Pass rate
87.6%
Above average — 14.5 pts ahead of the 73.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 178 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £31–£77
2008 Honda Odyssey MOT pass rate
- 2008
- typical 85,952 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
19.8% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2016 94.0% pass
- Avoid 2021 74.0% pass
Across the 18 years on record, a spread of 20 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 86.3%
- Typical mileage
- 86k mi
The 2008 Honda Odyssey MOT pass rate is 87.6% of its MOT tests — 14.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 19.8% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Honda Odyssey does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.5× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 18.2% of everything recorded on the 2008 Honda Odyssey, against 12.2% nationally — 6.0 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 19.8%, but at 21.0% 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 73.1% and this one manages 87.6% — 14.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 178 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 2008 Honda Odyssey compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.1%, so this figure is 14.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 86.3%. The median 2008 Honda Odyssey in this dataset had covered 85,952 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 86.7% of the time, April–September 88.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 4.49% of tests.
- 178 recorded tests behind this page.
- 87.6% overall pass rate, 86.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Honda Odyssey, the average is 85.7% — best year 2016 (94.0%), worst 2021 (74.0%).
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
- 178
- Typical mileage (median)
- 85,952 mi
- Make and model
- Honda Odyssey
- 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 Odyssey MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 71% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Odyssey
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 57 | 87.7% |
| Scotland | 22 | 86.4% |
| North West | 19 | 78.9% |
| West Midlands | 19 | 94.7% |
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 2008 Odyssey
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 2008 Odyssey
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 4.5% 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 3.9% 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 the wipers and washers 2.8% 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.
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 2008 Odyssey through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £31–£77 — and 36% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £31–£77
- Cheapest common item: rear fog lamp missing
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: steering rack gaiter damaged or deteriorated,
- £120–£300
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 36%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 178 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 Odyssey, side by side
18 model years on record, from 2004 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 74.0% to 94.0% — a spread of 20 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2004 76.8% wipers blade defective
- 2005 80.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 85.2% wipers blade defective
- 2007 88.7% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2008 87.6%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 84.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2010 79.5% rear fog lamp missing
- 2011 86.0% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2012 83.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 89.4% window excessively tinted but not…
- 2014 89.2% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2015 87.7% rear fog lamp not working
- 2016 94.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2017 84.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2018 85.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2019 84.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2020 81.8% all direction indicators flashing…
- 2021 74.0% rear fog lamp missing
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 2008 Honda Odyssey 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 2008 cars with a similar record
- Audi A8 87.0%
- Mercedes-Benz Sl 86.7%
- Porsche Boxster 89.4%
- BMW M3 90.0%
- Toyota Estima 84.8%
- Porsche Cayman 84.8%
Closest pass rates among 2008 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 2008 Honda Odyssey 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 243 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 | 49 | 19.80% | 20.98% | −1.18 |
| Tyres | 48 | 19.40% | 19.76% | −0.36 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 45 | 18.20% | 12.21% | +5.99 |
| Brakes | 34 | 13.80% | 20.89% | −7.09 |
| Visibility | 16 | 6.50% | 4.97% | +1.53 |
| Steering | 16 | 6.50% | 2.57% | +3.93 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 11 | 4.50% | 5.57% | −1.07 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 11 | 4.50% | 5.52% | −1.02 |
| Non-component advisories | 10 | 4.00% | 4.18% | −0.18 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 3 | 1.20% | 1.76% | −0.56 |
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 | 4.5% | £5–20 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 3.9% | £18–45 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 2.8% | £8–22 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.3% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.3% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.3% | £80–200 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.7% | £60–140 |
| Rear fog lamp missing Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.7% | £3–15 |
| Steering rack gaiter damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 1.7% | £120–300 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.7% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 13.5% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 10.7% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 7.9% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 5.6% | £45–95 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 5.1% | £200–700 |
| Non-component advisories Play in steering rack inner joint(s) Non-component advisories | Advisory | 3.4% | £120–300 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 5 | 100.0% | 21,448 mi |
| 30-60k | 29 | 86.2% | 48,274 mi |
| 60-90k | 70 | 94.3% | 76,606 mi |
| 90-120k | 43 | 79.1% | 101,395 mi |
| 120k+ | 30 | 83.3% | 161,791 mi |
Source: 178 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.
2008 Odyssey MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2008 Honda Odyssey?
87.6% of the 178 2008 Honda Odyssey tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.1% for cars first used in 2008. First-attempt pass rate: 86.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2008 Honda Odyssey?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (4.49%), track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt (3.93%), wipers blade defective (2.81%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2008 Honda Odyssey MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 83.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2008 Honda Odyssey in this dataset had covered 85,952 mi.
Does the season affect the 2008 Honda Odyssey MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 86.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 88.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.