Common Kawasaki Ej MOT failures
Based on 2,903 Kawasaki Ej tests on record carrying an official DVSA defect code, so every category below is counted from real failures rather than estimated.
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: Kawasaki Ej
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 2,903 classifiable tests for Kawasaki Ej.
What Kawasaki Ej failures look like
2,903 Kawasaki Ej tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 195 tests (6.7%), with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 95 tests (3.3%) and with nuisance (emissions and noise) on 92 tests (3.2%). 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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Tyre worn close to legal limit/worn on edge
MOT inspection manual reference 5.2.3, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension
Recorded on 195 of the 2,903 tests: 28 failures and 167 advisories or minors.
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Exhaust noisy
MOT inspection manual reference 8.1.1, in nuisance (emissions and noise)
Recorded on 92 of the 2,903 tests: one failure and 91 advisories or minors.
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Headlamp aim too low
MOT inspection manual reference 4.1.2, in lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded on 50 of the 2,903 tests: 3 failures and 47 advisories or minors.
Where there is enough data to compare: Kawasaki Zx (147,306 tests), Kawasaki Zr (20,858 tests), Kawasaki Ex (15,768 tests), Kawasaki (15,168 tests), every Kawasaki model (785,768 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.