Honda Civic Sport Vtec Cvt: MOT pass rate and reliability data

The Honda Civic Sport Vtec Cvt passes its MOT first time more often than the average UK car, by 19.3 percentage points. These figures come from the DVSA's full year of anonymised MOT results, covering 606 individual Honda Civic Sport Vtec Cvt tests. Nothing here is an estimate or a survey.

The numbers

What this means if you are buying one

A 96% first-time pass rate means roughly 4 in every 100 Honda Civic Sport Vtec Cvts presented for MOT fail on the first attempt. That is better than average, so a well-kept example is a reasonably safe used buy. The average Honda Civic Sport Vtec Cvt tested had covered 23,213 miles and was built around 2021.

What this means at salvage auction

Pass rate is a proxy for what a car costs to keep on the road. The Honda Civic Sport Vtec Cvt sits 19.3 points above the national average, ranked 27 of 2,005 models. On one bought as repairable salvage, the mechanical side is less likely to spring surprises, so your repair estimate should hold up reasonably well.

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Common failure reasons

We hold no separate DVSA failure-reason breakdown for the Honda Civic Sport Vtec Cvt itself, which fails on much the same things as most cars. National car failure mix, DVSA latest quarter:

1. Lights and electrics, 10.36% of tests
2. Suspension, 8.65% of tests
3. Tyres, 6.23% of tests
4. Brakes, 6.1% of tests
5. Visibility (wipers, washers, glass), 4.65% of tests

Most common MOT advisories on a Honda Civic Sport Vtec Cvt

An advisory doesn't fail the car - the tester flags it as worth watching, but it still passes. A different list from the failures above: what testers are noting on a Honda Civic Sport Vtec Cvt before it actually fails on it.

1. a brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm, 13% of tests (1.39x the national rate for this advisory)
2. Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements, 22.1% of tests
3. A tyre seriously damaged, 11.2% of tests
4. A shock absorber damaged to the extent that it does not function or showing signs of severe leakage, 3.8% of tests
5. Brake disc or drum significantly and obviously worn, 1% of tests
6. Brake disc or drum excessively weakened, insecure or fractured, 0.7% of tests
7. Number plate inscription missing or illegible, 0.3% of tests
8. A shock absorber which has negligible damping effect, 0.3% of tests
9. Brake fluid below minimum mark, 0.2% of tests (3.54x the national rate for this advisory)
10. An obstruction significantly affecting the driver's view of the road through the swept area of the windscreen or an obligatory external mirror not visible, 0.2% of tests (2.01x the national rate for this advisory)

From 606 DVSA-tracked Honda Civic Sport Vtec Cvt tests, 2024.

Other Honda models

• Honda Jazz - 78.7%
• Honda Civic - 73.4%
• Honda Cr-V - 79.3%
• Honda Hr-V - 89.8%
• Honda Accord - 68%
• Honda Jazz Ex I-Mmd Cvt - 95.6%
• Honda Insight - 78.1%
• Honda Fr-V - 63.7%

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If this car is a salvage or write-off

• What does Cat N mean? Category N explained
• What does Cat S mean? Category S explained
• Cat S vs Cat N: the real differences
• Do you need an HPI check on a car you know is a write-off?

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