Common Kawasaki Zg MOT failures
Based on 2,820 Kawasaki Zg 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 Zg
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 2,820 classifiable tests for Kawasaki Zg.
What Kawasaki Zg failures look like
2,820 Kawasaki Zg tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with brakes on 321 tests (11.4%), with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 295 tests (10.5%) and with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 90 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 253 of the 2,820 tests: 31 failures and 222 advisories or minors.
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Brake pad(s) wearing thin
MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.13, in brakes
Recorded on 147 of the 2,820 tests: 13 failures and 134 advisories or minors.
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Service brake binding but not excessively
MOT inspection manual reference 1.2.1, in brakes
Recorded on 131 of the 2,820 tests: 20 failures and 111 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.