The MOT failure information is public now

worried_jim

GolfBravo wrote: »

Well, most statistics are meaningless.

A statistician can have his head in an oven and his feet in ice, and he will say that on the average he feels fine.

Statistically speaking, 9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape. (CO-Jimmy Carr).

King_Nothing

Biglad wrote: »

You gotta laugh at the Mondeo, 55.3% pass rate for the MOT.

Lighting
Suspension
Brakes

Too many people on here believe magazine hype about that car.

Lighting and brakes? Idiot owner too lazy to check lights before putting it in for test, or notice/measure brake thicknesses, is more likely than the due to what car it is.

Ultrasonic

King_Nothing wrote: »

Lighting and brakes? Idiot owner too lazy to check lights before putting it in for test, or notice/measure brake thicknesses, is more likely than the due to what car it is.

Fair enough on the lighting, but I doubt many people measure brake pad thickness before an MOT. I certainly never have, and wouldn't know quite what I should be measuring or what it should be. Obviously if my car wasn't stopping properly I'd get the brakes looked at and similarly if a brake warning light came on, but I wouldn't be certain that would pick up exactly when the wear reaches an MOT fail point?

Zeitgeist

King_Nothing wrote: »

Lighting and brakes? Idiot owner too lazy to check lights before putting it in for test, or notice/measure brake thicknesses, is more likely than the due to what car it is.

I missed that one of my number plate light bulbs had gone. Does that count?

Lum

kingstreet wrote: »

I'm fairly attentive but I didn't know my indicator bulbs weren't orange enough for my MOT in December.

Going to be seeing a lot more of that one, given the trend for clear indicator lights these days.

The orange tint on the bulbs doesn't last forever, and far too many people replace the orange bulbs with white ones when they blow! :mad:

Gloomendoom

Somebody sent me this link yesterday. An hour before my car was due for its first MoT.

"American cars also fared badly. Worst overall is the big Chrysler 300C –as driven by TV’s Dragon’s Den Deborah Meaden - with 38 per cent failing the MoT test."

Mine sailed through. The examiner said he didn't know what I was worrying about.

UncleZen

http://good-garage-guide.honestjohn.co.uk/mot-results/

Useful link shows you MoT pass rates for all cars. Drill down to make and model.

Edit: Oops just found out that someone else posted this a few pages back.

Sgt_Pepper_2

Yeah someone posted this the other day.

red_eye

GolfBravo wrote: »

25% failure rate for lighting and signalling? Can't people change light bulbs before MOT test? You're supposed to check these things regularly anyway.

not every one knows how to. I bet you cant change a headlight bulb on a rover 74:p

and most teasting stations would change the bulb for you