Does the Honda CR-V fail the MOT on road wheels more than it should?

The Honda CR-V records 0.31 road wheels failure items per 100 initial MOT tests (2019–2024), against 0.48 expected for a car of the same age mix: about as expected for its class and age (the difference is within its interval or under 0.5 items per 100 tests) (−0.17, 95% interval −0.18 to −0.16). It ranks 384 of 516 models on road wheels (1 = most failures above expected).

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What exactly fails on road wheels?

The most frequent DVSA defect wording in this group on the Honda CR-V is “A wheel with a loose or missing wheel nut, bolt or stud”, recorded 3,434 times in 2019–2024.

Honda CR-V: most frequent road wheels defect wordings, 2019–2024 (30+ items each)
DVSA defect wording	Items	Per 100 tests
A wheel with a loose or missing wheel nut, bolt or stud	3,434	0.28
A wheel with more than one loose or missing wheel nut, bolt or stud	261	0.02
Any fracture or welding defect on a wheel	42	0.00

Source: DVSA MOT bulk data (OGL v3.0) · Window: 2019–2024 · n = 1,222,092 (initial tests) · Method: failure items (major and minor) grouped by DVSA's defect tree; wordings with 30+ items · Updated: 30 Sep 2026 · Release: dvsa-2024-v2 · CSV

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