Pass rate
81.3%
Around average — 8.2 pts ahead of the 73.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 75 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £22–£62
2008 Honda Stream MOT pass rate
- 2008
- typical 102,007 mi
Only 75 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.
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Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
25.1% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Part only £6–£18 for Registration plate lamp inoperative (multiple lamps). What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2011 91.4% pass
- Avoid 2001 66.9% pass
Across the 12 years on record, a spread of 24.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 78.1%
- Typical mileage
- 102k mi
The 2008 Honda Stream MOT pass rate is 81.3% of its MOT tests — 8.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 25.1% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 2.1× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 25.1% of everything recorded on the 2008 Honda Stream, against 12.2% nationally — 12.9 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.
- 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 81.3% — 8.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 24% of this model’s typical repairs come in under £30 in parts — the failures here tend to be the kind that need a garage rather than a bulb.
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 Stream compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.1%, so this figure is 8.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 78.1%. The median 2008 Honda Stream in this dataset had covered 102,007 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 76.5% of the time, April–September 85.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt", noted on 10.67% of tests.
- 75 recorded tests behind this page.
- 81.3% overall pass rate, 78.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Honda Stream, the average is 71.9% — best year 2011 (91.4%), worst 2001 (66.9%).
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
- 75
- Typical mileage (median)
- 102,007 mi
- Make and model
- Honda Stream
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Ball Joint
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Stream MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 64% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Honda Stream is most common
Across all Stream model years on record (2001–2019): 1,018 Honda Stream cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 2,492 tests. Manchester (M) has the most, with 71 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manchester (M) | 71 | 66.0% |
| 2 | Birmingham (B) | 40 | 88.1% |
| 3 | London (E) | 38 | 90.1% |
| 4 | Ipswich (IP) | 34 | 58.2% |
| 5 | London (N) | 34 | 71.0% |
| 6 | Wembley (HA) | 31 | 76.8% |
| 7 | Hayes (UB) | 31 | 80.3% |
| 8 | Croydon (CR) | 30 | 86.6% |
| 9 | London (SE) | 30 | 88.5% |
| 10 | London (NW) | 27 | 80.3% |
| 11 | Bristol (BS) | 26 | 66.7% |
| 12 | Romford (RM) | 21 | 76.9% |
| 13 | Portsmouth (PO) | 17 | 61.5% |
| 14 | Coventry (CV) | 17 | 77.3% |
| 15 | Kingston upon Thames (KT) | 17 | 78.6% |
| 16 | Ilford (IG) | 15 | 77.4% |
| 17 | Slough (SL) | 14 | 72.5% |
| 18 | London (SW) | 14 | 69.7% |
| 19 | Poole (BH) | 13 | 63.8% |
| 20 | High Wycombe (HP) | 13 | 75.0% |
The twenty areas with the most Honda Stream cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the Stream
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| London | 18 | 100.0% |
| East of England | 17 | 70.6% |
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 Stream
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 Stream
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 suspension joints 10.7% 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 lights 5.3% 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 wipers and washers 5.3% 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 Stream through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £22–£62 — and 24% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £22–£62
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 24%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 75 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 Stream, side by side
12 model years on record, from 2001 to 2019. Across them the pass rate runs from 66.9% to 91.4% — a spread of 24.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2001 66.9% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2002 69.6% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2003 72.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2004 69.1% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2005 70.3% track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2007 79.0% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2008 81.3%track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2009 80.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2010 80.4% stop lamp not working
- 2011 91.4% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2017 78.2% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2019 82.5% position lamp with a multiple…
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 Stream 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 Q7 81.2%
- Jaguar Xkr 81.4%
- Mercedes-Benz S-Class 81.5%
- Jaguar Xj 81.0%
- BMW 5 Series 81.0%
- Volvo S80 80.7%
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 Stream 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 171 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 | 43 | 25.10% | 12.21% | +12.89 |
| Suspension | 37 | 21.60% | 20.98% | +0.62 |
| Brakes | 24 | 14.00% | 20.89% | −6.89 |
| Tyres | 22 | 12.90% | 19.76% | −6.86 |
| Steering | 14 | 8.20% | 2.57% | +5.63 |
| Visibility | 12 | 7.00% | 4.97% | +2.03 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 11 | 6.40% | 5.57% | +0.83 |
| Non-component advisories | 6 | 3.50% | 4.18% | −0.68 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1 | 0.60% | 5.52% | −4.92 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 0.60% | 0.82% | −0.22 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 10.7% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 9.3% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 8.0% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.3% | £5–25 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 5.3% | £80–250 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 5.3% | £18–45 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 5.3% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp aim not tested unable to be tested Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.0% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.0% | £30–80 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 4.0% | £5–20 |
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 | 16.0% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 14.7% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 12.0% | £5–25 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 8.0% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 8.0% | £45–95 |
| Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 4.0% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 3 | 100.0% | 19,945 mi |
| 30-60k | 3 | 100.0% | 50,431 mi |
| 60-90k | 22 | 86.4% | 75,102 mi |
| 90-120k | 22 | 81.8% | 103,267 mi |
| 120k+ | 25 | 72.0% | 161,908 mi |
Source: 75 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 Stream MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2008 Honda Stream?
81.3% of the 75 2008 Honda Stream tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.1% for cars first used in 2008. First-attempt pass rate: 78.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2008 Honda Stream?
The three most recorded items are track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt (10.67%), ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (9.33%), ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (8.00%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2008 Honda Stream MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 72.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2008 Honda Stream in this dataset had covered 102,007 mi.
Does the season affect the 2008 Honda Stream MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 76.5% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 85.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.