2019 Hyundai Kona: MOT pass rate and reliability

90.6% of 2019 Hyundai Konas pass the MOT first time, measured across 6,984 DVSA tests on that model year alone. The average one had covered 34,897 miles.

How the 2019 compares

  • Against all Hyundai Konas (90.9%, 26,025 tests): -0.3 points
  • Against all 2019 cars (87.9%): +2.7 points
  • National first-time pass rate, all cars and years: 77%

Every Hyundai Kona model year

Pass rates fall as cars age, so the only fair comparison for a 2019 car is other cars of the same age. The full run for the Hyundai Kona:

Year Pass rate Tests Avg mileage
2017 89.7% 417 43,320
2018 89.8% 6,704 40,061
2019 90.6% 6,984 34,897
2020 91% 5,840 36,197
2021 92.4% 5,663 31,728
2022 95.7% 372 30,263

What this means if you are buying a 2019 Kona

The 2019 sits close to the Hyundai Kona average, so there is no strong model-year signal either way. Judge the individual car on its own history. Check the exact car with the free MOT history checker before you buy, and run its VIN and mileage through our free VIN decoder and clocking check.

What a 7-year-old car fails on

A 2019 car is 7 years old now, and age drives the failure mix more than the badge does. Across all cars tested, these are the categories that actually cause failures:

  • Lights and electrical: 10.36% of all cars tested
  • Suspension: 8.65% of all cars tested
  • Tyres: 6.23% of all cars tested
  • Brakes: 6.1% of all cars tested
  • Visibility: wipers, washers, glass: 4.65% of all cars tested
  • Body, chassis and structure: 3.18% of all cars tested

That is below average for a car this age, worth a mileage-consistency check since an unusually low reading is sometimes clocking rather than luck. On a 2019 Hyundai Kona the average at test was 34,897 miles, so treat anything far above that as a car that has worked harder than its peers, and anything far below as one worth checking for the faults that come from standing still.

The strongest year for this model is 2022 at 95.7%, and the weakest in our data is 2017 at 89.7%. That 6.0 point spread across the model's life is why comparing a 2019 car against a newer one tells you very little.

Nearby model years

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