MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Kia Picanto MOT pass rate
The Kia Picanto passed 76.85% of its 189,952 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 0.5 percentage points worse than average.
How the Kia Picanto 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 Picanto grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 30,006 | 90.69% |
| 6–10 years | 73,046 | 83.99% |
| 11 years and over | 86,156 | 65.82% |
The Kia Picanto drops 24.9 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 Kia Picanto fails its MOT
Across every Kia Picanto that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was brakes, accounting for 29.71% 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 | 29.71% | 33,404 |
| Suspension | 16.26% | 18,280 |
| Tyres | 14.64% | 16,459 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 14.17% | 15,926 |
| Visibility | 8.62% | 9,692 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 6.04% | 6,794 |
How the Kia Picanto compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Kia Picanto sits 385th of 651 models in this data , and 10th of the 16 Kia models covered . Kia as a whole averaged 79.69%, so this model runs 2.8 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Kia Picanto
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Kia Picanto came to its 2025 test at 48,130 miles and 10.1 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 Kia Picanto
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 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
- Kia Sorento 75.48% pass rate · 35,995 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- BMW 3 Series 77.74% pass rate
- Audi A4 77.09% pass rate
- Mercedes-Benz A-Class 77.86% pass rate
- Skoda Fabia 75.71% pass rate
- Volkswagen Passat 75.9% pass rate
- Ford Ranger 77.42% 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.