This is quite interesting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8456116.stm

There's a full spreadsheet linked from the article , but you can see a few highlights here.

For skodas , the rates are

2004 Fabia - 15%

2004 Octavia - 19.6%

2004 Superb - 23.1%

SO it looks like Skoda make more reliable small cars than larger ones.

Edited 13 January, 201016 yr by Dr Zoidberg

I read that earlier.

Its a nice indicator, but most of the top entries (Corsa, Mondeo, Transit, etc) are very often hire cars, and therefore the high mileage, and hard life will have major effects on these figures.

Id be interested to see the results, without standard wear and tear items (Tyres, Brakes, bulbs, etc).

as would I as my fabia failed its first MOT but then funny enough every one of the new cars MOT failed for silly things which they should not have. Some garages use it as a money making con. One failure was the front brake discs, to which the boss they changed it to just an advisory, funny really as the same discs stay on for another 25K and 2 another MOT's!!

The same garage however did not fail my 1993 Rover 220 Coupe which in all honesty should have been scrapped!

Looks to me that people with company cars don't bother doing maintainance until it's needed.

Something along the lines of Enter for MOT, fail, get it fixed and serviced and MOT pass by the end of the same day.

If you looked this is a Re-post. Briskoda - MOT failure rates published

However that thread did not have the table of results. I suppose the two could be merged by the mods.

If you looked this is a Re-post. Briskoda - MOT failure rates published

However that thread did not have the table of results. I suppose the two could be merged by the mods.

there are actually 3 threads about this, 2 here and 1 in the Fabia section :wonder:

It's not an indication of the cars reliability, more of an indication of how the cars are treated. The number of failures on tyres and brakes is horrifying and these cars are using the same roads as us.

If you looked this is a Re-post. Briskoda - MOT failure rates published

However that thread did not have the table of results. I suppose the two could be merged by the mods.

Oh yes it does!! If you go halfway down the article there's a link to an Excel spreadsheet which has details of every model, reason for failure and covers a number of years.

Edited 13 January, 201016 yr by westerdam2

It's not an indication of the cars reliability, more of an indication of how the cars are treated. The number of failures on tyres and brakes is horrifying and these cars are using the same roads as us.

Yep , tyres and brakes is very likely to be a maintenance issue , but it's not all down to how the cars are treated.

The same names do well on this table and all the usual ones about breakdowns and warranty claims which is more than just coincidence.

interesting results - as said, the commercial vehicles and fleet specials are hardly surprising tho!

Edited 13 January, 201016 yr by arbs

MNNN - Strange result from my Last Mot -a few advisories - exhaust heat shield a bit worn / BUT NOT A FAILURE / front discs a bit worn - actually I'd anticipated this one - discs mic'd atr 20.5 mm - new23 , change at 19 - so about halfway . So perhaps we need some advisorieson the MOT system .

the mot is completely inconsistent from garage to garage tbh,

my previous car i took to one place for an mot, where it failed, i briefed a mechanic to carry out repairs, and he re-mot'd it himself first as he would of used a different garage to carry out the retest for me, and showed me it had been failed on 2 things which were near perfect, yet they'd missed something critical, to me this cant be acceptable and a major review of the mot system is surely required

i think it's all fairly circumstantial anyway, and a lot of it comes down to basic items like bulbs, wiper blades and tyres etc...

i've seen 3 year old cars going in for thier first mot, that have been garaged all the time, and only driven twice a week to go shopping fail on stuff becasue the garage sees an easy 'target' to make a profit

i think it's all fairly circumstantial anyway, and a lot of it comes down to basic items like bulbs, wiper blades and tyres etc...

i've seen 3 year old cars going in for thier first mot, that have been garaged all the time, and only driven twice a week to go shopping fail on stuff becasue the garage sees an easy 'target' to make a profit

Which is why my fabia failed the first time around, agrued that if the brakes where that bad why was they not spotted on its service just a few weeks before hand? Number plate was just being petty, so I changed that myself as was the satnav holder mark on the screen!!

Basically the garage wanted me to ask them to re-do the brakes with cheap crap that they would have charged stupid priced for! I never did use them again for an MOT and I was up until then and the rest of the family a regular customer, one greedy moment cost him all the business!!

I'm sorry but I do not trust any MOT station out there nor garage for that matter.

now that you have pay for retest they find smallest thing to fail on, and its extra revanue for them, i had a car fail on the laminate on the number plate and that was the only fail, yet i've had cars with far worse number plates pass on the plates. i kept the failed plates always meant to raise the issue but never did because i felt scammed for the retest fee based on number plates alone