MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Kia EV6 MOT pass rate
The Kia EV6 passed 93.45% of its 6,474 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 16.2 percentage points better than average.
How the Kia EV6 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 EV6 grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 5,152 | 92.72% |
Why the Kia EV6 fails its MOT
Across every Kia EV6 that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was tyres, accounting for 53.76% 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 | 53.76% | 336 |
| Visibility | 29.12% | 182 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 5.76% | 36 |
| Brakes | 4.64% | 29 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 2.08% | 13 |
| Road Wheels | 1.28% | 8 |
How the Kia EV6 compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Kia EV6 sits 19th of 651 models in this data , and 1st of the 16 Kia models covered . Kia as a whole averaged 79.69%, so this model runs 13.8 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Kia EV6
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Kia EV6 came to its 2025 test at 34,335 miles and 2.8 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 Kia EV6
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
- Ford Puma 93.18% pass rate
- Volkswagen T-ROC 92.71% pass rate
- Porsche Macan 92.38% pass rate
- Lexus NX 93.11% pass rate
- Jaguar I-Pace 92.8% pass rate
- Mazda CX-30 93.71% 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.