Common Honda Civic MOT failures
Based on 11 Honda Civic tests on MOTindex carrying an official DVSA defect code, so every category below is counted from real failures rather than estimated.
Real DVSA defect codes
Every category comes from the official MOT Inspection Manual section code DVSA attaches to each defect, not guessed from keywords.
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Where MOT tests find problems: Honda Civic
A test can find problems in more than one category, so the figures above do not sum to 100%. Each percentage is the share of classifiable tests that found at least one defect in that category. Based on 11 classifiable tests for Honda Civic.
What Honda Civic failures look like
11 Honda Civic tests recorded on MOTindex carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 4 tests (36.4%), with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 4 tests (36.4%) and with brakes on 1 test (9.1%). A test can fail on more than one thing, and an MOT can be failed on one defect while another is only advised, so these counts do not add up to the number of tests.
Narrowed down from the categories to the individual defects themselves, three come up on more than one test:
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Anti-roll bar linkage ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt
MOT inspection manual reference 5.3.4, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension
Recorded on 3 of the 11 tests: one failure and 2 advisories or minors.
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Registration plate lamp inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps
MOT inspection manual reference 4.7.1, in lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded on 2 of the 11 tests: one failure and one advisory or minor.
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Sub-frame corroded but not seriously weakened
MOT inspection manual reference 5.3.3, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension
Recorded on 2 of the 11 tests: one failure and one advisory or minor.
Where there is enough data to compare: Honda CR-V (30 tests), every Honda model (42 tests).
Clauses are read from the manual reference at the end of every defect on the cached test records, and a defect shown here has to appear on at least two of them before it is named. The site-wide breakdown explains how that works and compares every make.