Does the Mercedes-Benz GLB fail the MOT on body, chassis and structure more than it should?

The Mercedes-Benz GLB records 0.35 body, chassis and structure failure items per 100 initial MOT tests (2019–2024), against 0.32 expected for a car of the same age mix: about as expected for its class and age (the difference is within its interval or under 0.5 items per 100 tests) (+0.03, 95% interval −0.09 to +0.15). It ranks 267 of 663 models on body, chassis and structure (1 = most failures above expected).

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No single body, chassis and structure defect wording reaches 30 items on the Mercedes-Benz GLB; the failures are spread across several.