Common Kawasaki Ex 650 A7f MOT failures
Based on 1,899 Kawasaki Ex 650 A7f 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 Ex 650 A7f
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 1,899 classifiable tests for Kawasaki Ex 650 A7f.
What Kawasaki Ex 650 A7f failures look like
1,899 Kawasaki Ex 650 A7f tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 420 tests (22.1%), with brakes on 284 tests (15.0%) and with body, structure and attachments on 228 tests (12.0%). 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 236 of the 1,899 tests: 39 failures and 197 advisories or minors.
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Drive shaft joint constant velocity boot severely deteriorated
MOT inspection manual reference 6.1.7, in body, structure and attachments
Recorded on 168 of the 1,899 tests: 17 failures and 151 advisories or minors.
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Exhaust noisy
MOT inspection manual reference 8.1.1, in nuisance (emissions and noise)
Recorded on 143 of the 1,899 tests: 10 failures and 133 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.