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Common Ford Kuga MOT failures

Based on 11 Ford Kuga 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 Kuga

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 5 tests (45.5%)
Other equipment 2 tests (18.2%)

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 Kuga.

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What Ford Kuga failures look like

11 Ford Kuga 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 5 tests (45.5%) and with other equipment 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:

  • Tyre worn close to legal limit/worn on edge

    MOT inspection manual reference 5.2.3, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension

    Recorded on 3 of the 11 tests: all of them advisories or minors, so none of them failed a test on its own.

  • Supplementary restraint system warning lamp indicates a fault

    MOT inspection manual reference 7.1.6, in other equipment

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

  • Suspension arm pin or bush worn but not resulting in excessive movement

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

    Recorded on 2 of the 11 tests: all of them advisories or minors, so none of them failed a test on its own.

Where there is enough data to compare: Ford Focus (23 tests), Ford Galaxy (11 tests), Ford S-Max (7 tests), every Ford model (54 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.