Pass rate
84.7%
Around average — 10.7 pts ahead of the 74.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 202 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £12–£34
2009 Honda Freed MOT pass rate
- 2009
- typical 71,822 mi
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
26.0% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Which year to buy
- Best 2014 96.8% pass
- Avoid 2010 84.2% pass
Across the 7 years on record, a spread of 12.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 82.0%
- Typical mileage
- 72k mi
The 2009 Honda Freed MOT pass rate is 84.7% of its MOT tests — 10.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 26.0% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Honda Freed does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 2.1× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 26.0% of everything recorded on the 2009 Honda Freed, against 12.2% nationally — 13.8 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 84.7% — 10.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 65% 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 Freed compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 74.0%, so this figure is 10.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 82.0%. The median 2009 Honda Freed in this dataset had covered 71,822 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 84.0% of the time, April–September 85.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 5.45% of tests.
- 202 recorded tests behind this page.
- 84.7% overall pass rate, 82.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Honda Freed, the average is 88.8% — best year 2014 (96.8%), worst 2010 (84.2%).
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
- 202
- Typical mileage (median)
- 71,822 mi
- Make and model
- Honda Freed
- 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 Freed MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 62% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Freed
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 51 | 88.2% |
| London | 36 | 83.3% |
| North West | 25 | 84.0% |
| East Midlands | 25 | 88.0% |
| East of England | 23 | 82.6% |
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 Freed
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 Freed
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 5.5% of tests
“linkage ball joint dust cover 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 3.5% 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 lights 3.0% 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.
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 Freed through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £12–£34 — and 65% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £12–£34
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: has ply or cords exposed
- £45–£95
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 65%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 202 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 Freed, side by side
7 model years on record, from 2008 to 2014. Across them the pass rate runs from 84.2% to 96.8% — a spread of 12.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2008 90.0% stop lamp not working
- 2009 84.7%linkage ball joint dust cover…
- 2010 84.2% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2011 85.5% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2012 91.8% rear fog lamp missing
- 2013 90.8% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2014 96.8% driver's view of the road through…
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 Freed 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
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 Freed 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 219 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 | 58 | 26.00% | 12.21% | +13.79 |
| Tyres | 55 | 24.70% | 19.76% | +4.94 |
| Suspension | 35 | 15.70% | 20.98% | −5.28 |
| Brakes | 22 | 9.90% | 20.89% | −10.99 |
| Visibility | 22 | 9.90% | 4.97% | +4.93 |
| Non-component advisories | 6 | 2.70% | 4.18% | −1.48 |
| Steering | 6 | 2.70% | 2.57% | +0.13 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 5 | 2.20% | 5.57% | −3.37 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 5 | 2.20% | 1.76% | +0.44 |
| Road Wheels | 5 | 2.20% | 0.75% | +1.45 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 5.5% | £18–45 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 3.5% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.0% | £5–25 |
| Mirrors slightly loose Visibility | Minor | 3.0% | £3–15 |
| Rear fog lamp does not emit a steady red light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.5% | £3–15 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 2.0% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.0% | £30–80 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 2.0% | £5–20 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.0% | £5–20 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.5% | £3–12 |
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 | 11.4% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 9.4% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 6.9% | £5–25 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.9% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 4.5% | £40–150 |
| Registration plates inscription illegible Identification of the vehicle | Advisory | 2.5% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 3 | 100.0% | 28,698 mi |
| 30-60k | 53 | 90.6% | 50,263 mi |
| 60-90k | 96 | 84.4% | 72,835 mi |
| 90-120k | 26 | 84.6% | 102,969 mi |
| 120k+ | 24 | 70.8% | 144,041 mi |
Source: 202 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 Freed MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2009 Honda Freed?
84.7% of the 202 2009 Honda Freed tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 74.0% for cars first used in 2009. First-attempt pass rate: 82.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2009 Honda Freed?
The three most recorded items are linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (5.45%), wipers blade defective (3.47%), headlamp lens slightly defective (2.97%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2009 Honda Freed MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 70.8% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2009 Honda Freed in this dataset had covered 71,822 mi.
Does the season affect the 2009 Honda Freed MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 84.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 85.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.