Pass rate
80.5%
Around average — 3.3 pts ahead of the 77.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 246 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £23–£63
2012 Toyota Hi-Ace MOT pass rate
- 2012
- 3 trims combined
- typical 116,056 mi
Most common fault
Brakes
23.9% 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 →
1.0 pts down across model years — 7.2% in 2001, 6.2% in 2011.
Which year to buy
- Best 2011 82.3% pass
- Avoid 2000 73.3% pass
Across the 18 years on record, a spread of 9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 77.1%
- Typical mileage
- 116k mi
The 2012 Toyota Hi-Ace MOT pass rate is 80.5% of its MOT tests — 3.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 23.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Toyota Hi-Ace does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.8× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 21.6% of everything recorded on the 2012 Toyota Hi-Ace, against 12.2% nationally — 9.4 points above. Brakes are still the single largest share at 23.9%, 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.
- Beats its own age and mileage. Once you allow for how old and how far these cars have been driven, the expected pass rate is 77.2% and this one manages 80.5% — 3.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 69% 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 Toyota Hi-Ace 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 Toyota Hi-Ace compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 77.2%, so this figure is 3.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 77.1%. The median 2012 Toyota Hi-Ace in this dataset had covered 116,056 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 74% of tests, with a 82.0% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 84.7% of the time, April–September 75.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 4.47% of tests.
- 246 recorded tests behind this page.
- 80.5% overall pass rate, 77.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Toyota Hi-Ace, the average is 78.5% — best year 2011 (82.3%), worst 2000 (73.3%).
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
- 246
- Typical mileage (median)
- 116,056 mi
- Make and model
- Toyota Hi-Ace
- 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 Hi-Ace MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 68% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (74% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Hi-Ace
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South West | 46 | 73.9% |
| East of England | 38 | 92.1% |
| North West | 37 | 86.5% |
| South East | 29 | 86.2% |
| Yorkshire | 26 | 73.1% |
| West Midlands | 25 | 68.0% |
| East Midlands | 20 | 90.0% |
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 Hi-Ace
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 Hi-Ace
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 4.5% 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 windscreen 3.7% 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.
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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.
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 Hi-Ace through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £23–£63 — and 69% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £23–£63
- 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
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 69%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 246 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 Hi-Ace, side by side
18 model years on record, from 2000 to 2017. Across them the pass rate runs from 73.3% to 82.3% — a spread of 9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 73.3% component mounting prescribed…
- 2001 74.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2002 76.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2003 75.6% component mounting prescribed…
- 2004 74.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 76.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 77.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 78.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 79.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 81.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 80.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 82.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 80.5%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 80.5% rear fog lamp not working
- 2014 75.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2015 78.4% wipers does not clear the…
- 2016 81.0% rear fog lamp not working
- 2017 80.7% rear fog lamp not working
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 Toyota Hi-Ace 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
- BMW 520 80.5%
- London Taxis Int TX4 80.5%
- Volvo XC70 80.4%
- Mercedes-Benz Cls 80.4%
- BMW X3 80.8%
- Suzuki Grand Vitara 80.8%
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 Toyota Hi-Ace 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 474 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 | 114 | 23.90% | 20.89% | +3.01 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 103 | 21.60% | 12.21% | +9.39 |
| Suspension | 89 | 18.70% | 20.98% | −2.28 |
| Tyres | 51 | 10.70% | 19.76% | −9.06 |
| Visibility | 34 | 7.10% | 4.97% | +2.13 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 27 | 5.70% | 5.52% | +0.18 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 26 | 5.50% | 5.57% | −0.07 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 13 | 2.70% | 1.76% | +0.94 |
| Steering | 9 | 1.90% | 2.57% | −0.67 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 8 | 1.70% | 0.82% | +0.88 |
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 | 4.5% | £5–20 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.7% | £80–200 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 3.7% | £8–22 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.3% | £5–25 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.3% | £3–15 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.9% | £30–80 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 2.4% | £80–180 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 2.4% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp lens seriously defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.6% | £5–25 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.6% | £5–25 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 16.7% | £80–180 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 10.2% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 6.5% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.7% | £18–45 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 4.9% | £25–65 |
| Registration plates inscription illegible Identification of the vehicle | Advisory | 4.9% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 8 | 100.0% | 22,053 mi |
| 30-60k | 25 | 92.0% | 50,878 mi |
| 60-90k | 52 | 84.6% | 76,810 mi |
| 90-120k | 45 | 77.8% | 108,646 mi |
| 120k+ | 106 | 76.4% | 170,709 mi |
Source: 246 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 Hi-Ace MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2012 Toyota Hi-Ace?
80.5% of the 246 2012 Toyota Hi-Ace tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 77.2% for cars first used in 2012. First-attempt pass rate: 77.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2012 Toyota Hi-Ace?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (4.47%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.66%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (3.66%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2012 Toyota Hi-Ace MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 76.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2012 Toyota Hi-Ace in this dataset had covered 116,056 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2012 Toyota Hi-Ace?
Diesel: 82.0% pass rate across 183 tests. Petrol: 76.2% pass rate across 63 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2012 Toyota Hi-Ace MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 84.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 75.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.