Hyundai Kona MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Hyundai Kona in Great Britain in 2025 — 62,765 tests. Figures cover every Kona first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Kona ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
86.3%
14.0 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
62,765
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
4.6%
of Kona first tests; national 7.3%

How many Hyundai Kona cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 114,272 Hyundai Kona cars that were taxed or on SORN: 113,748 taxed and 524 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 Kona vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
113,748
99.5% of the 114,272 Kona cars taxed or on SORN; 51 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
524
declared off the road by their keepers — 0.5% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Kona cars is still rising: 113,748 at the end of 2025, up 19,040 (20.1%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 14 at the end of 2018 to 524 at the end of 2025, up 3642.9%. 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 Kona cars, year by year

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

050k100k150k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Kona cars, year 2014: 0Taxed Kona cars, year 2015: 0Taxed Kona cars, year 2016: 0Taxed Kona cars, year 2017: 443Taxed Kona cars, year 2018: 7kTaxed Kona cars, year 2019: 15kTaxed Kona cars, year 2020: 28kTaxed Kona cars, year 2021: 44kTaxed Kona cars, year 2022: 61kTaxed Kona cars, year 2023: 75kTaxed Kona cars, year 2024: 95kTaxed Kona cars, year 2025: 114k114k
View this chart as a table
YearTaxed Kona cars
20140
20150
20160
2017443
20187,363
201915,471
202027,567
202144,014
202260,798
202375,107
202494,708
2025113,748

Kona 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)Kona cars on SORN, year 2014: 0Kona cars on SORN, year 2015: 0Kona cars on SORN, year 2016: 0Kona cars on SORN, year 2017: 0Kona cars on SORN, year 2018: 14Kona cars on SORN, year 2019: 116Kona cars on SORN, year 2020: 211Kona cars on SORN, year 2021: 138Kona cars on SORN, year 2022: 176Kona cars on SORN, year 2023: 386Kona cars on SORN, year 2024: 423Kona cars on SORN, year 2025: 524524
View this chart as a table
YearKona cars on SORN
20140
20150
20160
20170
201814
2019116
2020211
2021138
2022176
2023386
2024423
2025524

Which model years survive

Taxed Kona cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 113,748 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 Kona cars
202519,61617.2%
202419,89317.5%
202314,97913.2%
202216,03914.1%
202115,70713.8%
202011,62810.2%
20198,8017.7%
20186,6725.9%
All other build years (one year, each under 1%)4130.4%

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 names KONA, KONA ADVANCE HEV S-A 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 Kona ages

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

Hyundai KonaAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Hyundai Kona, vehicle age 3: 86.5%Hyundai Kona, vehicle age 4: 86.2%Hyundai Kona, vehicle age 5: 85.8%Hyundai Kona, vehicle age 6: 86.6%Hyundai Kona, vehicle age 7: 85.9%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%Hyundai Kona 85.9%All cars 57.6%
View this chart as a table
Age (years)Kona testsKona pass rateAll cars
317,24486.5%88.5%
416,39986.2%87.2%
511,87785.8%86.0%
68,86186.6%83.5%
76,69985.9%80.9%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Kona aheadKona behind
-6-3+0+3+6Age 3: -2.0 points vs the average car3Age 4: -1.0 points vs the average carAge 5: -0.2 points vs the average car5Age 6: +3.1 points vs the average carAge 7: +5.0 points vs the average car7Vehicle age (years)
View this chart as a table
Age (years)Gap (points)
3-2.0
4-1.0
5-0.2
6+3.1
7+5.0

The Kona fleet on the road, by age

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

05k10k15k20kAge 3: 17k3Age 4: 16kAge 5: 11k5Age 6: 8kAge 7: 6k7Vehicle age (years)
View this chart as a table
Age (years)First tests
317,244
416,399
511,877
68,861
76,699

What a Kona fails on

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

Tyres34.7%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment22.4%
Visibility19.3%
Brakes13.3%
Suspension5.2%
Noise, emissions and leaks1.9%
Body, chassis, structure1.4%
Identification of the vehicle0.7%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.8% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 61.2% of advisories61.2%Brakes: 21.8% of advisories21.8%Non-component advisories: 8.9% of advisories8.9%Suspension: 5.7% of advisoriesIdentification of the vehicle: 1.1% of advisoriesRoad Wheels: 0.4% of advisories
TyresBrakesNon-component advisoriesSuspensionIdentification of the vehicleRoad Wheels
View this chart as a table
CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres61.2%
Brakes21.8%
Non-component advisories8.9%
Suspension5.7%
Identification of the vehicle1.1%
Road Wheels0.4%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Kona?

First-time pass rate for the three most-tested Kona fuel types, 2025, against the all-cars average. Fleet ages differ by fuel — newer fleets help the electrified bars.

50%60%70%80%90%100%all cars 72.3%Hybrid electric: 86.1% of 24,900 tests86.1%Hybrid24,900 testsElectric: 86.4% of 19,556 tests86.4%Electric19,556 testsPetrol: 86.3% of 18,249 tests86.3%Petrol18,249 tests
View this chart as a table
FuelTestsPass rate
Hybrid electric24,90086.1%
Electric19,55686.4%
Petrol18,24986.3%

What mileage is normal for a Kona?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Kona; 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 Kona (median)
0k25k50k75k357Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 21,250 miles (middle half 13,750–31,250)Age 4: typical 31,250 miles (middle half 21,250–43,750)Age 5: typical 36,250 miles (middle half 23,750–48,750)Age 6: typical 38,750 miles (middle half 28,750–51,250)Age 7: typical 43,750 miles (middle half 33,750–58,750)43k mi

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

View this chart as a table
Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
313,75021,25031,250
421,25031,25043,750
523,75036,25048,750
628,75038,75051,250
733,75043,75058,750

What fails at each age

The Kona'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.

TyresVisibilityBrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspensionEverything else
View this chart as a table
Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres48.3%
3-5 yrsVisibility17.3%
3-5 yrsBrakes13.5%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment8.8%
3-5 yrsSuspension7.1%
3-5 yrsEverything else5.0%
6-9 yrsTyres34.8%
6-9 yrsBrakes28.3%
6-9 yrsVisibility12.6%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment9.1%
6-9 yrsSuspension6.4%
6-9 yrsEverything else8.8%

More vehicles we've checked

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.