Hyundai i40 MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Hyundai i40 in Great Britain in 2025 — 19,840 tests. Figures cover every i40 first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the i40 ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
71.1%
1.2 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
19,840
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
9.2%
of i40 first tests; national 7.3%
Typical mileage at 10 years
96,250
middle half: 76,250–121,250 miles (2,500-mile-band midpoints)

How many Hyundai i40 cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 21,636 Hyundai i40 cars that were taxed or on SORN: 20,080 taxed and 1,556 on SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification — kept, but declared off the road by the keeper). The MOT figures above count tests; these count cars, across the whole United Kingdom, cars only. Hyundai i40 vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
20,080
92.8% of the 21,636 i40 cars taxed or on SORN; 26 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
1,556
declared off the road by their keepers — 7.2% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed i40 cars peaked at 27,049 at the end of 2017 and has since fallen by 6,969 (25.8%) to 20,080 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 155 at the end of 2014 to 1,556 at the end of 2025, up 903.9%. A car leaves the taxed count when it is scrapped, exported or declared off the road; the year-end counts do not say which.

Taxed i40 cars, year by year

Cars of this model taxed and on the road at the end of each year, 2014–2025.

010k20k30k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed i40 cars, year 2014: 16kTaxed i40 cars, year 2015: 20kTaxed i40 cars, year 2016: 25kTaxed i40 cars, year 2017: 27kTaxed i40 cars, year 2018: 27kTaxed i40 cars, year 2019: 26kTaxed i40 cars, year 2020: 25kTaxed i40 cars, year 2021: 25kTaxed i40 cars, year 2022: 24kTaxed i40 cars, year 2023: 23kTaxed i40 cars, year 2024: 22kTaxed i40 cars, year 2025: 20k20k
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YearTaxed i40 cars
201415,583
201520,440
201624,576
201727,049
201826,971
201926,113
202025,191
202124,744
202223,936
202322,876
202421,617
202520,080

i40 cars on SORN, year by year

Cars of this model declared off the road at the end of each year, 2014–2025. Its own scale — SORN counts are a fraction of the taxed count.

05001k2k2k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)i40 cars on SORN, year 2014: 155i40 cars on SORN, year 2015: 125i40 cars on SORN, year 2016: 169i40 cars on SORN, year 2017: 265i40 cars on SORN, year 2018: 294i40 cars on SORN, year 2019: 475i40 cars on SORN, year 2020: 565i40 cars on SORN, year 2021: 654i40 cars on SORN, year 2022: 800i40 cars on SORN, year 2023: 999i40 cars on SORN, year 2024: 1ki40 cars on SORN, year 2025: 2k2k
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Yeari40 cars on SORN
2014155
2015125
2016169
2017265
2018294
2019475
2020565
2021654
2022800
2023999
20241,283
20251,556

Which model years survive

Taxed i40 cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 20,080 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. A build year's count depends on how many were sold that year as well as how many have lasted.

Year of manufacture Taxed, end of 2025Share of taxed i40 cars
20194552.3%
20181,1235.6%
20172,48612.4%
20163,40917.0%
20153,41317.0%
20143,51617.5%
20132,49812.4%
20122,70213.5%
20114722.4%
All other build years (one year, each under 1%)60.0%

Population source: Department for Transport / DVLA vehicle licensing statistics, table VEH0124, updated 15 July 2026; counts of the cars on DVLA's register that were taxed or on SORN at the end of each year shown, United Kingdom, cars only, excluding cars recorded with no model name. SortedCars groups DVLA's model name I40 under this model. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. SortedCars is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, DVLA or the Department for Transport.

How the i40 ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, i40 vs all cars, 2025.

Hyundai i40All cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Hyundai i40, vehicle age 7: 80.6%Hyundai i40, vehicle age 8: 79.7%Hyundai i40, vehicle age 9: 78.1%Hyundai i40, vehicle age 10: 73.1%Hyundai i40, vehicle age 11: 67%Hyundai i40, vehicle age 12: 63.2%Hyundai i40, vehicle age 13: 60.8%All cars, vehicle age 3: 88.5%All cars, vehicle age 4: 87.2%All cars, vehicle age 5: 86%All cars, vehicle age 6: 83.5%All cars, vehicle age 7: 80.9%All cars, vehicle age 8: 78.2%All cars, vehicle age 9: 74.9%All cars, vehicle age 10: 71.9%All cars, vehicle age 11: 68.6%All cars, vehicle age 12: 65.8%All cars, vehicle age 13: 63.5%All cars, vehicle age 14: 61.2%All cars, vehicle age 15: 59.3%All cars, vehicle age 16: 58.3%All cars, vehicle age 17: 57.2%All cars, vehicle age 18: 57.4%All cars, vehicle age 19: 57%All cars, vehicle age 20: 57.6%Hyundai i40 60.8%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)i40 testsi40 pass rateAll cars
71,12580.6%80.9%
82,44979.7%78.2%
93,34678.1%74.9%
103,35073.1%71.9%
113,36567.0%68.6%
122,46763.2%65.8%
132,79060.8%63.5%

Better or worse than the average car?

The i40's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the i40 beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

i40 aheadi40 behind
-4-2+0+2+4Age 7: -0.3 points vs the average car7Age 8: +1.5 points vs the average carAge 9: +3.2 points vs the average car9Age 10: +1.2 points vs the average carAge 11: -1.6 points vs the average car11Age 12: -2.6 points vs the average carAge 13: -2.7 points vs the average car13Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
7-0.3
8+1.5
9+3.2
10+1.2
11-1.6
12-2.6
13-2.7

The i40 fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the i40 fleet still in use.

01k2k3k4kAge 7: 1k7Age 8: 2kAge 9: 3k9Age 10: 3kAge 11: 3k11Age 12: 2kAge 13: 2k13Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
71,125
82,449
93,346
103,350
113,365
122,467
132,790

What an i40 fails on

Where the failure items land when an i40 fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Use it as a pre-purchase checklist: these are the areas to look at first.

Brakes24.5%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment19.3%
Suspension16.1%
Tyres14.9%
Steering9.5%
Visibility6.5%
Noise, emissions and leaks3.5%
Body, chassis, structure2.7%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.1% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a i40, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Brakes: 33.4% of advisories33.4%Tyres: 31.2% of advisories31.2%Suspension: 15.6% of advisories15.6%Non-component advisories: 6.3% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 5.1% of advisoriesSteering: 4.2% of advisories
BrakesTyresSuspensionNon-component advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaksSteering
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CategoryShare of advisories
Brakes33.4%
Tyres31.2%
Suspension15.6%
Non-component advisories6.3%
Noise, emissions and leaks5.1%
Steering4.2%

What mileage is normal for an i40?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) i40; the shaded band holds the middle half. A car far outside the band, in either direction, is worth questions the recorded history can answer.

Typical i40 (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k150k791113Vehicle age (years)Age 7: typical 78,750 miles (middle half 58,750–108,750)Age 8: typical 81,250 miles (middle half 63,750–108,750)Age 9: typical 91,250 miles (middle half 68,750–116,250)Age 10: typical 96,250 miles (middle half 76,250–121,250)Age 11: typical 103,750 miles (middle half 81,250–128,750)Age 12: typical 111,250 miles (middle half 88,750–133,750)Age 13: typical 111,250 miles (middle half 91,250–136,250)111k mi

Mileage values are midpoints of 2,500-mile bands.

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
758,75078,750108,750
863,75081,250108,750
968,75091,250116,250
1076,25096,250121,250
1181,250103,750128,750
1288,750111,250133,750
1391,250111,250136,250

What fails at each age

The i40's failure mix by age band, 2025 — each band's top categories at their true share of that band's failure items; the pale remainder is everything else. How the mix shifts with age is the point of the chart.

BrakesTyresLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspensionNoise, emissions and leaksSteeringEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
6-9 yrsBrakes27.7%
6-9 yrsTyres24.4%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment14.1%
6-9 yrsSuspension12.8%
6-9 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks6.1%
6-9 yrsEverything else14.9%
10-13 yrsBrakes27.5%
10-13 yrsSuspension18.8%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment14.3%
10-13 yrsTyres13.6%
10-13 yrsSteering12.4%
10-13 yrsEverything else13.4%

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How these figures are computed. Every number on this page is calculated by SortedCars from the DVSA anonymised MOT results dataset (every MOT test in Great Britain — 2025 for single-year figures; trend figures state their span, currently 2023–2025). Where a figure comes from a sample or uses banded values (mileage is banded to 2,500 miles), the page says so beside the figure. Test class 4 only, first tests only — retests are excluded. Class 4 is the car MOT class and also covers car-derived vans, pickups and motorhomes tested to the same standard; where this page says "cars" it means class 4. Pass rate = passes ÷ (passes + failures + pass-after-rectification): a vehicle that failed and was fixed during the visit counts as a fail. Pass rates describe fleets, not individual machines: they reflect how cars were driven, maintained and used as well as how they were built, and beyond recorded mileage none of that is in the data. A well-kept example of a model with a weak average can still pass; a neglected example of a strong one can still fail. No figure is shown for any group with fewer than 500 tests. Alias spellings of a make in the DVSA file are counted under one make name, and all trims and variants of a model are grouped under one model name, using SortedCars' grouping tables. The taxed and SORN counts on this page are the one exception: they are not computed from MOT records but taken from the Department for Transport's vehicle licensing statistics (DfT/DVLA table VEH0124, updated 15 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0), which count the cars on DVLA's register that were taxed or on SORN at the end of each year shown, UK-wide, cars only. They describe a model as a whole, grouped under SortedCars' model names, and say nothing about any one car. “Dangerous” is DVSA's statutory defect category (in force since May 2018): a defect posing an immediate risk to road safety — driving the vehicle before repair is an offence. What these figures are for. These statistics are general information about groups of vehicles. They are not advice, a valuation or a recommendation to buy, avoid or price any particular vehicle, and no decision about one car should rest on them alone — check the car itself and its own records. We take care over the calculations, but we cannot guarantee they are complete, current or free of error, and we accept no liability for loss arising from reliance on them. This does not limit any liability that cannot lawfully be limited — see our Terms & Conditions. If you believe any figure on this page is inaccurate, contact us. SortedCars is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the DVSA or DVLA. DVSA publishes the raw test records; the statistics on this page are SortedCars' own calculations from them. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.