All generations and engines together · 109,421 MOT tests in the 2025 data · typical mileage at age 7: 67k
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. 78,944 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 Ingenium diesel can let raw fuel wash past the piston rings during frequent forced regenerations, especially on cars doing mostly short runs. The oil level actually rises and thins out, and on the worst cases the interval between changes drops from the quoted 21,000 miles to as little as 3,000-12,000. Land Rover put out a Service Compliance Notification on 16 and 17 plate cars in July 2017 and a separate bulletin covering an oil pump fault (May 2018, cars built roughly VIN 748576-771222). Ignored for too long, the fix runs from a full flush and injector reset up to a rebuilt or replaced engine.
A creak or rattle from the B-pillar trim, worse in warm weather, traced to the seatbelt anchor point moving inside the pillar. It is common enough that Land Rover issued a technical bulletin (reference LBT00827) with a repair that has gone through more than one revision, up to drilling out welds and riveting the anchor in place. Owners report it from fairly early in the car's life, not just high mileage cars, and it can take several dealer visits to actually cure it.
Owners describe knocks and creaks from the front end, plus a wandering, unstable feel when towing that some say their previous car never had, most often flagged once the car is a few years old. Suspension is also the fault that shows up most in the measured MOT data for this class of large SUV, so the folklore and the numbers point the same way. What isn't clear from owner reports alone is whether it's bushes, drop links, top mounts or a mix wearing together; buyers should treat any knock as worth quoting for, not assume it's one cheap part.
A smaller but recurring set of owners report the automatic gear selector sticking or failing to respond in D or R, in a couple of cases seizing while moving at around 30mph, plus separate reports of the power transfer unit (PTU) needing new seals or a transfer gearbox. These aren't officially acknowledged as a pattern and seem to hit a minority of cars, but when they happen they're not cheap or quick to sort. Worth an extra careful test drive rather than a reason to walk away on its own.
Owners doing mostly short trips report the battery going flat within a few weeks, sometimes needing more than one replacement before the parasitic drain is traced. Separately, the Touch Pro infotainment screen randomly rebooting or going blank, and the reversing camera cutting out intermittently, both come up repeatedly in owner reports. Neither is officially flagged as a fault pattern by Land Rover, and a battery or infotainment module swap usually clears it, but it's an annoyance rather than a one-off.
Some diesel owners report the AdBlue tank needing topping up far more often than the roughly 11,600-mile figure quoted at launch, in some cases every 4,000 miles. It ties into the same emissions system that prompted a September 2015 EU6/SCR-related issue on early cars. It's a running-cost annoyance rather than a big repair bill, but worth asking about if you're buying a diesel and don't want surprise trips to top up.
Built from the two sections above.
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