MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Kia Xceed MOT pass rate
The Kia Xceed passed 90.61% of its 23,601 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 13.3 percentage points better than average.
How the Kia Xceed 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 Xceed grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 22,049 | 90.47% |
| 6–10 years | 874 | 90.05% |
Why the Kia Xceed fails its MOT
Across every Kia Xceed that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was tyres, accounting for 39.68% 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 | 39.68% | 1,465 |
| Visibility | 22.45% | 829 |
| Brakes | 17.5% | 646 |
| Suspension | 7.88% | 291 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 3.6% | 133 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 3.55% | 131 |
How the Kia Xceed compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Kia Xceed sits 75th of 651 models in this data , and 4th of the 16 Kia models covered . Kia as a whole averaged 79.69%, so this model runs 10.9 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Kia Xceed
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Kia Xceed came to its 2025 test at 33,318 miles and 3.9 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 Xceed
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 C-HR 90.73% pass rate
- Volvo XC40 91.46% pass rate
- Suzuki Vitara 89.5% pass rate
- Hyundai Kona 89.77% pass rate
- Skoda Karoq 90.93% pass rate
- Hyundai Ioniq 90.39% 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.