Pass rate
68.9%
Below average — 8.3 pts behind the 77.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 267 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £21–£59
2012 SsangYong Rodius MOT pass rate
- 2012
- 4 trims combined
- typical 87,822 mi
Most common fault
Brakes
20.8% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Which year to buy
- Best 2019 78.6% pass
- Avoid 2007 67.0% pass
Across the 13 years on record, a spread of 11.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 61.0%
- Typical mileage
- 88k mi
The 2012 SsangYong Rodius MOT pass rate is 68.9% of its MOT tests — 8.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 20.8% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how SsangYong Rodius does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.5× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 18.8% of everything recorded on the 2012 SsangYong Rodius, against 12.2% nationally — 6.6 points above. Brakes are still the single largest share at 20.8%, but at 20.9% nationally that one is ordinary. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 77.2%; this one manages 68.9% — 8.3 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 61% 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 SsangYong Rodius first registered in 2012 is combined here — 4 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2012 SsangYong Rodius compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 77.2%, so this figure is 8.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 61.0%. The median 2012 SsangYong Rodius in this dataset had covered 87,822 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 69.1% of the time, April–September 68.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 8.99% of tests.
- 267 recorded tests behind this page.
- 68.9% overall pass rate, 61.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the SsangYong Rodius, the average is 74.4% — best year 2019 (78.6%), worst 2007 (67.0%).
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
- 267
- Typical mileage (median)
- 87,822 mi
- Make and model
- SsangYong Rodius
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Rodius MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 54% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Rodius
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South West | 42 | 59.5% |
| East Midlands | 41 | 70.7% |
| North West | 38 | 63.2% |
| East of England | 32 | 78.1% |
| West Midlands | 29 | 69.0% |
| South East | 23 | 73.9% |
| Yorkshire | 20 | 75.0% |
| North East | 17 | 70.6% |
| Wales | 15 | 60.0% |
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 2012 Rodius
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 Rodius
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 9.0% 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 6.4% 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.
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Check the exhaust and emissions 5.2% of tests
“exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases”
Listen for a blow at idle and have someone rev it gently. Then look at the tailpipe smoke: blue is oil, white when warm is coolant, black is over-fuelling. Any of those and the emissions test is the least of it.
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 Rodius through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £21–£59 — and 61% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £21–£59
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: component mounting prescribed areas…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 61%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 267 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 Rodius, side by side
13 model years on record, from 2006 to 2019. Across them the pass rate runs from 67.0% to 78.6% — a spread of 11.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2006 74.2% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2007 67.0% track rod end ball joint has…
- 2008 67.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 70.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 71.9% rear fog lamp not working
- 2012 68.9%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 69.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 70.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 72.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 73.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 76.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 78.3% track rod end ball joint has…
- 2019 78.6% track rod end ball joint has…
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 Rodius 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
- Renault Clio 68.7%
- Renault Grand Scenic 69.9%
- Vauxhall Combo 70.0%
- Nissan Qashqai 70.1%
- Renault Megane 70.2%
- Citroen DS3 70.4%
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 Rodius 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 786 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 | 164 | 20.80% | 20.89% | −0.09 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 148 | 18.80% | 12.21% | +6.59 |
| Suspension | 145 | 18.40% | 20.98% | −2.58 |
| Tyres | 110 | 14.00% | 19.76% | −5.76 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 64 | 8.10% | 5.57% | +2.53 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 53 | 6.70% | 5.52% | +1.18 |
| Steering | 35 | 4.40% | 2.57% | +1.83 |
| Visibility | 32 | 4.10% | 4.97% | −0.87 |
| Non-component advisories | 18 | 2.30% | 4.18% | −1.88 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 17 | 2.20% | 1.76% | +0.44 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 9.0% | £5–20 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 7.5% | £5–25 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 6.7% | £3–15 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 6.4% | £18–45 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 5.6% | £3–12 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Major | 5.2% | £45–120 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.4% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.0% | £30–80 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.0% | £5–20 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 2.6% | £180–450 |
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 | 25.5% | £45–95 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 18.4% | £80–180 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 12.4% | £18–45 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 10.9% | £200–700 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 7.5% | £45–110 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 6.7% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 3 | 100.0% | 22,323 mi |
| 30-60k | 39 | 76.9% | 48,784 mi |
| 60-90k | 99 | 71.7% | 74,076 mi |
| 90-120k | 98 | 62.2% | 103,156 mi |
| 120k+ | 28 | 67.9% | 152,742 mi |
Source: 267 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 Rodius MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2012 SsangYong Rodius?
68.9% of the 267 2012 SsangYong Rodius tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 77.2% for cars first used in 2012. First-attempt pass rate: 61.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2012 SsangYong Rodius?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (8.99%), position lamp not working (7.49%), rear fog lamp not working (6.74%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2012 SsangYong Rodius MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 67.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2012 SsangYong Rodius in this dataset had covered 87,822 mi.
Does the season affect the 2012 SsangYong Rodius MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 69.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 68.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.