Pass rate
89.8%
Above average — 0.9 pts behind the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 187 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £12–£39
2020 SsangYong Korando Pioneer Td MOT pass rate
- 2020
- typical 23,700 mi
Most common fault
Brakes
40.9% 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 →
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 89.8% pass · this year
- Avoid 2019 88.8% pass
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 89.0%
- Typical mileage
- 24k mi
The 2020 SsangYong Korando Pioneer Td MOT pass rate is 89.8% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 40.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how SsangYong Korando Pioneer Td does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 2.0× the national share
Brakes make up 40.9% of everything recorded on the 2020 SsangYong Korando Pioneer Td, against 20.9% nationally — 20.0 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. 74% 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.
- Based on a small sample. 187 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 2020 SsangYong Korando Pioneer Td compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 0.9 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 89.0%. The median 2020 SsangYong Korando Pioneer Td in this dataset had covered 23,700 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 91.0% of the time, April–September 88.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively", noted on 3.21% of tests.
- 187 recorded tests behind this page.
- 89.8% overall pass rate, 89.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the SsangYong Korando Pioneer Td, the average is 89.3% — best year 2020 (89.8%), worst 2019 (88.8%).
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
- 187
- Typical mileage (median)
- 23,700 mi
- Make and model
- SsangYong Korando Pioneer Td
- 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 Korando Pioneer Td MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 25% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Korando Pioneer Td
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Yorkshire | 27 | 85.2% |
| Wales | 23 | 87.0% |
| West Midlands | 22 | 90.9% |
| North West | 22 | 90.9% |
| South West | 19 | 100.0% |
| East Midlands | 18 | 94.4% |
| South East | 17 | 88.2% |
| Scotland | 15 | 86.7% |
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 2020 Korando Pioneer Td
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 Korando Pioneer Td
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 3.2% 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 lights 2.1% of tests
“malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction”
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 1.1% 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 2020 Korando Pioneer Td through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £12–£39 — and 74% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £12–£39
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: emissions not tested unable to be completed
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 74%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 187 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 Pioneer Td, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2019 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 88.8% to 89.8% — a spread of 1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 88.8% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2020 89.8%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 2020 SsangYong Korando Pioneer Td 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
- Land Rover Discovery Luxury HSE 89.8%
- Kia Sorento 89.8%
- Vauxhall Grandland 89.8%
- Fiat 500 Launch 89.8%
- Kia Sportage 89.7%
- Citroen C5 89.7%
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 SsangYong Korando Pioneer Td 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 7 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 137 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 | 56 | 40.90% | 20.89% | +20.01 |
| Tyres | 42 | 30.70% | 19.76% | +10.94 |
| Visibility | 12 | 8.80% | 4.97% | +3.83 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 10 | 7.30% | 5.52% | +1.78 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 9 | 6.60% | 12.21% | −5.61 |
| Non-component advisories | 5 | 3.60% | 4.18% | −0.58 |
| Suspension | 3 | 2.20% | 20.98% | −18.78 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 3.2% | £8–22 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.1% | £3–12 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.1% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.1% | £30–80 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.1% | £3–15 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Major | 1.1% | £5–15 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.1% | £8–22 |
| Electrical wiring insecure Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.53% | £5–25 |
| Electronic parking brake control defective so that it cannot be satisfactorily operated Brakes | Major | 0.53% | £25–80 |
| Emissions not tested unable to be completed Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.53% | £60–250 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 15.5% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 9.6% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.4% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.3% | £45–110 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 3.7% | £45–110 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 2.7% | £80–180 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 129 | 90.7% | 18,729 mi |
| 30-60k | 40 | 92.5% | 41,822 mi |
| 60-90k | 11 | 90.9% | 72,914 mi |
| 90-120k | 3 | 33.3% | 119,552 mi |
| 120k+ | 4 | 75.0% | 125,443 mi |
Source: 187 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 Korando Pioneer Td MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 SsangYong Korando Pioneer Td?
89.8% of the 187 2020 SsangYong Korando Pioneer Td tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 89.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 SsangYong Korando Pioneer Td?
The three most recorded items are wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (3.21%), malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (2.14%), brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (1.07%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 SsangYong Korando Pioneer Td MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 90.7% of the time, falling to 75.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 SsangYong Korando Pioneer Td in this dataset had covered 23,700 mi.
Does the season affect the 2020 SsangYong Korando Pioneer Td MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 91.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 88.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.