Land Rover Freelander MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Land Rover Freelander in Great Britain in 2025 — 110,159 tests. Figures cover every Freelander first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Freelander ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
65.0%
7.3 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
110,159
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
8.4%
of Freelander first tests; national 7.3%

How many Land Rover Freelander cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 130,706 Land Rover Freelander cars that were taxed or on SORN: 101,629 taxed and 29,077 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. Land Rover Freelander vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
101,629
77.8% of the 130,706 Freelander cars taxed or on SORN; 170 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
29,077
declared off the road by their keepers — 22.2% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Freelander cars peaked at 209,120 at the end of 2014 and has since fallen by 107,491 (51.4%) to 101,629 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 7,821 at the end of 2014 to 29,077 at the end of 2025, up 271.8%. 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 Freelander cars, year by year

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

050k100k150k200k250k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Freelander cars, year 2014: 209kTaxed Freelander cars, year 2015: 201kTaxed Freelander cars, year 2016: 191kTaxed Freelander cars, year 2017: 179kTaxed Freelander cars, year 2018: 166kTaxed Freelander cars, year 2019: 155kTaxed Freelander cars, year 2020: 147kTaxed Freelander cars, year 2021: 138kTaxed Freelander cars, year 2022: 129kTaxed Freelander cars, year 2023: 120kTaxed Freelander cars, year 2024: 111kTaxed Freelander cars, year 2025: 102k102k
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YearTaxed Freelander cars
2014209,120
2015200,503
2016190,649
2017178,862
2018166,243
2019155,372
2020146,653
2021138,145
2022129,295
2023120,378
2024110,572
2025101,629

Freelander 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.

010k20k30k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Freelander cars on SORN, year 2014: 8kFreelander cars on SORN, year 2015: 10kFreelander cars on SORN, year 2016: 13kFreelander cars on SORN, year 2017: 17kFreelander cars on SORN, year 2018: 19kFreelander cars on SORN, year 2019: 22kFreelander cars on SORN, year 2020: 24kFreelander cars on SORN, year 2021: 24kFreelander cars on SORN, year 2022: 25kFreelander cars on SORN, year 2023: 27kFreelander cars on SORN, year 2024: 28kFreelander cars on SORN, year 2025: 29k29k
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YearFreelander cars on SORN
20147,821
201510,434
201613,490
201716,825
201819,301
201921,846
202023,850
202124,272
202225,170
202326,659
202427,744
202529,077

Which model years survive

Taxed Freelander cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 101,629 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. 3 taxed Freelander cars have no recorded year of manufacture and are not in the table, so the rows add up to 101,626. 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 Freelander cars
201411,33111.1%
201312,77312.6%
20129,9899.8%
201111,46711.3%
201012,80612.6%
20098,6718.5%
20088,7638.6%
200710,87110.7%
20064,0794.0%
20053,5623.5%
20042,9482.9%
20031,7731.7%
20021,3221.3%
All other build years (nine years, each under 1%)1,2711.3%

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 FREELANDER 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 Freelander ages

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

Land Rover FreelanderAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Land Rover Freelander, vehicle age 11: 77.4%Land Rover Freelander, vehicle age 12: 72.8%Land Rover Freelander, vehicle age 13: 71.3%Land Rover Freelander, vehicle age 14: 68.9%Land Rover Freelander, vehicle age 15: 64.1%Land Rover Freelander, vehicle age 16: 63.1%Land Rover Freelander, vehicle age 17: 60.1%Land Rover Freelander, vehicle age 18: 59.6%Land Rover Freelander, vehicle age 19: 53.4%Land Rover Freelander, vehicle age 20: 51.4%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%Land Rover Freelander 51.4%
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Age (years)Freelander testsFreelander pass rateAll cars
1111,53277.4%68.6%
1213,00672.8%65.8%
1310,29971.3%63.5%
1412,04368.9%61.2%
1513,42864.1%59.3%
169,31563.1%58.3%
179,85260.1%57.2%
1812,21059.6%57.4%
194,96053.4%57.0%
204,41951.4%57.6%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Freelander aheadFreelander behind
-10-5+0+5+10Age 11: +8.8 points vs the average car11Age 12: +7.0 points vs the average carAge 13: +7.8 points vs the average car13Age 14: +7.7 points vs the average carAge 15: +4.8 points vs the average car15Age 16: +4.8 points vs the average carAge 17: +2.9 points vs the average car17Age 18: +2.2 points vs the average carAge 19: -3.6 points vs the average car19Age 20: -6.2 points vs the average car20Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
11+8.8
12+7.0
13+7.8
14+7.7
15+4.8
16+4.8
17+2.9
18+2.2
19-3.6
20-6.2

The Freelander fleet on the road, by age

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

05k10k15k20kAge 11: 11k11Age 12: 13kAge 13: 10k13Age 14: 12kAge 15: 13k15Age 16: 9kAge 17: 9k17Age 18: 12kAge 19: 4k19Age 20: 4k20Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
1111,532
1213,006
1310,299
1412,043
1513,428
169,315
179,852
1812,210
194,960
204,419

What a Freelander fails on

Where the failure items land when a Freelander 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 equipment26.1%
Suspension24.0%
Brakes18.5%
Steering7.8%
Body, chassis, structure6.7%
Tyres6.7%
Visibility4.6%
Noise, emissions and leaks2.4%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (96.9% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Suspension: 30.9% of advisories30.9%Brakes: 24.3% of advisories24.3%Tyres: 20.0% of advisories20.0%Body, chassis, structure: 5.4% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 5.4% of advisoriesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment: 4.1% of advisories
SuspensionBrakesTyresBody, chassis, structureNoise, emissions and leaksLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
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CategoryShare of advisories
Suspension30.9%
Brakes24.3%
Tyres20.0%
Body, chassis, structure5.4%
Noise, emissions and leaks5.4%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment4.1%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Freelander?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Freelander 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: 65.2% of 107,200 tests65.2%Diesel107,200 testsPetrol: 57.6% of 2,937 tests57.6%Petrol2,937 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Diesel107,20065.2%
Petrol2,93757.6%

What mileage is normal for a Freelander?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Freelander; 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 Freelander (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k150k175k111315171920Vehicle age (years)Age 11: typical 91,250 miles (middle half 71,250–113,750)Age 12: typical 101,250 miles (middle half 81,250–126,250)Age 13: typical 108,750 miles (middle half 86,250–131,250)Age 14: typical 118,750 miles (middle half 93,750–141,250)Age 15: typical 123,750 miles (middle half 101,250–148,750)Age 16: typical 131,250 miles (middle half 106,250–156,250)Age 17: typical 138,750 miles (middle half 113,750–163,750)Age 18: typical 143,750 miles (middle half 118,750–168,750)Age 19: typical 128,750 miles (middle half 103,750–153,750)Age 20: typical 126,250 miles (middle half 103,750–148,750)126k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
1171,25091,250113,750
1281,250101,250126,250
1386,250108,750131,250
1493,750118,750141,250
15101,250123,750148,750
16106,250131,250156,250
17113,750138,750163,750
18118,750143,750168,750
19103,750128,750153,750
20103,750126,250148,750

What fails at each age

The Freelander'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.

SuspensionLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentBrakesSteeringTyresBody, chassis, structureEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
10-13 yrsSuspension23.7%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment21.0%
10-13 yrsBrakes17.7%
10-13 yrsSteering15.8%
10-13 yrsTyres11.6%
10-13 yrsEverything else10.2%
14+ yrsSuspension26.8%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment20.8%
14+ yrsBrakes20.7%
14+ yrsBody, chassis, structure8.2%
14+ yrsSteering7.0%
14+ yrsEverything else16.5%

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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.