Pass rate
79.1%
Around average — 5.1 pts ahead of the 74.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 87,117 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £25–£69
2009 Honda Jazz MOT pass rate
- 2009
- typical 79,412 mi
Most common fault
Brakes
24.0% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Part only £25–£40 for Brake pads under 1.5 mm. What fitting it takes →
1.3 pts down across model years — 2.1% in 2002, 0.8% in 2020.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 97.7% pass
- Avoid 2002 71.6% pass
Across the 22 years on record, a spread of 26.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 74.3%
- Typical mileage
- 79k mi
The 2009 Honda Jazz MOT pass rate is 79.1% of its MOT tests — 5.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 24.0% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Honda Jazz does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.6× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 19.1% of everything recorded on the 2009 Honda Jazz, against 12.2% nationally — 6.9 points above. Brakes are still the single largest share at 24.0%, but at 20.9% nationally that one is ordinary. 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 79.1% — 5.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 66% 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 Jazz compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 74.0%, 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 74.3%. The median 2009 Honda Jazz in this dataset had covered 79,412 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 100% of tests, with a 79.1% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 79.0% of the time, April–September 79.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 6.65% of tests.
- 87,117 recorded tests behind this page.
- 79.1% overall pass rate, 74.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Honda Jazz, the average is 83.3% — best year 2023 (97.7%), worst 2002 (71.6%).
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
- 87,117
- Typical mileage (median)
- 79,412 mi
- Make and model
- Honda Jazz
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Jazz MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 64% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (100% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Jazz
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 22,059 | 81.9% |
| South West | 12,843 | 76.5% |
| North West | 9,491 | 78.5% |
| East of England | 8,226 | 81.2% |
| West Midlands | 8,224 | 80.8% |
| Yorkshire | 6,309 | 77.6% |
| Scotland | 5,796 | 69.4% |
| East Midlands | 4,639 | 80.0% |
| London | 4,604 | 84.7% |
| Wales | 3,064 | 76.0% |
| North East | 1,858 | 76.2% |
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 2009 Jazz
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 Jazz
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 6.7% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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 4.5% 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 corrosion 3.1% of tests
“component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength”
Look under the sills, around the jacking points and where the suspension mounts meet the body. Flaking, holed or crumbly metal fails; a brown stain on sound metal does not.
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 Jazz through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £25–£69 — and 66% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £25–£69
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: component mounting prescribed areas…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 66%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 87,117 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 Jazz, side by side
22 model years on record, from 2002 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 71.6% to 97.7% — a spread of 26.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2002 71.6% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2003 72.6% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2004 72.3% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2005 71.8% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2006 72.8% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2007 73.0% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2008 73.7% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2009 79.1%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 81.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 84.4% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2012 85.5% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2013 87.3% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2014 89.0% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2015 90.5% wipers blade defective
- 2016 91.7% wipers blade defective
- 2017 92.6% wipers blade defective
- 2018 93.4% wipers blade defective
- 2019 94.8% wipers blade defective
- 2020 96.0% wipers blade defective
- 2021 96.1% wipers blade defective
- 2022 96.4% wipers blade defective
- 2023 97.7% wipers blade defective
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 Jazz 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
- Toyota Auris 79.0%
- Toyota YARIS 78.9%
- BMW 520 78.9%
- Volvo XC60 78.9%
- Audi A5 79.4%
- Land Rover Range Rover 79.6%
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 Jazz 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 172,785 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 42,057 | 24.00% | 20.89% | +3.11 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 33,514 | 19.10% | 12.21% | +6.89 |
| Suspension | 33,507 | 19.10% | 20.98% | −1.88 |
| Tyres | 29,742 | 17.00% | 19.76% | −2.76 |
| Visibility | 8,402 | 4.80% | 4.97% | −0.17 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 7,605 | 4.30% | 5.57% | −1.27 |
| Steering | 5,376 | 3.10% | 2.57% | +0.53 |
| Non-component advisories | 5,281 | 3.00% | 4.18% | −1.18 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 4,860 | 2.80% | 1.76% | +1.04 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2,441 | 1.40% | 5.52% | −4.12 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 6.7% | £5–20 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 6.0% | £5–25 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 4.5% | £18–45 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.3% | £5–25 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 3.1% | £180–450 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 2.3% | £5–25 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 2.0% | £8–22 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.9% | £18–45 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 1.8% | £18–45 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.7% | £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 | 13.5% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 13.0% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 11.6% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 11.4% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 5.6% | £5–25 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 5.6% | £25–65 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 3,442 | 90.3% | 22,645 mi |
| 30-60k | 20,606 | 84.6% | 47,208 mi |
| 60-90k | 29,555 | 79.3% | 74,882 mi |
| 90-120k | 21,227 | 75.5% | 103,438 mi |
| 120k+ | 12,196 | 72.8% | 143,175 mi |
Source: 87,117 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 Jazz MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2009 Honda Jazz?
79.1% of the 87,117 2009 Honda Jazz tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 74.0% for cars first used in 2009. First-attempt pass rate: 74.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2009 Honda Jazz?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (6.65%), headlamp lens slightly defective (5.99%), track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt (4.45%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2009 Honda Jazz MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 90.3% of the time, falling to 72.8% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2009 Honda Jazz in this dataset had covered 79,412 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2009 Honda Jazz?
Petrol: 79.1% pass rate across 87,102 tests. Diesel: 75.0% pass rate across 12 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2009 Honda Jazz MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 79.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 79.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.