Audi Quattro
Registered from 1990 to 2004.
About this model
The Audi Quattro is a road and rally car, produced by the German automobile manufacturer Audi, part of the Volkswagen Group. It was first shown at the 1980 Geneva Motor Show on 3 March. Production continued until 1991.
From the Wikipedia article Audi Quattro, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
What fails its inspection
Great Britain's MOT record for the 1990 2.2 petrol. 4 of 52 tests failed, 8%.
Better than 98% of 1990 cars. The typical one fails 21%, across 86 models with enough tests behind them to say.
| Where | Share of failures | Failed tests |
|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 75% | 3 |
| Controls and instruments | 25% | 1 |
| Lights and electrics | 25% | 1 |
| Visibility | 25% | 1 |
The defects inspectors cite
- Parking brake efficiency below minimum requirement
- A lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning
- Brakes imbalance across an axle such that the braking effort from any wheel is less than 70% of the maximum effort recorded from the other wheel on the same axle.
- Braking effort inadequate at a wheel
- Parking brake inoperative on one side
- Speedometer not working
Before you buy one
Built from what this car fails on, not from general knowledge of the model.
- Brakes — 75% of its failures
- Parking brake efficiency below minimum requirement
- Parking brake inoperative on one side
- Controls and instruments — 25% of its failures
- Speedometer not working
- Lights and electrics — 25% of its failures
- A lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning
- Visibility — 25% of its failures
- Windscreen washers not working or not providing sufficient fluid to clear the windscreen