Pass rate
85.7%
Above average — 6.3 pts behind the 92.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 328 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £30–£70
2022 SsangYong Rexton MOT pass rate
- 2022
- typical 28,552 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
37.9% 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 89.3% pass
- Avoid 2007 64.2% pass
Across the 19 years on record, a spread of 25.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 83.9%
- Typical mileage
- 29k mi
The 2022 SsangYong Rexton MOT pass rate is 85.7% of its MOT tests — 6.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 37.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how SsangYong Rexton does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.9× the national share
Tyres make up 37.9% of everything recorded on the 2022 SsangYong Rexton, against 19.8% nationally — 18.1 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 92.0%; this one manages 85.7% — 6.3 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 35% 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 2022 SsangYong Rexton compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 92.0%, so this figure is 6.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 83.9%. The median 2022 SsangYong Rexton in this dataset had covered 28,552 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 86.3% of the time, April–September 85.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm", noted on 5.18% of tests.
- 328 recorded tests behind this page.
- 85.7% overall pass rate, 83.9% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the SsangYong Rexton, the average is 75.1% — best year 2021 (89.3%), worst 2007 (64.2%).
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
- 328
- Typical mileage (median)
- 28,552 mi
- Make and model
- SsangYong Rexton
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Rexton MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 64% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Rexton
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 50 | 84.0% |
| Yorkshire | 44 | 95.5% |
| South West | 41 | 82.9% |
| West Midlands | 36 | 86.1% |
| East Midlands | 33 | 84.8% |
| Wales | 30 | 80.0% |
| Scotland | 29 | 86.2% |
| North West | 26 | 84.6% |
| East of England | 25 | 84.0% |
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 2022 Rexton
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 2022 Rexton
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 tyre tread 5.2% of tests
“tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm”
Check all four tyres cold, including the inner shoulder where wear hides — 1.6mm across the central three-quarters is the legal limit, and most testers fail at 1.6mm without argument.
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Check the wipers and washers 3.7% 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
“rear fog lamp not working”
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.
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 2022 Rexton through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £30–£70 — and 35% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £30–£70
- Cheapest common item: rear fog lamp not working
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 35%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 328 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 Rexton, side by side
19 model years on record, from 2004 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 64.2% to 89.3% — a spread of 25.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2004 68.3% parking brake performance…
- 2005 70.8% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2006 66.1% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2007 64.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 64.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 67.7% track rod end ball joint has…
- 2010 65.8% position lamp not working
- 2011 70.1% rear fog lamp not working
- 2012 64.9% track rod end ball joint has…
- 2013 76.9% ball joint excessively worn
- 2014 68.2% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2015 71.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 73.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 76.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 81.3% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2019 83.4% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2020 84.2% rear fog lamp not working
- 2021 89.3% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2022 85.7%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 2022 SsangYong Rexton 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 2022 cars with a similar record
- Mercedes-Benz Eqc 85.9%
- BMW X5 XDRIVE45E 85.9%
- Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace 85.3%
- Vauxhall Corsa E 86.2%
- Vauxhall Combo 84.7%
- BMW 330E 86.9%
Closest pass rates among 2022 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 2022 SsangYong Rexton 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 293 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 | 111 | 37.90% | 19.76% | +18.14 |
| Brakes | 89 | 30.40% | 20.89% | +9.51 |
| Visibility | 24 | 8.20% | 4.97% | +3.23 |
| Suspension | 22 | 7.50% | 20.98% | −13.48 |
| Non-component advisories | 18 | 6.10% | 4.18% | +1.92 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 16 | 5.50% | 12.21% | −6.71 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 5 | 1.70% | 5.52% | −3.82 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 5 | 1.70% | 1.76% | −0.06 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 2 | 0.70% | 5.57% | −4.87 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 0.30% | 0.82% | −0.52 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 5.2% | £45–95 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 3.7% | £8–22 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.1% | £3–15 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.5% | £80–200 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.2% | £18–45 |
| Brake pads worn down to wear indicator Brakes | Major | 1.2% | £18–45 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.2% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.2% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.91% | £30–80 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.91% | £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 | 22.3% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 18.6% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 4.0% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 3.7% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.7% | £20–80 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 1.8% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 178 | 88.8% | 20,588 mi |
| 30-60k | 139 | 82.7% | 39,211 mi |
| 60-90k | 11 | 72.7% | 66,315 mi |
Source: 328 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.
2022 Rexton MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2022 SsangYong Rexton?
85.7% of the 328 2022 SsangYong Rexton tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 92.0% for cars first used in 2022. First-attempt pass rate: 83.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2022 SsangYong Rexton?
The three most recorded items are tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (5.18%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (3.66%), rear fog lamp not working (2.13%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2022 SsangYong Rexton MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 88.8% of the time, falling to 72.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2022 SsangYong Rexton in this dataset had covered 28,552 mi.
Does the season affect the 2022 SsangYong Rexton MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 86.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 85.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.