Pass rate
91.5%
Above average — 0.3 pts ahead of the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 28,229 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £25–£61
2021 Hyundai Tucson MOT pass rate
- 2021
- typical 28,393 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
38.8% 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 →
3.2 pts down across model years — 7.7% in 2005, 4.5% in 2022.
Which year to buy
- Best 2024 95.4% pass
- Avoid 2006 68.6% pass
Across the 17 years on record, a spread of 26.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 90.8%
- Typical mileage
- 28k mi
The 2021 Hyundai Tucson MOT pass rate is 91.5% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 38.8% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Hyundai Tucson does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.0× the national share
Tyres make up 38.8% of everything recorded on the 2021 Hyundai Tucson, against 19.8% nationally — 19.0 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.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 58% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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 2021 Hyundai Tucson compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 0.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 90.8%. The median 2021 Hyundai Tucson in this dataset had covered 28,393 mi.
48% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 91.5% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 91.1% of the time, April–September 92.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively", noted on 2.48% of tests.
- 28,229 recorded tests behind this page.
- 91.5% overall pass rate, 90.8% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Hyundai Tucson, the average is 87.0% — best year 2024 (95.4%), worst 2006 (68.6%).
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
- 28,229
- Typical mileage (median)
- 28,393 mi
- Make and model
- Hyundai Tucson
- 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 Tucson MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 75% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (48% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Tucson
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 5,592 | 91.4% |
| Scotland | 4,257 | 90.1% |
| North West | 3,599 | 92.7% |
| West Midlands | 2,756 | 91.7% |
| Yorkshire | 2,410 | 91.6% |
| East of England | 2,332 | 93.1% |
| South West | 2,167 | 91.0% |
| East Midlands | 1,812 | 91.2% |
| North East | 1,327 | 92.1% |
| Wales | 1,181 | 91.5% |
| London | 796 | 91.6% |
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 2021 Tucson
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 2021 Tucson
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 2.5% 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 1.4% 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 tyre tread 1.1% 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.
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 2021 Tucson through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £25–£61 — and 58% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £25–£61
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 58%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 28,229 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 Tucson, side by side
17 model years on record, from 2004 to 2024. Across them the pass rate runs from 68.6% to 95.4% — a spread of 26.8 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2004 68.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 69.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 68.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 71.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 71.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 73.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 73.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 82.4% rbt (sp) efficiency below…
- 2016 85.0% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2017 86.1% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2018 88.2% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2019 89.3% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2020 89.6% wipers does not clear the…
- 2021 91.5%wipers does not clear the…
- 2022 92.2% wipers does not clear the…
- 2023 94.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2024 95.4% 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 2021 Hyundai Tucson 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 2021 cars with a similar record
- Vauxhall Crossland 91.5%
- Cupra Formentor V2 91.5%
- Volkswagen Golf R 91.5%
- BMW X4 XDRIVE20D 91.5%
- Ford Focus 91.6%
- MG Zs 91.4%
Closest pass rates among 2021 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 2021 Hyundai Tucson 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 16,599 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 | 6,501 | 38.80% | 19.76% | +19.04 |
| Brakes | 3,329 | 19.90% | 20.89% | −0.99 |
| Visibility | 2,313 | 13.80% | 4.97% | +8.83 |
| Non-component advisories | 2,069 | 12.40% | 4.18% | +8.22 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 612 | 3.70% | 12.21% | −8.51 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 540 | 3.20% | 5.52% | −2.32 |
| Steering | 426 | 2.50% | 2.57% | −0.07 |
| Suspension | 358 | 2.10% | 20.98% | −18.88 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 244 | 1.50% | 5.57% | −4.07 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 207 | 1.20% | 1.76% | −0.56 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 2.5% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.7% | £8–22 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.4% | £80–200 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.4% | £8–22 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.3% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.79% | £3–12 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.72% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.43% | £30–80 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Major | 0.36% | £5–15 |
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 | 12.0% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.7% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 3.8% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 3.7% | £20–80 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 2.3% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.2% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 15,515 | 92.9% | 20,598 mi |
| 30-60k | 11,719 | 89.9% | 39,989 mi |
| 60-90k | 866 | 89.4% | 69,213 mi |
| 90-120k | 95 | 84.2% | 100,937 mi |
| 120k+ | 31 | 83.9% | 155,798 mi |
Source: 28,229 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.
2021 Tucson MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Hyundai Tucson?
91.5% of the 28,229 2021 Hyundai Tucson tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 90.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Hyundai Tucson?
The three most recorded items are wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (2.48%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.68%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.45%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Hyundai Tucson MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.9% of the time, falling to 83.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Hyundai Tucson in this dataset had covered 28,393 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2021 Hyundai Tucson?
Petrol: 91.5% pass rate across 13,534 tests. Hybrid: 92.6% pass rate across 10,264 tests. Other: 89.3% pass rate across 4,349 tests. Diesel: 89.0% pass rate across 82 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2021 Hyundai Tucson MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 91.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 92.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.