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Common Vauxhall Corsa Se Premium Turbo MOT failures

Based on 8,410 Vauxhall Corsa Se Premium Turbo 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: Vauxhall Corsa Se Premium Turbo

Brakes 2,218 tests (26.4%)
Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 2,066 tests (24.6%)
Visibility 761 tests (9.0%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 86 tests (1.0%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 83 tests (1.0%)
Registration plates and vehicle identification 56 tests (0.7%)

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 8,410 classifiable tests for Vauxhall Corsa Se Premium Turbo.

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What Vauxhall Corsa Se Premium Turbo failures look like

8,410 Vauxhall Corsa Se Premium Turbo tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with brakes on 2,218 tests (26.4%), with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 2,066 tests (24.6%) and with visibility on 761 tests (9.0%). 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 1,985 of the 8,410 tests: 247 failures and 1,738 advisories or minors.

  • Brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.14, in brakes

    Recorded on 1,185 of the 8,410 tests: 51 failures and 1,134 advisories or minors.

  • Brake pad(s) wearing thin

    MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.13, in brakes

    Recorded on 720 of the 8,410 tests: 144 failures and 576 advisories or minors.

Where there is enough data to compare: Vauxhall Corsa (10,317,699 tests), Vauxhall Astra (8,169,295 tests), Vauxhall Zafira (2,898,265 tests), Vauxhall Vivaro (2,301,939 tests), every Vauxhall model (35,763,282 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.