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Common Volkswagen Sharan MOT failures

Based on 9 Volkswagen Sharan tests on MOTindex 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: Volkswagen Sharan

Axles, wheels, tyres and suspension 9 tests (100.0%)
Brakes 8 tests (88.9%)
Registration plates and vehicle identification 4 tests (44.4%)
Steering 4 tests (44.4%)
Body, structure and attachments 3 tests (33.3%)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 2 tests (22.2%)
Nuisance (emissions and noise) 1 test (11.1%)

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 9 classifiable tests for Volkswagen Sharan.

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What Volkswagen Sharan failures look like

9 Volkswagen Sharan tests recorded on MOTindex carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 9 tests (100.0%), with brakes on 8 tests (88.9%) and with registration plates and vehicle identification on 4 tests (44.4%). 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:

  • Anti-roll bar ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated

    MOT inspection manual reference 5.3.4, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension

    Recorded on 5 of the 9 tests: one failure and 4 advisories or minors.

  • Road wheel slightly distorted inner rim

    MOT inspection manual reference 5.2.2, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension

    Recorded on 5 of the 9 tests: all of them advisories or minors, so none of them failed a test on its own.

  • Registration plate deteriorated but not likely to be misread

    MOT inspection manual reference 0.1, in registration plates and vehicle identification

    Recorded on 4 of the 9 tests: one failure and 3 advisories or minors.

Where there is enough data to compare: Volkswagen Passat (10 tests), Volkswagen Tiguan Aspace SE Nav TDI 4M SA (8 tests), Volkswagen Tiguan (5 tests), Volkswagen Touran (5 tests), every Volkswagen model (37 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.