Hyundai Tucson years to avoid: the early ones

Based on 112,702 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. The worst is the 2006, which fails its MOT 19% more often than other cars of the same age.

Found a Hyundai Tucson 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 Tucson 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 Tucson
Registered	MOT tests	Fail rate	vs same-age cars
2005	1,336	39.5%	about average
2006 Worst	1,519	43.1%	19% worse
2007	1,192	36.7%	about average
2015	4,911	19.0%	about average
2016	20,557	15.2%	about average
2017	24,151	13.6%	about average
2018	24,984	11.4%	about average
2019	25,709	10.8%	about average
2020	8,343	10.3%	about average

How this is worked out

Every MOT test recorded by DVSA in 2023 on a Hyundai Tucson, 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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