Pass rate
96.8%
Above average — 16.6 pts ahead of the 80.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 126 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £24–£61
2014 Honda Freed MOT pass rate
- 2014
- typical 63,116 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
40.7% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2014 96.8% pass · this year
- Avoid 2010 84.2% pass
Across the 7 years on record, a spread of 12.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 96.7%
- Typical mileage
- 63k mi
The 2014 Honda Freed MOT pass rate is 96.8% of its MOT tests — 16.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 40.7% 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
Tyres: 2.1× the national share
Tyres make up 40.7% of everything recorded on the 2014 Honda Freed, against 19.8% nationally — 20.9 points above. Check all four tyres yourself, including the inner shoulders, and look at the date stamp — a tyre can pass on tread and still be six years old.
- 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 80.2% and this one manages 96.8% — 16.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 126 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 2014 Honda Freed compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 80.2%, so this figure is 16.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 96.7%. The median 2014 Honda Freed in this dataset had covered 63,116 mi.
81% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Hybrid, which passed 98.0% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 96.6% of the time, April–September 97.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Driver's view of the road through the swept area of the windscreen significantly affected by an obstruction", noted on 0.79% of tests.
- 126 recorded tests behind this page.
- 96.8% overall pass rate, 96.7% 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
- 126
- Typical mileage (median)
- 63,116 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
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Freed MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 83% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Hybrid is the most common here (81% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Freed
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 33 | 100.0% |
| West Midlands | 27 | 100.0% |
| North West | 21 | 85.7% |
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 2014 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 2014 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 windscreen 0.8% of tests
“driver's view of the road through the swept area of the windscreen significantly affected by an obstruction”
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 0.8% of tests
“headlamp aim too far to the right”
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 0.8% 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.
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 2014 Freed through its MOT
Across the 8 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £24–£61 — and 50% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 8 common items
- £24–£61
- Cheapest common item: rear fog lamp missing
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: driver's view of the road through the swept…
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 75%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 50%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 126 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 2014 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 2014 cars with a similar record
- Porsche 911 95.1%
- Bentley Continental 94.9%
- Porsche Cayman 93.2%
- Porsche Boxster 93.0%
- Audi A8 92.8%
- Jaguar F-Type 92.1%
Closest pass rates among 2014 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 2014 Honda Freed 8 failure items · 6 advisories · 8 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 27 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 | 11 | 40.70% | 19.76% | +20.94 |
| Suspension | 3 | 11.10% | 20.98% | −9.88 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 3 | 11.10% | 12.21% | −1.11 |
| Visibility | 3 | 11.10% | 4.97% | +6.13 |
| Brakes | 2 | 7.40% | 20.89% | −13.49 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2 | 7.40% | 5.52% | +1.88 |
| Non-component advisories | 2 | 7.40% | 4.18% | +3.22 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 3.70% | 5.57% | −1.87 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Driver's view of the road through the swept area of the windscreen significantly affected by an obstruction Visibility | Major | 0.79% | £80–200 |
| Headlamp aim too far to the right Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.79% | £30–80 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 0.79% | £18–45 |
| Rear fog lamp missing Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.79% | £3–15 |
| Rear fog lamp tell-tale missing Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.79% | £3–15 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.79% | £45–95 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Rectified | 0.79% | £5–15 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.79% | £8–22 |
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 | 4.8% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 3.2% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 1.6% | £18–45 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 1.6% | £200–700 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.6% | £20–80 |
| Chassis condition or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of a body mounting Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 0.79% | £180–450 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 5 | 100.0% | 17,873 mi |
| 30-60k | 44 | 95.5% | 48,265 mi |
| 60-90k | 64 | 98.4% | 70,818 mi |
| 90-120k | 12 | 91.7% | 105,138 mi |
| 120k+ | 1 | 100.0% | 138,247 mi |
Source: 126 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.
2014 Freed MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2014 Honda Freed?
96.8% of the 126 2014 Honda Freed tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 80.2% for cars first used in 2014. First-attempt pass rate: 96.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2014 Honda Freed?
The three most recorded items are driver's view of the road through the swept area of the windscreen significantly affected by an obstruction (0.79%), headlamp aim too far to the right (0.79%), linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (0.79%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2014 Honda Freed MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2014 Honda Freed in this dataset had covered 63,116 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2014 Honda Freed?
Hybrid: 98.0% pass rate across 102 tests. Petrol: 91.7% pass rate across 24 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2014 Honda Freed MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 96.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 97.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.