MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Kia Proceed MOT pass rate
The Kia Proceed passed 82.13% of its 6,486 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 4.8 percentage points better than average.
How the Kia Proceed 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 Proceed grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 3,620 | 87.71% |
| 6–10 years | 1,414 | 85.36% |
| 11 years and over | 1,313 | 62.3% |
The Kia Proceed drops 25.4 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 Proceed fails its MOT
Across every Kia Proceed that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was tyres, accounting for 25.4% 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 | 25.4% | 784 |
| Brakes | 23.65% | 730 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 15.06% | 465 |
| Suspension | 12.99% | 401 |
| Visibility | 8.88% | 274 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 4.86% | 150 |
How the Kia Proceed compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Kia Proceed sits 280th of 651 models in this data , and 6th of the 16 Kia models covered . Kia as a whole averaged 79.69%, so this model runs 2.4 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Kia Proceed
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Kia Proceed came to its 2025 test at 50,718 miles and 6.2 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 Proceed
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
- Toyota Aygo 81.42% pass rate
- Land Rover Discovery 81.32% pass rate
- BMW 118 83.02% pass rate
- Audi A6 83.04% pass rate
- Volvo XC60 82.51% pass rate
- BMW X5 83.17% 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.