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MOT History from tests of petrol BMW B3s year 2002

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mot history
Pass percent:69.23%
(The average a petrol BMW B3 year 2002 passes without issue)
Based on:65 MOT Tests
Most common failuresNo# failures
Registration plate lamp issues5
Parking brake: efficiency below requirements |3.7.B.7|4
Headlamp aim out of alignment2
Offside Inner Rear position lamp|s| not working |1.1.A.3b|2
Offside Rear Integral body structure or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of a body mounting Inner and outer sills at rear end (6.2.2 (d) (i))2
Nearside Front Lower Suspension arm pin or bush excessively worn rear bush (5.3.4 (a) (i))1
Nearside Front Suspension arm rubber bush deteriorated resulting in excessive movement |2.4.G.2|1
Offside Front Suspension arm rubber bush deteriorated resulting in excessive movement |2.4.G.2|1
Offside Rear Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak1
Nearside Front Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak1
Nearside Front Suspension arm rubber mounting deteriorated resulting in excessive movement |2.4.G.2|1
Offside Front Suspension arm rubber mounting deteriorated resulting in excessive movement |2.4.G.2|1
Offside Headlamp excessively deteriorated so that the light output is severely reduced |1.7.5a|1
Rear parking brake recording little or no effort1
Offside Rear Shock absorber has a serious fluid leak |2.7.3|1
Offside Headlamp aim beam image obviously incorrect |1.8.A.1b|1
Nearside Steering rack gaiter split |2.2.D.2d|1
Offside Steering rack gaiter split |2.2.D.2d|1
Engine MIL inoperative or indicates a malfunction (8.2.1.2 (h))1
Offside Front Service brake excessively binding (1.2.1 (f))1
Offside Front Lower Anti-roll bar linkage insecure |2.4.G.1|1
Nearside Side repeater incorrect colour |1.4.A.2f|1
Nearside Front Lower Suspension arm rubber bush deteriorated resulting in excessive movement |2.4.G.2|1
Offside Front Lower Suspension arm rubber bush deteriorated resulting in excessive movement |2.4.G.2|1
Offside Rear Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings |6.1.B.2|1
Exhaust emissions carbon monoxide content at idle excessive |7.3.D.4|1
Exhaust emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle excessive |7.3.D.3|1
Exhaust emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits |7.3.D.3|1
Nearside Rear Direction indicator incorrect colour |1.4.A.2f|1
Offside Rear Direction indicator incorrect colour |1.4.A.2f|1
Nearside Front Windscreen wiper not operating over a large enough area to give an adequate view |8.2.1c|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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