Chevrolet Matiz
Registered from 2005 to 2010.
About this model
The Chevrolet Spark is a city car manufactured by General Motors's subsidiary GM Korea from 1998 to 2022. The vehicle was developed by Daewoo and introduced in 1998 as the Daewoo Matiz. In 2002, General Motors purchased Daewoo Motors, which was marketing the vehicle with several GM marques and nameplates.
From the Wikipedia article Chevrolet Spark, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
What fails its inspection
Great Britain's MOT record for the 2009 1.0 petrol. 863 of 2,868 tests failed, 30%.
Better than 14% of 2009 cars. The typical one fails 25%, across 961 models with enough tests behind them to say.
| Where | Share of failures | Failed tests |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 51% | 438 |
| Brakes | 46% | 395 |
| Lights and electrics | 37% | 316 |
| Tyres and wheels | 22% | 193 |
| Visibility | 17% | 143 |
| Body and structure | 16% | 142 |
The defects inspectors cite
- A suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn
- 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.
- Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements
- Brake pipe damaged or excessively corroded
- A lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning
- Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the windscreen
Before you buy one
Built from what this car fails on, not from general knowledge of the model.
- Suspension — 51% of its failures
- A suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn
- Brakes — 46% of its failures
- Brake pipe damaged or excessively corroded
- Tyres and wheels — 22% of its failures
- 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.
- Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements
- Lights and electrics — 37% of its failures
- A lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning
- A headlamp or light source missing, inoperative or more than ½ not functioning in the case of LED
- Visibility — 17% of its failures
- Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the windscreen
- Body and structure — 16% of its failures
- Brake pipe damaged or excessively corroded
When it starts failing
At 100–120k miles this one fails 34% of its inspections, against the 28% an ordinary car of the same age fails.
| Odometer | Failure rate | Rate | Its age | Tests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0–20k miles | 19% | 11% | 133 | |
| 20–40k miles | 24% | 15% | 599 | |
| 40–60k miles | 31% | 20% | 998 | |
| 60–80k miles | 34% | 23% | 736 | |
| 80–100k miles | 34% | 26% | 303 | |
| 100–120k miles | 34% | 28% | 74 |
2,843 British inspections, grouped by the odometer reading recorded at the test.
Half of these have more than 40k miles on them. That is how far people drive this car, not how long it lasts.