Common Mercedes-Benz C MOT failures
Based on 11 Mercedes-Benz C tests on MOTindex 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 tests recorded on MOTindex, so the picture firms up as more vehicles are checked here.
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Where MOT tests find problems: Mercedes-Benz C
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 11 classifiable tests for Mercedes-Benz C.
What Mercedes-Benz C failures look like
11 Mercedes-Benz C tests recorded on MOTindex carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with brakes on 2 tests (18.2%) and with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 2 tests (18.2%). 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.
No single defect has been recorded on more than one of these Mercedes-Benz C tests yet, so there is nothing specific worth naming here. The category counts are real ones and the totals above stand; this part fills in on its own as more vehicles are checked.
Where there is enough data to compare: Mercedes-Benz GLS (8 tests), every Mercedes-Benz model (20 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.