MOT pass rate · 2025 data
SEAT Arona MOT pass rate
The SEAT Arona passed 86.16% of its 54,636 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 8.9 percentage points better than average.
How the SEAT Arona 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 SEAT Arona grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 26,724 | 89.87% |
| 6–10 years | 27,396 | 82.41% |
Why the SEAT Arona fails its MOT
Across every SEAT Arona that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was brakes, accounting for 27.82% 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 | 27.82% | 3,726 |
| Tyres | 27.26% | 3,650 |
| Steering | 19.43% | 2,602 |
| Visibility | 6.36% | 852 |
| Suspension | 6.2% | 830 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 4.59% | 614 |
How the SEAT Arona compares
Ranked on pass rate, the SEAT Arona sits 199th of 651 models in this data , and 2nd of the 11 SEAT models covered . SEAT as a whole averaged 78.12%, so this model runs 8 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used SEAT Arona
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average SEAT Arona came to its 2025 test at 37,595 miles and 5.3 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 SEAT Arona
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 SEAT models
- SEAT Ibiza 71.81% pass rate · 189,560 tests
- SEAT Leon 79.74% pass rate · 179,563 tests
- SEAT Ateca 89.82% pass rate · 48,929 tests
- SEAT Alhambra 78.57% pass rate · 25,944 tests
- SEAT MII 81.58% pass rate · 18,638 tests
- SEAT Altea 66.25% pass rate · 12,259 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Hyundai Tucson 85.88% pass rate
- Toyota Prius 86.68% pass rate
- Tesla Model 85.2% pass rate
- Audi Q5 86.09% pass rate
- BMW X1 85.23% pass rate
- Toyota RAV4 85.16% 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.