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Common Land Rover Defender X Dynamic S D Mhev A MOT failures

Based on 2,411 Land Rover Defender X Dynamic S D Mhev 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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Where MOT tests find problems: Land Rover Defender X Dynamic S D Mhev A

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 432 tests (17.9%)
Brakes 236 tests (9.8%)
Visibility 90 tests (3.7%)
Registration plates and vehicle identification 38 tests (1.6%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 23 tests (1.0%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 18 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 2,411 classifiable tests for Land Rover Defender X Dynamic S D Mhev A.

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What Land Rover Defender X Dynamic S D Mhev A failures look like

2,411 Land Rover Defender X Dynamic S D Mhev 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 432 tests (17.9%), with brakes on 236 tests (9.8%) and with visibility on 90 tests (3.7%). 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 432 of the 2,411 tests: 85 failures and 347 advisories or minors.

  • Brake pad(s) wearing thin

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.13, in brakes

    Recorded on 131 of the 2,411 tests: 14 failures and 117 advisories or minors.

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

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.14, in brakes

    Recorded on 105 of the 2,411 tests: 4 failures and 101 advisories or minors.

Where there is enough data to compare: Land Rover Discovery (1,537,509 tests), Land Rover Freelander (1,515,345 tests), Land Rover Defender (1,202,121 tests), Land Rover Range Rover Evoque (1,199,976 tests), every Land Rover model (9,193,915 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.