MOT History from tests of petrol RILEY KESTRELs year 1970

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Pass percent:70.83%

(The average a petrol RILEY KESTREL year 1970 passes without issue)

Based on:48 MOT Tests

Most common failures	No# failures
Headlamp aim out of alignment	5
Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases \|7.1.2\|	2
Front Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases \|7.1.2\|	2
Nearside rear brake recording little or no effort \|3.7.B.5a\|	2
Rear parking brake recording little or no effort	2
Offside rear brake recording little or no effort \|3.7.B.5a\|	2
Parking brake: efficiency below requirements \|3.7.B.7\|	2
Offside Front position lamp\|s\| not working \|1.1.A.3b\|	2
Fuel tank leaking \|7.2.3\|	2
Offside Outer Seat belt anchorage prescribed area is inadequately repaired \|5.2.6\|	1
Nearside Steering pivot point has excessive play \|2.2.B.1g\|	1
Registration plate lamp issues	1
Nearside Front Drag link end ball joint has excessive play \|2.2.B.1f\|	1
Horn control insecure \|1.6.1\|	1
Horn not working \|1.6.2a\|	1
Indicator switch faulty \|1.4.A.1\|	1
Indicator switch insecure \|1.4.A.1\|	1
Dipswitch operation does not deflect all main beam headlamps to make them dipped beams \|1.7.4b\|	1
Nearside Front Lower Suspension arm has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Offside Front Lower Suspension arm has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Steering pivot point has excessive play \|2.2.B.1g\|	1
Offside Front Brake hose excessively damaged \|3.6.B.4d\|	1
Offside Side repeater not working \|1.4.A.2c\|	1
Service brake: efficiency below requirements \|3.7.B.7\|	1
Nearside Front Brake hose excessively damaged \|3.6.B.4d\|	1
Offside Headlamp not working on dipped beam \|1.7.5a\|	1
Nearside Outer Front Brake hose excessively damaged \|3.6.B.4d\|	1
Offside Outer Front Brake hose excessively damaged \|3.6.B.4d\|	1
Brakes imbalanced across an axle	1
Rear brake binding	1
Nearside Front Track rod end ball joint has excessive play \|2.2.B.1f\|	1
Offside Front drive shaft coupling flexible rubber or fabric coupling unit breaking up \|2.5.C.1d\|	1
Nearside Front wheel bearing has excessive play \|2.5.A.3c\|	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
Headlamp aim out of alignment	5
Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases \|7.1.2\|	2
Front Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases \|7.1.2\|	2
Nearside rear brake recording little or no effort \|3.7.B.5a\|	2
Rear parking brake recording little or no effort	2
Offside rear brake recording little or no effort \|3.7.B.5a\|	2
Parking brake: efficiency below requirements \|3.7.B.7\|	2
Offside Front position lamp\|s\| not working \|1.1.A.3b\|	2
Fuel tank leaking \|7.2.3\|	2
Offside Outer Seat belt anchorage prescribed area is inadequately repaired \|5.2.6\|	1
Nearside Steering pivot point has excessive play \|2.2.B.1g\|	1
Registration plate lamp issues	1
Nearside Front Drag link end ball joint has excessive play \|2.2.B.1f\|	1
Horn control insecure \|1.6.1\|	1
Horn not working \|1.6.2a\|	1
Indicator switch faulty \|1.4.A.1\|	1
Indicator switch insecure \|1.4.A.1\|	1
Dipswitch operation does not deflect all main beam headlamps to make them dipped beams \|1.7.4b\|	1
Nearside Front Lower Suspension arm has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Offside Front Lower Suspension arm has excessive play in a ball joint \|2.4.G.2\|	1
Steering pivot point has excessive play \|2.2.B.1g\|	1
Offside Front Brake hose excessively damaged \|3.6.B.4d\|	1
Offside Side repeater not working \|1.4.A.2c\|	1
Service brake: efficiency below requirements \|3.7.B.7\|	1
Nearside Front Brake hose excessively damaged \|3.6.B.4d\|	1
Offside Headlamp not working on dipped beam \|1.7.5a\|	1
Nearside Outer Front Brake hose excessively damaged \|3.6.B.4d\|	1
Offside Outer Front Brake hose excessively damaged \|3.6.B.4d\|	1
Brakes imbalanced across an axle	1
Rear brake binding	1
Nearside Front Track rod end ball joint has excessive play \|2.2.B.1f\|	1
Offside Front drive shaft coupling flexible rubber or fabric coupling unit breaking up \|2.5.C.1d\|	1
Nearside Front wheel bearing has excessive play \|2.5.A.3c\|	1

MOT History from tests of petrol RILEY KESTRELs year 1970

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