Land Rover Discovery Sport MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Land Rover Discovery Sport in Great Britain in 2025 — 120,363 tests. Figures cover every Discovery Sport first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Discovery Sport ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
81.2%
8.9 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
120,363
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
5.6%
of Discovery Sport first tests; national 7.3%
Typical mileage at 10 years
88,750
middle half: 71,250–106,250 miles (2,500-mile-band midpoints)

How many Land Rover Discovery Sport cars are still on the road?

The Department for Transport's vehicle licensing statistics (DfT/DVLA table VEH0124) do not record the Discovery Sport under a name of its own: its cars are counted inside the Discovery figures, so no separate count of taxed or SORN Discovery Sport cars can be given here.

How the Discovery Sport ages

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

Land Rover Discovery SportAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Land Rover Discovery Sport, vehicle age 3: 83%Land Rover Discovery Sport, vehicle age 4: 83.1%Land Rover Discovery Sport, vehicle age 5: 82.7%Land Rover Discovery Sport, vehicle age 6: 82.1%Land Rover Discovery Sport, vehicle age 7: 82%Land Rover Discovery Sport, vehicle age 8: 81.1%Land Rover Discovery Sport, vehicle age 9: 78.9%Land Rover Discovery Sport, vehicle age 10: 79.3%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%Land Rover Discovery Sport 79.3%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Discovery Sport testsDiscovery Sport pass rateAll cars
34,55983.0%88.5%
48,99983.1%87.2%
511,66282.7%86.0%
616,75782.1%83.5%
718,87982.0%80.9%
822,72681.1%78.2%
921,69478.9%74.9%
1014,85779.3%71.9%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Discovery Sport aheadDiscovery Sport behind
-8-4+0+4+8Age 3: -5.5 points vs the average car3Age 4: -4.1 points vs the average carAge 5: -3.3 points vs the average car5Age 6: -1.4 points vs the average carAge 7: +1.1 points vs the average car7Age 8: +2.9 points vs the average carAge 9: +4.0 points vs the average car9Age 10: +7.4 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3-5.5
4-4.1
5-3.3
6-1.4
7+1.1
8+2.9
9+4.0
10+7.4

The Discovery Sport fleet on the road, by age

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

07k15k22k30kAge 3: 4k3Age 4: 8kAge 5: 11k5Age 6: 16kAge 7: 18k7Age 8: 22kAge 9: 21k9Age 10: 14k10Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
34,559
48,999
511,662
616,757
718,879
822,726
921,694
1014,857

What a Discovery Sport fails on

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

Tyres26.7%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment19.9%
Brakes15.5%
Visibility13.0%
Noise, emissions and leaks10.4%
Suspension9.0%
Body, chassis, structure2.1%
Identification of the vehicle1.3%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.9% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 39.0% of advisories39.0%Brakes: 38.0% of advisories38.0%Suspension: 12.2% of advisories12.2%Non-component advisories: 6.6% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 1.7% of advisoriesBody, chassis, structure: 1.2% of advisories
TyresBrakesSuspensionNon-component advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaksBody, chassis, structure
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres39.0%
Brakes38.0%
Suspension12.2%
Non-component advisories6.6%
Noise, emissions and leaks1.7%
Body, chassis, structure1.2%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Discovery Sport?

First-time pass rate for the three most-tested Discovery Sport 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%Diesel: 80.9% of 108,201 tests80.9%Diesel108,201 testsPetrol: 83.5% of 7,131 tests83.5%Petrol7,131 testsHybrid electric: 82.5% of 5,000 tests82.5%Hybrid5,000 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Diesel108,20180.9%
Petrol7,13183.5%
Hybrid electric5,00082.5%

What mileage is normal for a Discovery Sport?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Discovery Sport; 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 Discovery Sport (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k357910Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 28,750 miles (middle half 21,250–36,250)Age 4: typical 38,750 miles (middle half 28,750–48,750)Age 5: typical 41,250 miles (middle half 31,250–51,250)Age 6: typical 51,250 miles (middle half 38,750–63,750)Age 7: typical 61,250 miles (middle half 46,250–73,750)Age 8: typical 68,750 miles (middle half 56,250–83,750)Age 9: typical 78,750 miles (middle half 63,750–93,750)Age 10: typical 88,750 miles (middle half 71,250–106,250)88k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
321,25028,75036,250
428,75038,75048,750
531,25041,25051,250
638,75051,25063,750
746,25061,25073,750
856,25068,75083,750
963,75078,75093,750
1071,25088,750106,250

What fails at each age

The Discovery Sport'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.

TyresVisibilityBrakesNoise, emissions and leaksLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspensionEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres47.9%
3-5 yrsVisibility16.4%
3-5 yrsBrakes11.6%
3-5 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks7.6%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment7.2%
3-5 yrsEverything else9.3%
6-9 yrsTyres27.6%
6-9 yrsBrakes19.6%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment15.6%
6-9 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks11.6%
6-9 yrsSuspension11.1%
6-9 yrsEverything else14.5%
10-13 yrsTyres23.4%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment18.3%
10-13 yrsBrakes18.0%
10-13 yrsSuspension15.4%
10-13 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks8.7%
10-13 yrsEverything else16.2%

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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. “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.