Common Toyota Vitz MOT failures
Based on 10,536 Toyota Vitz 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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Built from DVSA's published MOT data for Great Britain, not only from vehicles looked up here.
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Where MOT tests find problems: Toyota Vitz
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 10,536 classifiable tests for Toyota Vitz.
What Toyota Vitz failures look like
10,536 Toyota Vitz tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 3,641 tests (34.6%), with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 2,119 tests (20.1%) and with brakes on 682 tests (6.5%). 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:
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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 1,876 of the 10,536 tests: 251 failures and 1,625 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 1,394 of the 10,536 tests: 388 failures and 1,006 advisories or minors.
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Headlamp has a product on the lens but not seriously reducing light output
MOT inspection manual reference 4.1.4, in lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded on 425 of the 10,536 tests: 52 failures and 373 advisories or minors.
Where there is enough data to compare: Toyota Yaris (4,576,675 tests), Toyota Aygo (2,325,946 tests), Toyota Auris (1,589,742 tests), Toyota Prius (1,451,121 tests), every Toyota model (17,235,592 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.