MOT advisory · manual section 5.2.2

Road wheel fractured at bridge over valve

What this MOT advisory means, how often testers record it and what garages charge per hour. From 130,233,413 DVSA MOT tests taken 2022 to 2025.

MOT data updated 28 September 2026

As an advisory, per 100 MOTs (n=130,233,413)0.002

Most often at13 years

Times recorded2,249

Times recorded adds every DVSA code with this wording, so a test can record it more than once, for example on two wheels under separate codes.

What it means

This is an advisory: the car passes its MOT, and the tester is warning about the part. An advisory is something the tester noticed that could become a defect later. The car passes its MOT. The advice is to monitor the part and repair it if it gets worse.

When it gets worse, the tester records it as a fail: Road wheel fractured.

Road wheels are checked for damage and distortion, and for missing or loose wheel nuts and bolts.

The tester fails the car when the part reaches the point the MOT inspection manual describes (section 5.2.2):

Any fracture or welding defect on a wheel

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The DVSA codes counted on this page: the manual item and the defect text as DVSA records them. The heading above joins the two, as a certificate does; the tester also adds the position, such as nearside front.
Result	Manual item	DVSA defect text	Records
Advisory	Condition	fractured at bridge over valve (5.2.2)	2,249

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How common it is by age

Testers record it most at 13 years: 0.003 per 100 MOTs (n=6,612,160 tests at that age).

Per 100 MOT tests of cars at each age, all makes. We show no figure below 20 tests.
Age	Advisory per 100	Tests (n)
3 years	0.001	8,016,463
4 years	0.001	8,699,937
5 years	0.001	9,425,360
6 years	0.001	10,382,720
7 years	0.001	10,537,318
8 years	0.002	10,440,457
9 years	0.001	9,949,012
10 years	0.002	9,049,507
11 years	0.002	8,087,514
12 years	0.002	7,303,151
13 years	0.003	6,612,160
14 years	0.002	6,054,526
15 years	0.003	5,591,675
16 years	0.003	4,858,625
17 years	0.002	4,040,458
18 years	0.003	3,261,622
19 years	0.003	2,479,858
20 years	0.002	1,845,952
21 years	0.002	1,321,417

Repair and cost

We do not map this defect to one repair job, because the fix depends on the cause. Garages charge by the hour, so ask for a quote that lists labour time and parts.

Local garage labour, per hour (65 shops)£78

Local garage, middle half£70 to £96

Main dealer labour, per hour (62 shops)£156

Main dealer, middle half£144 to £174

Median hourly rate charged for car repairs, from 1,058 local garage and 953 main dealer price quotes collected by the ONS, September 2025 to August 2026. The same shops are priced each month, so the number of shops is the real sample.

Related MOT defects

Road wheel slightly distorted0.86 per 100
Road wheel fixing missing0.25 per 100
Road wheel badly distorted0.035 per 100
Road wheel more than one fixing missing0.016 per 100
Road wheel fixing loose0.010 per 100
Road wheel more than one fixing loose0.004 per 100
Road wheel has a welding defect0.004 per 100
Road wheel distorted to the extent the tyre is likely to become detached0.002 per 100
Road wheel fixings not compatible0.002 per 100

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Source

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data, class 4 normal MOT tests, 2022 to 2025, and the MOT inspection manual published on GOV.UK. Prices: ONS consumer price inflation price quotes, September 2025 to August 2026, UK.

MOT data updated 28 September 2026. Prices updated 22 September 2026.

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