Hyundai i800 MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Hyundai i800 in Great Britain in 2025 — 7,916 tests. Figures cover every i800 first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the i800 ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
62.7%
9.6 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
7,916
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
8.4%
of i800 first tests; national 7.3%

How many Hyundai i800 cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 7,854 Hyundai i800 cars that were taxed or on SORN: 7,264 taxed and 590 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 i800 vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
7,264
92.5% of the 7,854 i800 cars taxed or on SORN; 6 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
590
declared off the road by their keepers — 7.5% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed i800 cars peaked at 8,274 at the end of 2019 and has since fallen by 1,010 (12.2%) to 7,264 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 26 at the end of 2014 to 590 at the end of 2025, up 2169.2%. 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 i800 cars, year by year

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

02k4k6k8k10k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed i800 cars, year 2014: 3kTaxed i800 cars, year 2015: 3kTaxed i800 cars, year 2016: 4kTaxed i800 cars, year 2017: 6kTaxed i800 cars, year 2018: 7kTaxed i800 cars, year 2019: 8kTaxed i800 cars, year 2020: 8kTaxed i800 cars, year 2021: 8kTaxed i800 cars, year 2022: 8kTaxed i800 cars, year 2023: 8kTaxed i800 cars, year 2024: 7kTaxed i800 cars, year 2025: 7k7k
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YearTaxed i800 cars
20143,294
20153,392
20164,370
20175,598
20186,624
20198,274
20208,213
20218,182
20227,936
20237,788
20247,438
20257,264

i800 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.

02004006002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)i800 cars on SORN, year 2014: 26i800 cars on SORN, year 2015: 39i800 cars on SORN, year 2016: 67i800 cars on SORN, year 2017: 96i800 cars on SORN, year 2018: 126i800 cars on SORN, year 2019: 170i800 cars on SORN, year 2020: 303i800 cars on SORN, year 2021: 287i800 cars on SORN, year 2022: 334i800 cars on SORN, year 2023: 402i800 cars on SORN, year 2024: 467i800 cars on SORN, year 2025: 590590
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Yeari800 cars on SORN
201426
201539
201667
201796
2018126
2019170
2020303
2021287
2022334
2023402
2024467
2025590

Which model years survive

Taxed i800 cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 7,264 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 i800 cars
2020741.0%
20191,73123.8%
20181,09815.1%
20171,27417.5%
201694813.1%
20151432.0%
20141361.9%
20131842.5%
201276010.5%
20113635.0%
20103324.6%
20091341.8%
2008841.2%
All other build years (one year, each under 1%)30.0%

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 I800 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 i800 ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, i800 vs all cars, 2025.

Hyundai i800All cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Hyundai i800, vehicle age 6: 71.9%Hyundai i800, vehicle age 7: 65.8%Hyundai i800, vehicle age 8: 64.1%Hyundai i800, vehicle age 9: 57.8%Hyundai i800, vehicle age 13: 52.9%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%All cars 57.6%Hyundai i800 52.9%
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Age (years)i800 testsi800 pass rateAll cars
61,83071.9%83.5%
71,17865.8%80.9%
81,31864.1%78.2%
91,01657.8%74.9%
1390452.9%63.5%

Better or worse than the average car?

The i800's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the i800 beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

i800 behind
-18-9+0+9+18Age 6: -11.6 points vs the average carAge 7: -15.1 points vs the average car7Age 8: -14.1 points vs the average carAge 9: -17.1 points vs the average car9Age 13: -10.6 points vs the average car13Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
6-11.6
7-15.1
8-14.1
9-17.1
13-10.6

The i800 fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the i800 fleet still in use.

05001k1k2kAge 6: 1k6Age 7: 1kAge 8: 1k8Age 9: 1kAge 13: 90413Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
61,830
71,178
81,318
91,016
13904

What an i800 fails on

Where the failure items land when an i800 fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Use it as a pre-purchase checklist: these are the areas to look at first.

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment42.7%
Brakes22.6%
Suspension8.6%
Tyres7.6%
Visibility6.5%
Noise, emissions and leaks5.7%
Steering2.5%
Body, chassis, structure1.7%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.0% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a i800, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Brakes: 36.3% of advisories36.3%Tyres: 25.8% of advisories25.8%Suspension: 15.1% of advisories15.1%Non-component advisories: 9.6% of advisories9.6%Noise, emissions and leaks: 5.2% of advisoriesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment: 3.3% of advisories
BrakesTyresSuspensionNon-component advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaksLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
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CategoryShare of advisories
Brakes36.3%
Tyres25.8%
Suspension15.1%
Non-component advisories9.6%
Noise, emissions and leaks5.2%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment3.3%

What mileage is normal for an i800?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) i800; 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 i800 (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k150k6813Vehicle age (years)Age 6: typical 56,250 miles (middle half 41,250–73,750)Age 7: typical 76,250 miles (middle half 61,250–93,750)Age 8: typical 83,750 miles (middle half 68,750–106,250)Age 9: typical 86,250 miles (middle half 68,750–111,250)Age 13: typical 113,750 miles (middle half 88,750–141,250)113k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
641,25056,25073,750
761,25076,25093,750
868,75083,750106,250
968,75086,250111,250
1388,750113,750141,250

What fails at each age

The i800'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.

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentBrakesTyresNoise, emissions and leaksVisibilitySuspensionSteeringEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment44.2%
6-9 yrsBrakes21.0%
6-9 yrsTyres11.3%
6-9 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks8.6%
6-9 yrsVisibility6.6%
6-9 yrsEverything else8.3%
10-13 yrsBrakes34.9%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment24.8%
10-13 yrsSuspension15.0%
10-13 yrsTyres6.2%
10-13 yrsVisibility5.3%
10-13 yrsEverything else13.8%
14+ yrsBrakes33.6%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment22.0%
14+ yrsSuspension18.7%
14+ yrsSteering7.4%
14+ yrsTyres6.2%
14+ yrsEverything else12.1%

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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.