MOT History from tests of diesel VW GOLFs year 1996

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Pass percent:45.89%

(The average a diesel VW GOLF year 1996 passes without issue)

Based on:70,573 MOT Tests

Most common failures	No# failures
Nearside Steering rack gaiter split \|2.2.D.2d\|	1
Offside Steering rack gaiter split \|2.2.D.2d\|	1
Nearside Front Sub-frame attachment bracket/mounting insecure \|2.4.G.1\|	1
Offside Front Sub-frame attachment bracket/mounting insecure \|2.4.G.1\|	1
Nearside Rear Seat belt retracting mechanism defective \|5.2.5b\|	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
Nearside Steering rack gaiter split \|2.2.D.2d\|	1
Offside Steering rack gaiter split \|2.2.D.2d\|	1
Nearside Front Sub-frame attachment bracket/mounting insecure \|2.4.G.1\|	1
Offside Front Sub-frame attachment bracket/mounting insecure \|2.4.G.1\|	1
Nearside Rear Seat belt retracting mechanism defective \|5.2.5b\|	1

MOT History from tests of diesel VW GOLFs year 1996

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