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Common Kia Sorento 3 Crdi Awd S A MOT failures

Based on 3,430 Kia Sorento 3 Crdi Awd 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 Sorento 3 Crdi Awd S A

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 845 tests (24.6%)
Brakes 738 tests (21.5%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 188 tests (5.5%)
Visibility 183 tests (5.3%)
Registration plates and vehicle identification 47 tests (1.4%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 30 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 3,430 classifiable tests for Kia Sorento 3 Crdi Awd S A.

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What Kia Sorento 3 Crdi Awd S A failures look like

3,430 Kia Sorento 3 Crdi Awd 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 845 tests (24.6%), with brakes on 738 tests (21.5%) and with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 188 tests (5.5%). 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 671 of the 3,430 tests: 74 failures and 597 advisories or minors.

  • Brake pad(s) wearing thin

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.13, in brakes

    Recorded on 478 of the 3,430 tests: 46 failures and 432 advisories or minors.

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

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.14, in brakes

    Recorded on 260 of the 3,430 tests: 5 failures and 255 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.