Pass rate
81.7%
Around average — 7.7 pts ahead of the 74.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 219 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £11–£34
2009 Honda Fit MOT pass rate
- 2009
- typical 54,616 mi
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
38.7% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Part only £6–£18 for Registration plate lamp inoperative (multiple lamps). What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2015 93.5% pass
- Avoid 2007 75.4% pass
Across the 17 years on record, a spread of 18.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 79.1%
- Typical mileage
- 55k mi
The 2009 Honda Fit MOT pass rate is 81.7% of its MOT tests — 7.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 38.7% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Honda Fit does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 3.2× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 38.7% of everything recorded on the 2009 Honda Fit, against 12.2% nationally — 26.5 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.
- 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 74.0% and this one manages 81.7% — 7.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 57% 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.
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 2009 Honda Fit compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 74.0%, so this figure is 7.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 79.1%. The median 2009 Honda Fit in this dataset had covered 54,616 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 80.0% of the time, April–September 83.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp lens slightly defective", noted on 9.13% of tests.
- 219 recorded tests behind this page.
- 81.7% overall pass rate, 79.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Honda Fit, the average is 88.9% — best year 2015 (93.5%), worst 2007 (75.4%).
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
- 219
- Typical mileage (median)
- 54,616 mi
- Make and model
- Honda Fit
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Headlight Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Fit MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 42% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Fit
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| East of England | 57 | 87.7% |
| Scotland | 38 | 78.9% |
| South East | 35 | 82.9% |
| East Midlands | 22 | 81.8% |
| West Midlands | 16 | 87.5% |
| South West | 16 | 56.3% |
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 2009 Fit
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 2009 Fit
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 9.1% of tests
“headlamp lens slightly defective”
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 5.0% 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 2009 Fit through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £11–£34 — and 57% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £11–£34
- Cheapest common item: rear fog lamp does not emit a steady red light
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: headlamp aim projected beam image is…
- £30–£80
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 57%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 219 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 Fit, side by side
17 model years on record, from 2007 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 75.4% to 93.5% — a spread of 18.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2007 75.4% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2008 77.0% rear fog lamp not working
- 2009 81.7%headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2010 82.3% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2011 86.9% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2012 89.3% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2013 91.8% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2014 93.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2015 93.5% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2016 93.2% rear fog lamp not working
- 2017 92.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 92.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2019 88.7% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2020 80.0% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2021 86.9% linkage ball joint dust cover…
- 2022 85.5% headlamp not working on dipped…
- 2023 91.2% linkage ball joint dust cover…
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 2009 Honda Fit 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 2009 cars with a similar record
- BMW X6 81.8%
- Porsche Cayenne 82.0%
- Toyota Hi-Ace 81.3%
- Nissan Elgrand 81.3%
- BMW 525 80.9%
- Mercedes-Benz S-Class 80.9%
Closest pass rates among 2009 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 2009 Honda Fit 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 308 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 | 120 | 38.70% | 12.21% | +26.49 |
| Tyres | 56 | 18.10% | 19.76% | −1.66 |
| Suspension | 50 | 16.10% | 20.98% | −4.88 |
| Brakes | 34 | 11.00% | 20.89% | −9.89 |
| Steering | 16 | 5.20% | 2.57% | +2.63 |
| Non-component advisories | 12 | 3.90% | 4.18% | −0.28 |
| Visibility | 11 | 3.50% | 4.97% | −1.47 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 4 | 1.30% | 5.52% | −4.22 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 3 | 1.00% | 5.57% | −4.57 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 2 | 0.60% | 0.82% | −0.22 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 9.1% | £5–25 |
| Rear fog lamp does not emit a steady red light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 5.0% | £3–15 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 5.0% | £18–45 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 4.6% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 3.2% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.2% | £30–80 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.2% | £5–25 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.2% | £3–15 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.2% | £5–20 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.3% | £18–45 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 12.8% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 7.3% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.9% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 4.6% | £5–25 |
| Non-component advisories Play in steering rack inner joint(s) Non-component advisories | Advisory | 3.6% | £120–300 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Advisory | 3.2% | £60–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 22 | 100.0% | 21,499 mi |
| 30-60k | 106 | 76.4% | 44,575 mi |
| 60-90k | 74 | 86.5% | 73,494 mi |
| 90-120k | 12 | 75.0% | 104,818 mi |
| 120k+ | 4 | 50.0% | 124,245 mi |
Source: 219 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.
2009 Fit MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2009 Honda Fit?
81.7% of the 219 2009 Honda Fit tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 74.0% for cars first used in 2009. First-attempt pass rate: 79.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2009 Honda Fit?
The three most recorded items are headlamp lens slightly defective (9.13%), rear fog lamp does not emit a steady red light (5.02%), track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt (5.02%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2009 Honda Fit MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 50.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2009 Honda Fit in this dataset had covered 54,616 mi.
Does the season affect the 2009 Honda Fit MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 80.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 83.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.