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Common Ford Transit Custom 280 Trend Eblue MOT failures

Based on 12,300 Ford Transit Custom 280 Trend Eblue 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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Real DVSA defect codes

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 Transit Custom 280 Trend Eblue

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 2,759 tests (22.4%)
Brakes 2,485 tests (20.2%)
Visibility 1,982 tests (16.1%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 1,607 tests (13.1%)
Body, structure and attachments 468 tests (3.8%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 451 tests (3.7%)
Registration plates and vehicle identification 196 tests (1.6%)

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 12,300 classifiable tests for Ford Transit Custom 280 Trend Eblue.

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What Ford Transit Custom 280 Trend Eblue failures look like

12,300 Ford Transit Custom 280 Trend Eblue tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 2,759 tests (22.4%), with brakes on 2,485 tests (20.2%) and with visibility on 1,982 tests (16.1%). 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 2,569 of the 12,300 tests: 361 failures and 2,208 advisories or minors.

  • Brake pad(s) wearing thin

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.13, in brakes

    Recorded on 1,458 of the 12,300 tests: 336 failures and 1,122 advisories or minors.

  • Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view

    MOT inspection manual reference 3.2, in visibility

    Recorded on 876 of the 12,300 tests: 25 failures and 851 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.