MOT History from tests of petrol TRIUMPH SPITFIREs year 1962

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Pass percent:75.51%

(The average a petrol TRIUMPH SPITFIRE year 1962 passes without issue)

Based on:49 MOT Tests

Most common failures	No# failures
Rear brake binding	6
Parking brake: efficiency below requirements \|3.7.B.7\|	6
Rear parking brake recording little or no effort	3
Offside Stop lamp not working \|1.2.1b\|	2
Centre Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases \|7.1.2\|	1
Steering system has excessive free play detected at the steering wheel \|steering rack fitted\| \|2.2.A.1b\|	1
Offside Front Front wheel bearing has excessive play \|2.5.A.3c\|	1
Steering locking device missing \|2.2.C.1g\|	1
Hand operated control valve unit insecure \|3.2.2a\|	1
Offside Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings \|6.1.B.2\|	1
Offside Inner Front Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings \|6.1.B.2\|	1
Nearside Front Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings \|6.1.B.2\|	1
Nearside Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings \|6.1.B.2\|	1
Offside Front Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings \|6.1.B.2\|	1
Offside Inner Rear Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings \|6.1.B.2\|	1
Nearside Inner Rear Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings \|6.1.B.2\|	1
Nearside Rear Stub axle has excessive vertical movement between stub axle and axle beam \|2.5.A.1a\|	1
Direction indicators not working \|1.4.A.2c\|	1
Rear Stop lamp not working \|1.2.1b\|	1
Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases \|7.1.2\|	1
Offside Inner Drive shaft uj which forms part of the suspension has a loose flange bolt \|2.4.G.4c\|	1
Rear brake application uneven	1
Offside rear brake recording little or no effort \|3.7.B.5a\|	1
Offside Front front brake binding \|3.7.B.1\|	1
Offside Front Anti-roll bar linkage insecure \|2.4.G.1\|	1
Driver`s seat insecure \|6.2.A.1\|	1
Nearside Track rod end loose \|2.2.B.1d\|	1
Offside Track rod end loose \|2.2.B.1d\|	1
Horn not working \|1.6.2a\|	1
Steering wheel locking device insecure \|2.1.6\|	1
Nearside Front Track rod end ball joint has excessive play \|2.2.B.1f\|	1
Offside Front Track rod end ball joint has excessive play \|2.2.B.1f\|	1
Nearside Front Steering arm has relative movement at its fixings \|2.2.B.1h\|	1
Offside Front Steering arm has relative movement at its fixings \|2.2.B.1h\|	1
Offside Rear Rear position lamp\|s\| excessively deteriorated so that it is not visible from a reasonable distance \|1.1.A.3d\|	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
Rear brake binding	6
Parking brake: efficiency below requirements \|3.7.B.7\|	6
Rear parking brake recording little or no effort	3
Offside Stop lamp not working \|1.2.1b\|	2
Centre Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases \|7.1.2\|	1
Steering system has excessive free play detected at the steering wheel \|steering rack fitted\| \|2.2.A.1b\|	1
Offside Front Front wheel bearing has excessive play \|2.5.A.3c\|	1
Steering locking device missing \|2.2.C.1g\|	1
Hand operated control valve unit insecure \|3.2.2a\|	1
Offside Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings \|6.1.B.2\|	1
Offside Inner Front Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings \|6.1.B.2\|	1
Nearside Front Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings \|6.1.B.2\|	1
Nearside Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings \|6.1.B.2\|	1
Offside Front Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings \|6.1.B.2\|	1
Offside Inner Rear Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings \|6.1.B.2\|	1
Nearside Inner Rear Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings \|6.1.B.2\|	1
Nearside Rear Stub axle has excessive vertical movement between stub axle and axle beam \|2.5.A.1a\|	1
Direction indicators not working \|1.4.A.2c\|	1
Rear Stop lamp not working \|1.2.1b\|	1
Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases \|7.1.2\|	1
Offside Inner Drive shaft uj which forms part of the suspension has a loose flange bolt \|2.4.G.4c\|	1
Rear brake application uneven	1
Offside rear brake recording little or no effort \|3.7.B.5a\|	1
Offside Front front brake binding \|3.7.B.1\|	1
Offside Front Anti-roll bar linkage insecure \|2.4.G.1\|	1
Driver`s seat insecure \|6.2.A.1\|	1
Nearside Track rod end loose \|2.2.B.1d\|	1
Offside Track rod end loose \|2.2.B.1d\|	1
Horn not working \|1.6.2a\|	1
Steering wheel locking device insecure \|2.1.6\|	1
Nearside Front Track rod end ball joint has excessive play \|2.2.B.1f\|	1
Offside Front Track rod end ball joint has excessive play \|2.2.B.1f\|	1
Nearside Front Steering arm has relative movement at its fixings \|2.2.B.1h\|	1
Offside Front Steering arm has relative movement at its fixings \|2.2.B.1h\|	1
Offside Rear Rear position lamp\|s\| excessively deteriorated so that it is not visible from a reasonable distance \|1.1.A.3d\|	1

MOT History from tests of petrol TRIUMPH SPITFIREs year 1962

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