA lists 67 safety recall campaigns for the Land Rover Range Rover, covering roughly 348,284 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 Range Rover technical service bulletins: what dealers are told

US market, Land Rover RANGE ROVER and its variants, model years 2015–2022 only. A count of bulletins, not a UK failure rate.

NHTSA manufacturer communications are 1,964.

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
20081
  • Electrical system (686)
  • Equipment (452)
  • Powertrain (317)
  • Engine (183)
  • Engine and cooling (163)
  • Structure (107)
  • Adaptive and mobility equipment (98)
  • Steering (95)
20101
20138
201481
2015186
2016189
2017292
2018376
2019253
2020152
2021141
2022101
202348
202457
202554
202624

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.

Land Rover Range Rover owner complaints: what goes wrong

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

Steering is highest at 125; Body & structure are lowest at 26 — the gap is 99.

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
Steering12533.3%not in top 6—complained about, rarely an MOT failure
Suspension8021.3%16.5#1complained about and fails often
Engine (not MOT-tested)5314.1%not in top 6—complained about, rarely an MOT failure
Lamps & electrical5113.6%8.9#3complained about and fails often
Transmission (not MOT-tested)308.0%not in top 6—complained about, rarely an MOT failure
Body & structure266.9%7.7#5complained about, fails occasionally

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
I was driving on the highway during heavy rain and there was a huge leak coming through the window in the backseat started dripping all over the seat and all over the seatbelts spreading above head into the front. I immediately pulled over because it scared me. I was scared it was going to continual leaking into the front steering and airbags
NHTSA complaint, filed 03/24/2026 · ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
The rear gas tank has started to rust and creates a safety issue since the metal shield is a different material it creates a galvazing effect on the metals due to them being seperate materials
NHTSA complaint, filed 01/25/2026

US owners have filed 375 complaints about the equivalent Land Rover Range Rover to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, including 19 that mention a crash, 4 a fire and 12 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.

Land Rover Range Rover inspection results in other countries

United Kingdom MOT is well below the reference at 21.6%, against 26.0% nationally.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Same model, different national inspection regimes
CountryTestThis model failsNational averagePositionSample
United KingdomMOT (class 4)21.55%26.01%-4.5 pp89,169
NetherlandsAPK48.8%50.8%-2 pp3,177
FinlandKatsastus24.5%26.3%-1.8 pp554

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 value505failure
RA2Excessive leak of other fluids393advisory
516Dipped headlight incorrectly aimed257failure
916Remleiding door corrosie aangetast176failure
205Tyre with insufficient tread170failure
188Stofhoes fuseekogel beschadigd en dicht niet af133failure
391Wipers leave insufficient visibility117failure
RA1Airbag or seat-belt warning light showing a fault115advisory

Worth dwelling on how mundane the top of that list is: tyre pressure, tread depth, headlight aim. The Dutch APK records 1.19 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 Range Rover 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. Adapted; licences and full notice.

Land Rover Range Rover MOT: quick answers

Land Rover Range Rover MOT Risk Index is well below the reference at 70.9, 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 Range Rover first-time MOT pass rate?
78.45% of first attempts passed in 2024 (89,169 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 21.55% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 89,169 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 70.9 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Land Rover Range Rover with other cars

Land Rover Range Rover Sport is highest at 72.5; Audi Q5 is lowest at 69.9 — the gap is 2.6 points.

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

Same brand

All Land Rover MOT statisticsLand Rover Range Rover Sport MOT statsLand Rover Range Rover Evoque MOT stats

Similar risk

Audi A6 (index 71.9)Audi Q5 (index 69.9)Land Rover Range Rover Sport (index 72.5)

Same size class

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By build year

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By area

Land Rover Range Rover MOT failure rate by postcode area

By failure group

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Inspections abroad

Land Rover Range Rover in FinlandLand Rover Range Rover 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:land-rover-range-rover:dvsa-2024-v2. Full method: methodology.

Cite: MOT Risk Index (2026). Land Rover Range Rover 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-range-rover/ · Published 2026-07-30.