Common Harley Davidson Xlh1200 MOT failures
Based on 3,824 Harley Davidson Xlh1200 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 Xlh1200
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 3,824 classifiable tests for Harley Davidson Xlh1200.
What Harley Davidson Xlh1200 failures look like
3,824 Harley Davidson Xlh1200 tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with nuisance (emissions and noise) on 684 tests (17.9%), with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 495 tests (12.9%) and with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 368 tests (9.6%). 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 684 of the 3,824 tests: 10 failures and 674 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 216 of the 3,824 tests: 34 failures and 182 advisories or minors.
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Service brake binding but not excessively
MOT inspection manual reference 1.2.1, in brakes
Recorded on 176 of the 3,824 tests: 28 failures and 148 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.