Common Mercedes-Benz B Class MOT failures
Based on 677,249 Mercedes-Benz B Class 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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Built from DVSA's published MOT data for Great Britain, not only from vehicles looked up here.
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Where MOT tests find problems: Mercedes-Benz B Class
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 677,249 classifiable tests for Mercedes-Benz B Class.
What Mercedes-Benz B Class failures look like
677,249 Mercedes-Benz B Class tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 312,905 tests (46.2%), with brakes on 215,214 tests (31.8%) and with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 76,410 tests (11.3%). 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 187,382 of the 677,249 tests: 34,349 failures and 153,033 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 76,758 of the 677,249 tests: 3,337 failures and 73,421 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 60,282 of the 677,249 tests: 8,217 failures and 52,065 advisories or minors.
Where there is enough data to compare: Mercedes-Benz C (3,856,305 tests), Mercedes-Benz A Class (2,377,529 tests), Mercedes-Benz E (2,316,593 tests), Mercedes-Benz Sprinter (2,034,252 tests), every Mercedes-Benz model (18,381,473 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.