Jeep Compass MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Jeep Compass in Great Britain in 2025 — 12,746 tests. Figures cover every Compass first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Compass ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
75.9%
3.6 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
12,746
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
7.1%
of Compass first tests; national 7.3%

How many Jeep Compass cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 15,364 Jeep Compass cars that were taxed or on SORN: 14,812 taxed and 552 on SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification — kept, but declared off the road by the keeper). The MOT figures above count tests; these count cars, across the whole United Kingdom, cars only. Jeep Compass vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
14,812
96.4% of the 15,364 Compass cars taxed or on SORN; 48 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
552
declared off the road by their keepers — 3.6% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Compass cars peaked at 14,832 at the end of 2024 and has since fallen by 20 (0.1%) to 14,812 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 29 at the end of 2014 to 552 at the end of 2025, up 1803.4%. A car leaves the taxed count when it is scrapped, exported or declared off the road; the year-end counts do not say which.

Taxed Compass cars, year by year

Cars of this model taxed and on the road at the end of each year, 2014–2025.

05k10k15k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Compass cars, year 2014: 3kTaxed Compass cars, year 2015: 3kTaxed Compass cars, year 2016: 3kTaxed Compass cars, year 2017: 3kTaxed Compass cars, year 2018: 5kTaxed Compass cars, year 2019: 9kTaxed Compass cars, year 2020: 10kTaxed Compass cars, year 2021: 12kTaxed Compass cars, year 2022: 13kTaxed Compass cars, year 2023: 14kTaxed Compass cars, year 2024: 15kTaxed Compass cars, year 2025: 15k15k
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YearTaxed Compass cars
20143,494
20153,461
20163,447
20173,441
20185,493
20198,613
202010,077
202111,603
202212,598
202314,035
202414,832
202514,812

Compass cars on SORN, year by year

Cars of this model declared off the road at the end of each year, 2014–2025. Its own scale — SORN counts are a fraction of the taxed count.

02004006002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Compass cars on SORN, year 2014: 29Compass cars on SORN, year 2015: 22Compass cars on SORN, year 2016: 34Compass cars on SORN, year 2017: 36Compass cars on SORN, year 2018: 65Compass cars on SORN, year 2019: 158Compass cars on SORN, year 2020: 203Compass cars on SORN, year 2021: 184Compass cars on SORN, year 2022: 228Compass cars on SORN, year 2023: 334Compass cars on SORN, year 2024: 408Compass cars on SORN, year 2025: 552552
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YearCompass cars on SORN
201429
201522
201634
201736
201865
2019158
2020203
2021184
2022228
2023334
2024408
2025552

Which model years survive

Taxed Compass cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 14,812 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. A build year's count depends on how many were sold that year as well as how many have lasted.

Year of manufacture Taxed, end of 2025Share of taxed Compass cars
20254282.9%
20249586.5%
20231,71211.6%
20221,2148.2%
20211,59210.7%
20201,59110.7%
20193,00720.3%
20182,22515.0%
20143692.5%
20134623.1%
20126124.1%
20115063.4%
All other build years (eight years, each under 1%)1360.9%

Population source: Department for Transport / DVLA vehicle licensing statistics, table VEH0124, updated 15 July 2026; counts of the cars on DVLA's register that were taxed or on SORN at the end of each year shown, United Kingdom, cars only, excluding cars recorded with no model name. SortedCars groups DVLA's model name COMPASS under this model. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. SortedCars is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, DVLA or the Department for Transport.

How the Compass ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, Compass vs all cars, 2025.

Jeep CompassAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Jeep Compass, vehicle age 3: 85%Jeep Compass, vehicle age 4: 84.1%Jeep Compass, vehicle age 5: 82.9%Jeep Compass, vehicle age 6: 77.5%Jeep Compass, vehicle age 7: 74.2%Jeep Compass, vehicle age 13: 57.1%Jeep Compass, vehicle age 14: 53.6%All cars, vehicle age 3: 88.5%All cars, vehicle age 4: 87.2%All cars, vehicle age 5: 86%All cars, vehicle age 6: 83.5%All cars, vehicle age 7: 80.9%All cars, vehicle age 8: 78.2%All cars, vehicle age 9: 74.9%All cars, vehicle age 10: 71.9%All cars, vehicle age 11: 68.6%All cars, vehicle age 12: 65.8%All cars, vehicle age 13: 63.5%All cars, vehicle age 14: 61.2%All cars, vehicle age 15: 59.3%All cars, vehicle age 16: 58.3%All cars, vehicle age 17: 57.2%All cars, vehicle age 18: 57.4%All cars, vehicle age 19: 57%All cars, vehicle age 20: 57.6%All cars 57.6%Jeep Compass 53.6%
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Age (years)Compass testsCompass pass rateAll cars
31,26785.0%88.5%
41,65884.1%87.2%
51,65482.9%86.0%
63,15877.5%83.5%
72,40074.2%80.9%
1369457.1%63.5%
1461853.6%61.2%

Better or worse than the average car?

The Compass's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the Compass beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

Compass behind
-8-4+0+4+8Age 3: -3.5 points vs the average car3Age 4: -3.1 points vs the average carAge 5: -3.1 points vs the average car5Age 6: -6.0 points vs the average carAge 7: -6.7 points vs the average car7Age 13: -6.4 points vs the average car13Age 14: -7.6 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3-3.5
4-3.1
5-3.1
6-6.0
7-6.7
13-6.4
14-7.6

The Compass fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the Compass fleet still in use.

01k2k3k4kAge 3: 1k3Age 4: 1kAge 5: 1k5Age 6: 3kAge 7: 2k7Age 13: 69413Age 14: 61814Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
31,267
41,658
51,654
63,158
72,400
13694
14618

What a Compass fails on

Where the failure items land when a Compass fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Use it as a pre-purchase checklist: these are the areas to look at first.

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment21.2%
Suspension20.9%
Tyres19.4%
Visibility13.8%
Brakes11.1%
Noise, emissions and leaks5.4%
Steering3.5%
Body, chassis, structure1.8%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.0% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a Compass, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Tyres: 36.9% of advisories36.9%Brakes: 24.3% of advisories24.3%Suspension: 22.7% of advisories22.7%Non-component advisories: 8.4% of advisories8.4%Noise, emissions and leaks: 3.9% of advisoriesBody, chassis, structure: 1.4% of advisories
TyresBrakesSuspensionNon-component advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaksBody, chassis, structure
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres36.9%
Brakes24.3%
Suspension22.7%
Non-component advisories8.4%
Noise, emissions and leaks3.9%
Body, chassis, structure1.4%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Compass?

First-time pass rate for the three most-tested Compass fuel types, 2025, against the all-cars average. Fleet ages differ by fuel — newer fleets help the electrified bars.

50%60%70%80%90%100%all cars 72.3%Petrol: 77.5% of 8,108 tests77.5%Petrol8,108 testsDiesel: 69.2% of 3,516 tests69.2%Diesel3,516 testsHybrid electric: 84.7% of 1,121 tests84.7%Hybrid1,121 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Petrol8,10877.5%
Diesel3,51669.2%
Hybrid electric1,12184.7%

What mileage is normal for a Compass?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Compass; the shaded band holds the middle half. A car far outside the band, in either direction, is worth questions the recorded history can answer.

Typical Compass (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k3571314Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 31,250 miles (middle half 21,250–41,250)Age 4: typical 28,750 miles (middle half 21,250–38,750)Age 5: typical 33,750 miles (middle half 26,250–46,250)Age 6: typical 43,750 miles (middle half 33,750–56,250)Age 7: typical 51,250 miles (middle half 38,750–63,750)Age 13: typical 83,750 miles (middle half 68,750–101,250)Age 14: typical 93,750 miles (middle half 76,250–111,250)93k mi

Mileage values are midpoints of 2,500-mile bands.

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
321,25031,25041,250
421,25028,75038,750
526,25033,75046,250
633,75043,75056,250
738,75051,25063,750
1368,75083,750101,250
1476,25093,750111,250

What fails at each age

The Compass's failure mix by age band, 2025 — each band's top categories at their true share of that band's failure items; the pale remainder is everything else. How the mix shifts with age is the point of the chart.

TyresVisibilityBrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspensionSteeringEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres43.0%
3-5 yrsVisibility20.3%
3-5 yrsBrakes11.0%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment10.2%
3-5 yrsSuspension5.5%
3-5 yrsEverything else10.0%
6-9 yrsTyres24.5%
6-9 yrsSuspension17.9%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment15.5%
6-9 yrsVisibility14.7%
6-9 yrsBrakes13.4%
6-9 yrsEverything else14.0%
10-13 yrsSuspension33.7%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment21.3%
10-13 yrsBrakes13.3%
10-13 yrsTyres10.5%
10-13 yrsVisibility6.5%
10-13 yrsEverything else14.7%
14+ yrsSuspension37.4%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment20.9%
14+ yrsTyres9.1%
14+ yrsBrakes8.8%
14+ yrsSteering8.3%
14+ yrsEverything else15.5%

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How these figures are computed. Every number on this page is calculated by SortedCars from the DVSA anonymised MOT results dataset (every MOT test in Great Britain — 2025 for single-year figures; trend figures state their span, currently 2023–2025). Where a figure comes from a sample or uses banded values (mileage is banded to 2,500 miles), the page says so beside the figure. Test class 4 only, first tests only — retests are excluded. Class 4 is the car MOT class and also covers car-derived vans, pickups and motorhomes tested to the same standard; where this page says "cars" it means class 4. Pass rate = passes ÷ (passes + failures + pass-after-rectification): a vehicle that failed and was fixed during the visit counts as a fail. Pass rates describe fleets, not individual machines: they reflect how cars were driven, maintained and used as well as how they were built, and beyond recorded mileage none of that is in the data. A well-kept example of a model with a weak average can still pass; a neglected example of a strong one can still fail. No figure is shown for any group with fewer than 500 tests. Alias spellings of a make in the DVSA file are counted under one make name, and all trims and variants of a model are grouped under one model name, using SortedCars' grouping tables. The taxed and SORN counts on this page are the one exception: they are not computed from MOT records but taken from the Department for Transport's vehicle licensing statistics (DfT/DVLA table VEH0124, updated 15 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0), which count the cars on DVLA's register that were taxed or on SORN at the end of each year shown, UK-wide, cars only. They describe a model as a whole, grouped under SortedCars' model names, and say nothing about any one car. “Dangerous” is DVSA's statutory defect category (in force since May 2018): a defect posing an immediate risk to road safety — driving the vehicle before repair is an offence. What these figures are for. These statistics are general information about groups of vehicles. They are not advice, a valuation or a recommendation to buy, avoid or price any particular vehicle, and no decision about one car should rest on them alone — check the car itself and its own records. We take care over the calculations, but we cannot guarantee they are complete, current or free of error, and we accept no liability for loss arising from reliance on them. This does not limit any liability that cannot lawfully be limited — see our Terms & Conditions. If you believe any figure on this page is inaccurate, contact us. SortedCars is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the DVSA or DVLA. DVSA publishes the raw test records; the statistics on this page are SortedCars' own calculations from them. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.