Common Porsche Cayenne Tiptronic S MOT failures
Based on 1,566 Porsche Cayenne Tiptronic S 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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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: Porsche Cayenne Tiptronic S
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 1,566 classifiable tests for Porsche Cayenne Tiptronic S.
What Porsche Cayenne Tiptronic S failures look like
1,566 Porsche Cayenne Tiptronic S tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 530 tests (33.8%), with brakes on 430 tests (27.5%) and with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 372 tests (23.8%). 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 318 of the 1,566 tests: 49 failures and 269 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 174 of the 1,566 tests: 5 failures and 169 advisories or minors.
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Brake pad(s) wearing thin
MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.13, in brakes
Recorded on 131 of the 1,566 tests: 11 failures and 120 advisories or minors.
Where there is enough data to compare: Porsche 911 (431,323 tests), Porsche Boxster (317,484 tests), Porsche Cayenne (251,091 tests), Porsche Macan (206,818 tests), every Porsche model (1,546,124 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.