Common Peugeot 206 MOT failures
Based on 1,075,121 Peugeot 206 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: Peugeot 206
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 1,075,121 classifiable tests for Peugeot 206.
What Peugeot 206 failures look like
1,075,121 Peugeot 206 tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 752,822 tests (70.0%), with brakes on 460,619 tests (42.8%) and with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 268,251 tests (25.0%). 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 323,273 of the 1,075,121 tests: 58,953 failures and 264,320 advisories or minors.
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Suspension arm pin or bush worn but not resulting in excessive movement
MOT inspection manual reference 5.3.4, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension
Recorded on 305,704 of the 1,075,121 tests: 114,167 failures and 191,537 advisories or minors.
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Oil leak, but not excessive
MOT inspection manual reference 8.4.1, in nuisance (emissions and noise)
Recorded on 188,687 of the 1,075,121 tests: 6,111 failures and 182,576 advisories or minors.
Where there is enough data to compare: Peugeot 207 (2,123,625 tests), Peugeot 208 (1,805,536 tests), Peugeot Partner (1,602,698 tests), Peugeot 308 (1,537,353 tests), every Peugeot model (17,145,394 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.