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Common Chevrolet Trax MOT failures

Based on 16,357 Chevrolet Trax 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: Chevrolet Trax

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 9,206 tests (56.3%)
Brakes 4,063 tests (24.8%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 2,092 tests (12.8%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 1,433 tests (8.8%)
Visibility 1,152 tests (7.0%)
Body, structure and attachments 867 tests (5.3%)
Steering 759 tests (4.6%)
Registration plates and vehicle identification 454 tests (2.8%)

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 16,357 classifiable tests for Chevrolet Trax.

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What Chevrolet Trax failures look like

16,357 Chevrolet Trax tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 9,206 tests (56.3%), with brakes on 4,063 tests (24.8%) and with nuisance (emissions and noise) on 2,092 tests (12.8%). 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:

  • Tyre worn close to legal limit/worn on edge

    MOT inspection manual reference 5.2.3, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension

    Recorded on 4,509 of the 16,357 tests: 640 failures and 3,869 advisories or minors.

  • Suspension arm pin or bush worn but not resulting in excessive movement

    MOT inspection manual reference 5.3.4, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension

    Recorded on 2,903 of the 16,357 tests: 1,037 failures and 1,866 advisories or minors.

  • Brake pad(s) wearing thin

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.13, in brakes

    Recorded on 1,933 of the 16,357 tests: 376 failures and 1,557 advisories or minors.

Where there is enough data to compare: Chevrolet Spark (186,904 tests), Chevrolet Matiz (173,191 tests), Chevrolet Aveo (130,275 tests), Chevrolet Captiva (90,716 tests), every Chevrolet model (877,224 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.