Pass rate
88.0%
Above average — 7.8 pts ahead of the 80.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 549 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £29–£71
2014 Honda Cr-Z MOT pass rate
- 2014
- typical 60,358 mi
Most common fault
Brakes
34.9% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Part only £25–£40 for Brake pads under 1.5 mm. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2015 94.7% pass
- Avoid 2010 80.9% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 13.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 86.9%
- Typical mileage
- 60k mi
The 2014 Honda Cr-Z MOT pass rate is 88.0% of its MOT tests — 7.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 34.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Honda Cr-Z does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 1.7× the national share
Brakes make up 34.9% of everything recorded on the 2014 Honda Cr-Z, against 20.9% nationally — 14.0 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
- Beats its own age and mileage. Once you allow for how old and how far these cars have been driven, the expected pass rate is 80.2% and this one manages 88.0% — 7.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 7% 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.
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 2014 Honda Cr-Z compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 80.2%, so this figure is 7.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 86.9%. The median 2014 Honda Cr-Z in this dataset had covered 60,358 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 89.8% of the time, April–September 86.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 5.10% of tests.
- 549 recorded tests behind this page.
- 88.0% overall pass rate, 86.9% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Honda Cr-Z, the average is 81.9% — best year 2015 (94.7%), worst 2010 (80.9%).
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
- 549
- Typical mileage (median)
- 60,358 mi
- Make and model
- Honda Cr-Z
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Ball Joint
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Cr-Z MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 74% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Cr-Z
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 97 | 90.7% |
| South West | 74 | 79.7% |
| East of England | 70 | 90.0% |
| West Midlands | 69 | 88.4% |
| North West | 56 | 89.3% |
| Scotland | 44 | 84.1% |
| East Midlands | 42 | 90.5% |
| Yorkshire | 31 | 87.1% |
| North East | 23 | 87.0% |
| London | 23 | 95.7% |
| Wales | 20 | 90.0% |
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 2014 Cr-Z
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 2014 Cr-Z
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 suspension joints 5.1% of tests
“ball joint dust cover severely 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.
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Check the wipers and washers 1.5% 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 1.1% 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.
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 2014 Cr-Z through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £29–£71 — and 7% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £29–£71
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 7%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 549 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 Cr-Z, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2010 to 2015. Across them the pass rate runs from 80.9% to 94.7% — a spread of 13.8 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2010 80.9% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2011 81.2% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2012 82.8% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2013 83.6% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2014 88.0%ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2015 94.7% 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 2014 Honda Cr-Z 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 2014 cars with a similar record
- Porsche Cayenne 88.0%
- BMW 530 87.8%
- Audi Tt 87.6%
- Porsche Macan 88.4%
- Toyota GT86 87.6%
- Audi S3 88.4%
Closest pass rates among 2014 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 2014 Honda Cr-Z 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 601 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 | 211 | 34.90% | 20.89% | +14.01 |
| Tyres | 147 | 24.30% | 19.76% | +4.54 |
| Suspension | 128 | 21.20% | 20.98% | +0.22 |
| Visibility | 33 | 5.50% | 4.97% | +0.53 |
| Steering | 27 | 4.50% | 2.57% | +1.93 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 25 | 4.10% | 12.21% | −8.11 |
| Non-component advisories | 15 | 2.50% | 4.18% | −1.68 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 7 | 1.20% | 5.57% | −4.37 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 5 | 0.80% | 5.52% | −4.72 |
| Road Wheels | 3 | 0.50% | 0.75% | −0.25 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 5.1% | £18–45 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 3.8% | £18–45 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 2.2% | £60–150 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 1.5% | £18–45 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.5% | £8–22 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 1.3% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.1% | £18–45 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 1.1% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.1% | £80–200 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 14.6% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 10.4% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 8.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 6.9% | £18–45 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Advisory | 6.2% | £60–150 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 4.0% | £30–75 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 89 | 91.0% | 21,843 mi |
| 30-60k | 182 | 88.5% | 45,551 mi |
| 60-90k | 180 | 87.2% | 72,976 mi |
| 90-120k | 80 | 86.3% | 101,943 mi |
| 120k+ | 17 | 82.4% | 133,927 mi |
Source: 549 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.
2014 Cr-Z MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2014 Honda Cr-Z?
88.0% of the 549 2014 Honda Cr-Z tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 80.2% for cars first used in 2014. First-attempt pass rate: 86.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2014 Honda Cr-Z?
The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (5.10%), track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt (3.83%), service brake performance excessively binding (2.19%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2014 Honda Cr-Z MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.0% of the time, falling to 82.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2014 Honda Cr-Z in this dataset had covered 60,358 mi.
Does the season affect the 2014 Honda Cr-Z MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 89.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 86.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.