All generations and engines together · 31,551 MOT tests in the 2025 data · typical mileage at age 7: 58k
Computed from DVSA MOT results, all of Great Britain, 2025. Nothing here is opinion.
Share of tests where each item was recorded. The dark tick is the class average across all tracked models; bars are scaled within each group.
The rows that judge the model rather than its keeper. 14,959 tests in this band.
Tyres, pads and stone chips say more about how the car was driven and maintained than about how it was built.
Owner folklore from forums and the motoring press. Most of it never shows up in an MOT, which is why this section exists at all.
The 2.0 Ingenium diesel (shared across Jaguar/Land Rover) can develop a stretched timing chain, first showing as a metallic rattle on cold start that owners often mistake for normal diesel clatter. Left alone it can jump time and wreck the engine, sometimes with a 'restricted performance' warning first. It tends to appear from around 60,000-80,000 miles; a proper repair with new chain, guides and tensioners runs to roughly £1,500-2,000, but if it has already jumped and hit valves you are looking at £3,000-6,000+ for a new or reconditioned engine. Jaguar has never issued a UK-wide recall for it, though JLR did run a free-repair scheme for the same engine in Korea.
On the diesel, Jaguar had to route the exhaust further round the bodywork to clear the E-Pace's bulkhead, and the extra length means the DPF often can't get hot enough to regenerate properly. The result is a car dropping into limp mode on the motorway, plus separate reports of AdBlue/SCR sensor faults from over- or under-filling. DPF replacement typically runs £1,200-2,000; some owners report dealers being reluctant to cover it under warranty, treating it as a driving-style issue rather than a design one.
Pre-2021 cars run the original InControl Touch Pro system, which owners describe as laggy, prone to freezing, and unreliable at holding a Bluetooth or CarPlay connection, sometimes needing a full reboot to respond at all. It's a nuisance rather than a safety issue and a software update sometimes helps, but a failed head unit itself can run to £500 or more to replace. Jaguar's 2021 update to Pivi Pro is a tacit admission the old system wasn't good enough, but there's no formal recall or free-fix programme for the earlier cars.
A recurring owner complaint of clunks and creaks from the front end over bumps and a separate rear-end knock, usually traced to anti-roll bar drop links, anti-roll bar bushes or worn shocker bolts rather than anything structural. Parts are cheap, £30-80 each, but labour to get at them pushes a full sort-out to £150-400. This lines up with the measured MOT data for the small-SUV segment, where suspension is the stand-out fault category; the forum chatter about clunks and creaks is the folklore version of the same wear showing up years before it would ever fail an MOT.
Scattered reports of the tailgate/boot releasing itself while driving, wipers triggering when reversing, and phantom airbag or warning lights with nobody in the passenger seat. Nobody agrees on a single cause, some blame wiring looms, some blame sensor calibration, and most cases get sorted with a dealer software reset rather than new parts. Cheap to fix if it's a reset, £100-300 if a sensor or switch needs replacing, but the intermittent nature makes it hard to diagnose before buying.
Genuine manufacturer recalls exist for this model: a passenger-side airbag that can tear its trim panel and fail to inflate correctly on 2021-2024 cars, and a driver's seatbelt pre-tensioner that may not fire correctly on some 2020-2021 cars. Both are free dealer fixes under recall, so the only real risk to a buyer is an earlier owner never having booked the car in. Worth checking the VIN against the recall register before you buy.
Built from the two sections above.
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