Pass rate
81.3%
Around average — 0.8 pts behind the 82.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 64 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £23–£71
2015 Honda Insight MOT pass rate
- 2015
- typical 113,619 mi
Only 64 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
31.7% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Which year to buy
- Best 2014 87.7% pass
- Avoid 2001 76.3% pass
Across the 14 years on record, a spread of 11.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 76.9%
- Typical mileage
- 114k mi
The 2015 Honda Insight MOT pass rate is 81.3% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 31.7% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Honda Insight does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 2.6× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 31.7% of everything recorded on the 2015 Honda Insight, against 12.2% nationally — 19.5 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.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 69% 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.
- Based on a small sample. 64 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 2015 Honda Insight compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 82.1%, so this figure is 0.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 76.9%. The median 2015 Honda Insight in this dataset had covered 113,619 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Hybrid — 70% of tests, with a 82.2% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 83.3% of the time, April–September 79.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp lens slightly defective", noted on 7.81% of tests.
- 64 recorded tests behind this page.
- 81.3% overall pass rate, 76.9% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Honda Insight, the average is 81.9% — best year 2014 (87.7%), worst 2001 (76.3%).
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
- 64
- Typical mileage (median)
- 113,619 mi
- Make and model
- Honda Insight
- 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 Insight MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 68% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Hybrid is the most common here (70% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Insight
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 19 | 73.7% |
| London | 18 | 88.9% |
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 2015 Insight
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 2015 Insight
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 7.8% 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 windscreen 6.3% 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 suspension joints 3.1% of tests
“ball joint excessively worn”
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 2015 Insight through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £23–£71 — and 69% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £23–£71
- Cheapest common item: rear fog lamp does not emit a steady red light
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 69%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 64 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 Insight, side by side
14 model years on record, from 2000 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 76.3% to 87.7% — a spread of 11.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 81.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2001 76.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2002 83.0% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2009 79.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 80.9% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2011 83.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 84.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 85.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 87.7% position lamp not working
- 2015 81.3%headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2016 81.7% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2019 81.8% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2020 80.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2021 86.8% track rod end ball joint dust…
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 2015 Honda Insight 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 2015 cars with a similar record
- Volkswagen Polo 81.3%
- Vauxhall Meriva 81.2%
- Peugeot 208 81.4%
- Fiat Panda 81.4%
- Skoda Rapid 81.4%
- Volkswagen Cc 81.4%
Closest pass rates among 2015 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 2015 Honda Insight 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 120 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 | 38 | 31.70% | 12.21% | +19.49 |
| Brakes | 28 | 23.30% | 20.89% | +2.41 |
| Suspension | 19 | 15.80% | 20.98% | −5.18 |
| Visibility | 10 | 8.30% | 4.97% | +3.33 |
| Tyres | 9 | 7.50% | 19.76% | −12.26 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 5 | 4.20% | 5.57% | −1.37 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 4 | 3.30% | 5.52% | −2.22 |
| Road Wheels | 4 | 3.30% | 0.75% | +2.55 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 2 | 1.70% | 1.76% | −0.06 |
| Steering | 1 | 0.80% | 2.57% | −1.77 |
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 | 7.8% | £5–25 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 6.3% | £80–200 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 4.7% | £80–250 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.7% | £5–25 |
| Rear fog lamp does not emit a steady red light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.7% | £3–15 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.7% | £3–15 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.1% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp light intensity severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.1% | £5–25 |
| Mirrors slightly loose Visibility | Minor | 3.1% | £3–15 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 3.1% | £5–25 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 14.1% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 14.1% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 9.4% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 9.4% | £45–95 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Advisory | 6.3% | £20–55 |
| Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 6.3% | £5–25 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 3 | 100.0% | 27,358 mi |
| 60-90k | 13 | 92.3% | 78,036 mi |
| 90-120k | 16 | 81.3% | 105,442 mi |
| 120k+ | 30 | 76.7% | 247,423 mi |
Source: 64 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.
2015 Insight MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2015 Honda Insight?
81.3% of the 64 2015 Honda Insight tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 82.1% for cars first used in 2015. First-attempt pass rate: 76.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2015 Honda Insight?
The three most recorded items are headlamp lens slightly defective (7.81%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (6.25%), joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (4.69%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2015 Honda Insight MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 76.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2015 Honda Insight in this dataset had covered 113,619 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2015 Honda Insight?
Hybrid: 82.2% pass rate across 45 tests. Petrol: 92.3% pass rate across 13 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2015 Honda Insight MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 83.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 79.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.