Pass rate
83.4%
Around average — 6.2 pts ahead of the 77.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 241 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £22–£58
2012 Toyota Hiace MOT pass rate
- 2012
- typical 114,087 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
26.1% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2018 84.4% pass
- Avoid 2000 73.4% pass
Across the 22 years on record, a spread of 11 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 81.0%
- Typical mileage
- 114k mi
The 2012 Toyota Hiace MOT pass rate is 83.4% of its MOT tests — 6.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 26.1% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Toyota Hiace does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Fewer problems with tyres
Tyres are 9.4% of this car’s recorded faults, against 19.8% nationally — the mirror image of the usual story on a car of this age.
- 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 83.4% — 6.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 58% 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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How does the 2012 Toyota Hiace compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 77.2%, so this figure is 6.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 81.0%. The median 2012 Toyota Hiace in this dataset had covered 114,087 mi.
72% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Diesel, which passed 81.6% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 82.2% of the time, April–September 84.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 3.32% of tests.
- 241 recorded tests behind this page.
- 83.4% overall pass rate, 81.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Toyota Hiace, the average is 76.9% — best year 2018 (84.4%), worst 2000 (73.4%).
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
- 241
- Typical mileage (median)
- 114,087 mi
- Make and model
- Toyota Hiace
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Hiace MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 71% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (72% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Hiace
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 45 | 86.7% |
| Yorkshire | 40 | 90.0% |
| West Midlands | 33 | 81.8% |
| South West | 31 | 77.4% |
| North West | 29 | 75.9% |
| Scotland | 20 | 85.0% |
| East of England | 19 | 78.9% |
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 Hiace
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 Hiace
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 windscreen 3.3% 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 suspension joints 2.9% 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 lights 2.9% 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 2012 Hiace through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £22–£58 — and 58% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £22–£58
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 58%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 241 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 Hiace, side by side
22 model years on record, from 2000 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 73.4% to 84.4% — a spread of 11 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 73.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2001 74.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2002 76.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2003 74.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2004 75.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 77.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 77.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 79.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 79.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 80.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 77.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 79.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 83.4%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2013 81.0% wipers does not clear the…
- 2014 84.1% rear fog lamp not working
- 2015 78.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 81.9% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2017 83.7% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2018 84.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2019 75.9% rear fog lamp not working
- 2020 79.2% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2021 76.9% service brake imbalance across an…
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 Hiace 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 530 83.5%
- MINI Mini 83.3%
- Ford Fusion 83.3%
- Mercedes-Benz Ml 83.7%
- BMW 640 83.7%
- MINI Countryman COOPER D 83.7%
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 Hiace 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 414 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 109 | 26.10% | 20.98% | +5.12 |
| Brakes | 76 | 18.20% | 20.89% | −2.69 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 56 | 13.40% | 12.21% | +1.19 |
| Tyres | 39 | 9.40% | 19.76% | −10.36 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 36 | 8.60% | 5.57% | +3.03 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 35 | 8.40% | 5.52% | +2.88 |
| Visibility | 34 | 8.20% | 4.97% | +3.23 |
| Non-component advisories | 12 | 2.90% | 4.18% | −1.28 |
| Steering | 11 | 2.60% | 2.57% | +0.03 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 6 | 1.40% | 0.82% | +0.58 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.3% | £80–200 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.9% | £18–45 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.9% | £3–15 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 2.9% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 2.5% | £8–22 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Major | 2.1% | £45–120 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 2.1% | £8–22 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.7% | £18–45 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.7% | £5–20 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.7% | £3–12 |
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 | 8.3% | £45–95 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 7.9% | £80–180 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 7.5% | £200–700 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.8% | £18–45 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Advisory | 5.8% | £180–450 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 5.0% | £45–120 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 6 | 100.0% | 22,213 mi |
| 30-60k | 25 | 88.0% | 47,479 mi |
| 60-90k | 53 | 86.8% | 71,135 mi |
| 90-120k | 53 | 79.2% | 106,952 mi |
| 120k+ | 102 | 81.4% | 172,518 mi |
Source: 241 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 Hiace MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2012 Toyota Hiace?
83.4% of the 241 2012 Toyota Hiace tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 77.2% for cars first used in 2012. First-attempt pass rate: 81.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2012 Toyota Hiace?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.32%), ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (2.90%), rear fog lamp not working (2.90%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2012 Toyota Hiace MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 81.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2012 Toyota Hiace in this dataset had covered 114,087 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2012 Toyota Hiace?
Diesel: 81.6% pass rate across 174 tests. Petrol: 90.3% pass rate across 62 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2012 Toyota Hiace MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 82.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 84.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.