Land Rover Freelander MOT reliability

Land Rover Freelanders passed their MOT first time 65% of the time across 110,163 tests in 2025. 95,457 are still licensed in Great Britain.

First-time pass rate

65%

MOTs analysed

110,163

Still licensed (GB)

95,457

Body type

Suv

Pass rate by year of first registration

Older cars fail more often, so compare a car with others of the same age. Years with very few MOTs can show extreme pass rates, even 0% or 100%, so give more weight to years with more tests.

In detail:

First registered

2015 diesel

43 MOTs

These figures come from 43 MOT tests. That's a fairly small number of cars, so they may not be typical of these cars as a whole.

Passed first time 84%. Typical mileage 85,546 (most between 61,118 and 104,348).

2017: 100% → 2018: 91% → 2019: 93% → 2020: 80% → 2021: 75% → 2022: 83% → 2023: 86% → 2024: 78% → 2025: 84%

Most common failures

Track rod end: ball joint dust cover excessively damaged or deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (4.7%)
Headlamp: not working on dipped beam (2.3%)
Condition: has ply or cords exposed (2.3%)
Joints: constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (2.3%)
Service brake performance: excessively binding (2.3%)

Where 2015 Freelanders fail

Brakes

4.7%

Lights & electrics

4.7%

Steering

4.7%

Body, structure & corrosion

2.3%

Wheels & tyres

2.3%

Suspension & axles

2.3%

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Based on 2025 initial MOT tests in DVSA's anonymised MOT dataset (cars and light vans). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Model details: Vehicle data by VehiclesDB.