Common Tesla MOT failures
Based on 8 Tesla tests on MOTindex 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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Grows more accurate over time
Built from tests recorded on MOTindex, so the picture firms up as more vehicles are checked here.
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Defaults to every make checked on MOTindex.
Where MOT tests find problems: Tesla
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 8 classifiable tests for Tesla.
What Tesla failures look like
8 Tesla tests recorded on MOTindex carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with steering on 2 tests (25.0%), with brakes on 1 test (12.5%) and with visibility on 1 test (12.5%). 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, one of them comes up on more than one test:
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Track rod end ball joint has slight play
MOT inspection manual reference 2.1.3, in steering
Recorded on 2 of the 8 tests: all of them advisories or minors, so none of them failed a test on its own.
One Tesla model has its own breakdown: Tesla Model S (8 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.