Hyundai model reference
Hyundai i10
What our record holds on the i10, sold in the UK since 2008: body styles, fuel types and the road tax a used one pays.
No reliability figure is published for the Hyundai i10 that this site could cite. What circulates instead is survey data from panels that select themselves, and warranty claim rates published by companies with something to sell.
Any percentage would be our own calculation. Which years count, and whether a facelift and a new generation sharing the i10 name are one model or two, both move the answer, and neither choice is anybody official's.
So the field does not exist. We do not average the other Hyundai models into a number and put it here, and we do not push a marque figure down onto the i10. What is real and specific is the paperwork for one car.
No fault ordering is published for the i10
A 2015 1.0 petrol at about 98 g/km is band A, £20 for twelve months in 2026/27.
That figure is a worked example for the year and engine named, not a rate for every i10. Read the CO2 figure and the first registration date off the V5C before you budget, because both change the answer.
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Buying a used i10: what the record settles
Our record puts the i10's UK sales period at since 2008. That range is the useful starting point, because everything about the cost of running one turns on where a particular example sits inside it. It came in one body style here, hatchback, with one fuel type, petrol.
The i10 was on sale on both sides of the road tax change of 1 April 2017, and that is the single most useful thing to know before you buy one. An example first registered up to 31 March 2017 is taxed on its CO2 figure under the lettered bands, so engine, gearbox and even wheel size can move two cars of the same year into different bands. One registered from 1 April 2017 pays the flat standard rate instead and its CO2 stops mattering. Two otherwise identical cars a year apart can cost noticeably different amounts to keep taxed, and only the V5C tells you which one you are looking at.
For running costs the fuel matters more than the badge.
None of that is a substitute for the record of the actual car. The invoices name what was replaced, when and at what mileage, and the same job appearing twice in three years says more about a i10 than any statistic about the model ever could. A mileage that goes backwards across a paperwork trail is worth walking away from whatever the badge is.
Hyundai started selling in Britain in 1982 and spent its first two decades competing on price before its five year warranty and European design work changed how it was seen. The i10 and i20 are the used volume, and the i10 in particular is a mainstay of driving school and first car use. Its warranty is transferable within the five years, which matters when you are looking at a three year old car. That is context on the marque rather than on this car, and there is more of it, along with every other model line, on the Hyundai page.