Kia Venga MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Kia Venga in Great Britain in 2025 — 46,382 tests. Figures cover every Venga first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Venga ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
71.0%
1.3 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
46,382
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
6.7%
of Venga first tests; national 7.3%
Typical mileage at 10 years
51,250
middle half: 36,250–71,250 miles (2,500-mile-band midpoints)

How many Kia Venga cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 46,553 Kia Venga cars that were taxed or on SORN: 45,806 taxed and 747 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. Kia Venga vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
45,806
98.4% of the 46,553 Venga cars taxed or on SORN; 28 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
747
declared off the road by their keepers — 1.6% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Venga cars peaked at 48,729 at the end of 2019 and has since fallen by 2,923 (6.0%) to 45,806 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 48 at the end of 2014 to 747 at the end of 2025, up 1456.2%. 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 Venga cars, year by year

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

010k20k30k40k50k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Venga cars, year 2014: 25kTaxed Venga cars, year 2015: 31kTaxed Venga cars, year 2016: 37kTaxed Venga cars, year 2017: 43kTaxed Venga cars, year 2018: 46kTaxed Venga cars, year 2019: 49kTaxed Venga cars, year 2020: 48kTaxed Venga cars, year 2021: 49kTaxed Venga cars, year 2022: 48kTaxed Venga cars, year 2023: 47kTaxed Venga cars, year 2024: 47kTaxed Venga cars, year 2025: 46k46k
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YearTaxed Venga cars
201425,214
201531,025
201637,077
201742,582
201845,887
201948,729
202047,999
202148,551
202247,940
202347,459
202446,670
202545,806

Venga 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.

02004006008002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Venga cars on SORN, year 2014: 48Venga cars on SORN, year 2015: 86Venga cars on SORN, year 2016: 79Venga cars on SORN, year 2017: 133Venga cars on SORN, year 2018: 167Venga cars on SORN, year 2019: 255Venga cars on SORN, year 2020: 378Venga cars on SORN, year 2021: 329Venga cars on SORN, year 2022: 399Venga cars on SORN, year 2023: 469Venga cars on SORN, year 2024: 622Venga cars on SORN, year 2025: 747747
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YearVenga cars on SORN
201448
201586
201679
2017133
2018167
2019255
2020378
2021329
2022399
2023469
2024622
2025747

Which model years survive

Taxed Venga cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 45,806 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. 1 taxed Venga car has no recorded year of manufacture and is not in the table, so the rows add up to 45,805. 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 Venga cars
20192,6405.8%
20183,6307.9%
20175,87212.8%
20165,63012.3%
20156,10413.3%
20145,33011.6%
20135,50012.0%
20124,69710.3%
20113,8688.4%
20102,5145.5%
All other build years (one year, each under 1%)200.0%

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 VENGA 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 Venga ages

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

Kia VengaAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Kia Venga, vehicle age 6: 88.8%Kia Venga, vehicle age 7: 87.7%Kia Venga, vehicle age 8: 84.3%Kia Venga, vehicle age 9: 79.3%Kia Venga, vehicle age 10: 74.8%Kia Venga, vehicle age 11: 64.1%Kia Venga, vehicle age 12: 62.2%Kia Venga, vehicle age 13: 58.6%Kia Venga, vehicle age 14: 55%Kia Venga, vehicle age 15: 53.9%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%Kia Venga 53.9%
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Age (years)Venga testsVenga pass rateAll cars
62,63988.8%83.5%
73,66987.7%80.9%
85,90284.3%78.2%
95,65079.3%74.9%
106,12774.8%71.9%
115,33664.1%68.6%
125,51162.2%65.8%
134,79758.6%63.5%
144,07555.0%61.2%
152,65353.9%59.3%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Venga aheadVenga behind
-8-4+0+4+8Age 6: +5.3 points vs the average carAge 7: +6.8 points vs the average car7Age 8: +6.1 points vs the average carAge 9: +4.4 points vs the average car9Age 10: +2.9 points vs the average carAge 11: -4.5 points vs the average car11Age 12: -3.6 points vs the average carAge 13: -4.9 points vs the average car13Age 14: -6.2 points vs the average carAge 15: -5.4 points vs the average car15Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
6+5.3
7+6.8
8+6.1
9+4.4
10+2.9
11-4.5
12-3.6
13-4.9
14-6.2
15-5.4

The Venga fleet on the road, by age

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

01k3k5k7kAge 6: 2k6Age 7: 3kAge 8: 5k8Age 9: 5kAge 10: 6k10Age 11: 5kAge 12: 5k12Age 13: 4kAge 14: 4k14Age 15: 2k15Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
62,639
73,669
85,902
95,650
106,127
115,336
125,511
134,797
144,075
152,653

What a Venga fails on

Where the failure items land when a Venga 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 equipment31.2%
Brakes15.7%
Suspension14.8%
Steering13.2%
Tyres10.4%
Visibility8.0%
Noise, emissions and leaks2.6%
Body, chassis, structure2.5%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.3% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Brakes: 33.9% of advisories33.9%Tyres: 32.2% of advisories32.2%Suspension: 16.4% of advisories16.4%Non-component advisories: 5.2% of advisoriesSteering: 4.4% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 2.6% of advisories
BrakesTyresSuspensionNon-component advisoriesSteeringNoise, emissions and leaks
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CategoryShare of advisories
Brakes33.9%
Tyres32.2%
Suspension16.4%
Non-component advisories5.2%
Steering4.4%
Noise, emissions and leaks2.6%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Venga?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Venga 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%Petrol: 73.7% of 35,235 tests73.7%Petrol35,235 testsDiesel: 62.5% of 11,145 tests62.5%Diesel11,145 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Petrol35,23573.7%
Diesel11,14562.5%

What mileage is normal for a Venga?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Venga; 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 Venga (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k6810121415Vehicle age (years)Age 6: typical 23,750 miles (middle half 16,250–36,250)Age 7: typical 31,250 miles (middle half 21,250–43,750)Age 8: typical 38,750 miles (middle half 26,250–53,750)Age 9: typical 46,250 miles (middle half 31,250–61,250)Age 10: typical 51,250 miles (middle half 36,250–71,250)Age 11: typical 58,750 miles (middle half 43,750–78,750)Age 12: typical 66,250 miles (middle half 48,750–86,250)Age 13: typical 71,250 miles (middle half 53,750–91,250)Age 14: typical 78,750 miles (middle half 58,750–101,250)Age 15: typical 83,750 miles (middle half 63,750–106,250)83k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
616,25023,75036,250
721,25031,25043,750
826,25038,75053,750
931,25046,25061,250
1036,25051,25071,250
1143,75058,75078,750
1248,75066,25086,250
1353,75071,25091,250
1458,75078,750101,250
1563,75083,750106,250

What fails at each age

The Venga'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 equipmentVisibilitySuspensionSteeringEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
6-9 yrsBrakes29.0%
6-9 yrsTyres27.4%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment19.7%
6-9 yrsVisibility12.4%
6-9 yrsSuspension4.1%
6-9 yrsEverything else7.4%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment23.1%
10-13 yrsSuspension19.4%
10-13 yrsSteering17.6%
10-13 yrsBrakes16.9%
10-13 yrsTyres10.2%
10-13 yrsEverything else12.8%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment24.9%
14+ yrsSuspension19.7%
14+ yrsSteering17.0%
14+ yrsBrakes15.8%
14+ yrsTyres6.5%
14+ yrsEverything else16.1%

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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.