Pass rate
82.6%
Around average — 9.6 pts ahead of the 73.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 333 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £19–£54
2007 Honda Legend MOT pass rate
- 2007
- typical 97,881 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
24.5% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2009 85.0% pass
- Avoid 2001 73.4% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 11.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 79.5%
- Typical mileage
- 98k mi
The 2007 Honda Legend MOT pass rate is 82.6% of its MOT tests — 9.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 24.5% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Honda Legend does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Visibility: 2.0× the national share
Visibility accounts for 10.0% of everything recorded on the 2007 Honda Legend, against 5.0% nationally — 5.0 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 24.5%, but at 21.0% nationally that one is ordinary. Wipers, washers and a chip in the driver’s eyeline are the three quickest ways to fail a test that the car otherwise deserves to pass.
- 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 73.0% and this one manages 82.6% — 9.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 63% 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 2007 Honda Legend compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.0%, so this figure is 9.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 79.5%. The median 2007 Honda Legend in this dataset had covered 97,881 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 79.6% of the time, April–September 86.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Mirrors slightly damaged", noted on 5.11% of tests.
- 333 recorded tests behind this page.
- 82.6% overall pass rate, 79.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Honda Legend, the average is 81.9% — best year 2009 (85.0%), worst 2001 (73.4%).
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
- 333
- Typical mileage (median)
- 97,881 mi
- Make and model
- Honda Legend
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Legend MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 67% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Legend
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 95 | 78.9% |
| North West | 56 | 83.9% |
| East of England | 41 | 82.9% |
| South West | 32 | 81.3% |
| Scotland | 27 | 70.4% |
| West Midlands | 19 | 94.7% |
| Yorkshire | 19 | 89.5% |
| London | 17 | 88.2% |
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 2007 Legend
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 2007 Legend
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 5.1% of tests
“mirrors slightly damaged”
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 wipers and washers 3.9% 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 suspension joints 3.6% 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 2007 Legend through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £19–£54 — and 63% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £19–£54
- Cheapest common item: mirrors slightly damaged
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 63%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 333 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 Legend, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2000 to 2009. Across them the pass rate runs from 73.4% to 85.0% — a spread of 11.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 82.9% ball joint excessively worn
- 2001 73.4% service brake performance…
- 2006 83.4% wipers blade defective
- 2007 82.6%mirrors slightly damaged
- 2008 79.6% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2009 85.0% headlamp lens slightly 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 2007 Honda Legend 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 2007 cars with a similar record
- Toyota Estima 82.4%
- BMW 535 82.8%
- Toyota Alphard 83.3%
- Lexus IS250 81.8%
- Audi Q7 81.7%
- Mercedes-Benz S-Class 81.4%
Closest pass rates among 2007 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 2007 Honda Legend 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 606 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 149 | 24.50% | 20.98% | +3.52 |
| Brakes | 122 | 20.00% | 20.89% | −0.89 |
| Tyres | 100 | 16.40% | 19.76% | −3.36 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 70 | 11.50% | 12.21% | −0.71 |
| Visibility | 61 | 10.00% | 4.97% | +5.03 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 35 | 5.70% | 5.52% | +0.18 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 24 | 3.90% | 5.57% | −1.67 |
| Non-component advisories | 21 | 3.40% | 4.18% | −0.78 |
| Steering | 14 | 2.30% | 2.57% | −0.27 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 10 | 1.60% | 1.76% | −0.16 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mirrors slightly damaged Visibility | Minor | 5.1% | £3–15 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.9% | £5–25 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 3.9% | £8–22 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.6% | £18–45 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.3% | £5–25 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.3% | £80–200 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.7% | £18–45 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 2.4% | £60–150 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 2.1% | £8–22 |
| Mirrors slightly loose Visibility | Minor | 1.8% | £3–15 |
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 | 15.9% | £45–95 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 12.3% | £18–45 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 11.7% | £18–45 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 11.1% | £25–65 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 7.5% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 7.2% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 8 | 75.0% | 24,307 mi |
| 30-60k | 47 | 91.5% | 47,803 mi |
| 60-90k | 89 | 85.4% | 76,462 mi |
| 90-120k | 108 | 75.9% | 105,210 mi |
| 120k+ | 79 | 83.5% | 151,459 mi |
Source: 333 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.
2007 Legend MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2007 Honda Legend?
82.6% of the 333 2007 Honda Legend tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.0% for cars first used in 2007. First-attempt pass rate: 79.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2007 Honda Legend?
The three most recorded items are mirrors slightly damaged (5.11%), headlamp lens slightly defective (3.90%), wipers blade defective (3.90%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2007 Honda Legend MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 75.0% of the time, falling to 83.5% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2007 Honda Legend in this dataset had covered 97,881 mi.
Does the season affect the 2007 Honda Legend MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 79.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 86.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.