MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Hyundai Coupe MOT pass rate
The Hyundai Coupe passed 58.9% of its 4,861 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 18.4 percentage points worse than average.
How the Hyundai Coupe holds up with age
Every car fails the MOT more often as it gets older. What matters when you are buying is how steeply that happens for this particular model. These are the 2025 pass rates for the Hyundai Coupe grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 11 years and over | 4,861 | 58.9% |
Why the Hyundai Coupe fails its MOT
Across every Hyundai Coupe that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was brakes, accounting for 31.84% of all recorded failure items. These are the areas worth having checked before you buy, and worth budgeting for on an older example.
| Failure area | Share of failure items | Recorded items |
|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 31.84% | 2,450 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 17.52% | 1,348 |
| Suspension | 15.82% | 1,217 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 8.25% | 635 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 7.38% | 568 |
| Tyres | 6.46% | 497 |
How the Hyundai Coupe compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Hyundai Coupe sits 643rd of 651 models in this data , and 17th of the 17 Hyundai models covered . Hyundai as a whole averaged 79.36%, so this model runs 20.5 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Hyundai Coupe
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Hyundai Coupe came to its 2025 test at 89,999 miles and 18.5 years old. Most examples tested were petrol.
The useful check is the individual car's own MOT record: how many times it has failed, what for, and whether advisories keep reappearing. A recurring advisory on corrosion, suspension or brakes tells you far more than a model-wide average, and a mileage that does not move consistently between tests is a warning in itself.
Check a specific Hyundai Coupe
Run the registration through a free MOT history check to see that car's test results, advisories and recorded mileages. For the risks an MOT never covers — outstanding finance, insurance write-off records, stolen markers and ownership history — a full car history check brings them together in one £15 report.
Also useful: mileage check · write-off check · free car check
Other Hyundai models
- Hyundai I10 79.04% pass rate · 250,698 tests
- Hyundai Tucson 85.88% pass rate · 165,676 tests
- Hyundai I20 79.17% pass rate · 132,547 tests
- Hyundai I30 71.21% pass rate · 100,723 tests
- Hyundai Kona 89.77% pass rate · 61,190 tests
- Hyundai Ioniq 90.39% pass rate · 56,587 tests
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Figures aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025, class 4 initial tests only, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Retests are excluded, so these are first-time pass rates.