Pass rate
92.7%
Above average — 6.7 pts ahead of the 86.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 164 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £26–£66
2017 Honda Fit MOT pass rate
- 2017
- typical 45,658 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
27.6% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
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
- 92.1%
- Typical mileage
- 46k mi
The 2017 Honda Fit MOT pass rate is 92.7% of its MOT tests — 6.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 27.6% 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: 2.1× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 25.5% of everything recorded on the 2017 Honda Fit, against 12.2% nationally — 13.3 points above. Tyres are still the single largest share at 27.6%, but at 19.8% 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 86.0% and this one manages 92.7% — 6.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 164 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 2017 Honda Fit compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 86.0%, so this figure is 6.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 92.1%. The median 2017 Honda Fit in this dataset had covered 45,658 mi.
82% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Hybrid, which passed 92.6% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 96.3% of the time, April–September 89.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 1.83% of tests.
- 164 recorded tests behind this page.
- 92.7% overall pass rate, 92.1% 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
- 164
- Typical mileage (median)
- 45,658 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
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Fit MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 81% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Hybrid is the most common here (82% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Fit
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 65 | 92.3% |
| London | 32 | 93.8% |
| West Midlands | 21 | 100.0% |
| North West | 15 | 86.7% |
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 2017 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 2017 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 windscreen 1.8% 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 1.2% of tests
“rear fog 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 shock absorbers 1.2% of tests
“shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak”
Press down hard on each corner of the car and let go. It should settle in one bounce; if it keeps rocking, or you can see oil weeping down a shock absorber, that is the fault a tester will find.
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 2017 Fit through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £26–£66 — and 53% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £26–£66
- Cheapest common item: rear fog lamp not working
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 53%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 164 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 2017 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 2017 cars with a similar record
- Toyota Prius 92.8%
- Lexus Ct 92.5%
- Jaguar F-Type 92.9%
- Mazda Mx-5 93.0%
- Mercedes-Benz Sl 92.2%
- Porsche Macan 93.4%
Closest pass rates among 2017 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 2017 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 98 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 | 27 | 27.60% | 19.76% | +7.84 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 25 | 25.50% | 12.21% | +13.29 |
| Brakes | 16 | 16.30% | 20.89% | −4.59 |
| Suspension | 13 | 13.30% | 20.98% | −7.68 |
| Visibility | 11 | 11.20% | 4.97% | +6.23 |
| Non-component advisories | 2 | 2.00% | 4.18% | −2.18 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1 | 1.00% | 5.52% | −4.52 |
| Steering | 1 | 1.00% | 2.57% | −1.57 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1 | 1.00% | 1.76% | −0.76 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 1.00% | 0.82% | +0.18 |
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 | 1.8% | £80–200 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.2% | £3–15 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.2% | £3–15 |
| Service brake imbalance across an axle Brakes | Major | 1.2% | £45–110 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 1.2% | £30–75 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Ball joint dust cover excessively damaged or deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Steering | Major | 0.61% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 0.61% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 7.9% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 4.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 3.7% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 1.8% | £5–25 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 1.8% | £30–75 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 1.8% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 30 | 90.0% | 21,743 mi |
| 30-60k | 88 | 94.3% | 43,426 mi |
| 60-90k | 38 | 89.5% | 72,087 mi |
| 90-120k | 7 | 100.0% | 95,027 mi |
| 120k+ | 1 | 100.0% | 169,130 mi |
Source: 164 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.
2017 Fit MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2017 Honda Fit?
92.7% of the 164 2017 Honda Fit tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 86.0% for cars first used in 2017. First-attempt pass rate: 92.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2017 Honda Fit?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.83%), rear fog lamp not working (1.22%), rear fog lamp not working (1.22%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2017 Honda Fit MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 90.0% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2017 Honda Fit in this dataset had covered 45,658 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2017 Honda Fit?
Hybrid: 92.6% pass rate across 135 tests. Petrol: 93.1% pass rate across 29 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2017 Honda Fit MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 96.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 89.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.