Does the Mercedes-Benz S fail the MOT on seat belts and airbags more than it should?

The Mercedes-Benz S records 0.72 seat belts and airbags failure items per 100 initial MOT tests (2019–2024), against 0.65 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) (+0.07, 95% interval −0.18 to +0.32). It ranks 242 of 627 models on seat belts and airbags (1 = most failures above expected).

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No single seat belts and airbags defect wording reaches 30 items on the Mercedes-Benz S; the failures are spread across several.