Pass rate
92.0%
Above average — 1.3 pts ahead of the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 25,348 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £27–£67
2020 Hyundai Ioniq MOT pass rate
- 2020
- 2 trims combined
- typical 37,701 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
47.4% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
1.2 pts down across model years — 4.7% in 2016, 3.5% in 2022.
Which year to buy
- Best 2024 97.7% pass
- Avoid 2016 88.8% pass
Across the 9 years on record, a spread of 8.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 91.4%
- Typical mileage
- 38k mi
The 2020 Hyundai Ioniq MOT pass rate is 92.0% of its MOT tests — 1.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 47.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Hyundai Ioniq does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.4× the national share
Tyres make up 47.4% of everything recorded on the 2020 Hyundai Ioniq, against 19.8% nationally — 27.6 points above. Check all four tyres yourself, including the inner shoulders, and look at the date stamp — a tyre can pass on tread and still be six years old.
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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Every Hyundai Ioniq first registered in 2020 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2020 Hyundai Ioniq compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 1.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 91.4%. The median 2020 Hyundai Ioniq in this dataset had covered 37,701 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Hybrid — 65% of tests, with a 91.2% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 92.1% of the time, April–September 91.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively", noted on 1.45% of tests.
- 25,348 recorded tests behind this page.
- 92.0% overall pass rate, 91.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Hyundai Ioniq, the average is 91.3% — best year 2024 (97.7%), worst 2016 (88.8%).
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
- 25,348
- Typical mileage (median)
- 37,701 mi
- Make and model
- Hyundai Ioniq
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Wiper Blade
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Ioniq MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 81% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Hybrid is the most common here (65% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Ioniq
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 5,880 | 92.7% |
| North West | 2,915 | 93.1% |
| London | 2,813 | 94.6% |
| East of England | 2,288 | 92.1% |
| Scotland | 2,244 | 86.9% |
| West Midlands | 2,148 | 92.1% |
| Yorkshire | 1,991 | 91.9% |
| South West | 1,835 | 89.9% |
| East Midlands | 1,605 | 91.4% |
| Wales | 838 | 93.1% |
| North East | 791 | 92.0% |
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 2020 Ioniq
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 2020 Ioniq
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 wipers and washers 1.4% of tests
“wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively”
Run the wipers with the screen wet: they should clear it in one sweep without smearing or juddering. Top the washer bottle up and check both jets hit the screen.
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Check the windscreen 1.2% 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 lights 1.0% of tests
“headlamp aim too high”
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.
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 2020 Ioniq through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £27–£67 — and 52% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £27–£67
- 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
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 52%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 25,348 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 Ioniq, side by side
9 model years on record, from 2016 to 2024. Across them the pass rate runs from 88.8% to 97.7% — a spread of 8.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2016 88.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 89.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 90.3% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2019 91.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 92.0%wipers does not clear the…
- 2021 92.2% wipers does not clear the…
- 2022 93.3% wipers blade defective
- 2023 96.5% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2024 97.7% has a cut in excess of the…
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 2020 Hyundai Ioniq 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 2020 cars with a similar record
- Nissan Juke 92.0%
- Kia Rio 92.0%
- Porsche Taycan 92.0%
- Audi Q7 92.0%
- SEAT Ateca Fr 92.0%
- Volkswagen Polo 92.1%
Closest pass rates among 2020 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 2020 Hyundai Ioniq 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 13,504 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 6,430 | 47.40% | 19.76% | +27.64 |
| Brakes | 2,453 | 18.10% | 20.89% | −2.79 |
| Visibility | 1,559 | 11.50% | 4.97% | +6.53 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1,385 | 10.20% | 12.21% | −2.01 |
| Non-component advisories | 1,078 | 7.90% | 4.18% | +3.72 |
| Suspension | 163 | 1.20% | 20.98% | −19.78 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 157 | 1.20% | 5.57% | −4.37 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 132 | 1.00% | 1.76% | −0.76 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 108 | 0.80% | 5.52% | −4.72 |
| Road Wheels | 39 | 0.30% | 0.75% | −0.45 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.4% | £8–22 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.4% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.2% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.0% | £30–80 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.92% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp levelling device inoperative Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.64% | £5–25 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.47% | £5–20 |
| Headlamp aim too far to the right Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.46% | £30–80 |
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 | 11.0% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 7.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.4% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.7% | £20–80 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.5% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 9,296 | 92.9% | 19,374 mi |
| 30-60k | 10,440 | 91.8% | 43,066 mi |
| 60-90k | 3,627 | 91.5% | 72,284 mi |
| 90-120k | 1,368 | 89.9% | 102,658 mi |
| 120k+ | 614 | 90.6% | 144,494 mi |
Source: 25,348 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.
2020 Ioniq MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Hyundai Ioniq?
92.0% of the 25,348 2020 Hyundai Ioniq tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 91.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Hyundai Ioniq?
The three most recorded items are wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.45%), wipers blade defective (1.35%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.23%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Hyundai Ioniq MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.9% of the time, falling to 90.6% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Hyundai Ioniq in this dataset had covered 37,701 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2020 Hyundai Ioniq?
Hybrid: 91.2% pass rate across 16,429 tests. Electric: 93.4% pass rate across 8,909 tests. Petrol: 90.0% pass rate across 10 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2020 Hyundai Ioniq MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 92.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 91.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.