MOT History from tests of petrol VOLVO P120s year 1978

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Pass percent:78.57%

(The average a petrol VOLVO P120 year 1978 passes without issue)

Based on:28 MOT Tests

Most common failures	No# failures
Headlamp aim out of alignment	2
Rear Fuel pipe leaking (7.2.3)	1
Steering system fouling (2.2.D.2a)	1
Nearside Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect (4.1.2 (c))	1
Offside Front Inner Track rod end ball joint has excessive play (2.1.3 (b) (i))	1
Offside Front Outer Track rod end ball joint has excessive play (2.1.3 (b) (i))	1
Nearside Front Headlamp not working on dipped beam (1.7.5a)	1
Exhaust emissions carbon monoxide content excessive (8.2.1.2 (b))	1
Stop lamp not working (1.2.1b)	1
Nearside Front Lower Suspension arm rubber bush deteriorated resulting in excessive movement (2.4.G.2)	1
Offside Front Lower Suspension arm rubber bush deteriorated resulting in excessive movement (2.4.G.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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MOT History from tests of petrol VOLVO P120s year 1978

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