Pass rate
94.0%
Above average — 0.8 pts behind the 94.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 50 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £23–£97
2023 Honda Civic MOT pass rate
- 2023
- 2 trims combined
- typical 22,107 mi
Only 50 tests of this exact model and year are in the DVSA data, below the 100 we ask for before a page goes in the index. The figures are still shown, because they are the only ones there are.
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
36.4% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Which year to buy
- Best 2022 95.6% pass
- Avoid 2003 71.7% pass
Across the 24 years on record, a spread of 23.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 93.6%
- Typical mileage
- 22k mi
The 2023 Honda Civic MOT pass rate is 94.0% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 36.4% of what testers record.
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Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 3.0× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 36.4% of everything recorded on the 2023 Honda Civic, against 12.2% nationally — 24.2 points above. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 67% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
- Based on a small sample. 50 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
Written from this page's own figures: fault shares against the national composition, the like-for-like pass rate, and the priced repair list. How these are worked out
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Every Honda Civic first registered in 2023 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2023 Honda Civic compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 94.8%, so this figure is 0.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 93.6%. The median 2023 Honda Civic in this dataset had covered 22,107 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Rear fog lamp missing", noted on 4.00% of tests.
- 50 recorded tests behind this page.
- 94.0% overall pass rate, 93.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Honda Civic, the average is 79.2% — best year 2022 (95.6%), worst 2003 (71.7%).
Figures count every completed test on this vehicle-year in the dataset, including retests. See methodology for the exact definition.
This page's data
- Tests analysed
- 50
- Typical mileage (median)
- 22,107 mi
- Make and model
- Honda Civic
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Civic MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 58% so small gaps stay visible.
What fails a 2023 Civic
Everything a tester recorded on this vehicle, grouped into the inspection sections that produced it. The notch on each bar is the national share, so you can see at a glance whether this car is unusual or just ordinary.
A test can record several items, so these percentages do not add up to 100%. The exact strings, with prices, are in the full DVSA record at the bottom of this page.
Before your test
Three checks worth doing on a 2023 Civic
These are not generic tips — they are the faults recorded most often on this exact model, rewritten as things you can check yourself. All three take about ten minutes and cost nothing.
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Check the lights 4.0% of tests
“rear fog lamp missing”
Switch everything on and walk round the car: both headlamps on dip and main, every indicator, both brake lights, reverse, fog and the two number-plate lamps. A bulb is a few pounds and a five-minute job.
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Check the exhaust and emissions 2.0% of tests
“catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds default limits”
Listen for a blow at idle and have someone rev it gently. Then look at the tailpipe smoke: blue is oil, white when warm is coolant, black is over-fuelling. Any of those and the emissions test is the least of it.
Shares are the proportion of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item, so they overlap: one test can record several.
What it costs to get a 2023 Civic through its MOT
Across the 5 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £23–£97 — and 67% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 5 common items
- £23–£97
- Cheapest common item: rear fog lamp missing
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 67%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 50 MOT tests on this vehicle. They exclude diagnostics, retest fees and garage labour where the part is a DIY fit, and they are not figures from the DVSA dataset. Older and higher-mileage examples cost more than the average. How these estimates are built → · All MOT repair costs → · Cheapest cars to put through a test →
Every year of the Civic, side by side
24 model years on record, from 2000 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 71.7% to 95.6% — a spread of 23.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 75.3% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2001 72.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2002 72.2% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2003 71.7% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2004 72.5% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2005 72.8% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2006 72.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 72.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 72.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 73.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 74.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 75.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 82.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 84.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 86.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 87.3% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2016 88.4% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2017 89.2% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2018 89.5% wipers blade defective
- 2019 91.3% wipers blade defective
- 2020 93.0% wipers blade defective
- 2021 93.8% wipers blade defective
- 2022 95.6% wipers blade defective
- 2023 94.0%rear fog lamp missing
Colour is the pass rate on a fixed scale, so a block means the same thing on any model. Each year links to its own page with the full fault breakdown.
Compare the 2023 Honda Civic with another year
The raw pass rate mostly measures age. The year comparison adds the like-for-like figure, the mileage bands and the repair bill.
Other 2023 cars with a similar record
- Polestar Polestar 94.6%
- Tesla Model Y 92.9%
- Kia Niro 95.5%
- Toyota Corolla 95.7%
- Mercedes-Benz Eqe 96.5%
- Ford Puma 96.5%
Closest pass rates among 2023 cars with at least 2,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. See the full rankings: best and worst MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2023 Honda Civic 5 failure items · 2 advisories · 4 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 11 individual items recorded on this vehicle, and the same share across all cars nationally. A single test can record several items, so a row is not a percentage of tests.
| Category | Items | This car | Nationally | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 4 | 36.40% | 12.21% | +24.19 |
| Tyres | 3 | 27.30% | 19.76% | +7.54 |
| Brakes | 2 | 18.20% | 20.89% | −2.69 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2 | 18.20% | 5.52% | +12.68 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rear fog lamp missing Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.0% | £3–15 |
| Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds default limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.0% | £60–250 |
| Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content at idle exceeds default limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.0% | £60–250 |
| Side repeaters missing Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.0% | £5–25 |
| Switch missing Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.0% | £5–25 |
Severity is as recorded: Major and Dangerous fail the test outright; Minor and Advisory do not. Costs are estimates from typical UK parts prices — see how they are built.
What testers noted without failing the car
Advisories are the early warnings — the same parts a year or two before they fail. Reading them is how you tell a car that has been maintained from one that has been patched.
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 6.0% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 4.0% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 38 | 94.7% | 17,069 mi |
| 30-60k | 7 | 100.0% | 44,533 mi |
| 60-90k | 1 | 100.0% | 71,174 mi |
| 90-120k | 3 | 66.7% | 107,311 mi |
Source: 50 recorded tests on this vehicle-year. Every row above is recomputed from the same DVSA extract as the rest of the page — see the methodology.
2023 Civic MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2023 Honda Civic?
94.0% of the 50 2023 Honda Civic tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 94.8% for cars first used in 2023. First-attempt pass rate: 93.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2023 Honda Civic?
The three most recorded items are rear fog lamp missing (4.00%), catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds default limits (2.00%), catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content at idle exceeds default limits (2.00%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2023 Honda Civic MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.7% of the time, falling to 66.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2023 Honda Civic in this dataset had covered 22,107 mi.