MOT History from tests of petrol BMW 5s year 1999

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Pass percent:52.17%

(The average a petrol BMW 5 year 1999 passes without issue)

Based on:23 MOT Tests

Most common failures	No# failures
Brake pipe excessively corroded	7
Parking brake: efficiency below requirements \|3.7.B.7\|	3
Headlamp aim out of alignment	2
Nearside Rear Anti-roll bar linkage has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	2
Offside Rear Anti-roll bar linkage has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	2
Offside Front Lower Suspension arm has excessive play in a pin/bush \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Power steering pipe\|s\| or hose\|s\| leaking \|2.3.3b\|	1
Nearside Rear Upper Suspension arm ball joint dust cover excessively deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Nearside Rear Upper Suspension arm has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Brakes imbalanced across an axle	1
Rear parking brake recording little or no effort	1
Nearside Rear Lower Suspension arm has excessive play in a pin/bush \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Offside Rear Upper Radius arm has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Registration plate issues	1
Offside Rear coil spring fractured \|2.4.C.1a\|	1
Offside Front Front position lamp\|s\| not working \|1.1.A.3b\|	1
Nearside Front Front position lamp\|s\| not working \|1.1.A.3b\|	1
Rear Upper Stop lamp not working \|1.2.1b\|	1
Offside Rear Upper Suspension arm has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Offside Rear Lower Radius arm has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Nearside Rear Lower Radius arm has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Nearside Front All position lamps have less than 50% of the light sources illuminating \|1.1.A.3b\|	1
Nearside Anti-roll bar ball joint dust cover excessively damaged so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Offside Rear passenger door cannot be opened from outside the vehicle \|6.2.B.1c\|	1
Offside Front Headlamp aim beam image obviously incorrect \|1.8.A.1b\|	1
Offside Front Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced \|1.7.5a\|	1

We get to these numbers by trawling through over 1 billion MOT test results since 2004 and crunched the numbers. We remove anything to do with Tyres, as they are model independent and group together common non-model specific issues. We are trying to get to a picture of what models have what issues.

Please note: We take the data from the DVSA. This data is raw and can contain typos and spelling mistakes that garages may have entered while recording a MOT result. Specifically miss-match on names of models and makes. We are constantly cleaning the data so bear with the odd issue.

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Most common failures	No# failures
Brake pipe excessively corroded	7
Parking brake: efficiency below requirements \|3.7.B.7\|	3
Headlamp aim out of alignment	2
Nearside Rear Anti-roll bar linkage has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	2
Offside Rear Anti-roll bar linkage has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	2
Offside Front Lower Suspension arm has excessive play in a pin/bush \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Power steering pipe\|s\| or hose\|s\| leaking \|2.3.3b\|	1
Nearside Rear Upper Suspension arm ball joint dust cover excessively deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Nearside Rear Upper Suspension arm has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Brakes imbalanced across an axle	1
Rear parking brake recording little or no effort	1
Nearside Rear Lower Suspension arm has excessive play in a pin/bush \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Offside Rear Upper Radius arm has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Registration plate issues	1
Offside Rear coil spring fractured \|2.4.C.1a\|	1
Offside Front Front position lamp\|s\| not working \|1.1.A.3b\|	1
Nearside Front Front position lamp\|s\| not working \|1.1.A.3b\|	1
Rear Upper Stop lamp not working \|1.2.1b\|	1
Offside Rear Upper Suspension arm has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Offside Rear Lower Radius arm has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Nearside Rear Lower Radius arm has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Nearside Front All position lamps have less than 50% of the light sources illuminating \|1.1.A.3b\|	1
Nearside Anti-roll bar ball joint dust cover excessively damaged so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Offside Rear passenger door cannot be opened from outside the vehicle \|6.2.B.1c\|	1
Offside Front Headlamp aim beam image obviously incorrect \|1.8.A.1b\|	1
Offside Front Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced \|1.7.5a\|	1

MOT History from tests of petrol BMW 5s year 1999

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