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Common Porsche Panamera MOT failures

Based on 53,924 Porsche Panamera 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 Panamera

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 13,328 tests (24.7%)
Brakes 6,602 tests (12.2%)
Visibility 2,160 tests (4.0%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 821 tests (1.5%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 703 tests (1.3%)
Registration plates and vehicle identification 701 tests (1.3%)

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 53,924 classifiable tests for Porsche Panamera.

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What Porsche Panamera failures look like

53,924 Porsche Panamera tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 13,328 tests (24.7%), with brakes on 6,602 tests (12.2%) and with visibility on 2,160 tests (4.0%). 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:

  • Tyre worn close to legal limit/worn on edge

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

    Recorded on 12,069 of the 53,924 tests: 2,933 failures and 9,136 advisories or minors.

  • Brake pad(s) wearing thin

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.13, in brakes

    Recorded on 3,411 of the 53,924 tests: 213 failures and 3,198 advisories or minors.

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

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.14, in brakes

    Recorded on 2,687 of the 53,924 tests: 95 failures and 2,592 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.