Subaru Justy
Registered from 1995 to 2010.
About this model
The Subaru Justy is a subcompact hatchback manufactured and marketed by Japanese automaker Subaru since 1984. The company has marketed a rebadged variant known as the Daihatsu Boon, at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show with could be optioned with a 1.0 or 1.2-litre inline-3 engine, front/four wheel drive, electronically controlled continuously variable transaxle, or a 5-speed manual transaxle. For the 2010 model year, the Justy was replaced with the Subaru Trezia. The Justy nameplate was revived in November 2016 as a rebadged Toyota Tank and its twin counterpart the Toyota Roomy and Daihatsu Thor.
From the Wikipedia article Subaru Justy, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
What fails its inspection
Great Britain's MOT record for the 2008 1.0 petrol. 58 of 302 tests failed, 19%.
Better than 84% of 2008 cars. The typical one fails 26%, across 922 models with enough tests behind them to say.
| Where | Share of failures | Failed tests |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 53% | 31 |
| Brakes | 33% | 19 |
| Lights and electrics | 31% | 18 |
| Tyres and wheels | 24% | 14 |
| Body and structure | 16% | 9 |
| Exhaust and emissions | 12% | 7 |
The defects inspectors cite
- A suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn
- A lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning
- A tyre seriously damaged
- Parking brake efficiency below minimum requirement
- A headlamp or light source missing, inoperative or more than ½ not functioning in the case of LED
- Brake pipe damaged or excessively corroded
Before you buy one
Built from what this car fails on, not from general knowledge of the model.
- Suspension — 53% of its failures
- A suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn
- Brakes — 33% of its failures
- Parking brake efficiency below minimum requirement
- Brake pipe damaged or excessively corroded
- Tyres and wheels — 24% of its failures
- A tyre seriously damaged
- Exhaust and emissions — 12% of its failures
- Exhaust system leaking or insecure
- Lambda coefficient outside the default limits or the range specified by the manufacturer
- Lights and electrics — 31% 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
- Body and structure — 16% of its failures
- Brake pipe damaged or excessively corroded
When it starts failing
At 80–100k miles this one fails 26% of its inspections, against the 27% an ordinary car of the same age fails.
| Odometer | Failure rate | Rate | Its age | Tests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20–40k miles | 8% | 16% | 39 | |
| 40–60k miles | 18% | 20% | 65 | |
| 60–80k miles | 18% | 24% | 73 | |
| 80–100k miles | 26% | 27% | 95 |
272 British inspections, grouped by the odometer reading recorded at the test.
Half of these have more than 60k miles on them. That is how far people drive this car, not how long it lasts.