MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Kia Sportage MOT pass rate
The Kia Sportage passed 80.57% of its 296,086 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 3.3 percentage points better than average.
How the Kia Sportage 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 Sportage grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 70,579 | 89.79% |
| 6–10 years | 159,889 | 81.91% |
| 11 years and over | 64,177 | 66.73% |
The Kia Sportage drops 23.1 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 Sportage fails its MOT
Across every Kia Sportage that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was brakes, accounting for 30.17% 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 | 30.17% | 38,233 |
| Tyres | 18.38% | 23,294 |
| Suspension | 17.3% | 21,926 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 10.68% | 13,534 |
| Visibility | 8.19% | 10,377 |
| Steering | 5.74% | 7,270 |
How the Kia Sportage compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Kia Sportage sits 305th of 651 models in this data , and 8th of the 16 Kia models covered . Kia as a whole averaged 79.69%, so this model runs 0.9 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Kia Sportage
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Kia Sportage came to its 2025 test at 63,936 miles and 8 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 Sportage
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 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
- Kia Sorento 75.48% pass rate · 35,995 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Toyota Yaris 80.34% pass rate
- Audi A3 79.9% pass rate
- Honda Jazz 80.64% pass rate
- Toyota Aygo 81.42% pass rate
- Land Rover Discovery 81.32% pass rate
- Audi A1 79.44% 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.