Pass rate
90.0%
Above average — 0.5 pts ahead of the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,576 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £25–£67
2019 Kia Sportage Platinum MOT pass rate
- 2019
- typical 32,095 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
31.9% 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 95.5% pass
- Avoid 2019 90.0% pass · this year
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 5.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 89.1%
- Typical mileage
- 32k mi
The 2019 Kia Sportage Platinum MOT pass rate is 90.0% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 31.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Kia Sportage Platinum does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.6× the national share
Tyres make up 31.9% of everything recorded on the 2019 Kia Sportage Platinum, against 19.8% nationally — 12.1 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.
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 Platinum compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 89.5%, so this figure is 0.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 89.1%. The median 2019 Kia Sportage Platinum in this dataset had covered 32,095 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 89.3% of the time, April–September 90.5%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick", noted on 1.90% of tests.
- 1,576 recorded tests behind this page.
- 90.0% overall pass rate, 89.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Kia Sportage Platinum, the average is 91.2% — best year 2021 (95.5%), worst 2019 (90.0%).
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
- 1,576
- Typical mileage (median)
- 32,095 mi
- Make and model
- Kia Sportage Platinum
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
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 Sportage Platinum MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 76% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Sportage Platinum
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 300 | 91.3% |
| Scotland | 281 | 86.1% |
| North West | 212 | 92.9% |
| Yorkshire | 161 | 86.3% |
| West Midlands | 150 | 92.0% |
| East of England | 132 | 92.4% |
| East Midlands | 113 | 92.9% |
| South West | 80 | 91.3% |
| North East | 73 | 84.9% |
| Wales | 55 | 89.1% |
| London | 19 | 94.7% |
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 Platinum
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 Platinum
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 1.9% 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 wipers and washers 1.6% 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 suspension joints 1.5% 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.
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 Platinum through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £25–£67 — and 37% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £25–£67
- 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
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 37%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,576 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 Platinum, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2019 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 90.0% to 95.5% — a spread of 5.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 90.0%brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2020 91.8% wipers does not clear the…
- 2021 95.5% wipers does not clear 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 2019 Kia Sportage Platinum 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
- Ford Kuga 90.0%
- Volkswagen Touran 90.0%
- BMW X2 SDRIVE20I 90.0%
- Audi A1 89.9%
- Skoda Kodiaq 89.9%
- BMW 218 89.9%
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 Platinum 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 1,297 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 | 414 | 31.90% | 19.76% | +12.14 |
| Brakes | 367 | 28.30% | 20.89% | +7.41 |
| Non-component advisories | 135 | 10.40% | 4.18% | +6.22 |
| Visibility | 97 | 7.50% | 4.97% | +2.53 |
| Steering | 94 | 7.20% | 2.57% | +4.63 |
| Suspension | 75 | 5.80% | 20.98% | −15.18 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 47 | 3.60% | 12.21% | −8.61 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 47 | 3.60% | 5.52% | −1.92 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 17 | 1.30% | 1.76% | −0.46 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 4 | 0.30% | 0.82% | −0.52 |
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 | 1.9% | £18–45 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.6% | £8–22 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.5% | £8–22 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 1.5% | £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 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.0% | £30–80 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.0% | £40–150 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 0.82% | £8–22 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.57% | £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 | 13.2% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 9.8% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 5.6% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 4.0% | £20–80 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Advisory | 4.0% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 691 | 91.8% | 20,668 mi |
| 30-60k | 779 | 89.1% | 41,313 mi |
| 60-90k | 93 | 84.9% | 67,896 mi |
| 90-120k | 9 | 88.9% | 99,306 mi |
| 120k+ | 3 | 100.0% | 139,026 mi |
Source: 1,576 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 Platinum MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2019 Kia Sportage Platinum?
90.0% of the 1,576 2019 Kia Sportage Platinum tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 89.5% for cars first used in 2019. First-attempt pass rate: 89.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2019 Kia Sportage Platinum?
The three most recorded items are brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (1.90%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.65%), wipers blade defective (1.52%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2019 Kia Sportage Platinum MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.8% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2019 Kia Sportage Platinum in this dataset had covered 32,095 mi.
Does the season affect the 2019 Kia Sportage Platinum MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 89.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 90.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.