Pass rate
89.3%
Above average — 5.5 pts behind the 94.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 215 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £31–£70
2023 Hyundai Kona Advance MOT pass rate
- 2023
- typical 40,350 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
65.1% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tyre has a tear. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2024 93.6% pass
- Avoid 2023 89.3% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 4.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 88.6%
- Typical mileage
- 40k mi
The 2023 Hyundai Kona Advance MOT pass rate is 89.3% of its MOT tests — 5.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 65.1% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Hyundai Kona Advance does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 3.3× the national share
Tyres make up 65.1% of everything recorded on the 2023 Hyundai Kona Advance, against 19.8% nationally — 45.3 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 94.8%; this one manages 89.3% — 5.5 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- Based on a small sample. 215 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
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 2023 Hyundai Kona Advance compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 94.8%, so this figure is 5.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 88.6%. The median 2023 Hyundai Kona Advance in this dataset had covered 40,350 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 88.5% of the time, April–September 91.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords", noted on 4.65% of tests.
- 215 recorded tests behind this page.
- 89.3% overall pass rate, 88.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Hyundai Kona Advance, the average is 91.3% — best year 2024 (93.6%), worst 2023 (89.3%).
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
- 215
- Typical mileage (median)
- 40,350 mi
- Make and model
- Hyundai Kona Advance
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Kona Advance MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 73% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Kona Advance
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| London | 105 | 87.6% |
| South East | 93 | 89.2% |
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 2023 Kona Advance
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 2023 Kona Advance
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 2.8% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
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 tyre tread 1.4% of tests
“tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm”
Check all four tyres cold, including the inner shoulder where wear hides — 1.6mm across the central three-quarters is the legal limit, and most testers fail at 1.6mm without argument.
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Check the windscreen 0.5% of tests
“driver's view of the road through the swept area of the windscreen significantly affected by an obstruction”
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.
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 2023 Kona Advance through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £31–£70 — and 37% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £31–£70
- Cheapest common item: washers not working
- £5–£15
- Dearest common item: driver's view of the road through the swept…
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 37%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 215 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 Kona Advance, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2023 to 2024. Across them the pass rate runs from 89.3% to 93.6% — a spread of 4.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2023 89.3%has a cut in excess of the…
- 2024 93.6% 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 2023 Hyundai Kona Advance 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 2023 cars with a similar record
- Tesla Model Y 92.9%
- Polestar Polestar 94.6%
- Kia Niro 95.5%
- Toyota Corolla 95.7%
- Mercedes-Benz Eqe 96.5%
- Ford Puma 96.5%
Closest pass rates among 2023 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 2023 Hyundai Kona Advance 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 8 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 152 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 | 99 | 65.10% | 19.76% | +45.34 |
| Non-component advisories | 19 | 12.50% | 4.18% | +8.32 |
| Visibility | 17 | 11.20% | 4.97% | +6.23 |
| Suspension | 9 | 5.90% | 20.98% | −15.08 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 3 | 2.00% | 12.21% | −10.21 |
| Brakes | 2 | 1.30% | 20.89% | −19.59 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 2 | 1.30% | 1.76% | −0.46 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 0.70% | 5.57% | −4.87 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 4.7% | £45–95 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 2.8% | £8–22 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.93% | £45–95 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Major | 0.93% | £5–15 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 0.93% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.93% | £8–22 |
| Driver's view of the road through the swept area of the windscreen significantly affected by an obstruction Visibility | Major | 0.47% | £80–200 |
| Electronic parking brake control inoperative Brakes | Major | 0.47% | £25–80 |
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 | 21.9% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.5% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 6.0% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 4.2% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 3.3% | £45–95 |
| Wheel bearings has excessive play Suspension | Advisory | 3.3% | £20–55 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 67 | 91.0% | 20,546 mi |
| 30-60k | 102 | 91.2% | 43,524 mi |
| 60-90k | 37 | 81.1% | 70,107 mi |
| 90-120k | 7 | 85.7% | 103,009 mi |
| 120k+ | 2 | 100.0% | 131,385 mi |
Source: 215 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.
2023 Kona Advance MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2023 Hyundai Kona Advance?
89.3% of the 215 2023 Hyundai Kona Advance tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 94.8% for cars first used in 2023. First-attempt pass rate: 88.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2023 Hyundai Kona Advance?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (4.65%), wipers blade defective (2.79%), has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure (1.40%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2023 Hyundai Kona Advance MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.0% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2023 Hyundai Kona Advance in this dataset had covered 40,350 mi.
Does the season affect the 2023 Hyundai Kona Advance MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 88.5% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 91.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.