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Common Kia Sportage 3 Isg Hev Auto MOT failures

Based on 3,009 Kia Sportage 3 Isg Hev Auto 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 Sportage 3 Isg Hev Auto

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 551 tests (18.3%)
Visibility 209 tests (6.9%)
Brakes 48 tests (1.6%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 42 tests (1.4%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 36 tests (1.2%)

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 3,009 classifiable tests for Kia Sportage 3 Isg Hev Auto.

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What Kia Sportage 3 Isg Hev Auto failures look like

3,009 Kia Sportage 3 Isg Hev Auto tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 551 tests (18.3%), with visibility on 209 tests (6.9%) and with brakes on 48 tests (1.6%). 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 551 of the 3,009 tests: 77 failures and 474 advisories or minors.

  • Windscreen wiper does not clear the windscreen effectively

    MOT inspection manual reference 3.4, in visibility

    Recorded on 162 of the 3,009 tests: 62 failures and 100 advisories or minors.

  • Headlamp aim too low

    MOT inspection manual reference 4.1.2, in lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment

    Recorded on 42 of the 3,009 tests: 4 failures and 38 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.