Common Land Rover Discovery S D Mhev Auto MOT failures
Based on 1,131 Land Rover Discovery S D Mhev 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: Land Rover Discovery S D Mhev Auto
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 1,131 classifiable tests for Land Rover Discovery S D Mhev Auto.
What Land Rover Discovery S D Mhev Auto failures look like
1,131 Land Rover Discovery S D Mhev 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 212 tests (18.7%), with brakes on 109 tests (9.6%) and with visibility on 62 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:
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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 203 of the 1,131 tests: 59 failures and 144 advisories or minors.
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Brake pad(s) wearing thin
MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.13, in brakes
Recorded on 69 of the 1,131 tests: 4 failures and 65 advisories or minors.
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Brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened
MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.14, in brakes
Recorded on 40 of the 1,131 tests: all of them advisories or minors, so none of them failed a test on its own.
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.