Pass rate
87.1%
Above average — 2.4 pts behind the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 474 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £29–£77
2019 Kia Sportage GT-Line Crdi MOT pass rate
- 2019
- typical 37,775 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
30.1% 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 2022 92.1% pass
- Avoid 2019 87.1% pass · this year
Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 85.3%
- Typical mileage
- 38k mi
The 2019 Kia Sportage GT-Line Crdi MOT pass rate is 87.1% of its MOT tests — 2.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 30.1% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Kia Sportage GT-Line Crdi does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.5× the national share
Tyres make up 30.1% of everything recorded on the 2019 Kia Sportage Gt-Line Crdi, against 19.8% nationally — 10.3 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 21% 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.
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 2019 Kia Sportage GT-Line Crdi compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 89.5%, so this figure is 2.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 85.3%. The median 2019 Kia Sportage GT-Line Crdi in this dataset had covered 37,775 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Hybrid — 89% of tests, with a 86.7% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 88.4% of the time, April–September 84.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Track rod end ball joint has excessive play", noted on 2.74% of tests.
- 474 recorded tests behind this page.
- 87.1% overall pass rate, 85.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Kia Sportage GT-Line Crdi, the average is 89.4% — best year 2022 (92.1%), worst 2019 (87.1%).
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
- 474
- Typical mileage (median)
- 37,775 mi
- Make and model
- Kia Sportage GT-Line Crdi
- 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 Sportage GT-Line Crdi MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 74% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Hybrid is the most common here (89% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Sportage GT-Line Crdi
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| North West | 78 | 85.9% |
| Scotland | 74 | 79.7% |
| South East | 67 | 94.0% |
| Yorkshire | 52 | 86.5% |
| East of England | 49 | 98.0% |
| West Midlands | 45 | 75.6% |
| East Midlands | 37 | 86.5% |
| Wales | 29 | 86.2% |
| South West | 25 | 88.0% |
| North East | 16 | 100.0% |
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 2019 Sportage GT-Line Crdi
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 2019 Sportage GT-Line Crdi
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 2.7% of tests
“track rod end ball joint has excessive play”
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 1.5% of tests
“headlamp aim too high”
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 brakes 1.3% 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.
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 2019 Sportage GT-Line Crdi through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £29–£77 — and 21% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £29–£77
- Cheapest common item: side repeaters lens defective
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 21%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 474 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 Sportage GT-Line Crdi, side by side
4 model years on record, from 2019 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 87.1% to 92.1% — a spread of 5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 87.1%track rod end ball joint has…
- 2020 88.2% tread depth below requirements of…
- 2021 90.3% tread depth below requirements of…
- 2022 92.1% tread depth below requirements of…
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 2019 Kia Sportage GT-Line Crdi 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 2019 cars with a similar record
- Vauxhall Insignia 87.1%
- Vauxhall Corsa Energy S/S 87.1%
- Volvo V40 87.0%
- Vauxhall Corsa 87.2%
- Toyota Hilux 87.2%
- DS DS7 86.8%
Closest pass rates among 2019 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 2019 Kia Sportage GT-Line Crdi 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 421 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 | 30.10% | 19.76% | +10.34 |
| Brakes | 119 | 28.00% | 20.89% | +7.11 |
| Steering | 42 | 9.90% | 2.57% | +7.33 |
| Non-component advisories | 41 | 9.60% | 4.18% | +5.42 |
| Suspension | 35 | 8.20% | 20.98% | −12.78 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 23 | 5.40% | 12.21% | −6.81 |
| Visibility | 18 | 4.20% | 4.97% | −0.77 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 9 | 2.10% | 5.52% | −3.42 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 3 | 0.70% | 5.57% | −4.87 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 3 | 0.70% | 1.76% | −1.06 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 2.7% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.5% | £30–80 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.5% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.3% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.3% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.1% | £80–200 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.1% | £8–22 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.84% | £45–95 |
| Side repeaters lens defective which has no effect on emitted light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.84% | £3–15 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.84% | £8–22 |
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 | 19.0% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.9% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 5.9% | £45–110 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Advisory | 5.5% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.3% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 4.6% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 152 | 88.8% | 22,453 mi |
| 30-60k | 270 | 87.0% | 42,139 mi |
| 60-90k | 45 | 82.2% | 69,621 mi |
| 90-120k | 7 | 85.7% | 96,809 mi |
Source: 474 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.
2019 Sportage GT-Line Crdi MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2019 Kia Sportage GT-Line Crdi?
87.1% of the 474 2019 Kia Sportage GT-Line Crdi tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 89.5% for cars first used in 2019. First-attempt pass rate: 85.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2019 Kia Sportage GT-Line Crdi?
The three most recorded items are track rod end ball joint has excessive play (2.74%), headlamp aim too high (1.48%), pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (1.48%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2019 Kia Sportage GT-Line Crdi MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 88.8% of the time, falling to 85.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2019 Kia Sportage GT-Line Crdi in this dataset had covered 37,775 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2019 Kia Sportage GT-Line Crdi?
Hybrid: 86.7% pass rate across 420 tests. Diesel: 90.7% pass rate across 54 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2019 Kia Sportage GT-Line Crdi MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 88.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 84.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.