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ADAC Breakdown Statistics 2013 What is the reliability of our cars.
ADAC has published the results of a survey on the reliability of cars in 2013, targeting interventions requiring mobile service between 2007 and 2012 German brands at the forefront in almost every class in reliability with the lowest fault rate .
ADAC has presented a breakdown of statistics collected from 2 6 million procedures performed in 2012, after which they analyzed more than 500,000 vehicles The results surprised even the Germans, the first edition in which the German automakers first in class almost all tested.
In 2012, the most common problem that required the intervention of the ADAC was on the electrical system We are talking about batteries malfunctioning or discharged, and representatives of the ADAC say that the problems were caused by errors in the design of the electrical system or the location of the battery in the wrong position, for example, the ADAC said that vehicles with a start-stop system need a special battery, AGM, whose life is dramatically reduced when mounted in the engine compartment and gets overheated.
Vehicles that have been verified by ADAC were not more than six years, and were considered as the cars which technical specifications remained unchanged for at least three consecutive years and who had at least 10,000 copies sold per year, only 93 models are eligible for 2013 edition of the survey conducted by the ADAC reliability There were only considered technical flaws that required intervention by ADAC at the request of the owners, are not taken into account accidents or other incidents similar road.
A dozen models entered 2013 ADAC breakdown statistics as particularly poor in the less reliable verdict, including popular vehicles such as the Fiat Ducato, Ford Mondeo and VW EOS have been evaluated Thus, general ventilation sensitivity of all vehicles has improved steadily since the introduction of ADAC breakdown statistics in 1978, however, the current analysis found that gaps remain striking.
Every third malfunction in 2012, even young vehicles is due to a faulty battery reasons or unloaded to the defects are often in the design of the management of electric vehicles, for example, vehicles with start-stop system generally require special AGM starter battery if it is installed in the engine compartment, it can get too hot and break easily.
Construction defects affect not only expensive high-end products also technically simpler cars like Honda Jazz and Chevrolet Matiz land behind the reliability values particularly in this case, they are often so-called economies of penny coins.
The fact that there is an alternative proves Nissan Micra, which moves in the same price category Japanese car in ADAC breakdown statistics in 2013 as the best small car with a clean slate blooming away.
Overview of results The evaluation process troubleshooting statistics cars ADAC 2013.
First, the distribution figures for each vehicle model and year of registration are determined.
In the table above, we have values in the columns under the annual numbers of each upper limit The higher breakdown figure reveals, the higher the grade aims Evaluations are linearly distributed rankings of individual models is derived from the average of individual scores for each year.
Distribution of car breakdowns in 2012. What part leads to failure.
2013 ADAC Breakdown Statistics Results by car class.
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