MOT Test Data revealed (Very Interesting)

[veedubman]

This spreadsheet makes for very interesting reading.

You can see how many cars from every year were taken for an MOT, what they failed on , how many passed and failed on.

Take a look!

follow link below

www.volkszone.com/VZi/showthread.php?t=613045

It seems old beetles fair quite well with an average of 23.2% failure rate!

[veedubman]

Also shows there's about 10,000 Novas left on the UK roads,but only about 700 Senetors- interesting!

[delmastiff]

None of the links are working for me?

[akku]

Sorry, the only FAIL I see is your links. all three result in a 404 error.

EDIT: should have been quicker with my sarcasm.

[veedubman]

Can't get my links to work, try this one!

www.volkszone.com/VZi/showthread.php?t=613045

[akku]

OK, I can't get on the VOSA site its well slow but...

In some respects isn't this a league table of who maintains their cars badly as much as which cars are prone to faults? Example 1982 AC Cobra has a 100% MOT fail rate LOL.

According to their data my 1966 Buick didn't go up for an MOT at all in 2007. Which it did.

I'm not sure how much I would trust the rest of the data.

Not one Plymouth, DeSoto, Oldsmobile, tested?

No Morrises tested either? Not one Triumph 2000?

I am only looking at the excel version but the data is just junk.

[bortaf]

All the links work fine here? perhaps i just have the right programs installed ?
Makes interesting cheers

[MWF]

Public sector organisation in poor dataz shocker.

Despite this I have of course hoarded it all for future procrastination over buying cars.

[whitbytom]

This was posted earlier HERE

It looks like VOSA have been bullied into putting this data into the public domain, and as such the quality of data is pretty naff. I've not looked but apparently there's an Audi 80 on the spreadsheet that was registered in the 1880s

[veedubman]

Sorry for the repost! Didn't see it before...

[akku]

And of course various journalists are now writing "shock horror Ford in MOT fail shame" type articles assuming this data to be gospel.

No wonder that VOSA didn't want to publish it. Whole manufacturers are missing from the data.

[scoobypete]

dvla arent perfect in many ways,my mate has an l reg impreza 2.0 turbo thats reg'd as bein a 4000 cc,no matter how many times hes sent it to them explainin its always come back the same

[PandaSelecta]

Apparently there are only two 1997 Ford Focuses

even though I know of at least 10 Fiat Amigos on the road, it seems there are none that are moted ;D

good to see that there are around 2000 old shape pandas still out there

[veedubman]

Jan 13, 2010 16:43:42 GMT PandaSelecta said:

Apparently there are only two 1997 Ford Focuses

even though I know of at least 10 Fiat Amigos on the road, it seems there are none that are moted ;D

Focus's were not available until September 1998. Sometimes, MOT testers don't get the year of the car correct!

[kenb]

Jan 13, 2010 16:26:22 GMT scoobypete said:

dvla arent perfect in many ways,my mate has an l reg impreza 2.0 turbo thats reg'd as bein a 4000 cc,no matter how many times hes sent it to them explainin its always come back the same

VOSA run the mot system, not DVLA though I see your point.

But perhaps we should remember that Siemens are responsible for the computer system running the MoT's and it various glitches its had since it introduction. Maybe this has just highlighted another mess we weren't supposed to know about!!

[Deleted]

seems not all models of cars are up there either

[jo0lz]

Direct link to the PDF at VOSA
www.vosa.gov.uk/vosa/repository/MOT_Make_Model_Comp_2007.pdf

Only one FIAT Argenta had an MOT in 2007 !

Just under four and a half thousand Unos road legal back then