Pass rate
70.6%
Below average — 6.6 pts behind the 77.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,766 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £37–£110
2012 SsangYong Korando MOT pass rate
- 2012
- 3 trims combined
- typical 84,720 mi
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Most common fault
Brakes
24.9% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Part only £25–£55 for Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded. What fitting it takes →
10.5 pts down across model years — 11.9% in 2012, 1.4% in 2020.
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 85.8% pass
- Avoid 2013 69.6% pass
Across the 11 years on record, a spread of 16.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 62.1%
- Typical mileage
- 85k mi
The 2012 SsangYong Korando MOT pass rate is 70.6% of its MOT tests — 6.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 24.9% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Body & chassis: 2.6× the national share
Body & chassis accounts for 14.4% of everything recorded on the 2012 SsangYong Korando, against 5.6% nationally — 8.8 points above. Brakes are still the single largest share at 24.9%, but at 20.9% nationally that one is ordinary. Look underneath for corrosion near the jacking points and suspension mounts; surface rust is normal, flaking metal is not.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 77.2%; this one manages 70.6% — 6.6 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 34% 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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Every SsangYong Korando first registered in 2012 is combined here — 3 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2012 SsangYong Korando compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 77.2%, so this figure is 6.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 62.1%. The median 2012 SsangYong Korando in this dataset had covered 84,720 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 99% of tests, with a 70.7% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 72.2% of the time, April–September 69.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated", noted on 14.33% of tests.
- 1,766 recorded tests behind this page.
- 70.6% overall pass rate, 62.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the SsangYong Korando, the average is 77.2% — best year 2020 (85.8%), worst 2013 (69.6%).
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
- 1,766
- Typical mileage (median)
- 84,720 mi
- Make and model
- SsangYong Korando
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Body Panel Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Korando MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 57% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (99% of tests).
Where the SsangYong Korando is most common
Across all Korando model years on record (2011–2021): 10,179 SsangYong Korando cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 26,069 tests. Swansea (SA) has the most, with 403 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 | Swansea (SA) | 403 | 78.3% |
| 2 | Sheffield (S) | 344 | 80.7% |
| 3 | Peterborough (PE) | 287 | 78.3% |
| 4 | Nottingham (NG) | 268 | 79.0% |
| 5 | Doncaster (DN) | 240 | 77.9% |
| 6 | Stoke On Trent (ST) | 220 | 77.9% |
| 7 | Hull (HU) | 201 | 81.6% |
| 8 | Exeter (EX) | 190 | 73.1% |
| 9 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 186 | 76.0% |
| 10 | Blackburn (BB) | 186 | 77.4% |
| 11 | Cardiff (CF) | 185 | 77.3% |
| 12 | Gloucester (GL) | 182 | 75.6% |
| 13 | Birmingham (B) | 182 | 81.1% |
| 14 | Preston (PR) | 179 | 84.4% |
| 15 | Leicester (LE) | 170 | 80.0% |
| 16 | Lincoln (LN) | 168 | 77.9% |
| 17 | Northampton (NN) | 166 | 79.4% |
| 18 | Leeds (LS) | 165 | 67.7% |
| 19 | Coventry (CV) | 161 | 81.4% |
| 20 | York (YO) | 149 | 73.1% |
The twenty areas with the most SsangYong Korando 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 Korando
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Yorkshire | 292 | 66.1% |
| South East | 222 | 71.2% |
| North West | 212 | 67.0% |
| East of England | 204 | 74.0% |
| West Midlands | 190 | 73.7% |
| East Midlands | 166 | 72.3% |
| South West | 158 | 73.4% |
| Wales | 125 | 70.4% |
| Scotland | 114 | 67.5% |
| North East | 73 | 71.2% |
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 2012 Korando
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 Korando
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 9.6% 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 6.5% of tests
“ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated”
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 brake pipes 3.1% of tests
“rigid brake pipes excessively corroded”
Brake pipes run under the car, usually in front of the rear wheels. Flaking or crusty metal is what fails; a light dusting of surface rust does not. Worth asking a garage to look while it is on a ramp.
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 Korando through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £37–£110 — and 34% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £37–£110
- 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
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 34%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,766 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 Korando, side by side
11 model years on record, from 2011 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 69.6% to 85.8% — a spread of 16.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2011 74.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2012 70.6%joints constant velocity boot…
- 2013 69.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2014 72.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 75.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 76.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 81.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 83.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2019 84.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2020 85.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2021 85.3% has a cut in excess of 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 2012 SsangYong Korando 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
- Citroen DS3 70.4%
- Peugeot 5008 70.4%
- Renault Megane 70.2%
- Nissan Qashqai 70.1%
- Chevrolet Aveo 71.1%
- Vauxhall Combo 70.0%
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 SsangYong Korando 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 4,900 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 | 1,242 | 24.90% | 20.89% | +4.01 |
| Suspension | 949 | 19.00% | 20.98% | −1.98 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 718 | 14.40% | 5.57% | +8.83 |
| Tyres | 665 | 13.30% | 19.76% | −6.46 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 652 | 13.10% | 12.21% | +0.89 |
| Non-component advisories | 200 | 4.00% | 4.18% | −0.18 |
| Visibility | 199 | 4.00% | 4.97% | −0.97 |
| Steering | 111 | 2.20% | 2.57% | −0.37 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 84 | 1.70% | 5.52% | −3.82 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 80 | 1.60% | 1.76% | −0.16 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 14.3% | £80–250 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 9.6% | £5–20 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 6.5% | £18–45 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 6.2% | £5–25 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 5.2% | £80–250 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 4.9% | £18–45 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.8% | £3–12 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 3.1% | £80–180 |
| Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.9% | £18–45 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 2.8% | £25–65 |
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 | 21.8% | £45–95 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 20.7% | £80–180 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 12.2% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.5% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 7.9% | £45–95 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 6.3% | £45–120 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 9 | 77.8% | 27,962 mi |
| 30-60k | 282 | 73.4% | 49,972 mi |
| 60-90k | 726 | 71.5% | 75,962 mi |
| 90-120k | 533 | 70.4% | 102,911 mi |
| 120k+ | 210 | 65.2% | 138,522 mi |
Source: 1,766 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 Korando MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2012 SsangYong Korando?
70.6% of the 1,766 2012 SsangYong Korando tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 77.2% for cars first used in 2012. First-attempt pass rate: 62.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2012 SsangYong Korando?
The three most recorded items are joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (14.33%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (9.63%), ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (6.51%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2012 SsangYong Korando MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 77.8% of the time, falling to 65.2% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2012 SsangYong Korando in this dataset had covered 84,720 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2012 SsangYong Korando?
Diesel: 70.7% pass rate across 1,753 tests. Petrol: 61.5% pass rate across 13 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2012 SsangYong Korando MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 72.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 69.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.