Common Harley Davidson Softail MOT failures
Based on 1,067 Harley Davidson Softail 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: Harley Davidson Softail
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 1,067 classifiable tests for Harley Davidson Softail.
What Harley Davidson Softail failures look like
1,067 Harley Davidson Softail tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with nuisance (emissions and noise) on 224 tests (21.0%), with brakes on 97 tests (9.1%) and with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 93 tests (8.7%). 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:
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Exhaust noisy
MOT inspection manual reference 8.1.1, in nuisance (emissions and noise)
Recorded on 224 of the 1,067 tests: one failure and 223 advisories or minors.
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Tyre worn close to legal limit/worn on edge
MOT inspection manual reference 5.2.3, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension
Recorded on 69 of the 1,067 tests: 3 failures and 66 advisories or minors.
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Service brake binding but not excessively
MOT inspection manual reference 1.2.1, in brakes
Recorded on 42 of the 1,067 tests: 4 failures and 38 advisories or minors.
Where there is enough data to compare: Harley Davidson Xl (25,393 tests), Harley Davidson (18,196 tests), Harley Davidson Xlh (16,478 tests), Harley Davidson Flstf (15,337 tests), every Harley Davidson model (490,536 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.