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Common Peugeot 208 Gt Premium Puretech S S A MOT failures

Based on 2,298 Peugeot 208 Gt Premium Puretech S S A 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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Where MOT tests find problems: Peugeot 208 Gt Premium Puretech S S A

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 602 tests (26.2%)
Brakes 437 tests (19.0%)
Visibility 175 tests (7.6%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 25 tests (1.1%)

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 2,298 classifiable tests for Peugeot 208 Gt Premium Puretech S S A.

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What Peugeot 208 Gt Premium Puretech S S A failures look like

2,298 Peugeot 208 Gt Premium Puretech S S A tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 602 tests (26.2%), with brakes on 437 tests (19.0%) and with visibility on 175 tests (7.6%). 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:

  • Tyre worn close to legal limit/worn on edge

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

    Recorded on 528 of the 2,298 tests: 82 failures and 446 advisories or minors.

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

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.14, in brakes

    Recorded on 303 of the 2,298 tests: 16 failures and 287 advisories or minors.

  • Windscreen wiper does not clear the windscreen effectively

    MOT inspection manual reference 3.4, in visibility

    Recorded on 147 of the 2,298 tests: 56 failures and 91 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.