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Common Kia Rio 3 Mhev S A MOT failures

Based on 1,152 Kia Rio 3 Mhev S A 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: Kia Rio 3 Mhev S A

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 232 tests (20.1%)
Brakes 163 tests (14.1%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 103 tests (8.9%)
Visibility 79 tests (6.9%)
Steering 11 tests (1.0%)
Registration plates and vehicle identification 10 tests (0.9%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 8 tests (0.7%)

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 1,152 classifiable tests for Kia Rio 3 Mhev S A.

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What Kia Rio 3 Mhev S A failures look like

1,152 Kia Rio 3 Mhev S A tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 232 tests (20.1%), with brakes on 163 tests (14.1%) and with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 103 tests (8.9%). 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 223 of the 1,152 tests: 46 failures and 177 advisories or minors.

  • Brake pad(s) wearing thin

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.13, in brakes

    Recorded on 108 of the 1,152 tests: 21 failures and 87 advisories or minors.

  • Brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.14, in brakes

    Recorded on 55 of the 1,152 tests: 4 failures and 51 advisories or minors.

Where there is enough data to compare: Kia Sportage (2,230,714 tests), Kia Picanto (1,795,388 tests), Kia Ceed (1,222,001 tests), Kia Rio (1,030,830 tests), every Kia model (8,864,324 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.