Common MINI First MOT failures
Based on 18,638 MINI First 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: MINI First
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 18,638 classifiable tests for MINI First.
What MINI First failures look like
18,638 MINI First tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 7,424 tests (39.8%), with brakes on 4,185 tests (22.5%) and with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 2,975 tests (16.0%). 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 4,910 of the 18,638 tests: 662 failures and 4,248 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 2,105 of the 18,638 tests: 172 failures and 1,933 advisories or minors.
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Brake pad(s) wearing thin
MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.13, in brakes
Recorded on 1,368 of the 18,638 tests: 249 failures and 1,119 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.