969 cars · 1,637 MOT tests · 2024 and 2025
Daihatsu Hijet MOT statistics
What every MOT test on a Daihatsu Hijet in Great Britain in 2024 and 2025 found: how often they fail, what testers flag, which faults owners leave, and how many never came back after failing.
Older Hijets were sold new in the UK; recent ones are imports.
40%
failed their first MOT test
6% higher than the UK average for their age
24.2 yrs
median age at the MOT
All cars: 9.7 years
60%
of tests had at least one advisory
All cars: 52%
37%
of tests mention corrosion
All cars: 12%
Failure rate by age
Share of initial tests that failed, by the car’s age at the test, against all UK cars of the same age.
- 10–14 years85 tests19%vs 35%
- 15–19 years68 tests35%vs 43%
- 20–24 years793 tests43%vs 42%
- 25–29 years616 tests42%vs 35%
- 30+ years45 tests44%vs 26%
Most common advisories on a Daihatsu Hijet
Things the tester noticed that weren’t bad enough to fail. Share of initial tests, against all UK cars.
- Rigid brake pipes: corroded, covered in grease or other material15%vs 3.8%
- Condition: slightly damaged or cracking or perishing11%vs 8.8%
- Coil spring: corroded8.9%vs 3.3%
- Tread depth: worn close to legal limit or worn on edge7.3%vs 16%
- Engine oil leaks: leak, but not excessive6.8%vs 4.9%
- Exhaust system: has a minor leak of exhaust gases6.2%vs 2.0%
- Registration plates: deteriorated but not likely to be misread5.9%vs 2.5%
- Integral vehicle structure condition: is corroded but structural rigidity is not significantly reduced5.5%
- Brake discs: worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened5.4%vs 8.9%
- Wheel bearings: has slight play5.1%
Most common MOT failures on a Daihatsu Hijet
Share of initial tests that failed on each item, including faults fixed during the test.
- Service brake imbalance (rbt (sp)): across an axle5.7%
- Rear fog lamp: not working5.1%
- Service brake performance (rbt (sp)): efficiency below requirements4.8%
- Emissions not tested (spark ignition): unable to be completed4.3%
- Catalyst emissions: Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits4.2%
- Wipers: does not clear the windscreen effectively4.0%vs 2.0%
- Exhaust system: has a major leak of exhaust gases3.7%
- Horn (electrical equipment): not working3.7%
- Headlamp aim: projected beam image is obviously incorrect3.5%vs 1.3%
- Component mounting prescribed areas: prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength3.5%
By part of the car
- Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment26%vs 11%
- Brakes16%vs 6.5%
- Noise, emissions and leaks12%vs 3.1%
- Visibility10.0%vs 4.5%
- Body, chassis, structure8.7%vs 3.4%
- Suspension7.7%vs 8.8%
- Tyres3.4%vs 6.3%
- Steering1.9%vs 2.0%
Advisories left unfixed
Of 717 advisories on a Daihatsu Hijet that we could follow to the next annual MOT, 34% were flagged again and 5.0% had turned into a failure (all cars: 29% and 5.1%). The items most often still there:
- Rigid brake pipes78 advisories55%
- Engine oil leaks32 advisories53%
- Registration plates27 advisories48%
- Integral vehicle structure condition26 advisories46%
- Tread depth44 advisories45%
- Condition59 advisories42%
- Exhaust system43 advisories42%
- Brake discs26 advisories38%
Cars that disappeared from the MOT record
Of the 700 cars tested before October 2024, 30.3% had no MOT for over a year after their last one (imports overall: 10.4%; all cars: 7.2%). 22 of them (3.1%) had failed that last test. MOT records don’t say why: most of these cars were scrapped, but some were exported, laid up or declared off the road.
What they failed on last
- Emissions not tested (spark ignition): unable to be completed32%
- Exhaust system: has a major leak of exhaust gases23%
- Service brake imbalance (rbt (sp)): across an axle23%
- Service brake performance (rbt (sp)): efficiency below requirements23%
Most popular colours
Share of cars, against all UK cars.
- White54%vs 19%
- Blue19%vs 16%
- Red7.6%vs 10%
- Grey6.4%vs 17%
- Green3.2%vs 1.7%
- Silver2.2%vs 14%
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Questions
- How often does a Daihatsu Hijet fail its MOT?
- 40% of first MOT tests on a Daihatsu Hijet failed in 2024 and 2025, from 1,637 tests. That’s 6% higher than the UK average for cars of the same age.
- What is the most common MOT advisory on a Daihatsu Hijet?
- Rigid brake pipes: corroded, covered in grease or other material, on 15% of tests.
- What does a Daihatsu Hijet most often fail its MOT on?
- Service brake imbalance (rbt (sp)): across an axle, on 5.7% of tests.
More MOT statistics
How we worked these out
- Every car MOT in Great Britain in 2024 and 2025, from DVSA’s anonymised MOT tests and results. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The analysis and any errors are ours, not DVSA’s.
- MOT records give the make, model name and engine size, not the chassis code, so models are grouped by name. A model page says when that grouping is looser than its title.
- Failure rates count initial tests only, and include faults fixed during the test (DVSA’s definition). Advisories are counted once per test.
- Ages run from the first-use date on the MOT record. For many imports that’s the date the car was first registered in the UK, not in Japan, so imports can look younger than they are, and the age comparison flatters them less than it should.
- An advisory counts as unfixed if the same part of the car is flagged again, or fails, at the next annual MOT (300 to 500 days later).
- A car “disappeared” if it had no MOT between 31 October 2024 and 30 December 2025, over a year after its last test. It’s an estimate of cars scrapped or taken off the road: some were exported, laid up, or made exempt at 40 years old.
- The figures for all cars and all Japanese-brand cars come from a random one-in-20 sample of vehicles; the model figures use every car.