Common Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 315 Progressive Cdi MOT failures
Based on 72,450 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 315 Progressive Cdi 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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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: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 315 Progressive Cdi
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 72,450 classifiable tests for Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 315 Progressive Cdi.
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What Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 315 Progressive Cdi failures look like
72,450 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 315 Progressive Cdi tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with brakes on 21,093 tests (29.1%), with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 18,822 tests (26.0%) and with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 10,716 tests (14.8%). 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 13,500 of the 72,450 tests: 2,420 failures and 11,080 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 8,097 of the 72,450 tests: 678 failures and 7,419 advisories or minors.
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Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view
MOT inspection manual reference 3.2, in visibility
Recorded on 5,506 of the 72,450 tests: 258 failures and 5,248 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.