MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Hyundai I30 MOT pass rate
The Hyundai I30 passed 71.21% of its 100,723 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 6.1 percentage points worse than average.
How the Hyundai I30 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 I30 grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 3,508 | 89.48% |
| 6–10 years | 41,067 | 80.02% |
| 11 years and over | 56,114 | 63.61% |
The Hyundai I30 drops 25.9 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 I30 fails its MOT
Across every Hyundai I30 that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was brakes, accounting for 26.11% 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 | 26.11% | 20,792 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 22.8% | 18,158 |
| Suspension | 17.77% | 14,156 |
| Tyres | 12.03% | 9,584 |
| Steering | 8.56% | 6,820 |
| Visibility | 5.8% | 4,618 |
How the Hyundai I30 compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Hyundai I30 sits 503rd of 651 models in this data , and 11th of the 17 Hyundai models covered . Hyundai as a whole averaged 79.36%, so this model runs 8.2 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Hyundai I30
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Hyundai I30 came to its 2025 test at 82,256 miles and 11.2 years old. Most examples tested were petrol, though 45.54% were diesel.
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 I30
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 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
- Vauxhall Corsa 71.57% pass rate
- Vauxhall Astra 72.34% pass rate
- Fiat 500 70.89% pass rate
- Nissan Micra 71.53% pass rate
- SEAT Ibiza 71.81% pass rate
- Ford KA 72.11% 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.