Common Mercedes Atego MOT failures
Based on 3,917 Mercedes Atego 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: Mercedes Atego
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 3,917 classifiable tests for Mercedes Atego.
What Mercedes Atego failures look like
3,917 Mercedes Atego tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 118 tests (3.0%), with brakes on 114 tests (2.9%) and with steering on 101 tests (2.6%). 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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Brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened
MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.14, in brakes
Recorded on 92 of the 3,917 tests: 2 failures and 90 advisories or minors.
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Track rod end ball joint has slight play
MOT inspection manual reference 2.1.3, in steering
Recorded on 70 of the 3,917 tests: 23 failures and 47 advisories or minors.
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Position lamp not working
MOT inspection manual reference 4.2.1, in lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded on 41 of the 3,917 tests: 21 failures and 20 advisories or minors.
Where there is enough data to compare: Mercedes (14,985 tests), Mercedes Unknown (11,836 tests), Mercedes Ml (6,092 tests), Mercedes Motorhome (5,651 tests), every Mercedes model (199,555 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.