MOT History from tests of petrol LOTUS ELANs year 1998

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Pass percent:73.33%

(The average a petrol LOTUS ELAN year 1998 passes without issue)

Based on:15 MOT Tests

Most common failures	No# failures
Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases \|7.1.2\|	1
Nearside front brake juddering severely \|3.7.A.2b\|	1
Offside front brake juddering severely \|3.7.A.2b\|	1
Rear parking brake recording little or no effort	1
Vehicle Identification Number not permanently displayed \|6.3.5.a\|	1
Stop lamp(s) all not working both. (4.3.1 (a) (iii))	1
Parking brake efficiency below requirements (1.4.2 (a) (i))	1
Offside Rear Parking brake inoperative on one side (1.4.1 (a))	1
Offside Front Drive shaft joint constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (6.1.7 (g) (ii))	1
Offside Front Inner Drive shaft joint constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (6.1.7 (g) (ii))	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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MOT History from tests of petrol LOTUS ELANs year 1998

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