Pass rate
70.9%
Below average — 2.1 pts behind the 73.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 292 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £24–£69
2007 Kia Magentis MOT pass rate
- 2007
- typical 84,573 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
28.1% 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 2005 77.1% pass
- Avoid 2009 69.3% pass
Across the 8 years on record, a spread of 7.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 63.0%
- Typical mileage
- 85k mi
The 2007 Kia Magentis MOT pass rate is 70.9% of its MOT tests — 2.1 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 28.1% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Kia Magentis does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.3× the national share
Suspension accounts for 28.1% of everything recorded on the 2007 Kia Magentis, against 21.0% nationally — 7.1 points above. Ask for the front and rear suspension to be checked on a ramp before you buy — worn bushes and broken springs are cheap to look at and expensive to discover at test time.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 27% of this model’s typical repairs come in under £30 in parts — the failures here tend to be the kind that need a garage rather than a bulb.
- Based on a small sample. 292 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 2007 Kia Magentis compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.0%, so this figure is 2.1 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 63.0%. The median 2007 Kia Magentis in this dataset had covered 84,573 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 58% of tests, with a 73.5% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 72.3% of the time, April–September 69.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn", noted on 5.14% of tests.
- 292 recorded tests behind this page.
- 70.9% overall pass rate, 63.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Kia Magentis, the average is 71.6% — best year 2005 (77.1%), worst 2009 (69.3%).
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
- 292
- Typical mileage (median)
- 84,573 mi
- Make and model
- Kia Magentis
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Ball Joint
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Magentis MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 58% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (58% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Magentis
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 48 | 81.3% |
| South West | 47 | 59.6% |
| East of England | 36 | 77.8% |
| North West | 34 | 64.7% |
| West Midlands | 29 | 65.5% |
| Yorkshire | 27 | 77.8% |
| East Midlands | 26 | 69.2% |
| Scotland | 21 | 57.1% |
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 2007 Magentis
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 2007 Magentis
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 suspension joints 5.1% of tests
“linkage ball joints 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.
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Check the lights 4.8% of tests
“headlamp lens slightly defective”
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 2007 Magentis through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £24–£69 — and 27% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £24–£69
- Cheapest common item: srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: pins
- £40–£150
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 27%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 292 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 Magentis, side by side
8 model years on record, from 2003 to 2010. Across them the pass rate runs from 69.3% to 77.1% — a spread of 7.8 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2003 76.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2004 73.0% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2005 77.1% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2006 70.3% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2007 70.9%linkage ball joints ball joint…
- 2008 70.7% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2009 69.3% service brake performance…
- 2010 72.3% track rod end ball joint has…
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 2007 Kia Magentis 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 2007 cars with a similar record
- Nissan Navara 70.9%
- Vauxhall Vectra 71.0%
- Citroen C1 71.0%
- Mitsubishi Colt 71.0%
- Jaguar X-Type 71.0%
- Vauxhall Astra 70.8%
Closest pass rates among 2007 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 2007 Kia Magentis 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 921 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 | 262 | 28.10% | 20.98% | +7.12 |
| Brakes | 209 | 22.40% | 20.89% | +1.51 |
| Tyres | 125 | 13.40% | 19.76% | −6.36 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 101 | 10.80% | 12.21% | −1.41 |
| Steering | 67 | 7.20% | 2.57% | +4.63 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 53 | 5.70% | 5.52% | +0.18 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 38 | 4.10% | 5.57% | −1.47 |
| Visibility | 32 | 3.40% | 4.97% | −1.57 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 19 | 2.00% | 0.82% | +1.18 |
| Non-component advisories | 15 | 1.60% | 4.18% | −2.58 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 5.1% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 4.8% | £5–25 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 4.5% | £40–150 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.1% | £30–80 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 4.1% | £18–45 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 3.8% | £60–150 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.4% | £18–45 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 3.4% | £3–12 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 2.4% | £45–110 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.0% | £3–12 |
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 | 21.2% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 19.5% | £45–110 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 17.5% | £40–150 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 13.4% | £200–700 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 11.3% | £80–180 |
| Suspension arm corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 11.0% | £35–85 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 3 | 66.7% | 28,319 mi |
| 30-60k | 51 | 70.6% | 48,618 mi |
| 60-90k | 117 | 72.6% | 76,717 mi |
| 90-120k | 77 | 68.8% | 101,899 mi |
| 120k+ | 44 | 70.5% | 151,561 mi |
Source: 292 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.
2007 Magentis MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2007 Kia Magentis?
70.9% of the 292 2007 Kia Magentis tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.0% for cars first used in 2007. First-attempt pass rate: 63.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2007 Kia Magentis?
The three most recorded items are linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn (5.14%), headlamp lens slightly defective (4.79%), pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (4.45%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2007 Kia Magentis MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 66.7% of the time, falling to 70.5% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2007 Kia Magentis in this dataset had covered 84,573 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2007 Kia Magentis?
Petrol: 73.5% pass rate across 170 tests. Diesel: 67.2% pass rate across 122 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2007 Kia Magentis MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 72.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 69.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.