15+-Year BMW X5 Recorded MOT Outcomes

37.8%
historical failure rate from 79,196 tests in this age band
10.8 percentage points above the dataset-wide reference of 26.9%

Evidence scope: The source groups vehicles into broad age bands. It does not provide a model-year-specific result here, and it does not include an individual vehicle's condition, service history or current defects. This page is descriptive, not predictive or diagnostic.

Recorded Component-Category Rates

These percentages are sample-size-weighted historical rates for this model and age band.

Component categoryRecorded rate
Lamps & Electrics9.1%
Brakes7.8%
Suspension7.3%
Body & Chassis5.3%
Tyres3.9%
Visibility3.5%
Steering1.2%

A category rate does not show that a particular vehicle has a fault in that area.

Other Recorded Age Bands

Age bandFailure rateTestsHighest recorded component category
0-2 years 13.6% 26,609 Tyres
3-5 years 11.3% 104,111 Tyres
6-10 years 14.1% 133,964 Tyres
11-15 years 26.0% 94,182 Lamps & Electrics
15+ years 37.8% 79,196 Lamps & Electrics

Method: Failure and component-category rates are sample-size weighted. Only age/mileage groups with at least 100 tests are included. The checked-in source contains 148,509,908 tests and 39,969,903 failures.

Source: DVSA anonymised MOT tests and results, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.

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