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Daewoo MOT failure rates by model

Daewoo cars fail 33.3% of MOT tests. Here is every Daewoo model ranked by failure rate, and the item each loses most tests to.

What is the MOT failure rate for Daewoo cars?

Across 1,681,808 MOT tests in the DVSA record, 33.3% of Daewoo cars fail. That is 7.6 points above the 25.7% national average across all cars. The Daewoo models below are ranked worst to best by failure rate, each with the failure area it loses most tests to.

ModelFailure rateTestsTop failure area
Daewoo Espero37.2%33,498Lamps & electrical
Daewoo Nexia36.2%79,431Brakes
Daewoo Nubira35.6%130,543Brakes
Daewoo Korando34.4%4,899Brakes
Daewoo Matiz34.1%724,475Lamps & electrical
Daewoo Musso33.4%23,804Brakes
Daewoo Leganza32.8%62,079Brakes
Daewoo Lanos32.6%344,029Lamps & electrical
Daewoo Kalos30.3%140,145Lamps & electrical
Daewoo Lacetti29.9%37,843Lamps & electrical
Daewoo Tacuma29.4%101,012Brakes

Which Daewoo fails its MOT most, and which least?

The Daewoo Espero has the highest failure rate at 37.2%, and the Daewoo Tacuma the lowest at 29.4%. A higher rate reflects how old and how hard a model tends to be used as much as how it was built, so the oldest models in the range usually sit near the top.

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Sources: DVSA MOT History API: MOT test results and defect data ยท DVSA MOT testing data for Great Britain