Common Jeep Cherokee MOT failures
Based on 77,610 Jeep Cherokee tests on record carrying an official DVSA defect code, so every category below is counted from real failures rather than estimated.
Real DVSA defect codes
Every category comes from the official MOT Inspection Manual section code DVSA attaches to each defect, not guessed from keywords.
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Built from DVSA's published MOT data for Great Britain, not only from vehicles looked up here.
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Where MOT tests find problems: Jeep Cherokee
A test can find problems in more than one category, so the figures above do not sum to 100%. Each percentage is the share of classifiable tests that found at least one defect in that category. Based on 77,610 classifiable tests for Jeep Cherokee.
What Jeep Cherokee failures look like
77,610 Jeep Cherokee tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 33,364 tests (43.0%), with brakes on 26,669 tests (34.4%) and with nuisance (emissions and noise) on 7,321 tests (9.4%). A test can fail on more than one thing, and an MOT can be failed on one defect while another is only advised, so these counts do not add up to the number of tests.
Narrowed down from the categories to the individual defects themselves, three come up on more than one test:
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Tyre worn close to legal limit/worn on edge
MOT inspection manual reference 5.2.3, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension
Recorded on 18,350 of the 77,610 tests: 3,074 failures and 15,276 advisories or minors.
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Brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened
MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.14, in brakes
Recorded on 12,323 of the 77,610 tests: 724 failures and 11,599 advisories or minors.
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Suspension arm pin or bush worn but not resulting in excessive movement
MOT inspection manual reference 5.3.4, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension
Recorded on 11,662 of the 77,610 tests: 2,834 failures and 8,828 advisories or minors.
Where there is enough data to compare: Jeep Renegade (230,245 tests), Jeep Compass (61,092 tests), Jeep Grand Cherokee (60,077 tests), Jeep Wrangler (40,505 tests), every Jeep model (703,003 tests).
Clauses are read from the manual reference at the end of every defect on the cached test records, and a defect shown here has to appear on at least two of them before it is named. The site-wide breakdown explains how that works and compares every make.