Common Smart Mcc City Cabriolet MOT failures
Based on 10,148 Smart Mcc City Cabriolet 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: Smart Mcc City Cabriolet
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 10,148 classifiable tests for Smart Mcc City Cabriolet.
What Smart Mcc City Cabriolet failures look like
10,148 Smart Mcc City Cabriolet tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 5,840 tests (57.5%), with brakes on 4,171 tests (41.1%) and with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 2,549 tests (25.1%). 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 2,582 of the 10,148 tests: 472 failures and 2,110 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 1,499 of the 10,148 tests: 486 failures and 1,013 advisories or minors.
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Brake pipe corroded, covered in grease or other material
MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.11, in brakes
Recorded on 1,427 of the 10,148 tests: 189 failures and 1,238 advisories or minors.
Where there is enough data to compare: Smart Mcc Fortwo Coupe (219,577 tests), Smart Mcc Forfour (210,142 tests), Smart Mcc Fortwo (194,008 tests), Smart Mcc City Coupe (64,919 tests), every Smart Mcc model (769,840 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.