Pass rate
74.6%
Below average — 1.3 pts ahead of the 73.3% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 189 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £53–£141
2001 Honda Civic Aerodeck MOT pass rate
- 2001
- typical 104,624 mi
Most common fault
Brakes
23.1% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Which year to buy
- Best 2001 74.6% pass · this year
- Avoid 2000 69.2% pass
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 5.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 68.4%
- Typical mileage
- 105k mi
The 2001 Honda Civic Aerodeck MOT pass rate is 74.6% of its MOT tests — 1.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 23.1% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Honda Civic Aerodeck does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Body & chassis: 2.0× the national share
Body & chassis accounts for 10.9% of everything recorded on the 2001 Honda Civic Aerodeck, against 5.6% nationally — 5.3 points above. Brakes are still the single largest share at 23.1%, but at 20.9% nationally that one is ordinary. Look underneath for corrosion near the jacking points and suspension mounts; surface rust is normal, flaking metal is not.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 25% of this model’s typical repairs come in under £30 in parts — the failures here tend to be the kind that need a garage rather than a bulb.
- Based on a small sample. 189 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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How does the 2001 Honda Civic Aerodeck compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.3%, so this figure is 1.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 68.4%. The median 2001 Honda Civic Aerodeck in this dataset had covered 104,624 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 73.9% of the time, April–September 75.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 15.87% of tests.
- 189 recorded tests behind this page.
- 74.6% overall pass rate, 68.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Honda Civic Aerodeck, the average is 71.2% — best year 2001 (74.6%), worst 2000 (69.2%).
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
- 189
- Typical mileage (median)
- 104,624 mi
- Make and model
- Honda Civic Aerodeck
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Civic Aerodeck MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 61% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Civic Aerodeck
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 47 | 74.5% |
| South West | 31 | 61.3% |
| East Midlands | 26 | 73.1% |
| East of England | 20 | 80.0% |
| Yorkshire | 18 | 88.9% |
| West Midlands | 17 | 76.5% |
Regions come from the postcode area recorded at the test station. Areas on region borders are assigned to the region with the majority of their population.
What fails a 2001 Civic Aerodeck
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 2001 Civic Aerodeck
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 windscreen 15.9% of tests
“windscreen damaged”
Check the driver’s side of the screen within the swept area for chips and cracks; anything larger than 10mm in the driver’s central view is a fail. Most chips can be resin-repaired for far less than a new screen.
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Check the lights 6.3% of tests
“stop lamp not working”
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 suspension joints 4.2% of tests
“track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated,”
With the car parked on level ground, rock the top of each front wheel in and out while someone watches the suspension arm. Clunks, or rubber boots split and greasy, are what testers record here.
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 2001 Civic Aerodeck through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £53–£141 — and 25% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £53–£141
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: steering rack gaiter damaged or deteriorated,
- £120–£300
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 25%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 189 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 Aerodeck, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2000 to 2001. Across them the pass rate runs from 69.2% to 74.6% — a spread of 5.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 69.2% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2001 74.6%windscreen damaged but not…
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 2001 Honda Civic Aerodeck 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 2001 cars with a similar record
- Audi A4 74.5%
- Nissan Almera 74.7%
- Land Rover Discovery 74.8%
- Rover 25 74.8%
- Toyota Celica 74.3%
- Toyota MR2 74.2%
Closest pass rates among 2001 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 2001 Honda Civic Aerodeck 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 10 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 669 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 155 | 23.10% | 20.89% | +2.21 |
| Suspension | 130 | 19.30% | 20.98% | −1.68 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 73 | 10.90% | 5.57% | +5.33 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 68 | 10.10% | 12.21% | −2.11 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 62 | 9.20% | 5.52% | +3.68 |
| Tyres | 48 | 7.10% | 19.76% | −12.66 |
| Visibility | 45 | 6.70% | 4.97% | +1.73 |
| Steering | 36 | 5.40% | 2.57% | +2.83 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 32 | 4.80% | 1.76% | +3.04 |
| Non-component advisories | 20 | 3.00% | 4.18% | −1.18 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 15.9% | £80–200 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 7.4% | £80–250 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 6.3% | £3–12 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 4.8% | £5–25 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 4.2% | £45–110 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 4.2% | £18–45 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Major | 3.7% | £45–120 |
| Steering rack gaiter damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 3.7% | £120–300 |
| Parking brake performance inoperative on one side Brakes | Major | 3.2% | £60–150 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.2% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 21.2% | £40–150 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 20.6% | £200–700 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 18.5% | £30–75 |
| Registration plates inscription illegible Identification of the vehicle | Advisory | 16.9% | £20–80 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 13.8% | £80–180 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 13.2% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 4 | 75.0% | 24,563 mi |
| 30-60k | 10 | 80.0% | 51,534 mi |
| 60-90k | 36 | 75.0% | 73,691 mi |
| 90-120k | 72 | 69.4% | 103,382 mi |
| 120k+ | 67 | 79.1% | 152,714 mi |
Source: 189 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.
2001 Civic Aerodeck MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2001 Honda Civic Aerodeck?
74.6% of the 189 2001 Honda Civic Aerodeck tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.3% for cars first used in 2001. First-attempt pass rate: 68.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2001 Honda Civic Aerodeck?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (15.87%), joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (7.41%), stop lamp not working (6.35%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2001 Honda Civic Aerodeck MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 75.0% of the time, falling to 79.1% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2001 Honda Civic Aerodeck in this dataset had covered 104,624 mi.
Does the season affect the 2001 Honda Civic Aerodeck MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 73.9% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 75.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.