| Most common failures | No# failures |
|---|
| Headlamp aim out of alignment | 374 |
| Brake pipe excessively corroded | 240 |
| Offside Rear Coil spring fractured or broken (5.3.1 (b) (i)) | 155 |
| Windscreen wiper does not clear the windscreen effectively | 98 |
| Registration plate issues | 96 |
| Nearside Rear Coil spring fractured or broken (5.3.1 (b) (i)) | 94 |
| Engine MIL inoperative or indicates a malfunction (8.2.2.2 (g)) | 50 |
| Nearside Front Coil spring fractured or broken (5.3.1 (b) (i)) | 50 |
| Parking brake efficiency below requirements (1.4.2 (a) (i)) | 34 |
| Offside Rear Coil spring fractured or broken |5.3.1 |b| |i|| | 33 |
| Engine MIL inoperative or indicates a malfunction (8.2.1.2 (h)) | 21 |
| Brakes imbalanced across an axle | 16 |
| Nearside Rear Coil spring fractured or broken |5.3.1 |b| |i|| | 12 |
| Exhaust emissions exceed manufacturers specified limit (8.2.2.2 (a)) | 12 |
| Offside Rear coil spring broken |2.4.C.1a| | 10 |
| Nearside Side repeater not working (4.4.1 (a) (ii)) | 10 |
| Offside Front Road wheel fractured (5.2.2 (a)) | 10 |
| Parking brake efficiency less than 50% of the required value (1.4.2 (a) (ii)) | 10 |
| Nearside Front Road wheel fixing missing (5.2.1 (a) (i)) | 9 |
| Nearside Front Road wheel fractured (5.2.2 (a)) | 9 |
| Engine MIL inoperative or indicates a malfunction |8.2.2.2 |g|| | 8 |
| Front brake disc in such a condition that it is seriously weakened | 8 |
| Rear brake disc in such a condition that it is seriously weakened | 8 |
| Windscreen washer not working | 8 |
| Parking brake lever ratchet not holding correctly (1.1.6 (a)) | 8 |
| Front brake excessively fluctuating | 7 |
| Nearside Parking brake inoperative on one side (1.4.1 (a)) | 7 |
| Parking brake lever defective so that it cannot be satisfactorily operated (1.1.6 (d)) | 7 |
| Offside Front Lower Anti-roll bar linkage ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (5.3.4 (b) (ii)) | 7 |
| Engine MIL inoperative or indicates a malfunction |8.2.1.2 |h|| | 6 |
| Supplementary restraint system warning lamp indicates a fault |7.1.6 |a|| | 6 |
| Parking brake: efficiency below requirements |3.7.B.7| | 6 |
| Nearside Rear Road wheel fixing missing (5.2.1 (a) (i)) | 6 |
| Offside Front Brake disc significantly and obviously worn (1.1.14 (a) (i)) | 6 |
| Nearside Front Brake disc significantly and obviously worn (1.1.14 (a) (i)) | 6 |
| Nearside Rear Parking brake inoperative on one side (1.4.1 (a)) | 6 |
| Offside Front Coil spring fractured or broken (5.3.1 (b) (i)) | 6 |
| Nearside Rear coil spring broken |2.4.C.1a| | 5 |
| Nearside Side repeater not working |4.4.1 |a| |ii|| | 5 |
| Nearside Front Anti-roll bar linkage ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (5.3.4 (b) (ii)) | 5 |
| Nearside Rear Road wheel fractured (5.2.2 (a)) | 5 |
| Rear fog lamp not working (4.5.1 (a) (ii)) | 5 |
| Supplementary restraint system warning lamp indicates a fault (7.1.6 (a)) | 5 |
| Brake performance not tested (1.2.1 (g)) | 5 |
| Offside Front Anti-roll bar ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (5.3.4 (b) (ii)) | 5 |