Common Land Rover Discovery MOT failures
Based on 1,537,509 Land Rover Discovery 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: Land Rover Discovery
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 1,537,509 classifiable tests for Land Rover Discovery.
What Land Rover Discovery failures look like
1,537,509 Land Rover Discovery tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 745,845 tests (48.5%), with brakes on 566,457 tests (36.8%) and with body, structure and attachments on 233,546 tests (15.2%). 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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Suspension arm pin or bush worn but not resulting in excessive movement
MOT inspection manual reference 5.3.4, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension
Recorded on 346,284 of the 1,537,509 tests: 90,315 failures and 255,969 advisories or minors.
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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 296,328 of the 1,537,509 tests: 49,678 failures and 246,650 advisories or minors.
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Brake pipe corroded, covered in grease or other material
MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.11, in brakes
Recorded on 181,684 of the 1,537,509 tests: 31,497 failures and 150,187 advisories or minors.
Where there is enough data to compare: Land Rover Freelander (1,515,345 tests), Land Rover Defender (1,202,121 tests), Land Rover Range Rover Evoque (1,199,976 tests), Land Rover Range Rover Sport (1,087,311 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.