Common SEAT Leon Fr Etsi S A MOT failures
Based on 3,871 SEAT Leon Fr Etsi S A 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: SEAT Leon Fr Etsi S A
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 3,871 classifiable tests for SEAT Leon Fr Etsi S A.
What SEAT Leon Fr Etsi S A failures look like
3,871 SEAT Leon Fr Etsi 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 1,592 tests (41.1%), with brakes on 197 tests (5.1%) and with visibility on 146 tests (3.8%). 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 1,040 of the 3,871 tests: 168 failures and 872 advisories or minors.
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Shock absorbers has light misting of oil
MOT inspection manual reference 5.3.2, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension
Recorded on 456 of the 3,871 tests: 34 failures and 422 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 101 of the 3,871 tests: 4 failures and 97 advisories or minors.
Where there is enough data to compare: SEAT Ibiza (2,087,431 tests), SEAT Leon (1,738,713 tests), SEAT Alhambra (288,072 tests), SEAT Ateca (245,461 tests), every SEAT model (5,570,101 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.