67.7%
Honda Insight
Honda Insight MOT pass rate and common problems
The Honda Insight passed 67.7% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 4.6 percentage points below the 72.3% UK average. The item testers recorded most often was position lamp not working.
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How the Insight compares
Initial MOT tests in 2025, retests excluded. A car that failed and was repaired at the test station counts as a fail.
72.5%
Honda average
72.3%
UK average, all cars
The Insight runs 4.8 points behind the Honda average. It is 9th of the 12 Honda models in the data. The average Insight arrived at its test 14.7 years old with 123,490 miles recorded.
A pass rate records whether cars met the roadworthiness standard on test day. It is not a reliability score, and part of any gap reflects how old the tested cars were.
Insight MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Honda Insight cars aged 6 to 10 years passed 81.5% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 67.4%, a drop of 14.1 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years (small sample) | 34 | 70.6% | 1.7 pts below |
| 6 to 10 years | 162 | 81.5% | 9.2 pts above |
| 11 years and over | 8,297 | 67.4% | 4.9 pts below |
That is a steep decline with age, so the headline rate flatters older examples. The UK average of 72.3% covers cars of every age, so compare like with like.
Where Insight failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Honda Insight cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment and suspension together account for 54.3% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Insight MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Honda Insight cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 40.8% of everything testers recorded against failed Honda Insight cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Insight
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: position lamp not working, headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect, headlamp not working on dipped beam, registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps and headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced. 23% of failure items.
2
Suspension
Recorded most often: component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength and linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt. 6.6% of failure items.
3
Visibility
Recorded most often: wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively. 4.4% of failure items.
4
Brakes
Recorded most often: brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick. 3.8% of failure items.
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Honda Insight MOT FAQs
What is the Honda Insight MOT pass rate?
67.7% of Honda Insight cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 8,497 tests. That is 4.6 percentage points below the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 391st of 575 models.
What does a Honda Insight most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Honda Insight cars failing their 2025 MOT was position lamp not working, on 9% of failure items. Next were headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect (5%) and wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (4.4%).
Which area causes the most Honda Insight MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 38.3%, followed by suspension at 16.1%.
Do older Honda Insight cars fail their MOT more often?
Honda Insight cars aged 6 to 10 years passed 81.5% of MOT tests in 2025, against 67.4% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Honda Insight has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Honda Insight that failed in 2025. They show where the model most often needs attention, not the condition of any individual car.
How do I see a specific Honda Insight's MOT history?
Enter its registration on the free Carpeep MOT history check to see that car's own test results, failures, advisories and recorded mileages.
MOT figures are aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025: class 4 initial tests, retests excluded, with failure items from failed tests (advisories and minor defects excluded), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. MOT results describe roadworthiness at test, not mechanical reliability.