Pass rate
70.8%
Below average — 1.4 pts behind the 72.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 277 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £60–£161
2004 Hyundai Trajet MOT pass rate
- 2004
- typical 107,149 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
24.3% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Part only £35–£75 for Suspension pin or bush excessively worn. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2002 70.9% pass
- Avoid 2003 67.2% pass
Across the 5 years on record, a spread of 3.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 61.6%
- Typical mileage
- 107k mi
The 2004 Hyundai Trajet MOT pass rate is 70.8% of its MOT tests — 1.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 24.3% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Hyundai Trajet does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Fewer problems with tyres
Tyres are 9.3% of this car’s recorded faults, against 19.8% nationally — the mirror image of the usual story on a car of this age.
- Based on a small sample. 277 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 2004 Hyundai Trajet compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.2%, so this figure is 1.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 61.6%. The median 2004 Hyundai Trajet in this dataset had covered 107,149 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 60% of tests, with a 72.1% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 70.2% of the time, April–September 71.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated", noted on 7.58% of tests.
- 277 recorded tests behind this page.
- 70.8% overall pass rate, 61.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Hyundai Trajet, the average is 68.2% — best year 2002 (70.9%), worst 2003 (67.2%).
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
- 277
- Typical mileage (median)
- 107,149 mi
- Make and model
- Hyundai Trajet
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Body Panel Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Trajet MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 55% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (60% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Trajet
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 73 | 72.6% |
| London | 45 | 77.8% |
| South West | 41 | 56.1% |
| East of England | 40 | 77.5% |
| West Midlands | 25 | 68.0% |
| East Midlands | 19 | 63.2% |
| North West | 16 | 62.5% |
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 2004 Trajet
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 2004 Trajet
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 corrosion 6.9% of tests
“component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength”
Look under the sills, around the jacking points and where the suspension mounts meet the body. Flaking, holed or crumbly metal fails; a brown stain on sound metal does not.
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Check the windscreen 6.9% 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 lights 6.1% 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.
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 2004 Trajet through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £60–£161 — and 36% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £60–£161
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: component mounting prescribed areas…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 36%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 277 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 Trajet, side by side
5 model years on record, from 2002 to 2006. Across them the pass rate runs from 67.2% to 70.9% — a spread of 3.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2002 70.9% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2003 67.2% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2004 70.8%joints constant velocity boot…
- 2005 67.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 67.3% 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 2004 Hyundai Trajet 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 2004 cars with a similar record
- Audi A3 70.7%
- Mitsubishi L200 70.9%
- Volvo XC90 70.9%
- MINI Mini 70.6%
- Ford Focus 70.6%
- Volkswagen Touran 70.6%
Closest pass rates among 2004 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 2004 Hyundai Trajet 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 935 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 231 | 24.30% | 20.98% | +3.32 |
| Brakes | 167 | 17.60% | 20.89% | −3.29 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 115 | 12.10% | 12.21% | −0.11 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 97 | 10.20% | 5.57% | +4.63 |
| Tyres | 88 | 9.30% | 19.76% | −10.46 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 81 | 8.50% | 5.52% | +2.98 |
| Visibility | 64 | 6.70% | 4.97% | +1.73 |
| Non-component advisories | 43 | 4.50% | 4.18% | +0.32 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 27 | 2.80% | 1.76% | +1.04 |
| Steering | 22 | 2.30% | 2.57% | −0.27 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 7.6% | £80–250 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 6.9% | £180–450 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 6.9% | £80–200 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 6.1% | £5–20 |
| Mirrors slightly damaged Visibility | Minor | 4.3% | £3–15 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 4.0% | £80–180 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 4.0% | £8–22 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.6% | £40–150 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.6% | £3–12 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.3% | £18–45 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 25.3% | £80–180 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 19.5% | £200–700 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 17.7% | £45–95 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 14.4% | £25–65 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 10.8% | £40–150 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 8.7% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 4 | 100.0% | 26,058 mi |
| 30-60k | 21 | 81.0% | 44,422 mi |
| 60-90k | 58 | 74.1% | 76,481 mi |
| 90-120k | 99 | 72.7% | 104,960 mi |
| 120k+ | 95 | 63.2% | 150,512 mi |
Source: 277 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.
2004 Trajet MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2004 Hyundai Trajet?
70.8% of the 277 2004 Hyundai Trajet tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.2% for cars first used in 2004. First-attempt pass rate: 61.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2004 Hyundai Trajet?
The three most recorded items are joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (7.58%), component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (6.86%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (6.86%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2004 Hyundai Trajet MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 63.2% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2004 Hyundai Trajet in this dataset had covered 107,149 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2004 Hyundai Trajet?
Petrol: 72.1% pass rate across 165 tests. Diesel: 68.5% pass rate across 111 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2004 Hyundai Trajet MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 70.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 71.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.