Pass rate
78.2%
Around average — 7.8 pts behind the 86.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 55 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £12–£36
2017 Honda Stream MOT pass rate
- 2017
- typical 87,977 mi
Only 55 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
25.9% of faults · 12.2% nationally
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
- 73.3%
- Typical mileage
- 88k mi
The 2017 Honda Stream MOT pass rate is 78.2% of its MOT tests — 7.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 25.9% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 2.1× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 25.9% of everything recorded on the 2017 Honda Stream, against 12.2% nationally — 13.7 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 86.0%; this one manages 78.2% — 7.8 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- Based on a small sample. 55 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 2017 Honda Stream compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 86.0%, so this figure is 7.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 73.3%. The median 2017 Honda Stream in this dataset had covered 87,977 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp lens slightly defective", noted on 14.55% of tests.
- 55 recorded tests behind this page.
- 78.2% overall pass rate, 73.3% 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
- 55
- Typical mileage (median)
- 87,977 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
Headlight Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Stream MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 65% 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 | 57.9% |
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 2017 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 2017 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 lights 14.6% 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 suspension joints 12.7% 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.
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 2017 Stream through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £12–£36 — and 53% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £12–£36
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: has a cut in excess of the requirements deep…
- £45–£95
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 100%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 53%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 55 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 2017 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 2017 cars with a similar record
- Mercedes-Benz Citan 78.3%
- Renault Clio 78.0%
- Citroen C4 Grand Picasso 78.9%
- Renault Grand Scenic 79.0%
- Nissan Navara 79.1%
- Peugeot 5008 79.1%
Closest pass rates among 2017 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 2017 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 143 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 | 37 | 25.90% | 12.21% | +13.69 |
| Suspension | 22 | 15.40% | 20.98% | −5.58 |
| Tyres | 18 | 12.60% | 19.76% | −7.16 |
| Brakes | 17 | 11.90% | 20.89% | −8.99 |
| Steering | 13 | 9.10% | 2.57% | +6.53 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 12 | 8.40% | 5.52% | +2.88 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 8 | 5.60% | 5.57% | +0.03 |
| Non-component advisories | 6 | 4.20% | 4.18% | +0.02 |
| Visibility | 5 | 3.50% | 4.97% | −1.47 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 5 | 3.50% | 1.76% | +1.74 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 14.6% | £5–25 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 12.7% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 9.1% | £18–45 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 5.5% | £18–45 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 5.5% | £5–25 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 3.6% | £45–95 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.6% | £3–12 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 3.6% | £5–25 |
| Position lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.6% | £5–25 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.6% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 18.2% | £200–700 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 14.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 12.7% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 12.7% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 10.9% | £5–25 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 9.1% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 9 | 88.9% | 49,948 mi |
| 60-90k | 20 | 75.0% | 76,594 mi |
| 90-120k | 11 | 81.8% | 103,271 mi |
| 120k+ | 15 | 73.3% | 154,195 mi |
Source: 55 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.
2017 Stream MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2017 Honda Stream?
78.2% of the 55 2017 Honda Stream tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 86.0% for cars first used in 2017. First-attempt pass rate: 73.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2017 Honda Stream?
The three most recorded items are headlamp lens slightly defective (14.55%), track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt (12.73%), ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (9.09%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2017 Honda Stream MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 88.9% of the time, falling to 73.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2017 Honda Stream in this dataset had covered 87,977 mi.