9,964 cars · 18,926 MOT tests · 2024 and 2025
Toyota Hiace (2004 on) MOT statistics
What every MOT test on a Toyota Hiace (2004 on) 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.
Every Hiace first used from 2004, imported or sold new in the UK.
34%
failed their first MOT test
17% lower than the UK average for their age
17.2 yrs
median age at the MOT
All cars: 9.7 years
63%
of tests had at least one advisory
All cars: 52%
40%
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.
- 0–4 years49 tests41%vs 13%
- 5–9 years444 tests28%vs 22%
- 10–14 years3,258 tests31%vs 35%
- 15–19 years13,238 tests34%vs 43%
- 20–24 years1,937 tests36%vs 42%
Most common advisories on a Toyota Hiace (2004 on)
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 material19%vs 3.8%
- Tread depth: worn close to legal limit or worn on edge14%vs 16%
- Wheel bearings: has slight play8.3%
- Linkage pins and bushes: pin or bush worn but not resulting in excessive movement8.0%
- Coil spring: corroded7.9%vs 3.3%
- Condition: slightly damaged or cracking or perishing6.3%vs 8.8%
- Suspension arm: corroded but not seriously weakened6.1%
- Registration plates: deteriorated but not likely to be misread6.1%vs 2.5%
- Component mounting prescribed areas: prescribed area is corroded but not considered excessive6.0%
- Engine oil leaks: leak, but not excessive5.7%vs 4.9%
Most common MOT failures on a Toyota Hiace (2004 on)
Share of initial tests that failed on each item, including faults fixed during the test.
- Position lamp: not working5.8%vs 2.5%
- Wipers: does not clear the windscreen effectively4.3%vs 2.0%
- Component mounting prescribed areas: prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength4.2%
- Stop lamp: not working3.9%vs 1.9%
- Rigid brake pipes: excessively corroded3.0%
- Linkage pins and bushes: pin or bush excessively worn2.3%
- Registration plate lamp(s): inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps2.1%
- Washers: provides insufficient washer liquid1.8%vs 1.4%
- Integral vehicle structure condition: corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced1.6%
- Rear fog lamp: not working1.6%
By part of the car
- Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment17%vs 11%
- Suspension12%vs 8.8%
- Brakes8.8%vs 6.5%
- Visibility7.1%vs 4.5%
- Body, chassis, structure5.9%vs 3.4%
- Noise, emissions and leaks4.6%vs 3.1%
- Tyres4.0%vs 6.3%
- Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems1.6%vs 1.0%
Advisories left unfixed
Of 11,587 advisories on a Toyota Hiace (2004 on) that we could follow to the next annual MOT, 38% were flagged again and 5.1% had turned into a failure (all cars: 29% and 5.1%). The items most often still there:
- Rigid brake pipes1,472 advisories60%
- Component mounting prescribed areas438 advisories57%
- Engine oil leaks351 advisories55%
- Condition (seat belts)86 advisories55%
- Coil spring580 advisories54%
- Headlamp92 advisories52%
- Registration plates464 advisories52%
- Flexible brake hoses327 advisories49%
Cars that disappeared from the MOT record
Of the 8,018 cars tested before October 2024, 11.4% had no MOT for over a year after their last one (imports overall: 10.4%; all cars: 7.2%). 81 of them (1.0%) 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
- Component mounting prescribed areas: prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength28%
- Wipers: does not clear the windscreen effectively19%
- Chassis condition: or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of a body mounting15%
- Chassis condition: corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced15%
- Rigid brake pipes: excessively corroded15%
- Integral vehicle structure condition: corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced14%
- Position lamp: not working12%
- Prescribed areas (seat belts): prescribed area strength or continuity significantly reduced9.9%
Most popular colours
Share of cars, against all UK cars.
- White38%vs 19%
- Silver32%vs 14%
- Blue15%vs 16%
- Red8.8%vs 10%
- Black3.4%vs 19%
- Green0.7%vs 1.7%
Checking a Toyota Hiace (2004 on)?
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Questions
- How often does a Toyota Hiace (2004 on) fail its MOT?
- 34% of first MOT tests on a Toyota Hiace (2004 on) failed in 2024 and 2025, from 18,926 tests. That’s 17% lower than the UK average for cars of the same age.
- What is the most common MOT advisory on a Toyota Hiace (2004 on)?
- Rigid brake pipes: corroded, covered in grease or other material, on 19% of tests.
- What does a Toyota Hiace (2004 on) most often fail its MOT on?
- Position lamp: not working, on 5.8% 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.