65.1%
Toyota Hiace
Toyota Hiace MOT pass rate and common problems
The Toyota Hiace passed 65.1% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 7.2 percentage points below the 72.3% UK average. The item testers recorded most often was component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength.
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How the Hiace compares
Initial MOT tests in 2025, retests excluded. A car that failed and was repaired at the test station counts as a fail.
75.1%
Toyota average
72.3%
UK average, all cars
The Hiace runs 10 points behind the Toyota average. It is 30th of the 32 Toyota models in the data. The average Hiace arrived at its test 19.7 years old with 147,364 miles recorded.
A pass rate records whether cars met the roadworthiness standard on test day. It is not a reliability score, and part of any gap reflects how old the tested cars were.
Hiace MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Toyota Hiace cars aged 6 to 10 years passed 68.7% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 65.1%, a drop of 3.6 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years (small sample) | 29 | 69% | 3.3 pts below |
| 6 to 10 years | 249 | 68.7% | 3.6 pts below |
| 11 years and over | 12,803 | 65.1% | 7.2 pts below |
That is a smaller decline than most cars show. The UK average of 72.3% covers cars of every age, so compare like with like.
Where Hiace failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Toyota Hiace cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment and suspension together account for 49.8% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Hiace MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Toyota Hiace cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 42.2% of everything testers recorded against failed Toyota Hiace cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Hiace
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Suspension
Recorded most often: component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength and linkage pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn. 12.8% of failure items.
2
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: position lamp not working, stop lamp not working and registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps. 12.5% of failure items.
3
Visibility
Recorded most often: wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively and washers provides insufficient washer liquid. 7.6% of failure items.
4
Body, chassis, structure
Recorded most often: integral vehicle structure condition corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced and chassis condition or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of a body mounting. 6.2% of failure items.
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Toyota Hiace MOT FAQs
What is the Toyota Hiace MOT pass rate?
65.1% of Toyota Hiace cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 13,082 tests. That is 7.2 percentage points below the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 428th of 575 models.
What does a Toyota Hiace most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Toyota Hiace cars failing their 2025 MOT was component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength, on 9.8% of failure items. Next were position lamp not working (6.4%) and wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (5.7%).
Which area causes the most Toyota Hiace MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 25.7%, followed by suspension at 24.2%.
Do older Toyota Hiace cars fail their MOT more often?
Toyota Hiace cars aged 6 to 10 years passed 68.7% of MOT tests in 2025, against 65.1% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Toyota Hiace has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Toyota Hiace that failed in 2025. They show where the model most often needs attention, not the condition of any individual car.
How do I see a specific Toyota Hiace's MOT history?
Enter its registration on the free Carpeep MOT history check to see that car's own test results, failures, advisories and recorded mileages.
MOT figures are aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025: class 4 initial tests, retests excluded, with failure items from failed tests (advisories and minor defects excluded), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. MOT results describe roadworthiness at test, not mechanical reliability.