MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Kia Carens MOT pass rate
The Kia Carens passed 70.05% of its 13,715 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 7.3 percentage points worse than average.
How the Kia Carens 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 Kia Carens grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 6–10 years | 7,445 | 74.9% |
| 11 years and over | 6,269 | 64.3% |
Why the Kia Carens fails its MOT
Across every Kia Carens that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was brakes, accounting for 27.5% 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 | 27.5% | 2,999 |
| Suspension | 20.24% | 2,207 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 17.91% | 1,953 |
| Tyres | 13.54% | 1,476 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 6.16% | 672 |
| Visibility | 5.37% | 586 |
How the Kia Carens compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Kia Carens sits 518th of 651 models in this data , and 15th of the 16 Kia models covered . Kia as a whole averaged 79.69%, so this model runs 9.6 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Kia Carens
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Kia Carens came to its 2025 test at 84,500 miles and 11 years old. Most examples tested 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 Kia Carens
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 Kia models
- Kia Sportage 80.57% pass rate · 296,086 tests
- Kia Picanto 76.85% pass rate · 189,952 tests
- Kia Ceed 73.58% pass rate · 119,694 tests
- Kia Niro 91.13% pass rate · 103,443 tests
- Kia RIO 75.84% pass rate · 98,402 tests
- Kia Venga 77.72% pass rate · 46,373 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Fiat 500 70.89% pass rate
- MINI Mini 70% pass rate
- Citroen Berlingo 69.15% pass rate
- Vauxhall Zafira 69.21% pass rate
- Peugeot 308 69.7% pass rate
- Land Rover Freelander 70.79% 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.