Pass rate
80.3%
Around average — 8.1 pts ahead of the 72.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 142 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £16–£43
2004 Honda Elysion MOT pass rate
- 2004
- typical 95,925 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
23.7% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2011 89.5% pass
- Avoid 2018 76.6% pass
Across the 15 years on record, a spread of 12.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 76.5%
- Typical mileage
- 96k mi
The 2004 Honda Elysion MOT pass rate is 80.3% of its MOT tests — 8.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 23.7% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.6× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 19.6% of everything recorded on the 2004 Honda Elysion, against 12.2% nationally — 7.4 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 23.7%, but at 21.0% nationally that one is ordinary. 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.
- 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 72.2% and this one manages 80.3% — 8.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 142 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 2004 Honda Elysion compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.2%, so this figure is 8.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 76.5%. The median 2004 Honda Elysion in this dataset had covered 95,925 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 79.8% of the time, April–September 81.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 11.97% of tests.
- 142 recorded tests behind this page.
- 80.3% overall pass rate, 76.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Honda Elysion, the average is 81.1% — best year 2011 (89.5%), worst 2018 (76.6%).
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
- 142
- Typical mileage (median)
- 95,925 mi
- Make and model
- Honda Elysion
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
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 Elysion MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 68% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Honda Elysion is most common
Across all Elysion model years on record (2004–2021): 1,085 Honda Elysion cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 2,482 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 65 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birmingham (B) | 65 | 87.5% |
| 2 | Kirkcaldy (KY) | 45 | 75.2% |
| 3 | Manchester (M) | 38 | 84.2% |
| 4 | Brighton (BN) | 33 | 69.5% |
| 5 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 32 | 82.9% |
| 6 | Sheffield (S) | 29 | 98.1% |
| 7 | London (E) | 28 | 94.7% |
| 8 | Glasgow (G) | 27 | 87.7% |
| 9 | Hounslow (TW) | 25 | 83.1% |
| 10 | London (N) | 20 | 95.2% |
| 11 | Bradford (BD) | 20 | 85.7% |
| 12 | Peterborough (PE) | 17 | 71.1% |
| 13 | Romford (RM) | 17 | 90.6% |
| 14 | Poole (BH) | 15 | 64.4% |
| 15 | Middlesbrough (TS) | 15 | 75.6% |
| 16 | Northampton (NN) | 15 | 83.8% |
| 17 | Reading (RG) | 15 | 90.0% |
| 18 | London (SE) | 14 | 76.5% |
| 19 | Coventry (CV) | 14 | 73.3% |
| 20 | Guildford (GU) | 13 | 78.9% |
The twenty areas with the most Honda Elysion cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the Elysion
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 25 | 76.0% |
| North West | 18 | 83.3% |
| South West | 17 | 70.6% |
| Scotland | 17 | 58.8% |
| Yorkshire | 15 | 93.3% |
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 2004 Elysion
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 2004 Elysion
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 12.0% 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 lights 4.9% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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 brakes 3.5% 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 2004 Elysion through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £16–£43 — and 43% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £16–£43
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 43%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 142 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 Elysion, side by side
15 model years on record, from 2004 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 76.6% to 89.5% — a spread of 12.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2004 80.3%ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2005 77.8% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2006 78.5% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2007 81.5% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2008 79.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 88.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2010 83.6% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2011 89.5% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2015 81.8% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2016 81.2% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2017 81.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 76.6% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2019 83.1% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2020 77.6% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2021 81.7% ball joint dust cover severely…
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 2004 Honda Elysion 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 2004 cars with a similar record
- Porsche Cayenne 81.1%
- Toyota Alphard 79.2%
- Porsche Boxster 81.5%
- BMW 645 78.8%
- Subaru Impreza 82.2%
- BMW Z4 78.3%
Closest pass rates among 2004 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 2004 Honda Elysion 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 359 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 86 | 23.70% | 20.98% | +2.72 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 71 | 19.60% | 12.21% | +7.39 |
| Brakes | 51 | 14.00% | 20.89% | −6.89 |
| Tyres | 46 | 12.70% | 19.76% | −7.06 |
| Steering | 28 | 7.70% | 2.57% | +5.13 |
| Non-component advisories | 26 | 7.20% | 4.18% | +3.02 |
| Visibility | 21 | 5.80% | 4.97% | +0.83 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 14 | 3.90% | 5.52% | −1.62 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 11 | 3.00% | 5.57% | −2.57 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 5 | 1.40% | 0.82% | +0.58 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 12.0% | £18–45 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 9.9% | £18–45 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 4.9% | £5–20 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.2% | £5–25 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 3.5% | £18–45 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.5% | £3–12 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.8% | £5–25 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.8% | £5–25 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 2.8% | £3–12 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.8% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 16.9% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 16.2% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 10.6% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 9.9% | £45–110 |
| Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 9.9% | £5–25 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 7.8% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 2 | 100.0% | 13,018 mi |
| 30-60k | 13 | 76.9% | 52,556 mi |
| 60-90k | 44 | 81.8% | 76,926 mi |
| 90-120k | 51 | 80.4% | 102,907 mi |
| 120k+ | 32 | 78.1% | 143,658 mi |
Source: 142 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.
2004 Elysion MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2004 Honda Elysion?
80.3% of the 142 2004 Honda Elysion tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.2% for cars first used in 2004. First-attempt pass rate: 76.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2004 Honda Elysion?
The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (11.97%), track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt (9.86%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (4.93%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2004 Honda Elysion MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 78.1% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2004 Honda Elysion in this dataset had covered 95,925 mi.
Does the season affect the 2004 Honda Elysion MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 79.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 81.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.