Common Audi A3 Technik 30 Tfsi Mhev S A MOT failures
Based on 2,373 Audi A3 Technik 30 Tfsi Mhev S A 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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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: Audi A3 Technik 30 Tfsi Mhev S A
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 2,373 classifiable tests for Audi A3 Technik 30 Tfsi Mhev S A.
What Audi A3 Technik 30 Tfsi Mhev S A failures look like
2,373 Audi A3 Technik 30 Tfsi Mhev S A tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 886 tests (37.3%), with brakes on 120 tests (5.1%) and with visibility on 119 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 687 of the 2,373 tests: 109 failures and 578 advisories or minors.
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Shock absorbers has light misting of oil
MOT inspection manual reference 5.3.2, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension
Recorded on 186 of the 2,373 tests: 15 failures and 171 advisories or minors.
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Brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened
MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.14, in brakes
Recorded on 78 of the 2,373 tests: 2 failures and 76 advisories or minors.
Where there is enough data to compare: Audi A3 (4,176,458 tests), Audi A4 (2,858,049 tests), Audi A1 (1,887,080 tests), Audi A6 (1,271,271 tests), every Audi model (16,658,495 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.