Pass rate
73.7%
Below average — 3.5 pts behind the 77.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 532 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £38–£100
2012 Hyundai Iload MOT pass rate
- 2012
- typical 112,687 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Brakes
29.9% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Part only £25–£55 for Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2018 90.6% pass
- Avoid 2009 70.8% pass
Across the 11 years on record, a spread of 19.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 66.1%
- Typical mileage
- 113k mi
The 2012 Hyundai Iload MOT pass rate is 73.7% of its MOT tests — 3.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 29.9% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 1.4× the national share
Brakes make up 29.9% of everything recorded on the 2012 Hyundai Iload, against 20.9% nationally — 9.0 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 77.2%; this one manages 73.7% — 3.5 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
Written from this page's own figures: fault shares against the national composition, the like-for-like pass rate, and the priced repair list. How these are worked out
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How does the 2012 Hyundai Iload compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 77.2%, so this figure is 3.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 66.1%. The median 2012 Hyundai Iload in this dataset had covered 112,687 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 74.2% of the time, April–September 73.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 9.77% of tests.
- 532 recorded tests behind this page.
- 73.7% overall pass rate, 66.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Hyundai Iload, the average is 75.4% — best year 2018 (90.6%), worst 2009 (70.8%).
Figures count every completed test on this vehicle-year in the dataset, including retests. See methodology for the exact definition.
This page's data
- Tests analysed
- 532
- Typical mileage (median)
- 112,687 mi
- Make and model
- Hyundai Iload
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Iload MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 63% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Hyundai Iload is most common
Across all Iload model years on record (2009–2019): 1,198 Hyundai Iload cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 3,253 tests. Truro (TR) has the most, with 67 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Truro (TR) | 67 | 71.1% |
| 2 | Plymouth (PL) | 49 | 70.1% |
| 3 | Sheffield (S) | 34 | 85.4% |
| 4 | Exeter (EX) | 31 | 67.8% |
| 5 | Swansea (SA) | 30 | 80.5% |
| 6 | Bristol (BS) | 26 | 74.0% |
| 7 | Birmingham (B) | 26 | 85.7% |
| 8 | Nottingham (NG) | 25 | 75.4% |
| 9 | Doncaster (DN) | 23 | 73.0% |
| 10 | Reading (RG) | 21 | 79.7% |
| 11 | Cardiff (CF) | 20 | 71.2% |
| 12 | Derby (DE) | 20 | 79.2% |
| 13 | Ashford (TN) | 20 | 84.4% |
| 14 | Swindon (SN) | 18 | 71.9% |
| 15 | Milton Keynes (MK) | 18 | 75.6% |
| 16 | Guildford (GU) | 18 | 81.0% |
| 17 | Gloucester (GL) | 17 | 68.3% |
| 18 | Portsmouth (PO) | 17 | 75.5% |
| 19 | Southampton (SO) | 17 | 72.7% |
| 20 | Carlisle (CA) | 16 | 80.0% |
The twenty areas with the most Hyundai Iload cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the Iload
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South West | 130 | 70.8% |
| South East | 113 | 76.1% |
| North West | 58 | 82.8% |
| East of England | 39 | 66.7% |
| Scotland | 37 | 59.5% |
| Yorkshire | 35 | 82.9% |
| West Midlands | 34 | 85.3% |
| East Midlands | 33 | 63.6% |
| Wales | 22 | 77.3% |
| North East | 22 | 63.6% |
Regions come from the postcode area recorded at the test station. Areas on region borders are assigned to the region with the majority of their population.
What fails a 2012 Iload
Everything a tester recorded on this vehicle, grouped into the inspection sections that produced it. The notch on each bar is the national share, so you can see at a glance whether this car is unusual or just ordinary.
A test can record several items, so these percentages do not add up to 100%. The exact strings, with prices, are in the full DVSA record at the bottom of this page.
Before your test
Three checks worth doing on a 2012 Iload
These are not generic tips — they are the faults recorded most often on this exact model, rewritten as things you can check yourself. All three take about ten minutes and cost nothing.
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Check the lights 9.8% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
Switch everything on and walk round the car: both headlamps on dip and main, every indicator, both brake lights, reverse, fog and the two number-plate lamps. A bulb is a few pounds and a five-minute job.
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Check the windscreen 4.9% of tests
“windscreen damaged”
Check the driver’s side of the screen within the swept area for chips and cracks; anything larger than 10mm in the driver’s central view is a fail. Most chips can be resin-repaired for far less than a new screen.
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Check the suspension joints 3.0% of tests
“ball joint excessively worn”
With the car parked on level ground, rock the top of each front wheel in and out while someone watches the suspension arm. Clunks, or rubber boots split and greasy, are what testers record here.
Shares are the proportion of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item, so they overlap: one test can record several.
What it costs to get a 2012 Iload through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £38–£100 — and 37% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £38–£100
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 37%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 532 MOT tests on this vehicle. They exclude diagnostics, retest fees and garage labour where the part is a DIY fit, and they are not figures from the DVSA dataset. Older and higher-mileage examples cost more than the average. How these estimates are built → · All MOT repair costs → · Cheapest cars to put through a test →
Every year of the Iload, side by side
11 model years on record, from 2009 to 2019. Across them the pass rate runs from 70.8% to 90.6% — a spread of 19.8 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2009 70.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 74.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 74.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 73.7%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 77.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 76.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 79.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 75.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 76.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 90.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2019 83.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
Colour is the pass rate on a fixed scale, so a block means the same thing on any model. Each year links to its own page with the full fault breakdown.
Compare the 2012 Hyundai Iload with another year
The raw pass rate mostly measures age. The year comparison adds the like-for-like figure, the mileage bands and the repair bill.
Other 2012 cars with a similar record
- Ford Galaxy 73.7%
- Peugeot 207 73.8%
- Kia Sportage 73.8%
- Kia Soul 73.8%
- Fiat Fiorino 73.5%
- Citroen C3 74.0%
Closest pass rates among 2012 cars with at least 2,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. See the full rankings: best and worst MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2012 Hyundai Iload 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 10 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 1,233 individual items recorded on this vehicle, and the same share across all cars nationally. A single test can record several items, so a row is not a percentage of tests.
| Category | Items | This car | Nationally | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 373 | 29.90% | 20.89% | +9.01 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 235 | 18.80% | 12.21% | +6.59 |
| Suspension | 193 | 15.50% | 20.98% | −5.48 |
| Tyres | 139 | 11.10% | 19.76% | −8.66 |
| Visibility | 69 | 5.50% | 4.97% | +0.53 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 55 | 4.40% | 5.57% | −1.17 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 54 | 4.30% | 5.52% | −1.22 |
| Steering | 54 | 4.30% | 2.57% | +1.73 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 31 | 2.50% | 1.76% | +0.74 |
| Non-component advisories | 30 | 2.40% | 4.18% | −1.78 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 9.8% | £5–20 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 4.9% | £60–150 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 4.9% | £80–200 |
| Leaf spring fractured Suspension | Major | 3.8% | £40–150 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 3.4% | £45–110 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.0% | £18–45 |
| Parking brake performance inoperative on one side Brakes | Major | 3.0% | £60–150 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 3.0% | £80–180 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 2.8% | £8–22 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.4% | £5–25 |
Severity is as recorded: Major and Dangerous fail the test outright; Minor and Advisory do not. Costs are estimates from typical UK parts prices — see how they are built.
What testers noted without failing the car
Advisories are the early warnings — the same parts a year or two before they fail. Reading them is how you tell a car that has been maintained from one that has been patched.
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 14.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 11.1% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 9.6% | £18–45 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 8.5% | £80–180 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 8.1% | £200–700 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.4% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 4 | 100.0% | 18,616 mi |
| 30-60k | 46 | 78.3% | 47,851 mi |
| 60-90k | 120 | 76.7% | 77,470 mi |
| 90-120k | 129 | 72.9% | 104,905 mi |
| 120k+ | 233 | 71.2% | 159,718 mi |
Source: 532 recorded tests on this vehicle-year. Every row above is recomputed from the same DVSA extract as the rest of the page — see the methodology.
2012 Iload MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2012 Hyundai Iload?
73.7% of the 532 2012 Hyundai Iload tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 77.2% for cars first used in 2012. First-attempt pass rate: 66.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2012 Hyundai Iload?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (9.77%), service brake performance excessively binding (4.89%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (4.89%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2012 Hyundai Iload MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 71.2% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2012 Hyundai Iload in this dataset had covered 112,687 mi.
Does the season affect the 2012 Hyundai Iload MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 74.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 73.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.