Pass rate
90.2%
Above average — 1.0 pts behind the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 398 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £38–£93
2021 Kia Proceed MOT pass rate
- 2021
- typical 28,563 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
42.1% 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 →
Which year to buy
- Best 2021 90.2% pass · this year
- Avoid 2011 69.8% pass
Across the 11 years on record, a spread of 20.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 89.2%
- Typical mileage
- 29k mi
The 2021 Kia Proceed MOT pass rate is 90.2% of its MOT tests — 1.0 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 42.1% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.1× the national share
Tyres make up 42.1% of everything recorded on the 2021 Kia Proceed, against 19.8% nationally — 22.3 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 17% 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. 398 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 2021 Kia Proceed compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 1.0 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 89.2%. The median 2021 Kia Proceed in this dataset had covered 28,563 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 89.7% of the time, April–September 91.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick", noted on 2.76% of tests.
- 398 recorded tests behind this page.
- 90.2% overall pass rate, 89.2% 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
- 398
- Typical mileage (median)
- 28,563 mi
- Make and model
- Kia Proceed
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Brake Pads Set
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Proceed MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 68% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Kia Proceed is most common
Across all Proceed model years on record (2008–2022): 3,788 Kia Proceed cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 8,586 tests. Sheffield (S) has the most, with 139 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sheffield (S) | 139 | 83.0% |
| 2 | Nottingham (NG) | 117 | 72.2% |
| 3 | Birmingham (B) | 116 | 81.9% |
| 4 | Peterborough (PE) | 96 | 78.3% |
| 5 | Doncaster (DN) | 85 | 76.1% |
| 6 | Derby (DE) | 81 | 78.4% |
| 7 | Glasgow (G) | 73 | 73.0% |
| 8 | Edinburgh (EH) | 71 | 72.9% |
| 9 | Leicester (LE) | 70 | 78.5% |
| 10 | Milton Keynes (MK) | 69 | 73.4% |
| 11 | Reading (RG) | 64 | 79.2% |
| 12 | Northampton (NN) | 60 | 73.7% |
| 13 | Portsmouth (PO) | 59 | 79.3% |
| 14 | Bolton (BL) | 59 | 77.2% |
| 15 | Coventry (CV) | 56 | 77.2% |
| 16 | Stoke On Trent (ST) | 54 | 76.8% |
| 17 | Southampton (SO) | 53 | 75.9% |
| 18 | Leeds (LS) | 52 | 78.0% |
| 19 | Bristol (BS) | 52 | 71.3% |
| 20 | Swansea (SA) | 51 | 75.6% |
The twenty areas with the most Kia Proceed cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the Proceed
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 72 | 88.9% |
| Yorkshire | 58 | 89.7% |
| Scotland | 44 | 93.2% |
| East of England | 40 | 97.5% |
| North West | 39 | 92.3% |
| West Midlands | 39 | 94.9% |
| East Midlands | 31 | 80.6% |
| South West | 28 | 89.3% |
| North East | 21 | 81.0% |
| Wales | 19 | 84.2% |
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 2021 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 2021 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 brakes 2.8% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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Check the windscreen 2.0% 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 1.8% 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 Proceed through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £38–£93 — and 17% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £38–£93
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 17%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 398 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 2021 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 2021 cars with a similar record
- Peugeot 2008 90.2%
- Audi A5 90.2%
- Volkswagen Arteon 90.2%
- Mercedes-Benz C 90.3%
- Volkswagen Passat 90.3%
- Land Rover Rr 90.3%
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 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 304 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 | 128 | 42.10% | 19.76% | +22.34 |
| Brakes | 92 | 30.30% | 20.89% | +9.41 |
| Visibility | 23 | 7.60% | 4.97% | +2.63 |
| Non-component advisories | 20 | 6.60% | 4.18% | +2.42 |
| Suspension | 14 | 4.60% | 20.98% | −16.38 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 10 | 3.30% | 12.21% | −8.91 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 7 | 2.30% | 5.52% | −3.22 |
| Road Wheels | 5 | 1.60% | 0.75% | +0.85 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 4 | 1.30% | 1.76% | −0.46 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 0.30% | 5.57% | −5.27 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 2.8% | £18–45 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 2.5% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.0% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.0% | £80–200 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.8% | £45–95 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.5% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.3% | £8–22 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.75% | £60–250 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.75% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.75% | £30–80 |
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 | 16.1% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 9.1% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 7.0% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 3.3% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 3.3% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 2.8% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 222 | 93.2% | 20,788 mi |
| 30-60k | 163 | 87.1% | 39,897 mi |
| 60-90k | 13 | 76.9% | 70,249 mi |
Source: 398 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 Proceed MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Kia Proceed?
90.2% of the 398 2021 Kia Proceed tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 89.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Kia Proceed?
The three most recorded items are brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (2.76%), has ply or cords exposed (2.51%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.01%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Kia Proceed MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.2% of the time, falling to 76.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Kia Proceed in this dataset had covered 28,563 mi.
Does the season affect the 2021 Kia Proceed MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 89.7% 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.