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Common Honda Cb 500 Xa M MOT failures

Based on 1,071 Honda Cb 500 Xa M 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: Honda Cb 500 Xa M

Brakes 104 tests (9.7%)
Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 91 tests (8.5%)
Body, structure and attachments 65 tests (6.1%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 16 tests (1.5%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 9 tests (0.8%)

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 1,071 classifiable tests for Honda Cb 500 Xa M.

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What Honda Cb 500 Xa M failures look like

1,071 Honda Cb 500 Xa M tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with brakes on 104 tests (9.7%), with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 91 tests (8.5%) and with body, structure and attachments on 65 tests (6.1%). 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 68 of the 1,071 tests: 7 failures and 61 advisories or minors.

  • Drive shaft joint constant velocity boot severely deteriorated

    MOT inspection manual reference 6.1.7, in body, structure and attachments

    Recorded on 57 of the 1,071 tests: 7 failures and 50 advisories or minors.

  • Service brake binding but not excessively

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.2.1, in brakes

    Recorded on 55 of the 1,071 tests: 5 failures and 50 advisories or minors.

Where there is enough data to compare: Honda Civic (3,304,167 tests), Honda Jazz (3,298,034 tests), Honda CR-V (2,105,761 tests), Honda Accord (412,263 tests), every Honda model (12,198,152 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.