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

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

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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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