Pass rate
82.8%
Around average — 10.3 pts ahead of the 72.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 99 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £21–£69
2006 Hummer H3 MOT pass rate
- 2006
- typical 85,036 mi
Only 99 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.
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
28.7% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Which year to buy
- Best 2008 94.2% pass
- Avoid 2007 77.6% pass
Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 16.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 81.1%
- Typical mileage
- 85k mi
The 2006 Hummer H3 MOT pass rate is 82.8% of its MOT tests — 10.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 28.7% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Hummer H3 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 2.4× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 28.7% of everything recorded on the 2006 Hummer H3, against 12.2% nationally — 16.5 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 72.5% and this one manages 82.8% — 10.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 61% 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 2006 Hummer H3 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.5%, so this figure is 10.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 81.1%. The median 2006 Hummer H3 in this dataset had covered 85,036 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 77.8% of the time, April–September 88.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Rear fog lamp missing", noted on 5.05% of tests.
- 99 recorded tests behind this page.
- 82.8% overall pass rate, 81.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Hummer H3, the average is 85.3% — best year 2008 (94.2%), worst 2007 (77.6%).
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
- 99
- Typical mileage (median)
- 85,036 mi
- Make and model
- Hummer H3
- 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 H3 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 62% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the H3
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 19 | 100.0% |
| London | 18 | 72.2% |
| South West | 15 | 60.0% |
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 2006 H3
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 2006 H3
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 5.0% of tests
“rear fog lamp missing”
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 battery 2.0% of tests
“battery(ies) insecure”
Check the battery is secure and its terminals are clean and tight — a loose battery is a fail on its own, and a weak one shows up as slow cranking on a cold morning.
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Check the exhaust and emissions 2.0% of tests
“catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits”
Listen for a blow at idle and have someone rev it gently. Then look at the tailpipe smoke: blue is oil, white when warm is coolant, black is over-fuelling. Any of those and the emissions test is the least of it.
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 2006 H3 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £21–£69 — and 61% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £21–£69
- Cheapest common item: rear fog lamp missing
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 61%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 99 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 H3, side by side
4 model years on record, from 2006 to 2009. Across them the pass rate runs from 77.6% to 94.2% — a spread of 16.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2006 82.8%rear fog lamp missing
- 2007 77.6% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2008 94.2% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2009 88.2% joints constant velocity boot…
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 2006 Hummer H3 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 2006 cars with a similar record
- Toyota Alphard 82.8%
- Toyota Estima 82.9%
- Porsche Cayenne 83.0%
- BMW 535 82.5%
- Mercedes-Benz S-Class 83.6%
- Porsche Cayman 83.8%
Closest pass rates among 2006 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 2006 Hummer H3 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 155 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 | 45 | 28.70% | 12.21% | +16.49 |
| Brakes | 31 | 19.70% | 20.89% | −1.19 |
| Suspension | 22 | 14.00% | 20.98% | −6.98 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 16 | 10.20% | 5.57% | +4.63 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 16 | 10.20% | 5.52% | +4.68 |
| Steering | 7 | 4.50% | 2.57% | +1.93 |
| Tyres | 6 | 3.80% | 19.76% | −15.96 |
| Visibility | 6 | 3.80% | 4.97% | −1.17 |
| Non-component advisories | 4 | 2.50% | 4.18% | −1.68 |
| Road Wheels | 2 | 1.30% | 0.75% | +0.55 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rear fog lamp missing Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 5.0% | £3–15 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 5.0% | £5–20 |
| Position lamp incorrect colour Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 4.0% | £5–25 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.0% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.0% | £30–80 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.0% | £5–25 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.0% | £60–140 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.0% | £60–250 |
| Door condition cannot be opened from outside the vehicle Body, chassis, structure | Major | 2.0% | £80–250 |
| Electronic stability control warning lamp indicates a fault Brakes | Major | 2.0% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 8.1% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 7.1% | £18–45 |
| Chassis condition corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 7.1% | £180–450 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 7.1% | £200–700 |
| Non-component advisories Play in steering rack inner joint(s) Non-component advisories | Advisory | 4.0% | £120–300 |
| Flexible brake hoses ferrule excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 3.0% | £25–70 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 25 | 92.0% | 43,698 mi |
| 60-90k | 31 | 90.3% | 79,430 mi |
| 90-120k | 27 | 70.4% | 98,608 mi |
| 120k+ | 16 | 75.0% | 159,025 mi |
Source: 99 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.
2006 H3 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2006 Hummer H3?
82.8% of the 99 2006 Hummer H3 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.5% for cars first used in 2006. First-attempt pass rate: 81.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2006 Hummer H3?
The three most recorded items are rear fog lamp missing (5.05%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps (5.05%), position lamp incorrect colour (4.04%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2006 Hummer H3 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.0% of the time, falling to 75.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2006 Hummer H3 in this dataset had covered 85,036 mi.
Does the season affect the 2006 Hummer H3 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 77.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 88.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.