Pass rate
93.4%
Above average — 5.5 pts ahead of the 87.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 62,657 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £27–£66
2018 Honda Jazz MOT pass rate
- 2018
- typical 27,146 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
47.3% 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 →
2.6 pts down across model years — 6.0% in 2002, 3.4% in 2022.
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
- 93.0%
- Typical mileage
- 27k mi
The 2018 Honda Jazz MOT pass rate is 93.4% of its MOT tests — 5.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 47.3% 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
Tyres: 2.4× the national share
Tyres make up 47.3% of everything recorded on the 2018 Honda Jazz, against 19.8% nationally — 27.5 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 87.9% and this one manages 93.4% — 5.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
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 2018 Honda Jazz compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 87.9%, so this figure is 5.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 93.0%. The median 2018 Honda Jazz in this dataset had covered 27,146 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 100% of tests, with a 93.4% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 93.4% of the time, April–September 93.5%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Wipers blade defective", noted on 2.01% of tests.
- 62,657 recorded tests behind this page.
- 93.4% overall pass rate, 93.0% 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
- 62,657
- Typical mileage (median)
- 27,146 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
Wiper Blade
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Jazz MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 74% 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 | 14,405 | 94.0% |
| South West | 8,139 | 93.2% |
| North West | 6,743 | 93.8% |
| Scotland | 6,464 | 90.2% |
| East of England | 6,364 | 94.5% |
| West Midlands | 5,477 | 93.8% |
| Yorkshire | 4,987 | 94.2% |
| East Midlands | 3,388 | 94.8% |
| London | 2,492 | 92.1% |
| Wales | 2,107 | 91.7% |
| North East | 2,088 | 94.2% |
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 2018 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 2018 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 wipers and washers 2.0% 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 brakes 1.0% 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 0.9% 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.
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 2018 Jazz through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £27–£66 — and 50% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £27–£66
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 50%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 62,657 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 2018 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 2018 cars with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2018 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 2018 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 39,262 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 | 18,645 | 47.30% | 19.76% | +27.54 |
| Brakes | 10,396 | 26.40% | 20.89% | +5.51 |
| Visibility | 4,014 | 10.20% | 4.97% | +5.23 |
| Non-component advisories | 2,360 | 6.00% | 4.18% | +1.82 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1,342 | 3.40% | 12.21% | −8.81 |
| Suspension | 983 | 2.50% | 20.98% | −18.48 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 765 | 1.90% | 1.76% | +0.14 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 332 | 0.80% | 5.52% | −4.72 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 241 | 0.60% | 5.57% | −4.97 |
| Road Wheels | 184 | 0.50% | 0.75% | −0.25 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 2.0% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.97% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.95% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.94% | £45–95 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 0.42% | £60–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.38% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.36% | £30–80 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Rectified | 0.31% | £45–95 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 14.3% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.6% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 8.1% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 2.3% | £45–110 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 2.3% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.7% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 35,762 | 95.2% | 18,792 mi |
| 30-60k | 22,978 | 91.7% | 41,134 mi |
| 60-90k | 3,460 | 88.0% | 69,816 mi |
| 90-120k | 394 | 83.0% | 99,040 mi |
| 120k+ | 50 | 82.0% | 142,992 mi |
Source: 62,657 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.
2018 Jazz MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2018 Honda Jazz?
93.4% of the 62,657 2018 Honda Jazz tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 87.9% for cars first used in 2018. First-attempt pass rate: 93.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2018 Honda Jazz?
The three most recorded items are wipers blade defective (2.01%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.24%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.16%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2018 Honda Jazz MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.2% of the time, falling to 82.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2018 Honda Jazz in this dataset had covered 27,146 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2018 Honda Jazz?
Petrol: 93.4% pass rate across 62,613 tests. Hybrid: 92.9% pass rate across 42 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2018 Honda Jazz MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 93.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 93.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.