Common Peugeot 308 MOT failures
Based on 1,537,353 Peugeot 308 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: Peugeot 308
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 1,537,353 classifiable tests for Peugeot 308.
What Peugeot 308 failures look like
1,537,353 Peugeot 308 tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 795,153 tests (51.7%), with brakes on 506,012 tests (32.9%) and with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 271,650 tests (17.7%). 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 471,162 of the 1,537,353 tests: 86,645 failures and 384,517 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 247,050 of the 1,537,353 tests: 14,780 failures and 232,270 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 205,286 of the 1,537,353 tests: 57,115 failures and 148,171 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 107 (1,327,242 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.