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MAN MOT failure rates by model

MAN cars fail 16.7% of MOT tests. Here is every MAN model ranked by failure rate, and the item each loses most tests to.

What is the MOT failure rate for MAN cars?

Across 60,626 MOT tests in the DVSA record, 16.7% of MAN cars fail. That is 9.0 points below the 25.7% national average across all cars. The MAN models below are ranked worst to best by failure rate, each with the failure area it loses most tests to.

ModelFailure rateTestsTop failure area
MAN Not26.4%1,137,
MAN.20.9%1,730,
MAN Tge16.6%35,629Other
MAN Unknown15.4%7,288Other
MAN Tgl14.4%2,805,
MAN Tgs10.0%1,234,
MAN Tgx8.3%1,363,
MAN Tgm8.2%1,467,

Which MAN fails its MOT most, and which least?

The MAN Not has the highest failure rate at 26.4%, and the MAN Tgm the lowest at 8.2%. 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