Pass rate
91.4%
Above average — 15.5 pts ahead of the 75.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 58 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £21–£54
2011 Honda Stream MOT pass rate
- 2011
- typical 63,205 mi
Only 58 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
Tyres
30.4% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tyre has a tear. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2011 91.4% pass · this year
- Avoid 2001 66.9% pass
Across the 12 years on record, a spread of 24.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 90.6%
- Typical mileage
- 63k mi
The 2011 Honda Stream MOT pass rate is 91.4% of its MOT tests — 15.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 30.4% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 2.5× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 30.4% of everything recorded on the 2011 Honda Stream, against 12.2% nationally — 18.2 points above. Tyres are still the single largest share at 30.4%, but at 19.8% 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 75.9% and this one manages 91.4% — 15.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 58 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 2011 Honda Stream compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 75.9%, so this figure is 15.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 90.6%. The median 2011 Honda Stream in this dataset had covered 63,205 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick", noted on 3.45% of tests.
- 58 recorded tests behind this page.
- 91.4% overall pass rate, 90.6% 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
- 58
- Typical mileage (median)
- 63,205 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
Brake Pads Set
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Stream MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 82% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 19 | 100.0% |
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 2011 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 2011 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 brakes 3.5% 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 lights 3.5% 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 3.5% of tests
“wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively”
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 2011 Stream through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £21–£54 — and 43% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £21–£54
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: driver's view of the road through the swept…
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 43%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 58 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 2011 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 2011 cars with a similar record
- Porsche Boxster 91.5%
- BMW M3 90.9%
- Audi A8 90.3%
- Porsche 911 93.4%
- Porsche Cayenne 86.8%
- Lexus IS250 86.8%
Closest pass rates among 2011 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 2011 Honda Stream 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 7 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 69 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 | 21 | 30.40% | 19.76% | +10.64 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 21 | 30.40% | 12.21% | +18.19 |
| Brakes | 10 | 14.50% | 20.89% | −6.39 |
| Visibility | 7 | 10.10% | 4.97% | +5.13 |
| Suspension | 4 | 5.80% | 20.98% | −15.18 |
| Non-component advisories | 4 | 5.80% | 4.18% | +1.62 |
| Steering | 2 | 2.90% | 2.57% | +0.33 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 3.5% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.5% | £5–25 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 3.5% | £3–12 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 3.5% | £8–22 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 1.7% | £18–45 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Rectified | 1.7% | £18–45 |
| Driver's view of the road through the swept area of the windscreen significantly affected by an obstruction Visibility | Major | 1.7% | £80–200 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 1.7% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.7% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.7% | £30–80 |
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 | 19.0% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 12.1% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 10.3% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 10.3% | £5–25 |
| Driver's view of an obligatory external mirror significantly affected by an obstruction Visibility | Advisory | 3.5% | £20–80 |
| Non-component advisories Wheel/tyre protruding beyond wheel arch Non-component advisories | Advisory | 3.5% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 1 | 100.0% | 25,433 mi |
| 30-60k | 24 | 91.7% | 48,620 mi |
| 60-90k | 23 | 91.3% | 71,594 mi |
| 90-120k | 10 | 90.0% | 99,549 mi |
Source: 58 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.
2011 Stream MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2011 Honda Stream?
91.4% of the 58 2011 Honda Stream tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 75.9% for cars first used in 2011. First-attempt pass rate: 90.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2011 Honda Stream?
The three most recorded items are brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (3.45%), headlamp lens slightly defective (3.45%), stop lamp not working (3.45%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2011 Honda Stream MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 90.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2011 Honda Stream in this dataset had covered 63,205 mi.