Pass rate
71.7%
Below average — 5.5 pts behind the 77.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 378 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £30–£85
2012 Kia Proceed MOT pass rate
- 2012
- typical 97,568 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
23.2% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2021 90.2% pass
- Avoid 2011 69.8% pass
Across the 11 years on record, a spread of 20.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 61.2%
- Typical mileage
- 98k mi
The 2012 Kia Proceed MOT pass rate is 71.7% of its MOT tests — 5.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 23.2% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Kia Proceed does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.5× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 18.9% of everything recorded on the 2012 Kia Proceed, against 12.2% nationally — 6.7 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 23.2%, but at 21.0% nationally that one is ordinary. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 77.2%; this one manages 71.7% — 5.5 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- Based on a small sample. 378 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 2012 Kia Proceed compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 77.2%, 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 61.2%. The median 2012 Kia Proceed in this dataset had covered 97,568 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 71% of tests, with a 71.3% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 73.3% of the time, April–September 70.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 9.26% of tests.
- 378 recorded tests behind this page.
- 71.7% overall pass rate, 61.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Kia Proceed, the average is 77.5% — best year 2021 (90.2%), worst 2011 (69.8%).
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
- 378
- Typical mileage (median)
- 97,568 mi
- Make and model
- Kia Proceed
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Proceed 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. Diesel is the most common here (71% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Proceed
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 66 | 72.7% |
| North West | 50 | 64.0% |
| South West | 48 | 68.8% |
| Scotland | 45 | 66.7% |
| East Midlands | 43 | 74.4% |
| East of England | 35 | 71.4% |
| Yorkshire | 35 | 74.3% |
| West Midlands | 24 | 79.2% |
| Wales | 16 | 81.3% |
| North East | 15 | 80.0% |
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 2012 Proceed
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 2012 Proceed
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 lights 9.3% 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.
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Check the suspension joints 4.2% of tests
“ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt”
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 windscreen 3.4% 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.
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 2012 Proceed through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £30–£85 — and 42% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £30–£85
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 42%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 378 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 Proceed, side by side
11 model years on record, from 2008 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 69.8% to 90.2% — a spread of 20.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2008 71.8% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2009 70.9% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2010 69.9% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2011 69.8% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2012 71.7%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 74.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 80.0% track rod end ball joint has…
- 2019 86.4% has ply or cords exposed
- 2020 89.1% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2021 90.2% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2022 86.6% has ply or cords exposed
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 2012 Kia Proceed 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 2012 cars with a similar record
- Vauxhall Antara 71.8%
- Nissan Juke 71.9%
- Nissan Navara 71.5%
- Citroen DS4 71.9%
- Hyundai Santa Fe 72.0%
- Peugeot Bipper 72.1%
Closest pass rates among 2012 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 2012 Kia Proceed 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 1,107 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 | 258 | 23.20% | 20.98% | +2.22 |
| Brakes | 211 | 19.00% | 20.89% | −1.89 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 210 | 18.90% | 12.21% | +6.69 |
| Tyres | 156 | 14.00% | 19.76% | −5.76 |
| Non-component advisories | 70 | 6.30% | 4.18% | +2.12 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 55 | 5.00% | 5.57% | −0.57 |
| Visibility | 52 | 4.70% | 4.97% | −0.27 |
| Steering | 43 | 3.90% | 2.57% | +1.33 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 27 | 2.40% | 5.52% | −3.12 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 25 | 2.30% | 1.76% | +0.54 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 9.3% | £5–20 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 8.7% | £80–250 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 7.4% | £5–25 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.8% | £3–12 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 4.2% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 4.2% | £18–45 |
| Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.4% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.4% | £80–200 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.9% | £60–140 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 2.6% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 20.4% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 18.0% | £45–110 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 16.9% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 10.6% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 10.6% | £45–95 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 9.0% | £25–65 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 3 | 66.7% | 28,834 mi |
| 30-60k | 37 | 73.0% | 47,605 mi |
| 60-90k | 114 | 74.6% | 76,939 mi |
| 90-120k | 121 | 71.9% | 105,005 mi |
| 120k+ | 103 | 68.0% | 137,103 mi |
Source: 378 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.
2012 Proceed MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2012 Kia Proceed?
71.7% of the 378 2012 Kia Proceed tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 77.2% for cars first used in 2012. First-attempt pass rate: 61.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2012 Kia Proceed?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (9.26%), joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (8.73%), position lamp not working (7.41%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2012 Kia Proceed MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 66.7% of the time, falling to 68.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2012 Kia Proceed in this dataset had covered 97,568 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2012 Kia Proceed?
Diesel: 71.3% pass rate across 268 tests. Petrol: 72.7% pass rate across 110 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2012 Kia Proceed MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 73.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 70.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.