Very very useful!

I'll post how the epica gets through the mot next tuesday (15th may) as i am having it done deliberately 2 months before the end of the 3 year warranty, (just in case) and that will influence whether i keep it, without paying for the extra warranty or keep it and pay chevrolet £650 for 2 extra years warranty, or get another new/newish car. The windscreen washer malfunction indicator light is on and that will be hopefully dealt with at the same time, but should not affect the mot.

Congratulations to the person/people who thought it up and did the donkey work. As Dan Harrison points out, the results are quite hard to evaluate. I expect they’ll become extremely useful when I’m looking around for my next (secondhand) car. When that happens I’ll only be looking at a few models.

The Suzuki Splash comes out of it all extremely well. I notice, however, that the Agila B, the Vauxhall-badged clone, is not listed. Does that mean that the two cars were lumped together for the survey?

Perhaps all it indicates is the owners of certain cars don't bother to do basic checks before an MOT?

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Just been looking at the suvey. For most makes the 2 biggest reasons for failure are tyres and lights for which there is no excuse. These should be checked regularly and should certainly be on your MOT check list. Remove these items from the suvey and things improve.

Just shows what a load of numpties most drivers are when it comes to simple checks.