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Common Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential Tce MOT failures

Based on 4,500 Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential Tce 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: Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential Tce

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 909 tests (20.2%)
Brakes 580 tests (12.9%)
Visibility 253 tests (5.6%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 95 tests (2.1%)

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 4,500 classifiable tests for Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential Tce.

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What Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential Tce failures look like

4,500 Dacia Sandero Stepway Essential Tce tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 909 tests (20.2%), with brakes on 580 tests (12.9%) and with visibility on 253 tests (5.6%). 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 833 of the 4,500 tests: 87 failures and 746 advisories or minors.

  • Brake pad(s) wearing thin

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.13, in brakes

    Recorded on 269 of the 4,500 tests: 60 failures and 209 advisories or minors.

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

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.14, in brakes

    Recorded on 258 of the 4,500 tests: 6 failures and 252 advisories or minors.

Where there is enough data to compare: Dacia Sandero (881,926 tests), Dacia Duster (538,878 tests), Dacia Logan (141,070 tests), Dacia Duster Essential Tce 4x2 (10,621 tests), every Dacia model (1,708,018 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.