MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Hyundai I20 MOT pass rate
The Hyundai I20 passed 79.17% of its 132,547 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 1.9 percentage points better than average.
How the Hyundai I20 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 I20 grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 17,403 | 90.71% |
| 6–10 years | 54,251 | 85.31% |
| 11 years and over | 60,570 | 70.29% |
The Hyundai I20 drops 20.4 percentage points between its early years and the 11-plus bracket, which is a steep decline. On an older example, the MOT history is worth reading closely before you buy.
Why the Hyundai I20 fails its MOT
Across every Hyundai I20 that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was brakes, accounting for 25.56% 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 | 25.56% | 17,664 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 20.07% | 13,873 |
| Suspension | 17.58% | 12,147 |
| Tyres | 12.44% | 8,597 |
| Visibility | 10.14% | 7,007 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 4.47% | 3,091 |
How the Hyundai I20 compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Hyundai I20 sits 337th of 651 models in this data , and 5th of the 17 Hyundai models covered . Hyundai as a whole averaged 79.36%, so this model runs level with its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Hyundai I20
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Hyundai I20 came to its 2025 test at 60,100 miles and 10 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 I20
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 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
- Hyundai IX35 68.93% pass rate · 49,755 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Volkswagen Golf 79.21% pass rate
- Toyota Yaris 80.34% pass rate
- Audi A3 79.9% pass rate
- Audi A1 79.44% pass rate
- Skoda Octavia 79.8% pass rate
- Honda CR-V 80.06% pass rate
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.