Pass rate
93.3%
Above average — 2.6 pts ahead of the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 11,719 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £22–£54
2020 Kia Stonic MOT pass rate
- 2020
- 2 trims combined
- typical 22,830 mi
Most common fault
Brakes
33.9% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Part only £25–£40 for Brake pads under 1.5 mm. What fitting it takes →
1.4 pts down across model years — 4.7% in 2017, 3.3% in 2022.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 94.8% pass
- Avoid 2017 89.1% pass
Across the 7 years on record, a spread of 5.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 92.9%
- Typical mileage
- 23k mi
The 2020 Kia Stonic MOT pass rate is 93.3% of its MOT tests — 2.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 33.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Kia Stonic does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 1.6× the national share
Brakes make up 33.9% of everything recorded on the 2020 Kia Stonic, against 20.9% nationally — 13.0 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 56% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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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Every Kia Stonic first registered in 2020 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2020 Kia Stonic compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 2.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 92.9%. The median 2020 Kia Stonic in this dataset had covered 22,830 mi.
98% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 93.5% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 93.4% of the time, April–September 93.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Wipers blade defective", noted on 1.91% of tests.
- 11,719 recorded tests behind this page.
- 93.3% overall pass rate, 92.9% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Kia Stonic, the average is 91.3% — best year 2023 (94.8%), worst 2017 (89.1%).
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
- 11,719
- Typical mileage (median)
- 22,830 mi
- Make and model
- Kia Stonic
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Wiper Blade
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Stonic MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 42% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (98% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Stonic
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 2,698 | 94.4% |
| North West | 1,351 | 93.0% |
| East of England | 1,276 | 94.7% |
| Yorkshire | 1,217 | 93.3% |
| Scotland | 1,124 | 89.6% |
| West Midlands | 1,075 | 93.3% |
| South West | 902 | 94.9% |
| East Midlands | 784 | 93.5% |
| Wales | 599 | 92.7% |
| London | 355 | 91.0% |
| North East | 337 | 92.6% |
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 2020 Stonic
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 2020 Stonic
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 wipers and washers 1.9% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
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 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.
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Check the windscreen 0.8% 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 2020 Stonic through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £22–£54 — and 56% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £22–£54
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 56%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 11,719 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 Stonic, side by side
7 model years on record, from 2017 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 89.1% to 94.8% — a spread of 5.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2017 89.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 89.9% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2019 91.5% wipers blade defective
- 2020 93.3%wipers blade defective
- 2021 92.9% wipers blade defective
- 2022 91.7% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2023 94.8% has a bulge, caused by separation…
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 2020 Kia Stonic 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 2020 cars with a similar record
- Audi Q5 93.2%
- Toyota Corolla 93.4%
- Audi Q2 93.4%
- Honda E Advance 93.4%
- Mercedes-Benz Gla 93.1%
- Hyundai I20 93.5%
Closest pass rates among 2020 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 2020 Kia Stonic 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 6,434 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 2,195 | 33.90% | 20.89% | +13.01 |
| Tyres | 1,889 | 29.20% | 19.76% | +9.44 |
| Visibility | 830 | 12.80% | 4.97% | +7.83 |
| Non-component advisories | 738 | 11.40% | 4.18% | +7.22 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 278 | 4.30% | 12.21% | −7.91 |
| Steering | 188 | 2.90% | 2.57% | +0.33 |
| Suspension | 177 | 2.70% | 20.98% | −18.28 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 63 | 1.00% | 5.52% | −4.52 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 52 | 0.80% | 1.76% | −0.96 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 24 | 0.40% | 0.82% | −0.42 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.9% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.8% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.8% | £8–22 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.3% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.85% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.61% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.49% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.40% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.31% | £30–80 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 0.29% | £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 | 9.3% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 9.1% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 3.7% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.5% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.4% | £20–80 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 2.3% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 8,106 | 95.1% | 17,698 mi |
| 30-60k | 3,359 | 89.6% | 39,951 mi |
| 60-90k | 242 | 86.8% | 68,477 mi |
| 90-120k | 8 | 87.5% | 98,050 mi |
| 120k+ | 2 | 50.0% | 124,785 mi |
Source: 11,719 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.
2020 Stonic MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Kia Stonic?
93.3% of the 11,719 2020 Kia Stonic tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 92.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Kia Stonic?
The three most recorded items are wipers blade defective (1.91%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.79%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.75%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Kia Stonic MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.1% of the time, falling to 50.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Kia Stonic in this dataset had covered 22,830 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2020 Kia Stonic?
Petrol: 93.5% pass rate across 11,528 tests. Diesel: 85.3% pass rate across 191 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2020 Kia Stonic MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 93.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 93.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.