Thanks to new freedom of information act, MOT failure figures are been released for the first time

Some of the most popular cars have to worst failure rate these include Renault Megane, Vauxhall Corsa, Ford Mondeo and Renault Clio. 

Studying the results the most shocking is about 7% of failures are due to Tyres.  This is shocking as tyres are the most important safety element to a vehicle. 

The report makes compelling evidence that company vehicles like vans are likely to be poorly managed by Fleet Managers – Quality Fleet Training covers these downfalls.   Many of these faults are simple to identify like faulty lights; others are due to missing regular maintenance like brakes.

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The best manufactures seem to be Japanese and include Honda and Toyota.  Information about the MOT test is available here.