Common Aston Martin V8 Volante MOT failures
Based on 1,584 Aston Martin V8 Volante tests on record carrying an official DVSA defect code, so every category below is counted from real failures rather than estimated.
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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: Aston Martin V8 Volante
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 1,584 classifiable tests for Aston Martin V8 Volante.
What Aston Martin V8 Volante failures look like
1,584 Aston Martin V8 Volante tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 173 tests (10.9%), with nuisance (emissions and noise) on 114 tests (7.2%) and with brakes on 79 tests (5.0%). 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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Tyre worn close to legal limit/worn on edge
MOT inspection manual reference 5.2.3, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension
Recorded on 96 of the 1,584 tests: 8 failures and 88 advisories or minors.
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Oil leak, but not excessive
MOT inspection manual reference 8.4.1, in nuisance (emissions and noise)
Recorded on 63 of the 1,584 tests: one failure and 62 advisories or minors.
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Engine MIL inoperative or indicates a malfunction
MOT inspection manual reference 8.2.1.2, in nuisance (emissions and noise)
Recorded on 51 of the 1,584 tests: 46 failures and 5 advisories or minors.
Where there is enough data to compare: Aston Martin Db9 (40,638 tests), Aston Martin Vantage (36,843 tests), Aston Martin V8 Vantage (29,415 tests), Aston Martin Db7 (18,634 tests), every Aston Martin model (189,309 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.