Is your town listed in the top 25 with the highest MOT failure rates?

With more than half of vehicles failing their last test, Automyze reveals the highest and lowest failure rates

Is your town listed in the top 25 with the highest MOT failure rates?
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Dundee car owners have the highest MOT failure rate in the UK, according to research by Automyze, the AA’s innovative car management website.

Automyze analysed more than one million MOT records of UK registered vehicles owned by AA members, looking at pass and fail rates, and found that more than half of cars in Dundee failed their last MOT – most for preventable faults such as tyres, headlights and indicators.

Meanwhile, seven out of 20 towns and cities with the highest MOT failure rates were in Scotland, with almost half of cars in Aberdeen and Perth failing their last MOT.

The research also revealed that four out of the five UK towns and cities with the lowest MOT pass rates were in the West Country; with Truro, Plymouth, Exeter and Bath, failing their last statutory roadworthiness check.

Cities with the highest MOT failure rates
Town/City Per cent vehicles that failed last MOT
Dundee 53.5
Truro 51.5
Plymouth 51.3
Exeter 50.5
Bath 49.5
Aberdeen 49.5
Perth 49.2
Falkirk 48.4
Hull 48.3
Torquay 47.9
Belfast 47.8
Bristol 47.5
Edinburgh 47.4
Cardiff 47.4
Taunton 47.4
Inverness 47.2
Leeds 47.2
Salisbury 46.9

 

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By contrast, the Isle of Man has the highest MOT pass rate in the UK with 71.8 per cent of vehicles passing their last test at the first time.

And 18 out of the 20 towns and cities with the lowest MOT failure rates were in the south east of England – London and the commuter belt such as Twickenham, Harrow, Dartford, Sutton, Enfield, Croydon, Kingston and Ilford all doing relatively better than other parts of the UK.

Lucy Burnford, director of Automyze, said: “There could be a number of reasons why MOT failure rates are higher in Dundee, from the length of time people own their cars to the types of vehicle they own.

“There are multiple reasons why vehicles fail their MOT but the most common are tyres, headlights and indicators, which can be so easily fixed before the statutory roadworthiness test.”

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Leave your comments and any ‘MOT horror’ stories in the comments below or send your pictures to [email protected].

2 Comments

  1. Hi our failure rate can fluctuate from 40% to 50%, at the moment it is 41.3%, but that’s not the whole of Halifax? Thanks, Eric Roberts.

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  2. Hi our failure rate can fluctuate from 40% to 50%, at the moment it is 41.3%, but that’s not the whole of Halifax? Thanks, Eric Roberts.

    Reply

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