MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Hyundai Kona MOT pass rate
The Hyundai Kona passed 89.77% of its 61,190 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 12.5 percentage points better than average.
How the Hyundai Kona 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 Kona grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 44,356 | 90.01% |
| 6–10 years | 15,956 | 89% |
Why the Hyundai Kona fails its MOT
Across every Hyundai Kona that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was tyres, accounting for 44.65% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 44.65% | 4,591 |
| Brakes | 17.53% | 1,802 |
| Visibility | 15.86% | 1,631 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 8.95% | 920 |
| Suspension | 6.91% | 710 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2.28% | 234 |
How the Hyundai Kona compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Hyundai Kona sits 104th of 651 models in this data , and 2nd of the 17 Hyundai models covered . Hyundai as a whole averaged 79.36%, so this model runs 10.4 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Hyundai Kona
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Hyundai Kona came to its 2025 test at 35,367 miles and 4.6 years old. Most examples tested were electric.
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 Kona
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 Ioniq 90.39% pass rate · 56,587 tests
- Hyundai IX35 68.93% pass rate · 49,755 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Toyota C-HR 90.73% pass rate
- Suzuki Vitara 89.5% pass rate
- Skoda Karoq 90.93% pass rate
- SEAT Ateca 89.82% pass rate
- Porsche 911 90.2% pass rate
- Skoda Kodiaq 89.35% 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.