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Common Ford Kuga St Line X Ed Eblue Mhev MOT failures

Based on 4,235 Ford Kuga St Line X Ed Eblue Mhev 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: Ford Kuga St Line X Ed Eblue Mhev

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 1,153 tests (27.2%)
Brakes 687 tests (16.2%)
Visibility 148 tests (3.5%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 68 tests (1.6%)
Registration plates and vehicle identification 40 tests (0.9%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 37 tests (0.9%)

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 4,235 classifiable tests for Ford Kuga St Line X Ed Eblue Mhev.

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What Ford Kuga St Line X Ed Eblue Mhev failures look like

4,235 Ford Kuga St Line X Ed Eblue Mhev tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 1,153 tests (27.2%), with brakes on 687 tests (16.2%) and with visibility on 148 tests (3.5%). 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:

  • Tyre worn close to legal limit/worn on edge

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

    Recorded on 874 of the 4,235 tests: 150 failures and 724 advisories or minors.

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

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.14, in brakes

    Recorded on 363 of the 4,235 tests: 10 failures and 353 advisories or minors.

  • Brake pad(s) wearing thin

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.13, in brakes

    Recorded on 324 of the 4,235 tests: 14 failures and 310 advisories or minors.

Where there is enough data to compare: Ford Fiesta (15,224,586 tests), Ford Focus (10,916,977 tests), Ford Transit (6,915,501 tests), Ford Mondeo (2,597,657 tests), every Ford model (52,350,530 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.