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Common Suzuki Gsxs 1000 S Katana MOT failures

Based on 1,184 Suzuki Gsxs 1000 S Katana 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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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: Suzuki Gsxs 1000 S Katana

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 77 tests (6.5%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 70 tests (5.9%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 65 tests (5.5%)
Body, structure and attachments 30 tests (2.5%)
Brakes 25 tests (2.1%)
Registration plates and vehicle identification 9 tests (0.8%)

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 1,184 classifiable tests for Suzuki Gsxs 1000 S Katana.

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What Suzuki Gsxs 1000 S Katana failures look like

1,184 Suzuki Gsxs 1000 S Katana tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 77 tests (6.5%), with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 70 tests (5.9%) and with nuisance (emissions and noise) on 65 tests (5.5%). 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 65 of the 1,184 tests: 10 failures and 55 advisories or minors.

  • Exhaust noisy

    MOT inspection manual reference 8.1.1, in nuisance (emissions and noise)

    Recorded on 65 of the 1,184 tests: one failure and 64 advisories or minors.

  • Headlamp aim too low

    MOT inspection manual reference 4.1.2, in lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment

    Recorded on 35 of the 1,184 tests: 6 failures and 29 advisories or minors.

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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.