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Common Citroen C3 Aircross Shine Ptch S S A MOT failures

Based on 8,190 Citroen C3 Aircross Shine Ptch S 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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Where MOT tests find problems: Citroen C3 Aircross Shine Ptch S S A

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 1,838 tests (22.4%)
Brakes 1,718 tests (21.0%)
Visibility 151 tests (1.8%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 81 tests (1.0%)
Body, structure and attachments 63 tests (0.8%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 60 tests (0.7%)

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 8,190 classifiable tests for Citroen C3 Aircross Shine Ptch S S A.

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What Citroen C3 Aircross Shine Ptch S S A failures look like

8,190 Citroen C3 Aircross Shine Ptch S 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 1,838 tests (22.4%), with brakes on 1,718 tests (21.0%) and with visibility on 151 tests (1.8%). 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 1,762 of the 8,190 tests: 245 failures and 1,517 advisories or minors.

  • Brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.14, in brakes

    Recorded on 1,266 of the 8,190 tests: 45 failures and 1,221 advisories or minors.

  • Brake pad(s) wearing thin

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.13, in brakes

    Recorded on 378 of the 8,190 tests: 54 failures and 324 advisories or minors.

Where there is enough data to compare: Citroen C3 (2,144,743 tests), Citroen Berlingo (2,067,204 tests), Citroen C1 (1,724,098 tests), Citroen C4 (1,685,250 tests), every Citroen model (12,589,449 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.