MOT History from tests of diesel VW PASSATs year 1998

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Pass percent:45.44%

(The average a diesel VW PASSAT year 1998 passes without issue)

Based on:83,983 MOT Tests

Most common failures	No# failures
Nearside Stop lamp not working \|1.2.1b\|	2
Nearside Front position lamp\|s\| not working \|1.1.A.3b\|	1
Offside Front position lamp\|s\| not working \|1.1.A.3b\|	1
Exhaust emits an excessive level of metered smoke for a turbo charged engine \|7.4.B.3b\|	1
Headlamp aim out of alignment	1
Nearside Headlamp aim beam image kick up to the offside \|1.8\|	1
Offside Headlamp aim beam image kick up to the offside \|1.8\|	1
Nearside Front constant velocity joint gaiter insecure to the extent that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc \|2.5.C.1a\|	1
Offside Front constant velocity joint gaiter insecure to the extent that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc \|2.5.C.1a\|	1
Offside Rear fog lamp not working \|1.3.2b\|	1
Centre Stop lamp has less than 50% of the light sources illuminating \|1.2.1b\|	1
Nearside Front Outer Front constant velocity joint gaiter insecure to the extent that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc \|2.5.C.1a\|	1
Offside Front Track rod end ball joint has excessive play \|2.2.B.1f\|	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 Stop lamp not working \|1.2.1b\|	2
Nearside Front position lamp\|s\| not working \|1.1.A.3b\|	1
Offside Front position lamp\|s\| not working \|1.1.A.3b\|	1
Exhaust emits an excessive level of metered smoke for a turbo charged engine \|7.4.B.3b\|	1
Headlamp aim out of alignment	1
Nearside Headlamp aim beam image kick up to the offside \|1.8\|	1
Offside Headlamp aim beam image kick up to the offside \|1.8\|	1
Nearside Front constant velocity joint gaiter insecure to the extent that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc \|2.5.C.1a\|	1
Offside Front constant velocity joint gaiter insecure to the extent that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc \|2.5.C.1a\|	1
Offside Rear fog lamp not working \|1.3.2b\|	1
Centre Stop lamp has less than 50% of the light sources illuminating \|1.2.1b\|	1
Nearside Front Outer Front constant velocity joint gaiter insecure to the extent that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc \|2.5.C.1a\|	1
Offside Front Track rod end ball joint has excessive play \|2.2.B.1f\|	1

MOT History from tests of diesel VW PASSATs year 1998

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