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Does the Rover 25 fail the MOT on road wheels more than it should?

The Rover 25 records 0.25 road wheels failure items per 100 initial MOT tests (2019–2024), against 0.57 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) (−0.32, 95% interval −0.39 to −0.25). It ranks 487 of 516 models on road wheels (1 = most failures above expected).

Data release dvsa-2024-v2 (24 Sep 2026) · page updated 30 Sep 2026 · all models on road wheels · check a Rover 25 by registration

What exactly fails on road wheels?

The most frequent DVSA defect wording in this group on the Rover 25 is “A wheel with a loose or missing wheel nut, bolt or stud”, recorded 70 times in 2019–2024.

Rover 25: most frequent road wheels defect wordings, 2019–2024 (30+ items each)
DVSA defect wordingItemsPer 100 tests
A wheel with a loose or missing wheel nut, bolt or stud700.16

Source: DVSA MOT bulk data (OGL v3.0) · Window: 2019–2024 · n = 42,778 (initial tests) · Method: failure items (major and minor) grouped by DVSA's defect tree; wordings with 30+ items · Updated: 30 Sep 2026 · Release: dvsa-2024-v2 · CSV

Other pages for this model

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