MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Honda CR-V MOT pass rate
The Honda CR-V passed 80.06% of its 194,446 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 2.8 percentage points better than average.
How the Honda CR-V holds up with age
Every car fails the MOT more often as it gets older. What matters when you are buying is how steeply that happens for this particular model. These are the 2025 pass rates for the Honda CR-V grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 16,538 | 95.72% |
| 6–10 years | 57,791 | 89.56% |
| 11 years and over | 119,939 | 73.3% |
The Honda CR-V drops 22.4 percentage points between its early years and the 11-plus bracket, which is a steep decline. On an older example, the MOT history is worth reading closely before you buy.
Why the Honda CR-V fails its MOT
Across every Honda CR-V that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was suspension, accounting for 26.27% of all recorded failure items. These are the areas worth having checked before you buy, and worth budgeting for on an older example.
| Failure area | Share of failure items | Recorded items |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 26.27% | 28,551 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 24.37% | 26,490 |
| Brakes | 11.82% | 12,844 |
| Tyres | 11.25% | 12,228 |
| Visibility | 6.37% | 6,928 |
| Steering | 5.84% | 6,346 |
How the Honda CR-V compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Honda CR-V sits 318th of 651 models in this data , and 6th of the 12 Honda models covered . Honda as a whole averaged 78.73%, so this model runs 1.3 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Honda CR-V
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Honda CR-V came to its 2025 test at 95,113 miles and 12.6 years old. Most examples tested were diesel.
The useful check is the individual car's own MOT record: how many times it has failed, what for, and whether advisories keep reappearing. A recurring advisory on corrosion, suspension or brakes tells you far more than a model-wide average, and a mileage that does not move consistently between tests is a warning in itself.
Check a specific Honda CR-V
Run the registration through a free MOT history check to see that car's test results, advisories and recorded mileages. For the risks an MOT never covers — outstanding finance, insurance write-off records, stolen markers and ownership history — a full car history check brings them together in one £15 report.
Also useful: mileage check · write-off check · free car check
Other Honda models
- Honda Jazz 80.64% pass rate · 339,768 tests
- Honda Civic 74.32% pass rate · 257,293 tests
- Honda HR-V 90.36% pass rate · 38,767 tests
- Honda Accord 69.27% pass rate · 22,890 tests
- Honda Insight 77.24% pass rate · 8,496 tests
- Honda FR-V 64.01% pass rate · 5,962 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Volkswagen Golf 79.21% pass rate
- Toyota Yaris 80.34% pass rate
- Audi A3 79.9% pass rate
- Kia Sportage 80.57% pass rate
- Hyundai I10 79.04% pass rate
- Audi A1 79.44% pass rate
Figures aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025, class 4 initial tests only, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Retests are excluded, so these are first-time pass rates.