Pass rate
89.1%
Above average — 5.1 pts ahead of the 84.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 22,559 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £31–£79
2016 Honda Hr-V MOT pass rate
- 2016
- typical 54,283 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
30.6% 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 →
2.2 pts down across model years — 7.4% in 2000, 5.2% in 2022.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 97.7% pass
- Avoid 2006 71.4% pass
Across the 16 years on record, a spread of 26.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 87.9%
- Typical mileage
- 54k mi
The 2016 Honda Hr-V MOT pass rate is 89.1% of its MOT tests — 5.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 30.6% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Honda Hr-V does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.5× the national share
Tyres make up 30.6% of everything recorded on the 2016 Honda Hr-V, against 19.8% nationally — 10.8 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 84.0% and this one manages 89.1% — 5.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 28% of this model’s typical repairs come in under £30 in parts — the failures here tend to be the kind that need a garage rather than a bulb.
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 2016 Honda Hr-V compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 84.0%, so this figure is 5.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 87.9%. The median 2016 Honda Hr-V in this dataset had covered 54,283 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 55% of tests, with a 90.6% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 89.3% of the time, April–September 88.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick", noted on 1.74% of tests.
- 22,559 recorded tests behind this page.
- 89.1% overall pass rate, 87.9% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Honda Hr-V, the average is 90.9% — best year 2023 (97.7%), worst 2006 (71.4%).
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
- 22,559
- Typical mileage (median)
- 54,283 mi
- Make and model
- Honda Hr-V
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Brake Pads Set
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Hr-V MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 72% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (55% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Hr-V
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 4,913 | 90.0% |
| South West | 2,691 | 89.4% |
| East of England | 2,504 | 89.6% |
| Scotland | 2,487 | 84.6% |
| North West | 2,424 | 89.5% |
| West Midlands | 1,785 | 89.6% |
| Yorkshire | 1,722 | 89.4% |
| East Midlands | 1,359 | 90.1% |
| London | 1,028 | 90.4% |
| Wales | 916 | 87.8% |
| North East | 730 | 90.8% |
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 2016 Hr-V
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 2016 Hr-V
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 brakes 1.7% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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Check the windscreen 1.6% 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 shock absorbers 1.5% 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 2016 Hr-V through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £31–£79 — and 28% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £31–£79
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 28%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 22,559 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 Hr-V, side by side
16 model years on record, from 2000 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 71.4% to 97.7% — a spread of 26.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 71.7% component mounting prescribed…
- 2001 73.3% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2002 76.4% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2003 72.8% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2004 73.5% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2005 72.5% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2006 71.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2015 88.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 89.1%brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2017 91.3% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2018 93.3% wipers blade defective
- 2019 95.0% wipers blade defective
- 2020 95.7% wipers blade defective
- 2021 96.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2022 96.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2023 97.7% all direction indicators flashing…
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 2016 Honda Hr-V 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 2016 cars with a similar record
- Toyota Aygo 89.1%
- Nissan Note 89.1%
- Kia Venga 89.1%
- Volkswagen Golf 89.0%
- BMW 330 89.0%
- Toyota YARIS 89.2%
Closest pass rates among 2016 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 2016 Honda Hr-V 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 21,942 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 | 6,761 | 30.60% | 19.76% | +10.84 |
| Brakes | 5,306 | 24.00% | 20.89% | +3.11 |
| Suspension | 4,967 | 22.50% | 20.98% | +1.52 |
| Visibility | 1,441 | 6.50% | 4.97% | +1.53 |
| Non-component advisories | 1,441 | 6.50% | 4.18% | +2.32 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1,042 | 4.70% | 12.21% | −7.51 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 432 | 2.00% | 1.76% | +0.24 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 295 | 1.30% | 5.52% | −4.22 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 164 | 0.70% | 5.57% | −4.87 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 93 | 0.40% | 0.82% | −0.42 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.7% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.6% | £80–200 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 1.5% | £30–75 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.3% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.1% | £8–22 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.0% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.86% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.81% | £5–25 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 0.78% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 0.70% | £40–150 |
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 | 13.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 11.6% | £18–45 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 8.8% | £30–75 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 8.7% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.6% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 3.8% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 2,796 | 94.8% | 22,128 mi |
| 30-60k | 10,519 | 90.6% | 45,561 mi |
| 60-90k | 6,750 | 87.1% | 72,564 mi |
| 90-120k | 1,979 | 82.5% | 101,462 mi |
| 120k+ | 491 | 80.0% | 138,325 mi |
Source: 22,559 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.
2016 Hr-V MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2016 Honda Hr-V?
89.1% of the 22,559 2016 Honda Hr-V tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 84.0% for cars first used in 2016. First-attempt pass rate: 87.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2016 Honda Hr-V?
The three most recorded items are brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (1.74%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.59%), shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak (1.48%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2016 Honda Hr-V MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.8% of the time, falling to 80.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2016 Honda Hr-V in this dataset had covered 54,283 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2016 Honda Hr-V?
Petrol: 90.6% pass rate across 12,362 tests. Diesel: 87.3% pass rate across 10,197 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2016 Honda Hr-V MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 89.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 88.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.