Dacia Sandero Sway Prestige Tce Cvt: MOT pass rate and reliability data

The Dacia Sandero Sway Prestige Tce Cvt passes its MOT first time more often than the average UK car, by 17.5 percentage points. These figures come from the DVSA's full year of anonymised MOT results, covering 604 individual Dacia Sandero Sway Prestige Tce Cvt tests. Nothing here is an estimate or a survey.

The numbers

What this means if you are buying one

A 94.2% first-time pass rate means roughly 6 in every 100 Dacia Sandero Sway Prestige Tce Cvts presented for MOT fail on the first attempt. That is better than average, so a well-kept example is a reasonably safe used buy. The average Dacia Sandero Sway Prestige Tce Cvt tested had covered 16,462 miles and was built around 2021.

What this means at salvage auction

Pass rate is a proxy for what a car costs to keep on the road. The Dacia Sandero Sway Prestige Tce Cvt sits 17.5 points above the national average, ranked 116 of 2,005 models. On one bought as repairable salvage, the mechanical side is less likely to spring surprises, so your repair estimate should hold up reasonably well.

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Common failure reasons

We hold no separate DVSA failure-reason breakdown for the Dacia Sandero Sway Prestige Tce Cvt itself, which fails on much the same things as most cars. National car failure mix, DVSA latest quarter:

1. Lights and electrics, 10.36% of tests
2. Suspension, 8.65% of tests
3. Tyres, 6.23% of tests
4. Brakes, 6.1% of tests
5. Visibility (wipers, washers, glass), 4.65% of tests

Most common MOT advisories on a Dacia Sandero Sway Prestige Tce Cvt

An advisory doesn't fail the car - the tester flags it as worth watching, but it still passes. A different list from the failures above: what testers are noting on a Dacia Sandero Sway Prestige Tce Cvt before it actually fails on it.

1. Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements, 13.5% of tests
2. A tyre seriously damaged, 7.3% of tests
3. a brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm, 4.5% of tests
4. Brake disc or drum significantly and obviously worn, 2% of tests
5. Brake disc or drum excessively weakened, insecure or fractured, 1.7% of tests
6. A suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn, 1.2% of tests
7. Number plate inscription missing or illegible, 0.3% of tests
8. Stop lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning, 0.3% of tests
9. 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., 0.2% of tests
10. A steering ball joint with excessive wear or free play, 0.2% of tests

From 600 DVSA-tracked Dacia Sandero Sway Prestige Tce Cvt tests, 2024.

Other Dacia models

• Dacia Sandero - 75%
• Dacia Duster - 79.6%
• Dacia Logan - 77.4%
• Dacia Duster Essential Tce 4x2 - 88.2%
• Dacia Sandero Comfort Tce - 94.3%
• Dacia Sandero Stepway Se Twenty Tce - 88.1%
• Dacia Sandero Stepway Comfort Tce - 93.8%
• Dacia Sandero Stepway Prestige Tce - 94.3%

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If this car is a salvage or write-off

• What does Cat N mean? Category N explained
• What does Cat S mean? Category S explained
• Cat S vs Cat N: the real differences
• Do you need an HPI check on a car you know is a write-off?

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