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Common Ford Galaxy MOT failures

Based on 11 Ford Galaxy tests on MOTindex 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: Ford Galaxy

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 3 tests (27.3%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 2 tests (18.2%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 2 tests (18.2%)
Brakes 1 test (9.1%)
Visibility 1 test (9.1%)

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 11 classifiable tests for Ford Galaxy.

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What Ford Galaxy failures look like

11 Ford Galaxy tests recorded on MOTindex carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 3 tests (27.3%), with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 2 tests (18.2%) and with nuisance (emissions and noise) on 2 tests (18.2%). 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:

  • Daytime running lamp not working

    MOT inspection manual reference 4.2.1, in lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment

    Recorded on 2 of the 11 tests: all of them failures.

  • Registration plate lamp inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps

    MOT inspection manual reference 4.7.1, in lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment

    Recorded on 2 of the 11 tests: all of them failures.

  • Suspension arm ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt

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

    Recorded on 2 of the 11 tests: all of them failures.

Where there is enough data to compare: Ford Focus (11 tests), Ford S-Max (7 tests), every Ford model (29 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.