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Common MINI Cooper Sd MOT failures

Based on 24,789 MINI Cooper Sd 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: MINI Cooper Sd

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 13,077 tests (52.8%)
Brakes 5,886 tests (23.7%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 3,984 tests (16.1%)
Visibility 1,943 tests (7.8%)
Registration plates and vehicle identification 553 tests (2.2%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 551 tests (2.2%)

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 24,789 classifiable tests for MINI Cooper Sd.

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What MINI Cooper Sd failures look like

24,789 MINI Cooper Sd tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 13,077 tests (52.8%), with brakes on 5,886 tests (23.7%) and with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 3,984 tests (16.1%). 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:

  • Tyre worn close to legal limit/worn on edge

    MOT inspection manual reference 5.2.3, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension

    Recorded on 6,329 of the 24,789 tests: 1,250 failures and 5,079 advisories or minors.

  • Brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.14, in brakes

    Recorded on 3,182 of the 24,789 tests: 203 failures and 2,979 advisories or minors.

  • Shock absorbers has light misting of oil

    MOT inspection manual reference 5.3.2, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension

    Recorded on 1,927 of the 24,789 tests: 659 failures and 1,268 advisories or minors.

Where there is enough data to compare: MINI MINI (3,512,355 tests), MINI Cooper (1,683,296 tests), MINI Countryman (673,264 tests), MINI Cooper S (617,930 tests), every MINI model (7,788,228 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.