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Common Citroen Relay 35 L3 Bluehdi S S MOT failures

Based on 2,376 Citroen Relay 35 L3 Bluehdi S S 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: Citroen Relay 35 L3 Bluehdi S S

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 721 tests (30.3%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 666 tests (28.0%)
Brakes 613 tests (25.8%)
Visibility 463 tests (19.5%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 253 tests (10.6%)
Registration plates and vehicle identification 44 tests (1.9%)

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 2,376 classifiable tests for Citroen Relay 35 L3 Bluehdi S S.

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What Citroen Relay 35 L3 Bluehdi S S failures look like

2,376 Citroen Relay 35 L3 Bluehdi S S tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 721 tests (30.3%), with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 666 tests (28.0%) and with brakes on 613 tests (25.8%). 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 474 of the 2,376 tests: 79 failures and 395 advisories or minors.

  • Brake pad(s) wearing thin

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.13, in brakes

    Recorded on 266 of the 2,376 tests: 46 failures and 220 advisories or minors.

  • Side repeater not working

    MOT inspection manual reference 4.4.1, in lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment

    Recorded on 178 of the 2,376 tests: 53 failures and 125 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.