Hyundai Santa FE years to avoid: the early ones

Based on 29,907 real MOT tests from DVSA records. Each year is compared against every other car first registered the same year — otherwise the numbers would only tell you that older cars fail more, which you knew.

The short answer

Avoid 2006 and 2010 to 2014. The worst is the 2011, which fails its MOT 31% more often than other cars of the same age.

Found a Hyundai Santa FE you like?

Averages tell you what to expect. Its registration tells you what actually happened — every MOT, every advisory, and whether the mileage adds up.

Every Santa FE model year

Shaded rows are the years that differ most from other cars of the same age — worse, better.

MOT failure rate by registration year for the Hyundai Santa FE
Registered	MOT tests	Fail rate	vs same-age cars
2006	1,521	41.6%	15% worse
2007	1,419	38.2%	about average
2010	3,338	39.5%	23% worse
2011 Worst	3,501	39.4%	31% worse
2012	3,165	36.1%	29% worse
2013	1,406	33.2%	30% worse
2014	2,519	26.3%	16% worse
2015	2,982	17.1%	about average
2016	4,279	15.4%	about average
2017	2,653	13.3%	about average
2018	1,952	12.3%	about average
2019	1,172	10.1%	about average

How this is worked out

Every MOT test recorded by DVSA in 2023 on a Hyundai Santa FE, grouped by the year the car was first registered. Retests are excluded, so a car that failed and was fixed still counts as a failure. Each year's rate is then divided by the rate for all cars first registered that year — so 120 means 20% more failures than its contemporaries, not 20% more than a brand new car.

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