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Common Italjet MOT failures

Based on 2,006 Italjet 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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Built from DVSA's published MOT data for Great Britain, not only from vehicles looked up here.

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Where MOT tests find problems: Italjet

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 290 tests (14.5%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 287 tests (14.3%)
Brakes 187 tests (9.3%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 135 tests (6.7%)
Steering 119 tests (5.9%)
Registration plates and vehicle identification 44 tests (2.2%)
Body, structure and attachments 38 tests (1.9%)
Other equipment 19 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 2,006 classifiable tests for Italjet.

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What Italjet failures look like

2,006 Italjet tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 290 tests (14.5%), with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 287 tests (14.3%) and with brakes on 187 tests (9.3%). 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:

  • Exhaust noisy

    MOT inspection manual reference 8.1.1, in nuisance (emissions and noise)

    Recorded on 135 of the 2,006 tests: one failure and 134 advisories or minors.

  • Tyre worn close to legal limit/worn on edge

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

    Recorded on 104 of the 2,006 tests: 23 failures and 81 advisories or minors.

  • Wheel bearing has slight play

    MOT inspection manual reference 5.1.3, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension

    Recorded on 74 of the 2,006 tests: 10 failures and 64 advisories or minors.

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.