Pass rate
80.0%
Around average — 10.7 pts behind the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 75 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £19–£51
2020 Honda Fit MOT pass rate
- 2020
- typical 60,274 mi
Only 75 tests of this exact model and year are in the DVSA data, below the 100 we ask for before a page goes in the index. The figures are still shown, because they are the only ones there are.
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
32.1% 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
- 76.2%
- Typical mileage
- 60k mi
The 2020 Honda Fit MOT pass rate is 80.0% of its MOT tests — 10.7 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 32.1% 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: 2.6× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 32.1% of everything recorded on the 2020 Honda Fit, against 12.2% nationally — 19.9 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 90.7%; this one manages 80.0% — 10.7 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- Based on a small sample. 75 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 2020 Honda Fit compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 10.7 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 76.2%. The median 2020 Honda Fit in this dataset had covered 60,274 mi.
81% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 78.7% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 82.4% of the time, April–September 78.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp lens slightly defective", noted on 5.33% of tests.
- 75 recorded tests behind this page.
- 80.0% overall pass rate, 76.2% 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
- 75
- Typical mileage (median)
- 60,274 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 67% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (81% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Fit
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| West Midlands | 23 | 65.2% |
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 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 2020 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 5.3% 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 5.3% 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.
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Check the battery 1.3% of tests
“battery(ies) insecure”
Check the battery is secure and its terminals are clean and tight — a loose battery is a fail on its own, and a weak one shows up as slow cranking on a cold morning.
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 Fit through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £19–£51 — and 42% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £19–£51
- Cheapest common item: rear fog lamp does not emit a steady red light
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: service brake performance excessively binding
- £60–£150
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 42%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 75 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 2020 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 2020 cars with a similar record
- Mercedes-Benz Citan 81.6%
- Toyota Estima 81.6%
- Vauxhall Combo 83.1%
- Tesla Model 3 Performance 83.2%
- Mercedes-Benz Vito 83.3%
- Nissan Elgrand 76.0%
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 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 84 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 | 27 | 32.10% | 12.21% | +19.89 |
| Tyres | 16 | 19.00% | 19.76% | −0.76 |
| Brakes | 13 | 15.50% | 20.89% | −5.39 |
| Suspension | 12 | 14.30% | 20.98% | −6.68 |
| Steering | 9 | 10.70% | 2.57% | +8.13 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 2 | 2.40% | 5.57% | −3.17 |
| Visibility | 2 | 2.40% | 4.97% | −2.57 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1 | 1.20% | 5.52% | −4.32 |
| Non-component advisories | 1 | 1.20% | 4.18% | −2.98 |
| Road Wheels | 1 | 1.20% | 0.75% | +0.45 |
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 | 5.3% | £5–25 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.3% | £5–20 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 5.3% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.7% | £30–80 |
| Rear fog lamp does not emit a steady red light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.7% | £3–15 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 2.7% | £60–150 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover excessively damaged or deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of… Steering | Major | 2.7% | £18–45 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover insecure so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Steering | Major | 2.7% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 1.3% | £18–45 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.3% | £60–140 |
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 | 10.7% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 8.0% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 5.3% | £5–25 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.3% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 2.7% | £45–110 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 2.7% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 12 | 83.3% | 19,169 mi |
| 30-60k | 25 | 84.0% | 44,876 mi |
| 60-90k | 32 | 75.0% | 73,584 mi |
| 90-120k | 6 | 83.3% | 99,092 mi |
Source: 75 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 Fit MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Honda Fit?
80.0% of the 75 2020 Honda Fit tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 76.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Honda Fit?
The three most recorded items are headlamp lens slightly defective (5.33%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (5.33%), track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt (5.33%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Honda Fit MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 83.3% of the time, falling to 83.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Honda Fit in this dataset had covered 60,274 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2020 Honda Fit?
Petrol: 78.7% pass rate across 61 tests. Hybrid: 85.7% pass rate across 14 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2020 Honda Fit MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 82.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 78.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.