MoT failure statistics

[Will]

Article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/opensecrets/2010/01/mot_failure_rates_released.html

Raw data:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/umnynygrgxm/MOT

Audi A2:

MAKE,MODEL,FIRST_USE,PASS,FAIL
AUDI,A2,2000,520,204
AUDI,A2,2001,3,986,1,375
AUDI,A2,2002,3,958,1,180
AUDI,A2,2003,2,928,673
AUDI,A2,2004,2,381,529
AUDI,A2,2005,39,5

Brakes, Lights and Tyres account for ~90% of failures. All easy things to check before hands.

That makes 17,778 A2s tested.

 

[Lamby]

That's actually really interesting information, I had a renault megane Cab 2.0 sport and I have no surprise in seeing that it had such a high fail rate. I could never get it through the MOT first time.