MOT History from tests of petrol LOTUS ESPRITs year 1971

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Pass percent:76.00%

(The average a petrol LOTUS ESPRIT year 1971 passes without issue)

Based on:75 MOT Tests

Most common failures	No# failures
Parking brake: efficiency below requirements \|3.7.B.7\|	5
Rear brake binding	4
Service brake: efficiency below requirements \|3.7.B.7\|	3
Rear parking brake recording little or no effort	2
Hazard warning lamps not flashing in phase, with ignition on \|1.4.B.1f\|	2
Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases \|7.1.2\|	2
Front Windscreen wiper not operating automatically when switched on \|8.2.1b\|	2
Nearside Rear Brake cable has restricted free movement \|3.5.1k\|	1
Nearside Rear Brake lever has restricted free movement \|3.5.1k\|	1
Rear Mechanical brake component has restricted free movement	1
Nearside Front Front position lamp\|s\| not working \|1.1.A.3b\|	1
Offside Rear Rear position lamp\|s\| excessively deteriorated so that it is not visible from a reasonable distance \|1.1.A.3d\|	1
Headlamp aim out of alignment	1
Nearside Front Side repeater not working \|1.4.A.2c\|	1
Emissions not tested \|7.0\|	1
Nearside Direction indicators not working \|1.4.A.2c\|	1
Fuel pipe leaking \|7.2.3\|	1
Direction indicators not in good working order \|function impaired\| \|1.5.A1b\|	1
Steering column flexible coupling is excessively deteriorated \|2.1.5\|	1
Offside Front brake caliper has restricted free movement \|3.5.1k\|	1
Offside Front coil spring fractured \|2.4.C.1a\|	1
Brakes imbalanced across an axle	1
Offside Headlamp not in good working order adversely affecting beam image \|1.2.4a\|	1
Brake pedal has insufficient reserve movement \|3.3.A.5\|	1
Offside rear brake recording little or no effort \|3.7.B.5a\|	1
Nearside Side repeater not working \|1.4.A.2c\|	1
Offside Side repeater not working \|1.4.A.2c\|	1
Nearside Side repeater incomplete \|1.5.A1b\|	1
Offside Side repeater incomplete \|1.5.A1b\|	1
Nearside front brake binding \|3.7.B.1\|	1
Brake performance not tested \|3.7.A.1\|	1
Nearside Rear brake disc excessively pitted \|3.5.1h\|	1
Offside Rear brake disc excessively pitted \|3.5.1h\|	1
Nearside Parking brake is not capable of being maintained in operation by direct mechanical action only \|3.1.2\|	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
Parking brake: efficiency below requirements \|3.7.B.7\|	5
Rear brake binding	4
Service brake: efficiency below requirements \|3.7.B.7\|	3
Rear parking brake recording little or no effort	2
Hazard warning lamps not flashing in phase, with ignition on \|1.4.B.1f\|	2
Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases \|7.1.2\|	2
Front Windscreen wiper not operating automatically when switched on \|8.2.1b\|	2
Nearside Rear Brake cable has restricted free movement \|3.5.1k\|	1
Nearside Rear Brake lever has restricted free movement \|3.5.1k\|	1
Rear Mechanical brake component has restricted free movement	1
Nearside Front Front position lamp\|s\| not working \|1.1.A.3b\|	1
Offside Rear Rear position lamp\|s\| excessively deteriorated so that it is not visible from a reasonable distance \|1.1.A.3d\|	1
Headlamp aim out of alignment	1
Nearside Front Side repeater not working \|1.4.A.2c\|	1
Emissions not tested \|7.0\|	1
Nearside Direction indicators not working \|1.4.A.2c\|	1
Fuel pipe leaking \|7.2.3\|	1
Direction indicators not in good working order \|function impaired\| \|1.5.A1b\|	1
Steering column flexible coupling is excessively deteriorated \|2.1.5\|	1
Offside Front brake caliper has restricted free movement \|3.5.1k\|	1
Offside Front coil spring fractured \|2.4.C.1a\|	1
Brakes imbalanced across an axle	1
Offside Headlamp not in good working order adversely affecting beam image \|1.2.4a\|	1
Brake pedal has insufficient reserve movement \|3.3.A.5\|	1
Offside rear brake recording little or no effort \|3.7.B.5a\|	1
Nearside Side repeater not working \|1.4.A.2c\|	1
Offside Side repeater not working \|1.4.A.2c\|	1
Nearside Side repeater incomplete \|1.5.A1b\|	1
Offside Side repeater incomplete \|1.5.A1b\|	1
Nearside front brake binding \|3.7.B.1\|	1
Brake performance not tested \|3.7.A.1\|	1
Nearside Rear brake disc excessively pitted \|3.5.1h\|	1
Offside Rear brake disc excessively pitted \|3.5.1h\|	1
Nearside Parking brake is not capable of being maintained in operation by direct mechanical action only \|3.1.2\|	1

MOT History from tests of petrol LOTUS ESPRITs year 1971

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