11-15-Year Ford KA Recorded MOT Outcomes

41.4%
historical failure rate from 300,154 tests in this age band
14.5 percentage points above the dataset-wide reference of 26.9%

Evidence scope: The source groups vehicles into broad age bands. It does not provide a model-year-specific result here, and it does not include an individual vehicle's condition, service history or current defects. This page is descriptive, not predictive or diagnostic.

Recorded Component-Category Rates

These percentages are sample-size-weighted historical rates for this model and age band.

Component categoryRecorded rate
Suspension11.7%
Lamps & Electrics8.2%
Brakes6.0%
Tyres3.9%
Visibility3.9%
Body & Chassis3.6%
Steering0.8%

A category rate does not show that a particular vehicle has a fault in that area.

Other Recorded Age Bands

Age bandFailure rateTestsHighest recorded component category
0-2 years 7.1% 16,611 Lamps & Electrics
3-5 years 12.5% 115,550 Lamps & Electrics
6-10 years 26.0% 318,624 Suspension
11-15 years 41.4% 300,154 Suspension
15+ years 51.5% 69,176 Suspension

Method: Failure and component-category rates are sample-size weighted. Only age/mileage groups with at least 100 tests are included. The checked-in source contains 148,509,908 tests and 39,969,903 failures.

Source: DVSA anonymised MOT tests and results, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.

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