Pass rate
92.2%
Above average — 1.5 pts ahead of the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 295 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £26–£73
2020 Honda Civic Type R MOT pass rate
- 2020
- 2 trims combined
- typical 21,542 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
46.1% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2021 94.6% pass
- Avoid 2020 92.2% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 2.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 91.5%
- Typical mileage
- 22k mi
The 2020 Honda Civic Type R MOT pass rate is 92.2% of its MOT tests — 1.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 46.1% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Honda Civic Type R does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.3× the national share
Tyres make up 46.1% of everything recorded on the 2020 Honda Civic Type R, against 19.8% nationally — 26.3 points above. Check all four tyres yourself, including the inner shoulders, and look at the date stamp — a tyre can pass on tread and still be six years old.
- Based on a small sample. 295 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 Type R first registered in 2020 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2020 Honda Civic Type R compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 1.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 91.5%. The median 2020 Honda Civic Type R in this dataset had covered 21,542 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 92.1% of the time, April–September 92.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Wipers blade defective", noted on 2.03% of tests.
- 295 recorded tests behind this page.
- 92.2% overall pass rate, 91.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Honda Civic Type R, the average is 93.8% — best year 2021 (94.6%), worst 2020 (92.2%).
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
- 295
- Typical mileage (median)
- 21,542 mi
- Make and model
- Honda Civic Type R
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Wiper Blade
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Civic Type R MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 80% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Civic Type R
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 44 | 88.6% |
| South East | 42 | 92.9% |
| Yorkshire | 32 | 100.0% |
| South West | 30 | 90.0% |
| North West | 29 | 89.7% |
| West Midlands | 26 | 92.3% |
| East of England | 25 | 96.0% |
| East Midlands | 24 | 95.8% |
| London | 19 | 89.5% |
| North East | 16 | 81.3% |
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 2020 Civic Type R
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 2020 Civic Type R
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 wipers and washers 2.0% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
Run the wipers with the screen wet: they should clear it in one sweep without smearing or juddering. Top the washer bottle up and check both jets hit the screen.
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Check the brakes 0.7% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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Check the number plates 0.7% of tests
“registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements”
Check both plates are present, legible and correctly spaced, with the postcode of the supplier and the BS AU 145e mark. A private plate in the wrong style is a fail before the car is even looked at.
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 2020 Civic Type R through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £26–£73 — and 46% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £26–£73
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: catalytic converter missing where one was…
- £120–£400
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 46%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 295 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 Type R, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2020 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 92.2% to 94.6% — a spread of 2.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2020 92.2%wipers blade defective
- 2021 94.6% 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 2020 Honda Civic Type R 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 2020 cars with a similar record
- Jeep Renegade 92.2%
- MINI COOPER 92.3%
- Fiat Panda 92.3%
- Volkswagen Polo 92.1%
- Volvo XC40 92.1%
- Toyota Prius 92.1%
Closest pass rates among 2020 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 2020 Honda Civic Type R 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 152 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 70 | 46.10% | 19.76% | +26.34 |
| Brakes | 35 | 23.00% | 20.89% | +2.11 |
| Visibility | 15 | 9.90% | 4.97% | +4.93 |
| Non-component advisories | 15 | 9.90% | 4.18% | +5.72 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 4 | 2.60% | 12.21% | −9.61 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 4 | 2.60% | 5.52% | −2.92 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 3 | 2.00% | 1.76% | +0.24 |
| Road Wheels | 3 | 2.00% | 0.75% | +1.25 |
| Suspension | 2 | 1.30% | 20.98% | −19.68 |
| Steering | 1 | 0.70% | 2.57% | −1.87 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 2.0% | £8–22 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.4% | £8–22 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.0% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.68% | £18–45 |
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Major | 0.68% | £20–80 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.68% | £8–22 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Major | 0.34% | £20–55 |
| Catalytic converter missing where one was fitted as standard Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.34% | £120–400 |
| Emissions not tested unable to be completed Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.34% | £60–250 |
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 | 10.2% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.8% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 3.0% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 2.7% | £45–95 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.4% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.4% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 220 | 93.6% | 17,117 mi |
| 30-60k | 75 | 88.0% | 37,269 mi |
Source: 295 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.
2020 Civic Type R MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Honda Civic Type R?
92.2% of the 295 2020 Honda Civic Type R tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 91.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Honda Civic Type R?
The three most recorded items are wipers blade defective (2.03%), has ply or cords exposed (1.36%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.36%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Honda Civic Type R MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.6% of the time, falling to 88.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Honda Civic Type R in this dataset had covered 21,542 mi.
Does the season affect the 2020 Honda Civic Type R MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 92.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 92.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.