Common Morris MOT failures
Based on 37,481 Morris 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: Morris
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 37,481 classifiable tests for Morris.
What Morris failures look like
37,481 Morris tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 11,504 tests (30.7%), with brakes on 8,675 tests (23.1%) and with nuisance (emissions and noise) on 4,727 tests (12.6%). 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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Oil leak, but not excessive
MOT inspection manual reference 8.4.1, in nuisance (emissions and noise)
Recorded on 4,727 of the 37,481 tests: 148 failures and 4,579 advisories or minors.
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Service brake binding but not excessively
MOT inspection manual reference 1.2.1, in brakes
Recorded on 4,129 of the 37,481 tests: 2,891 failures and 1,238 advisories or minors.
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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 2,966 of the 37,481 tests: 420 failures and 2,546 advisories or minors.
The same breakdown for individual Morris models: Morris Minor 1000 (16,203 tests), Morris Minor (9,713 tests), Morris Minor Traveller (1,491 tests), Morris Mini (1,223 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.