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Hyundai i20 — MOT statistics 2024

The Hyundai i20 failed 27.51% of 129,343 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 98.8 (100 = expected for its age profile). This car fails its MOT about 1% less often than expected for its age. But this fleet is driven far less than average: matched on annual mileage as well as age, using 2019-2024 test chains rather than 2024 alone, the figure is 104.3, on the other side of normal. Both numbers below.

MOT risk index 98.8, 95% CI 97.9–99.6 (100 = national average) 100 98.8 0 200
Index
98.8
100 = age-normal
Raw fail rate
27.51%
n = 129,343
Dangerous /100
8
national ≈11
Diesel − petrol
+9.6 pp
fail-rate gap
Rank
443 of 761
lower index = better

Age-adjusted peer: Ford Mondeo (index 98.8) — the two published results are 0.0 index points apart.

Hyundai i20 common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Brakes stand out at 12.2 per 100 tests, against 8.5 per 100 tests across UK vehicles of the same ages.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Hyundai i20 common problems: what actually fails the MOT — 2024 UK MOT data

family vs national — matched to UK vehicles of the same ages — top component groups, per 100 tests. Legend: This family · National avg. Combined labels: family / national average. A gap here reflects how these vehicles are driven, used and maintained as well as how they were built — an MOT defect is a test outcome, not a breakdown.

Component-group comparison table

Each ratio carries a 95% interval. With 6 groups compared here, roughly one apparent difference in twenty is chance alone.

GroupThis familyCases behind itUK, same agesFamily / national
Lamps & electrical13.796,76312.11.13×1.13–1.15
Brakes12.285,6588.51.43×1.42–1.44
Suspension9.466,30911.00.85×0.85–0.86
Visibility8.358,3456.71.23×1.22–1.24
Tyres6.444,8148.60.75×0.74–0.75
Body & structure1.812,8333.20.56×0.56–0.58
Named defects — items per 100 initial tests, this family vs UK national average; this model measured on 703,839 tests, 2019-2024, national column 2024
What failedper 100 tests (this family)per 100 tests (UK average)ratio family / UKWhat to check
Suspension joint dust cover severely deterioratedA suspension joint dust cover severely deteriorated3.231.901.70×Listen for knocks over bumps — worn joints show up on the test
Suspension joint dust cover missing or no longer…A suspension joint dust cover missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc2.951.781.65×Listen for knocks over bumps — worn joints show up on the test
Brake pipe damaged or excessively corrodedBrake pipe damaged or excessively corroded2.171.411.54×Look underneath for rust or cracks around subframe and suspension mountings
Windscreen washers not working or not providing…Windscreen washers not working or not providing sufficient fluid to clear the windscreen2.111.621.30×Check wipers, washers and windscreen chips in the driver's view
Lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a…A lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning2.552.091.22×Try every light and switch — lamps are a top failure
Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the…Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the windscreen2.532.221.14×Check wipers, washers and windscreen chips in the driver's view
Rear registration plate lamp or light source…A rear registration plate lamp or light source missing or inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources3.102.831.10×Try every light and switch — lamps are a top failure
Tyre seriously damagedA tyre seriously damaged2.272.540.89×Check tyre tread depth across the full width
Brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mma brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm1.802.150.84×Feel for brake judder and pulling on the test drive
Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the…Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements2.283.590.63×Check tyre tread depth across the full width

Named defects ranked by how much more often they appear than the national average — not by raw rate.

Hyundai i20 MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Tyres are highest at 39.7 per 100 tests; Lamps & electrical are lowest at 1.8 per 100 tests — the gap is 37.9 per 100 tests.

higher bar = flagged more oftenadvisory items per 100 initial tests

Hyundai i20 MOT advisories: what gets flagged — 2024 UK MOT data
Advisory rates table
GroupAdvisories per 100
Tyres39.7
Brakes36.6
Suspension10.9
Non-component advisories7.1
Emissions & leaks2.2
Lamps & electrical1.8

Advisories are wear the tester noted but didn't fail — what will need money soon.

Tyres, brakes and suspension: Hyundai i20 against cars of the same age

AgePartHyundai i20Same age, petrol and dieselDifference
3 yearsTyres2.444.17-1.73
3 yearsBrakes0.611.77-1.16
3 yearsSuspension0.220.63-0.41
4 yearsTyres3.364.54-1.18
4 yearsBrakes1.372.43-1.06
4 yearsSuspension0.241.21-0.97
5 yearsTyres3.775.06-1.29
5 yearsBrakes2.223.09-0.87
5 yearsSuspension0.582.19-1.61
6 yearsTyres4.415.54-1.13
6 yearsBrakes3.483.81-0.33
6 yearsSuspension1.653.72-2.07
7 yearsTyres4.65.95-1.35
7 yearsBrakes4.84.550.25
7 yearsSuspension4.295.68-1.39
8 yearsTyres4.776.31-1.54
8 yearsBrakes6.665.381.28
8 yearsSuspension7.127.78-0.66

Failing items per 100 initial tests, 2019-2024. The comparison group is every petrol or diesel car tested at the same age, so weight and drivetrain show up rather than fleet age.

If a car like this fails, does it fail again?

A failure rate does not say whether a failure is a one-off or the start of something. This follows the same vehicles into their next ordinary MOT a year later — retests after a repair are excluded, because they follow a failure by definition. 2019-2024.

After this year's testFails next yearVehicles followed
It failed34.7%44,037
It passed21.9%415,334

A failed test raises next year's chance of failing again by 12.8 percentage points. The failure most likely to come back is suspension — 37.7% of those vehicles fail again next year. Some of this is the vehicle and some is the owner: a car that was let go once tends to be let go again. One caveat: a car that fails may be sold or scrapped rather than tested again, so these figures describe the vehicles that came back.

Adjusted for how much these are actually driven

The headline index adjusts for the fleet's age. Wear, though, follows mileage: a three-year-old taxi and a three-year-old garage queen sit in the same age band. These two rows compare every car with vehicles of the same age, and then with vehicles of the same age and the same annual mileage, 2019-2024, on 700,650 tests. Both stand on the six-year corpus so they are measured on identical data — compare them with each other, not with the headline index above, which is measured on 2024 alone.

Standardised forIndexReading
Age only95.2fails less often than expected
Age and annual mileage104.3fails more often than vehicles driven as much
Share doing under 3,000 miles a year10.1%a normal spread of use

This is the rare case where usage changes the answer, not just the number: once you compare these against vehicles driven as little, the car moves from one side of normal to the other. Read the mileage-matched figure, not the headline one. One limit to keep in mind: mileage is partly a result of how often a car breaks down — one that spends weeks in the workshop covers fewer miles — so the mileage-matched figure can understate a real weakness. Tests with no usable odometer reading are left out of it.

How the Hyundai i20 compares with cars of its own age and size

Not against the whole fleet — against cars of the same size class tested at the same age, 2019-2024.

AgeHyundai i20Same class, same ageDifferenceTests
3 years9.38%11.32%-1.93 pp55,512
4 years11.07%14.27%-3.2 pp59,328
5 years14.38%17.44%-3.06 pp68,541
6 years18.62%20.78%-2.15 pp74,098
7 years21.92%24.35%-2.43 pp75,363
8 years25.45%28.18%-2.72 pp73,974
9 years29.78%32.05%-2.27 pp71,143
10 years34.63%35.61%-0.97 pp68,899
11 years36.64%38.67%-2.03 pp54,585
12 years38.57%41.27%-2.7 pp41,100
13 years39.89%43.31%-3.42 pp30,383
14 years40.78%45.06%-4.28 pp19,639
15 years42.03%46.33%-4.29 pp9,364

Raw first-time failure rates within each age, so fleet age cannot flatter either side. A positive difference means this model fails more often than its own class at that age.

How does the Hyundai i20 perform as it gets older?

The i20 at age 12 stands out at 41.6%, against 35.7% for all vehicles of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

How does the Hyundai i20 perform as it gets older? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · failure-rate scale 0–47%.

Takeaway: a 10-year-old i20 has roughly a 31% chance of failing its MOT; from about age 10 it stays above the national age curve.

Data table
AgeHyundai i20All vehiclesGap
314.2%12.4%+1.8 pp
411.0%13.1%-2.1 pp
512.3%15.1%-2.9 pp
614.6%17.5%-2.9 pp
716.8%20.2%-3.4 pp
819.3%23.3%-4.0 pp
921.3%26.5%-5.2 pp
1031.0%30.1%+0.9 pp
1137.9%33.2%+4.8 pp
1241.6%35.7%+5.9 pp
1341.0%38.2%+2.8 pp
1440.8%40.4%+0.3 pp
1542.0%41.6%+0.5 pp

Is a Hyundai i20 ULEZ compliant?

The share of classifiable 2024 Hyundai i20 MOT tests likely ULEZ compliant by first-registration date is 96.7%.

Based on 129,301 classifiable initial MOT tests. This describes the tested fleet, not a specific car. MOT data do not record Euro class, so likely compliance is inferred from fuel and first-registration date. For the only authoritative answer, check the registration with TfL's official ULEZ checker.

higher = larger share likely compliantinferred from fuel and first-registration date; not a recorded Euro class

Age-band estimate from classifiable initial MOT tests
Vehicle age at testLikely ULEZ-compliant shareTests
Under 3 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 436
3–5 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 17,824
6–7 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 20,450
8 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 13,866
9 years94.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 12,867
10–14 years94.8%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 54,505
15–17 years93.3%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 9,353
18 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
19 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
20+ yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0

Hyundai i20 petrol vs diesel: which ages best

Diesel is highest at 37.2%; Hybrid is lowest at 14.1% — the gap is 23.1 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Hyundai i20 petrol vs diesel: which ages best — 2024 UK MOT data
Fuel split table
FuelTests% failingGap vs best
Petrol118,58827.6%+13.5 pp
Diesel5,76137.2%+23.1 pp
Hybrid4,99014.1%+0.0 pp

Chart sample sizes: n=119k · n=5,761 · n=4,990.

How dangerous are Hyundai i20 MOT failures?

Major defects are well below the reference at 35.3 per 100 tests, against 52.8 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

How dangerous are Hyundai i20 MOT failures? — 2024 UK MOT data
Severity table
SeverityThis family /100National /100Family / national
Minor13.1014.220.92×
Major35.2652.750.67×
Dangerous7.5911.150.68×

Chart values: Minor 13.1 · Major 35.3 · Dangerous 7.6.

Per 100 tests on this family. National average: Minor 14.2 · Major 52.8 · Dangerous 11.2 per 100.

Does the month of a Hyundai i20 MOT matter?

Nov is highest at 27.1%; Mar is lowest at 23.5% — the gap is 3.6 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Does the month of a Hyundai i20 MOT matter? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart scale: 22%–33%.

bars: Hyundai i20 · dashed: all class-4 cars

Month-by-month table
MonthHyundai i20All vehiclesGap
Jan25%31.12%-6.1 pp
Feb23.95%29.99%-6.0 pp
Mar23.48%28.26%-4.8 pp
Apr25.44%29.78%-4.3 pp
May24.12%28.79%-4.7 pp
Jun23.54%28.15%-4.6 pp
Jul24.85%29.33%-4.5 pp
Aug25.16%29.2%-4.0 pp
Sep24.04%28.19%-4.2 pp
Oct26.97%30.34%-3.4 pp
Nov27.13%30.58%-3.4 pp
Dec26.57%29.33%-2.8 pp

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 3.6 percentage points — noticeable seasonality. Seasonality partly reflects registration-date clustering, not weather.

Before reading the shape: most of it is not about cars. Britain changes its registration plates twice a year, and 18.9% of these cars were first registered in March with another17.1% in September — 36% in two months against the 17% an even spread would give. An MOT falls due three years after first registration, so the buying calendar becomes the testing calendar. That shapes how many cars are tested each month — not how often they fail: the busiest months here are not the worst ones, so read the failure line on its own and the volume behind it separately.

Hyundai i20 average mileage by age

At age 8, the middle half of i20s runs from 35,343 miles to 65,388 miles, against 49,417 miles as the median.

further right = more milesmedian is the typical car; band is p25–p75

Bars: Hyundai i20 · dashed: all class-4 cars — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · odometer scale 0–109k mi.

Does high mileage mean more Hyundai i20 MOT failures at the same age?

Within the same age group, split by odometer (2024 MOTs), so this separates wear from age: at ages 10–14, 21.3% of those with under 40,000 miles failed first time versus 51.5% of those with over 140,000 miles.Inside this age group, higher mileage goes with more failures.

Does high mileage mean more Hyundai i20 MOT failures at the same age? — 2024 UK MOT data
Hyundai i20: first-time failure by mileage within each age group (2024)
AgeOdometer% failing95% intervalTests
3–5<40k miles11.8%11.3–12.4%15,031
3–540-70k miles16.5%15.1–18%2,552
3–570-100k miles18.7%14–24.5%209 (rough estimate)
6–9<40k miles12.2%11.7–12.7%17,770
6–940-70k miles19.8%19.3–20.4%20,756
6–970-100k miles26.5%25.4–27.5%6,897
6–9100-140k miles30.2%28–32.6%1,526
6–9140k+ miles37.5%31.4–44%224 (rough estimate)
10–14<40k miles21.3%20.4–22.1%8,324
10–1440-70k miles34.2%33.5–34.8%20,531
10–1470-100k miles44.6%43.8–45.3%17,158
10–14100-140k miles49.9%48.8–51.1%7,276
10–14140k+ miles51.5%48.6–54.3%1,189
15+<40k miles24.1%21.5–27%936
15+40-70k miles35.8%34–37.6%2,608
15+70-100k miles44.8%43.1–46.6%3,150
15+100-140k miles50%47.9–52%2,188
15+140k+ miles56.8%52.3–61.3%461 (rough estimate)

line: median · band: middle half of the fleet (p25–p75)

Mileage by age (p25 / median / p75)
Agep25Medianp75Tests
312,64318,74326,4496,119
415,70623,32932,6734,260
520,29529,19440,1227,445
624,80836,06749,1468,734
730,61543,58258,53711,716
835,34349,41765,38813,866
940,73056,39174,09612,867
1041,63157,74176,00813,067
1146,45763,87382,26412,498
1250,56469,01188,8419,661
1357,14577,42798,0439,668
1458,17178,66799,8749,615
1558,41880,389103,6289,258
1664,70885,77698,82995

A typical 8-year-old i20 has ~49,417 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the Hyundai i20 fails its MOT most

Llandrindod Wells area is highest at 36.1%; St Albans area is lowest at 17.5% — the gap is 18.6 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Hyundai i20 line: median · band: middle half of the fleet (p25–p75) — 2024 UK MOT data
Toughest areas% failingvs model overall
Llandrindod Wells (LD)36.13%+11.1 pp
Galashiels (TD)34.56%+9.6 pp
Dundee (DD)34.47%+9.5 pp
Kirkcaldy (KY)33.65%+8.6 pp
Aberdeen (AB)33.12%+8.1 pp
Easiest areas% failingvs model overall
St Albans (AL)17.5%-7.5 pp
Warrington (WA)19.22%-5.8 pp
Colchester (CO)19.23%-5.8 pp
Southend-on-Sea (SS)19.9%-5.1 pp
Dudley (DY)20.49%-4.5 pp

Why do areas differ?

For each external factor we correlate the area fail rate with the factor across postcode areas that have ≥800 tests of this family, then compare the bottom vs top fifth (quintile) of the factor. Correlation, not causation — factors travel together (the north is colder and often poorer; urban areas are denser and less salted). Road surface condition is joined now, for the 91 English areas the DfT publishes, and it explains nothing: the correlation with suspension failures is −0.01 and with body and structure failures 0.07. Potholes wreck wheels and tyres between tests, but by the time a car reaches the bay the road it drives on leaves no measurable trace.

In areas with the highest mot centre density this model fails 2.9 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.29, n=113 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest frost days this model fails 1.3 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.28, n=113 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest road-salt proxy this model fails 1.7 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.28, n=113 areas with ≥800 tests).

Hyundai i20 Why do areas differ? — 2024 UK MOT data
Values shown in the quintile chart
FactorLow QHigh QGapCorrelation
MOT centre density24.0%27.0%+3.0 ppr=0.29
Frost days25.5%26.8%+1.3 ppr=0.28
Road-salt proxy24.9%26.7%+1.8 ppr=0.28

Factors that only mean something combined

Some conditions are useless on their own and informative multiplied together. Frost days alone say little — Britain barely freezes. Salt tonnage alone says little — it tracks frost. Distance to the sea alone says little. Multiply the first two and divide by the third and you get an index of how hard an area attacks a car's underside, and it lines up with the corrosion defects we actually record. We built five such combinations and tested each against our own data. Three survived; two did not, and the failures are listed here on purpose — a proxy that was never checked is decoration. One survivor only survived on the second attempt: built from a crude stand-in for street parking it failed outright, and rebuilt from the census — terraced streets carrying more cars than they have driveways — it works, and carries information the salt index does not.

Composite area indicators, each tested against a defect rate we measure
CompositeBuilt fromTested againstrVerdict
Underbody corrosionfrost days × salt load ÷ (distance to coast + 1)share of tests with a corrosion defect+0.42holds (116 areas)
Tyre wearrain days × annual miles ÷ age at first tyre advisoryshare of tests failing on tyres+0.45holds (116 areas)
Overnight corrosionterraced housing × cars per household × frost daysshare with a corrosion defect+0.41holds (102 areas) — and adds signal beyond the first index
Deferred maintenancedeprivation × advisory-to-failure conversion ÷ labour ratecars repeating the same advisory−0.26fails (118 areas)
Powertrain stressengine capacity ÷ kerb weightsuspension, brake and emissions failures−0.16fails (22 models)

The deprivation result is the one worth dwelling on. The intuition that poorer areas defer repairs is strong enough that most people treat it as established. We tested it twice — once on raw failure rates (r = 0.04) and again, more fairly, on whether an advisory turns into a failure — and it did not hold any of the three times we tried it — on raw failure rates, on advisory-to-failure conversion, and again with deprivation measured properly inside each nation rather than England alone. We are closing it. What does predict local failure rates is the density of test centres, which is a statement about testing, not about cars.

All external-factor correlations (machine-readable)
Factorrn areasLow-Q fail %High-Q fail %Gap ppLow-Q factorHigh-Q factor
MOT centre density (per 10k vehicles)0.29011324.027.0+2.958.5
Frost days (days/year)0.28011325.526.8+1.311.638
Road-salt proxy (g/m²-yr)0.27911324.926.7+1.7221.2670.1
Distance to coast (km)-0.22711326.724.4-2.36.279.5
Terrain gradient (% grade)0.1516725.026.3+1.30.53.7
Urban share (0–1)-0.12011325.824.9-0.90.41
Income deprivation (score)0.0699724.525.3+0.70.10.2

Deprivation uses England IMD 2019 income score only (Scotland SIMD is a different scale). Salt proxy is a simplified NWSRG-style dry-salt sum from air Tmin; coastalness is distance from the area centroid to the nearest coastline.

Every dot is a postcode area — size = how many were tested there, colour = share failing. These figures are not age-adjusted: coastal and rural areas often run older fleets and salted roads, so higher raw fail rates do not automatically mean a worse local stock of this model.

Map labels: Scotland · N. England · Wales · London · S. West. Colour scale: 21%–32% failing.

Hyundai i20 survival: which cars are still on the road

By age 16 is well below the reference at 0.1%, against 100.0% at the ages 4–6 reference level.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Hyundai i20 survival: which cars are still on the road — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · survival vs ages 4–6 · scale 0–105%.

Survival vs fail rate by age
AgeTestsSurvival vs ages 4–6Fail %
355,51282.5%9.38%
459,32888.1%11.07%
568,541100%14.38%
674,098100%18.62%
775,363100%21.92%
873,974100%25.45%
971,143100%29.78%
1068,899100%34.63%
1154,58581.1%36.64%
1241,10061%38.57%
1330,38345.1%39.89%
1419,63929.2%40.78%
159,36413.9%42.03%
16960.1%40.62%

By age 15, only about 14% as many cars of this family present for MOT as at ages 4–6 (reference n≈67,322); survivors still fail at 42.0% vs 11.1% at age 4. Older cars that still appear are a selected subset — weaker ones have already left.

How many miles does a Hyundai i20 last?

100,000+ miles is highest at 6.5%; 150,000+ miles is lowest at 0.6% — the gap is 5.9 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

OdometerTests ≥ thresholdShare of sample
100,000+ miles45,5146.5%
150,000+ miles4,0730.58%

Of 700,678 tests of this family with a usable odometer in 2024, 6.5% had reached 100k miles, 0.6% had reached 150k miles. This is a cross-section of cars still presenting for MOT, not a full birth cohort.

How many years is a Hyundai i20 likely to last?

Bought at age 5 is highest at 7.8 years; Bought at age 15 is lowest at 0.5 years — the gap is 7.3 years.

bigger number = longer remaining lifeyears on the observed survival curve

Age nowTypical mileage (p50)Expected years left
5—7.8
8—4.8
10—2.8
12—at least 1.9
15—at least 0.5

estimateEstimate only — not a warranty: a typical 10-year-old example of this family has about 2.8 expected years of further MOT-present life on the 2024 survival curve. Derived from how many cars of each age still appear for test, not from a longitudinal panel.

Hyundai i20 faults that come together

Body & structure + Emissions & leaks stand out at 8.78×, against 1.00× if the faults were independent.

above 1.0× = more than expectedbelow 1.0× = less

Group AGroup BTogetherLift
Body, chassis, structureNoise, emissions and leaks1,3198.78×
Road WheelsSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems528.21× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems646.75× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems5806.57×
Identification of the vehicleNoise, emissions and leaks766.01× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems6655.91×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSteering3835.51× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureIdentification of the vehicle865.33× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems3,3765.26×
Noise, emissions and leaksRoad Wheels445.21× (rough estimate)
BrakesIdentification of the vehicle3184.89× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment4484.87× (rough estimate)
BrakesRoad Wheels2114.86× (rough estimate)
Road WheelsSteering324.81× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureRoad Wheels514.73× (rough estimate)
SteeringSuspension2,2794.68×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentRoad Wheels2874.67× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSteering5464.61×
BrakesNoise, emissions and leaks2,7084.47×
BrakesSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems2,0304.47×
Road WheelsTyres1374.47× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaks3,6604.27×
Identification of the vehicleSteering424.22× (rough estimate)
BrakesSteering1,9434.07×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSuspension1,8664.02×
Noise, emissions and leaksSteering3714× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment4,3293.96×
Body, chassis, structureSuspension3,1023.93×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSteering2,5853.83×
BrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment16,6503.78×
Identification of the vehicleTyres1723.75× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureBrakes2,8493.69×
Road WheelsSuspension1623.65× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleSuspension2363.55× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspension15,9323.54×
Road WheelsVisibility1563.51× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleVisibility2333.5× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSuspension2,1603.49×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsVisibility1,5613.36×
BrakesSuspension10,6153.33×
Noise, emissions and leaksTyres1,3883.25×
BrakesTyres6,9283.15×
Noise, emissions and leaksVisibility1,9163.09×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentVisibility13,9153.08×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentTyres9,3193×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsTyres9613×
BrakesVisibility9,2102.89×
SteeringTyres9552.84×
TyresVisibility6,3372.82×
Body, chassis, structureVisibility2,0962.65×
SteeringVisibility1,2812.62×
Body, chassis, structureTyres1,3642.5×
SuspensionTyres5,3492.38×
SuspensionVisibility7,5992.33×
Identification of the vehicleRoad Wheels8too few (rough estimate)
Seat belt installation checkSuspension6too few (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSeat belt installation check5too few (rough estimate)

Defects in «Body, chassis, structure» and «Noise, emissions and leaks» appear together 8.78× more often than chance (1,319 co-occurrences in the same test; lift≥1.3, n≥500).

Lift = how many times more often both groups appear on the same test than if independent. A pair is listed from 5 tests with both faults; the lift is shown from 20, and called above chance only when its 95% interval excludes 1 (see rough estimates).

Is low mileage better for a Hyundai i20?

Cars driven under 5,000 miles a year is well below the reference at 18.3%, against 35.3% for cars driven 8,000–12,000 miles a year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

BandFail %Tests
<5k miles/year18.32%193,010
8–12k miles/year35.33%124,115
Gap (low − normal)-17.01 pp—
By fuel and age

Diesel

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
511.2833721.12985-9.84 pp
615.5643726.451,308-10.89 pp
717.7948929.821,422-12.03 pp
817.6758332.881,782-15.22 pp
923.3756940.651,771-17.28 pp
1030.4560146.131,550-15.68 pp
1128.7353645.81,299-17.07 pp
1232.0943048.94944-16.85 pp
1332.4441050.07735-17.63 pp
1436.9529549.71350-12.77 pp

Petrol

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
59.421,72718.7415,132-9.34 pp
612.0423,18124.6716,059-12.63 pp
714.1723,71129.0915,852-14.93 pp
816.2523,15133.9314,903-17.68 pp
919.4322,66939.6614,058-20.23 pp
1023.5822,84346.3512,910-22.77 pp
112618,41746.519,491-20.51 pp
1228.1814,30549.716,660-21.54 pp
1330.1310,81750.394,453-20.26 pp
1431.347,50251.452,445-20.11 pp

At matched ages 5–14, cars averaging under 5k miles/year fail at 18.3% vs 35.3% for 8–12k miles/year — 17.0 pp lower (n_low=193,010, n_normal=124,115). In this family low annual use is associated with fewer MOT fails, not more — the ‘garage queen’ penalty is not visible in overall fail rates. Diesel alone: 25.0% low-use vs 41.3% normal (-16.3 pp).

Which Hyundai i20 engine is best?

diesel 1.0–1.2 is highest at 133.7; petrol under 1.0 is lowest at 83.5 — the gap is 50.2 points.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

Engine bands against this model's own failure rate at the same ages
FuelCapacityvs own age normRaw fail %Tests
petrolunder 1.0 litre83.511.84%37,198
petrol1.2–1.5 litre87.724.53%108,783
petrol1.0–1.2 litre101.825.59%514,269
petrol1.5–1.8 litre106.413.39%448 (rough estimate)
diesel1.2–1.5 litre119.832.87%31,507
diesel1.0–1.2 litre133.734.02%6,122

Splitting this model by fuel alone hides the thing that actually differs. Within the same badge, the diesel 1.0–1.2 runs at 133.7 against this model's own age norm while the petrol under 1.0 runs at 83.5 — a spread of 50.2 points between two cars that share a name.

Read this one with more care than the rest of the page. Age is held constant, but who buys which engine is not: the largest capacity in a range is often a performance or executive variant that is garaged, cherished and lightly driven, while the smallest is frequently a fleet or entry car worked hard from new. The gap below is real in the test records; how much of it is the engine and how much is the owner, this data cannot separate. Bands under 100 tests are not shown; bands under 5,000 tests are rough estimates.

Best year for a Hyundai i20, and the years to avoid

Build year 2013 is highest at 115.2; Build year 2015 is lowest at 83.3 — the gap is 31.9 points.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

build year vs the same model at the same age · 100 = as expected

Hyundai i20 build year vs the same model at the same age · 100 = as expected — 2024 UK MOT data
Hyundai i20 by build year, tests 2019–2024. Below 100 is better than the model's own age norm.
Every build year with its confidence interval
Build yearvs own age norm95% CIRaw fail %TestsVerdict
202098.792–105.49.78%8,504no different
201990.386.6–9410.15%22,398better
201891.989.2–94.711.96%35,026better
201791.489.4–93.413.24%61,624better
201685.984.3–87.414.24%83,405better
201583.381.9–84.816.61%77,906better
2014102.1100.7–103.624.31%80,102worse
2013115.2113.8–116.731.69%77,588worse
2012115113.4–116.535.44%60,416worse
2011104.7103.3–106.135.42%61,679worse
201098.797.4–10035.98%63,579no different
200999.698.3–100.838.43%63,000no different
200885.373.3–97.233.91%578better

The best build year here is 2015 and the weakest is 2013. Comparing build years sounds simple and is not: within a single year of testing, a car's build year and its age are the same number, so a naive comparison of years is a comparison of ages wearing a disguise. Each year below is measured against the same model at the same age in other cohorts, across six years of testing — 9 of 13 years come out distinguishable from their own model's age norm.

Two limits worth knowing before you act on this. Age, test year and build year are locked together by arithmetic, so the test-year effect is taken from the observed national failure level of each year rather than estimated — it is an adjustment, not a solution.

Hyundai i20 MOT repair costs

The MOT-failure repair budget per test runs from £60.16 to £114.30, against £54.85 for the test itself.

bigger number = costs morepounds per test, MOT-failing faults only

MOT repairs, budget
£60–114
per test, repairs only
The test itself
£54.85
statutory cap, unchanged since 2010
How the figure is built: chance of failing × typical price of that repair
ComponentFails per 100 testsTypical repairIts priceContribution
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment13.7 (nat. 18.09)Battery replacement (standard 12V lead-acid)£140£19.18
Brakes12.2 (nat. 11.25)Front brake pads (parts + labour, typical hatchback)£150£18.30
Suspension9.4 (nat. 15.36)Suspension coil spring (single corner)£180£16.92
Tyres6.4 (nat. 8.7)Tyre (single mid-range 16" fitted)£90£5.76

Multiply how often each component fails on this model by what that repair usually costs, and you get the amount an owner should expect to budget per test for MOT-failing faults only — roughly £60 to £114, on top of the test fee itself. It is a budgeting figure, not a quote: the spread between a set of pads and a set of discs is most of the range.

Prices are modal quotes from a hand-kept catalogue of published UK garage guides — we do not scrape the booking sites, their terms forbid it, so this list is short and updated by hand with a source and date against each line. Each line prices one typical repair in that group, not a full remedy, and only groups our catalogue actually covers are counted. The contrast worth noticing is the second card: the legal maximum for the test has been £54.85 since 2010, while the repairs it uncovers have followed inflation the whole time.

For scale from a different direction: Warrantywise, which sees used-car warranty claims rather than test failures, puts the average claim at £2,052 across the ten highest-claim models it ranks and £539 for Honda, the lowest-claim make in its index (Warrantywise index 2026, 1.6 million claims, cars aged 3–15). Those sit an order of magnitude above the figures in this table, and the gap is the point: a warranty claim is a gearbox or an engine, which almost never fails an MOT, while the faults that do fail one are corrosion, lamps and tyres, which no warranty pays for. The two numbers answer different questions and neither replaces the other.

Hyundai i20 running costs for a fleet

Vehicles failing at age 10 stand out at 31.0%, against 12.0% at age 5, tested in the same year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fails per 100 at age 5
12
vehicles needing work
At age 10
31
other cars of this model tested at age 10 in 2024
Repairs per 100
£6,016
plus £5,485 in test fees
Off the road
0d
median; 51.84% cleared same day
Failure rate and typical odometer by age
AgeFailsMedian odometerTestsGap vs age 5
314.23%18,7436,119+2.0 pp
410.96%23,3294,260-1.3 pp
512.26%29,1947,445+0.0 pp
614.6%36,0678,734+2.3 pp
716.81%43,58211,716+4.5 pp
819.31%49,41713,866+7.0 pp
921.29%56,39112,867+9.0 pp
1031.02%57,74113,067+18.8 pp
1137.93%63,87312,498+25.7 pp
1241.6%69,0119,661+29.3 pp
1340.96%77,4279,668+28.7 pp
1440.76%78,6679,615+28.5 pp
1542.05%80,3899,258+29.8 pp

The number a fleet manager needs is not the failure rate, it is the year the car starts costing more. Between cars aged 9 and cars aged 10, both tested in 2024, the failure rate of this model is 9.73 percentage points higher — the steepest one-year step in this cross-section of different cars, and a natural planning point for replacement.

Repair spend uses the same modal prices as the section above, so it inherits the same limits: one typical repair per component group, not a full remedy. Downtime is the gap between the failed test and the passed re-test, which is the window a vehicle is legally off the road.

Hyundai i20 rust problems: where they corrode

Age-standardised corrosion susceptibility stands out at 1.71×, against 1.00× for the national age-standardised rate.

above 1.0× = rusts more than averagebelow 1.0× = rusts less

How it rusts
1.71×
1.31% of tests record a corrosion defect vs 0.77% typical — age-standardised
Salt Belt exposure
74th
percentile among the models published here, from its tests across 113 postcode areas

This Hyundai i20 fails on corrosion far more often than average once age is held constant, and its owners live in areas that are saltier than most for the models we publish.

Corrosion is the one failure mode that is as much about geography as about the car. We keep the two apart on purpose: a model can look rusty simply because it is popular in Scotland, and a model can look clean simply because it is bought in Surrey. Blending them into a single score would hide which of the two is doing the work.

Exposure is this model's tests weighted by an area corrosion index built from frost days, salt load and distance to the coast — the composite validated at r = 0.42 against corrosion defects we actually record. It is published as a rank, not a raw score, because every mainstream model skews towards low-corrosion areas for the simple reason that most of Britain's cars are in the south. Susceptibility is standardised to the national age profile, so an old fleet does not get labelled a rusty model.

Does a Hyundai i20 advisory become a failure?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment are highest at 26.6%; Identification of the vehicle is lowest at 2.8% — the gap is 23.9 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

chance the same component fails at the next MOT, given an advisory now

Hyundai i20 chance the same component fails at the next MOT, given an advisory now — 2024 UK MOT data
Hyundai i20, advisory → failure conversion by component group, chained tests 2019–2024. Chart labels and rates: Lamps & electrical 26.6% · Suspension 19.2% · Brakes 15.1% · Visibility 11.1% · Steering 9% · Body & chassis 8.8% · Tyres 8% · Noise, emissions, leaks 4.2%.
Advisory today → failure at the next test, with how long you have
ComponentFails next timeTypical lead timeMiles of warningAdvisories tracked
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment26.6%12 months5,2596,159
Suspension19.2%12 months5,12533,856
Brakes15.1%12 months5,291106,733
Visibility11.1%12 months5,998659
Steering9.0%12 months5,6303,521
Body, chassis, structure8.8%12 months4,9833,419
Tyres8.0%12 months5,588125,826
Noise, emissions and leaks4.2%12 months6,11910,918
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems3.4%12 months5,6562,073
Identification of the vehicle2.8%12 months5,8057,966

This is the question an advisory note actually raises, and it needs six years of test history to answer. We followed the same vehicles from one MOT to the next across 2019–2024 and measured how often a component that was merely advised came back as a genuine failure at the next test.

Read it as a budgeting horizon, not a prophecy: the most likely component above turns into a failure for about 27 in 100 cars, and the median gap is 12 months and roughly 5,259 miles. The rest were repaired, sold, scrapped, or simply held. Rows with fewer than 500 tracked advisories are not shown.

What will fail next on a Hyundai i20?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment after a failure at age 12-14 are highest at 27.1%; Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment after a passed at age <3 are lowest at 1.7% — the gap is 25.3 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

Probability of each component failing at the next test, by age and last result
AgeLast testMost likely next failuresCars tracked
<3passedVisibility 4.1% · Tyres 2.4% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 1.7%31,271
<3advisoryVisibility 6.5% · Tyres 4.7% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 2.8%5,130
<3failureVisibility 5.7% · Tyres 3.5% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 3.2%3,239
3-5passedVisibility 5.0% · Tyres 3.0% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 2.9%105,874
3-5advisoryVisibility 7.6% · Tyres 5.7% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 4.7%40,067
3-5failureVisibility 8.2% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 7.0% · Tyres 6.5%23,752
6-8passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 7.0% · Suspension 6.2% · Visibility 5.2%84,880
6-8advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 10.3% · Suspension 9.3% · Brakes 8.2%49,895
6-8failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 15.5% · Suspension 12.6% · Brakes 10.9%45,282
9-11passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 11.7% · Suspension 10.7% · Brakes 7.7%48,171
9-11advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 16.8% · Suspension 14.7% · Brakes 12.8%40,102
9-11failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 21.8% · Suspension 17.0% · Brakes 15.7%48,111
12-14passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 15.0% · Suspension 9.8% · Brakes 8.7%12,211
12-14advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 20.8% · Suspension 15.0% · Brakes 14.0%13,901
12-14failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 27.1% · Suspension 17.2% · Brakes 16.6%17,027
15-19failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 20.5% · Suspension 17.9% · Brakes 14.1%78 (rough estimate)

The same chains, cut differently: given a car's age and how its last test went, which component most often causes trouble at the following one.

The pattern that repeats across every family: a failure at one test roughly doubles the chance of a failure on the same component at the next one, and an advisory sits about half-way between a clean pass and a failure. Age bands in years; probabilities are per car, not per defect item.

Hyundai i20 ownership: what six years of MOTs show

The same-day re-test pass rate is highest at 51.8%; The later re-test pass rate is lowest at 2.1% — the gap is 49.7 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fixed same day
51.84%
of failures re-tested
Fails /10k miles
0.479
miles actually driven
Clean streaks
46.31%
3+ tests, nothing noted
Odometer anomaly
0.757%
reading went backwards

Failing is usually a same-week event, not a disaster. Of 118,896 failures followed through to their re-test, 51.84% were repaired and passed the same day and 46.02% within ten days; the median gap is 0 days. 284,179 defect items were cleared in the process.

Per mile driven, not per year. Dividing failures by the miles that actually went onto the odometers between consecutive tests gives 0.479 failures per 10,000 miles, on a median of 4,599 miles a year across 129,358 chains. This is the number to compare between models — an annual rate quietly rewards cars that barely leave the drive.

Two populations hide inside one model. 46.31% of these cars strung together three or more tests with nothing recorded at all, while 28.54% carried the same advisory three times or more — the same fault, noted, ignored, noted again. When you buy used you are buying one of those two histories, and the MOT record shows which.

Odometer anomalies: 0.757% of 129,375 chains show a reading lower than the previous test, with a median drop of 10,241 miles. We call this an anomaly and not fraud on purpose — instrument swaps, imports, unit mix-ups and keying errors all land in the same bucket. Obvious typos (drops under 100 miles or over 90% of the reading) are already excluded.

Hyundai i20 safety recalls and how to check yours

DVSA recall campaigns stand out at 3.

bigger number = more recorded casescompare like-for-like scope, not sample size alone

recall campaigns launched per year

Hyundai i20 recall campaigns launched per year — 2024 UK MOT data
Campaigns launched per year for the Hyundai i20. Source: DVSA vehicle safety recalls. Chart values: 2021: 1 · 2022: 0 · 2023: 0 · 2024: 1 · 2025: 1.
Most recent safety recall campaigns for the Hyundai i20
ReferenceLaunchedVehiclesConcern
R/2025/27208/09/202517,084The vehicle fuel pump may have an internal malfunction which may fail over time. In case o
R/2024/17120/05/2024770The subject vehicles may experience a transmission malfunction resulting in a loss of driv
R/2021/01422/02/20211,879IN THE EVENT OF eCALL TRIGGER THE VIN NUMBER INFORMATION MAY NOT BE SENT

DVSA lists 3 safety recall campaigns for the Hyundai i20, covering roughly 19,733 vehicles in total. A recall is the manufacturer fixing a fault for free, so an open recall on your car costs nothing to clear.

Counter-intuitive, and measured on our own data: across the 25 families published here, more recalls go with a lower MOT Risk Index (r = −0.52). Heavily recalled models are not worse cars in the test bay — an active manufacturer removes the fault before it becomes an MOT failure.

Check whether a specific car has an outstanding recall — free, by registration — at DVSA's recall service. Source: DVSA vehicle safety recalls (check-vehicle-recalls.service.gov.uk), OGL.

Hyundai i20 inspection results in other countries

Finland Katsastus is well below the reference at 15.6%, against 26.3% nationally.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Same model, different national inspection regimes
CountryTestThis model failsNational averagePositionSample
United KingdomMOT (class 4)27.51%26.01%+1.5 pp129,343
NetherlandsAPK49.5%50.8%-1.3 pp31,252
FinlandKatsastus15.6%26.3%-10.7 pp9,990
NorwayPKK32.8%33.7%-0.9 pp5,160

The countries disagree about this car, and that is worth saying out loud rather than averaging away. A model can sit above its national average in one country and below it in another because the fleets are not the same cars: different model years, different engines, different roads and salt, and inspection rules that weight components differently. Treat each row as evidence from one regime, not as a verdict.

What Finland fails it for — share of recorded faults
Fault areaShare
Brake systems52.1%
Axles, wheels and suspension24.1%
Environmental hazards10.2%
Steering equipment4.4%
Lighting devices and electrical equipment2.4%

Useful as a cross-check on the UK defect table above: the categories are named differently, but a component that dominates in both regimes is a genuine weak point of the model rather than an artefact of one country's testing style.

The exact faults Netherlands records — APK defect codes, 2024
CodeFaultRecordedType
210Tyre pressure not at the correct value7,501failure
205Tyre with insufficient tread3,387failure
497Number-plate light not working or missing2,730failure
516Dipped headlight incorrectly aimed2,541failure
576Indicator colour wrong or not permitted2,440failure
203Tyre damaged2,052failure
584Sidelight not working properly1,868failure
AC1Tyre down to 1.6–2.5 mm of tread1,721advisory

Worth dwelling on how mundane the top of that list is: tyre pressure, tread depth, headlight aim. The Dutch APK records 1.268 defects per inspection against a much higher national failure rate than Britain's, and the reason is not that Dutch cars are worse — it is that the two regimes draw the line between "note it" and "fail it" in different places. Codes are the RDW's own; the English wording here is our translation of the Dutch original.

Britain is not the only country that inspects every car every year, and the Hyundai i20 is on the road in all of them. Each national regime writes its own rules, so the pass rates below are not comparable to each other — what does travel across a border is whether a model sits above or below its own country's average.

One caveat before you read the UK row: these are raw failure rates, because no other country publishes the age detail our index needs. This model's raw UK rate looks worse than the national average while its age-adjusted index is 98.8 — the fleet here is unusually old, and the raw column silently credits that. The index above is the fair comparison; this table is for reading each country against itself.

Rows with fewer than 500 inspections are not published. Sources: RDW open data — Meldingen Keuringsinstantie + Geconstateerde Gebreken + Gekentekende voertuigen (2024), CC0. Not an RDW endorsement.; Traficom — Periodic inspections of cars by model / by model and fault object 2024, CC BY 4.0; Statens vegvesen — Periodisk kjøretøykontroll (PKK) 2024, CC BY 4.0. Adapted; licences and full notice.

Hyundai i20 MOT: quick answers

Hyundai i20 MOT Risk Index is close to the reference at 98.8, against 100 for a car with the same age profile.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

What is the Hyundai i20 first-time MOT pass rate?
72.49% of first attempts passed in 2024 (129,343 tests). This is the first-time figure: retests after repair are excluded. Basis: first-time, excluding retests.
Why does this number differ from other sites?
Other sites often report a pass rate that includes retests or counts all attempts. Our 27.51% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 129,343 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 98.8 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Hyundai i20 with other cars

Ford Mondeo is highest at 98.8; Honda Civic is lowest at 98.1 — the gap is 0.7 points.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

Same brand

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Similar risk

Ford Mondeo (index 98.8)Citroen C3 Aircross (index 98.6)Honda Civic (index 98.1)

Same size class

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By build year

Hyundai i20 2008Hyundai i20 2009Hyundai i20 2010Hyundai i20 2011Hyundai i20 2012Hyundai i20 2013Hyundai i20 2014Hyundai i20 2015Hyundai i20 2016Hyundai i20 2017Hyundai i20 2018Hyundai i20 2019Hyundai i20 2020

By area

Hyundai i20 MOT failure rate by postcode area

By failure group

Hyundai i20 body, chassis and structure failuresHyundai i20 brakes failuresHyundai i20 vehicle identification failuresHyundai i20 lamps, reflectors and electrics failuresHyundai i20 noise, emissions and leaks failuresHyundai i20 road wheels failuresHyundai i20 seat belts and airbags failuresHyundai i20 steering failuresHyundai i20 suspension failuresHyundai i20 tyres failuresHyundai i20 visibility failures

Inspections abroad

Hyundai i20 in NorwayHyundai i20 in FinlandHyundai i20 in the Netherlands


Data details & how to cite

Scope: class-4 vehicles (cars), initial tests only, outcomes pass / fail / fixed-on-the-spot at the station (PRS counts towards the failure rate — the defect was present at arrival). Index = observed initial failures ÷ failures expected for this fleet's exact age profile, ×100; margin of error is a 95% confidence interval. Covers ALL generations together — a 3-year-old and a 15-year-old are very different cars; a generation split is on the roadmap. Dataset release dataset_release_id=dvsa-2024-v2, frozen baseline; headline claim_id=family-stats:hyundai-i20:dvsa-2024-v2. Full method: methodology.

Cite: MOT Risk Index (2026). Hyundai i20 MOT statistics 2024 (data release dvsa-2024-v2; downloadable dataset motriskindex-families-2024-v5, doi:10.5281/zenodo.22975051). https://motriskindex.co.uk/cars/hyundai-i20/ · Published 2026-07-30.