Common Citroen C4 Cactus MOT failures
Based on 163,649 Citroen C4 Cactus tests on record carrying an official DVSA defect code, so every category below is counted from real failures rather than estimated.
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: Citroen C4 Cactus
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 163,649 classifiable tests for Citroen C4 Cactus.
What Citroen C4 Cactus failures look like
163,649 Citroen C4 Cactus tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 60,335 tests (36.9%), with brakes on 38,507 tests (23.5%) and with body, structure and attachments on 20,478 tests (12.5%). 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 44,334 of the 163,649 tests: 6,756 failures and 37,578 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 23,488 of the 163,649 tests: 1,416 failures and 22,072 advisories or minors.
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Exhaust has a minor leak of exhaust gases
MOT inspection manual reference 6.1.2, in body, structure and attachments
Recorded on 15,314 of the 163,649 tests: 1,838 failures and 13,476 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.