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Nissan NV200 — MOT statistics 2024

The Nissan NV200 failed 44.14% of 25,567 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 155.1 (100 = expected for its age profile). This vehicle fails its MOT about 55% more often than expected for its age.

MOT risk index 155.1, 95% CI 153.0–157.2 (100 = national average) 100 155.1 0 200
Index
155.1
100 = age-normal
Raw fail rate
44.14%
n = 25,567
Dangerous /100
13
national ≈11
Rank
749 of 761
lower index = better

Age-adjusted peer: Citroen Berlingo (index 149.2) — the two published results are 5.9 index points apart.

Nissan NV200 common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment stand out at 41.3 per 100 tests, against 24.5 per 100 tests across UK vans and pickups of the same ages.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Nissan NV200 common problems: what actually fails the MOT — 2024 UK MOT data

family vs national — matched to UK vans and pickups of the same ages — top component groups, per 100 tests. Legend: This family · National avg. Combined labels: family / national average. A gap here reflects how these vehicles are driven, used and maintained as well as how they were built — an MOT defect is a test outcome, not a breakdown.

Component-group comparison table

Each ratio carries a 95% interval. With 6 groups compared here, roughly one apparent difference in twenty is chance alone.

GroupThis familyCases behind itUK, same agesFamily / national
Lamps & electrical41.362,51124.41.69×1.67–1.70
Suspension26.439,91616.01.65×1.64–1.67
Visibility15.623,61613.31.17×1.15–1.18
Brakes11.917,97614.40.82×0.81–0.83
Tyres10.616,1217.91.35×1.33–1.37
Emissions & leaks3.24,9183.50.91×0.90–0.95
Named defects — items per 100 initial tests, this family vs UK national average; this model measured on 151,461 tests, 2019-2024, national column 2024
What failedper 100 tests (this family)per 100 tests (UK average)ratio family / UKWhat to check
Suspension pin, bush or joint excessively wornA suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn19.534.874.01×Listen for knocks over bumps — worn joints show up on the test
Lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a…A lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning7.752.093.71×Try every light and switch — lamps are a top failure
Rear registration plate lamp or light source…A rear registration plate lamp or light source missing or inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources8.052.832.85×Try every light and switch — lamps are a top failure
Rear registration plate lamp or light source…A rear registration plate lamp or light source missing or inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps3.390.923.68×Try every light and switch — lamps are a top failure
Lamp emitted colour, position or intensity not in…Lamp emitted colour, position or intensity not in accordance with the requirements3.000.853.54×Try every light and switch — lamps are a top failure
Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the…Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the windscreen4.352.221.96×Check wipers, washers and windscreen chips in the driver's view
Windscreen or window damaged or seriously…Windscreen or window damaged or seriously discoloured but not adversely affecting driver's view4.282.361.81×Check wipers, washers and windscreen chips in the driver's view
Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the…Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements5.393.591.50×Check tyre tread depth across the full width
Stop lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of…Stop lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning3.021.502.01×Try every light and switch — lamps are a top failure
Spring or spring component fractured or seriously…A spring or spring component fractured or seriously weakened2.722.860.95×Ask the seller about: A spring or spring component fractured or seriously weakened

Named defects ranked by how much more often they appear than the national average — not by raw rate.

Nissan NV200 MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Tyres are highest at 35.9 per 100 tests; Emissions & leaks are lowest at 2.6 per 100 tests — the gap is 33.3 per 100 tests.

higher bar = flagged more oftenadvisory items per 100 initial tests

Nissan NV200 MOT advisories: what gets flagged — 2024 UK MOT data
Advisory rates table
GroupAdvisories per 100
Tyres35.9
Suspension34.6
Brakes23.8
Lamps & electrical7.6
Non-component advisories5.6
Emissions & leaks2.6

Advisories are wear the tester noted but didn't fail — what will need money soon.

Tyres, brakes and suspension: Nissan NV200 against cars of the same age

AgePartNissan NV200Same age, petrol and dieselDifference
3 yearsTyres6.244.172.07
3 yearsBrakes3.31.771.53
3 yearsSuspension1.80.631.17
4 yearsTyres7.294.542.75
4 yearsBrakes4.752.432.32
4 yearsSuspension4.741.213.53
5 yearsTyres6.845.061.78
5 yearsBrakes4.893.091.80
5 yearsSuspension7.862.195.67
6 yearsTyres7.815.542.27
6 yearsBrakes6.233.812.42
6 yearsSuspension13.673.729.95
7 yearsTyres7.735.951.78
7 yearsBrakes6.934.552.38
7 yearsSuspension17.125.6811.44
8 yearsTyres7.796.311.48
8 yearsBrakes8.075.382.69
8 yearsSuspension21.177.7813.39

Failing items per 100 initial tests, 2019-2024. The comparison group is every petrol or diesel car tested at the same age, so weight and drivetrain show up rather than fleet age.

If a vehicle like this fails, does it fail again?

A failure rate does not say whether a failure is a one-off or the start of something. This follows the same vehicles into their next ordinary MOT a year later — retests after a repair are excluded, because they follow a failure by definition. 2019-2024.

After this year's testFails next yearVehicles followed
It failed44.9%14,531
It passed35.6%68,830

A failed test raises next year's chance of failing again by 9.3 percentage points. The failure most likely to come back is visibility — 42.1% of those vehicles fail again next year. Some of this is the vehicle and some is the owner: a car that was let go once tends to be let go again. One caveat: a car that fails may be sold or scrapped rather than tested again, so these figures describe the vehicles that came back.

Adjusted for how much these are actually driven

The headline index adjusts for the fleet's age. Wear, though, follows mileage: a three-year-old taxi and a three-year-old garage queen sit in the same age band. These two rows compare every vehicle with vehicles of the same age, and then with vehicles of the same age and the same annual mileage, 2019-2024, on 150,508 tests. Both stand on the six-year corpus so they are measured on identical data — compare them with each other, not with the headline index above, which is measured on 2024 alone.

Standardised forIndexReading
Age only163.9fails more often than expected
Age and annual mileage150.3fails more often than vehicles driven as much
Share doing under 3,000 miles a year4.5%a normal spread of use

Mileage matters here: matching on how much these are driven moves the figure by 13.6 points — this fleet works harder than the vehicles it is measured against, so the age-only view penalises it — but it does not change which side of normal the vehicle sits on. One limit to keep in mind: mileage is partly a result of how often a car breaks down — one that spends weeks in the workshop covers fewer miles — so the mileage-matched figure can understate a real weakness. Tests with no usable odometer reading are left out of it.

How the Nissan NV200 compares with cars of its own age and size

Not against the whole fleet — against other light commercials tested at the same age, 2019-2024.

AgeNissan NV200Same class, same ageDifferenceTests
3 years26.49%19.9%+6.6 pp9,700
4 years30.67%22.89%+7.77 pp12,907
5 years33.1%25.38%+7.72 pp15,683
6 years38.99%28.78%+10.21 pp18,971
7 years41.86%32.19%+9.67 pp20,156
8 years45.11%35.49%+9.62 pp20,097
9 years46.45%38.3%+8.15 pp17,874
10 years47.56%40.78%+6.77 pp13,691
11 years49.05%43.01%+6.04 pp10,469
12 years48.51%44.88%+3.64 pp6,456
13 years49.02%46.06%+2.95 pp3,505
14 years46.85%46.85%-0.01 pp1,300

Raw first-time failure rates within each age, so fleet age cannot flatter either side. A positive difference means this model fails more often than its own class at that age.

How does the Nissan NV200 perform as it gets older?

The NV200 at age 6 stands out at 36.5%, against 17.5% for all vehicles of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

How does the Nissan NV200 perform as it gets older? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: vehicle age, years · failure-rate scale 0–55%.

Takeaway: a 10-year-old NV200 has roughly a 47% chance of failing its MOT; from about age 5 it stays above the national age curve.

Data table
AgeNissan NV200All vehiclesGap
313.2%12.4%+0.8 pp
422.1%13.1%+9.0 pp
533.0%15.1%+17.8 pp
636.5%17.5%+19.0 pp
735.8%20.2%+15.6 pp
840.1%23.3%+16.8 pp
944.1%26.5%+17.6 pp
1047.3%30.1%+17.2 pp
1150.1%33.2%+16.9 pp
1250.8%35.7%+15.1 pp
1349.5%38.2%+11.3 pp
1447.5%40.4%+7.1 pp
1543.7%41.6%+2.1 pp

Is a Nissan NV200 ULEZ compliant?

The share of classifiable 2024 Nissan NV200 MOT tests likely ULEZ compliant by first-registration date is 41.8%.

Based on 25,552 classifiable initial MOT tests. This describes the tested fleet, not a specific car. MOT data do not record Euro class, so likely compliance is inferred from fuel and first-registration date. For the only authoritative answer, check the registration with TfL's official ULEZ checker.

higher = larger share likely compliantinferred from fuel and first-registration date; not a recorded Euro class

Age-band estimate from classifiable initial MOT tests
Vehicle age at testLikely ULEZ-compliant shareTests
Under 3 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 2
3–5 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 1,211
6–7 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 4,039
8 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 3,237
9 years44.3%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 4,054
10–14 years2.8%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 12,867
15–17 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 142
18 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
19 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
20+ yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0

Nissan NV200 diesel vs electric: which ages best

Diesel is highest at 47.0%; Electric is lowest at 25.6% — the gap is 21.4 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Nissan NV200 diesel vs electric: which ages best — 2024 UK MOT data
Fuel split table
FuelTests% failingGap vs best
Diesel22,32047.0%+21.4 pp
Electric2,88125.6%+0.0 pp

Chart sample sizes: n=22k · n=2,881.

How dangerous are Nissan NV200 MOT failures?

Major defects stand out at 79.8 per 100 tests, against 52.8 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

How dangerous are Nissan NV200 MOT failures? — 2024 UK MOT data
Severity table
SeverityThis family /100National /100Family / national
Minor22.2814.221.57×
Major79.7852.751.51×
Dangerous12.6411.151.13×

Chart values: Minor 22.3 · Major 79.8 · Dangerous 12.6.

Per 100 tests on this family. National average: Minor 14.2 · Major 52.8 · Dangerous 11.2 per 100.

Does the month of a Nissan NV200 MOT matter?

Oct is highest at 42.7%; Mar is lowest at 39.5% — the gap is 3.2 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Does the month of a Nissan NV200 MOT matter? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart scale: 27%–44%.

bars: Nissan NV200 · dashed: all class-4 cars

Month-by-month table
MonthNissan NV200All vehiclesGap
Jan40.99%31.12%+9.9 pp
Feb41.11%29.99%+11.1 pp
Mar39.49%28.26%+11.2 pp
Apr41.79%29.78%+12.0 pp
May40.27%28.79%+11.5 pp
Jun40.52%28.15%+12.4 pp
Jul40.49%29.33%+11.2 pp
Aug42.08%29.2%+12.9 pp
Sep40.36%28.19%+12.2 pp
Oct42.69%30.34%+12.3 pp
Nov42.53%30.58%+12.0 pp
Dec40.39%29.33%+11.1 pp

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 3.2 percentage points — noticeable seasonality. Seasonality partly reflects registration-date clustering, not weather.

Before reading the shape: most of it is not about cars. Britain changes its registration plates twice a year, and 18.9% of these cars were first registered in March with another17.1% in September — 36% in two months against the 17% an even spread would give. An MOT falls due three years after first registration, so the buying calendar becomes the testing calendar. That shapes how many cars are tested each month — not how often they fail: the busiest months here are not the worst ones, so read the failure line on its own and the volume behind it separately.

Nissan NV200 average mileage by age

At age 8, the middle half of NV200s runs from 44,797 miles to 102,069 miles, against 71,494 miles as the median.

further right = more milesmedian is the typical car; band is p25–p75

Bars: Nissan NV200 · dashed: all class-4 cars — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: vehicle age, years · odometer scale 0–159k mi.

Does high mileage mean more Nissan NV200 MOT failures at the same age?

Within the same age group, split by odometer (2024 MOTs), so this separates wear from age: at ages 10–14, 27.3% of those with under 40,000 miles failed first time versus 51.8% of those with over 140,000 miles.Inside this age group, higher mileage goes with more failures.

Does high mileage mean more Nissan NV200 MOT failures at the same age? — 2024 UK MOT data
Nissan NV200: first-time failure by mileage within each age group (2024)
AgeOdometer% failing95% intervalTests
3–5<40k miles16.9%14.1–20.1%593
3–540-70k miles33.1%28.1–38.5%314 (rough estimate)
3–570-100k miles47%39.9–54.2%183 (rough estimate)
3–5100-140k miles37.2%27.7–47.8%86 (rough estimate)
6–9<40k miles22.7%21.1–24.5%2,401
6–940-70k miles36.1%34.5–37.8%3,111
6–970-100k miles47.7%45.8–49.5%2,857
6–9100-140k miles51%48.9–53.2%2,048
6–9140k+ miles51.3%48–54.5%911
10–14<40k miles27.3%23.3–31.8%417 (rough estimate)
10–1440-70k miles41.2%38.9–43.6%1,696
10–1470-100k miles48.9%47.1–50.6%3,159
10–14100-140k miles53%51.5–54.5%4,317
10–14140k+ miles51.8%50.1–53.5%3,272

line: median · band: middle half of the fleet (p25–p75)

Mileage by age (p25 / median / p75)
Agep25Medianp75Tests
38,54314,36322,944273
414,92225,30750,310149
531,71154,01280,254789
636,44658,75983,2201,763
731,19854,99186,7412,277
844,79771,494102,0693,237
958,60984,397114,3464,054
1066,24294,965125,8582,913
1180,383107,877137,6273,802
1288,598116,303143,8102,851
1392,485119,372151,5012,144
1492,208119,914150,8391,157
1585,941110,835148,235142

A typical 8-year-old NV200 has ~71,494 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the Nissan NV200 fails its MOT most

Kirkcaldy area is highest at 52.5%; London SW area is lowest at 27.6% — the gap is 24.9 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Nissan NV200 line: median · band: middle half of the fleet (p25–p75) — 2024 UK MOT data
Toughest areas% failingvs model overall
Kirkcaldy (KY)52.46%+11.4 pp
Dundee (DD)52.04%+11.0 pp
Crewe (CW)51.45%+10.4 pp
Huddersfield (HD)50.34%+9.3 pp
Aberdeen (AB)49.25%+8.2 pp
Easiest areas% failingvs model overall
London SW (SW)27.61%-13.4 pp
Sutton (SM)27.7%-13.3 pp
Enfield (EN)28.72%-12.3 pp
Uxbridge (UB)28.94%-12.1 pp
Outer Hebrides (HS)30.39%-10.7 pp

Why do areas differ?

For each external factor we correlate the area fail rate with the factor across postcode areas that have ≥800 tests of this family, then compare the bottom vs top fifth (quintile) of the factor. Correlation, not causation — factors travel together (the north is colder and often poorer; urban areas are denser and less salted). Road surface condition is joined now, for the 91 English areas the DfT publishes, and it explains nothing: the correlation with suspension failures is −0.01 and with body and structure failures 0.07. Potholes wreck wheels and tyres between tests, but by the time a car reaches the bay the road it drives on leaves no measurable trace.

In areas with the highest mot centre density this model fails 8.7 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.60, n=86 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest urban share this model fails 7.3 pp less often than in the lowest fifth (r=-0.43, n=86 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest road-salt proxy this model fails 5.5 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.38, n=86 areas with ≥800 tests).

Nissan NV200 Why do areas differ? — 2024 UK MOT data
Values shown in the quintile chart
FactorLow QHigh QGapCorrelation
MOT centre density35.7%44.4%+8.7 ppr=0.60
Urban share42.9%35.6%-7.3 ppr=-0.43
Road-salt proxy38.7%44.2%+5.5 ppr=0.38

Factors that only mean something combined

Some conditions are useless on their own and informative multiplied together. Frost days alone say little — Britain barely freezes. Salt tonnage alone says little — it tracks frost. Distance to the sea alone says little. Multiply the first two and divide by the third and you get an index of how hard an area attacks a car's underside, and it lines up with the corrosion defects we actually record. We built five such combinations and tested each against our own data. Three survived; two did not, and the failures are listed here on purpose — a proxy that was never checked is decoration. One survivor only survived on the second attempt: built from a crude stand-in for street parking it failed outright, and rebuilt from the census — terraced streets carrying more cars than they have driveways — it works, and carries information the salt index does not.

Composite area indicators, each tested against a defect rate we measure
CompositeBuilt fromTested againstrVerdict
Underbody corrosionfrost days × salt load ÷ (distance to coast + 1)share of tests with a corrosion defect+0.42holds (116 areas)
Tyre wearrain days × annual miles ÷ age at first tyre advisoryshare of tests failing on tyres+0.45holds (116 areas)
Overnight corrosionterraced housing × cars per household × frost daysshare with a corrosion defect+0.41holds (102 areas) — and adds signal beyond the first index
Deferred maintenancedeprivation × advisory-to-failure conversion ÷ labour ratecars repeating the same advisory−0.26fails (118 areas)
Powertrain stressengine capacity ÷ kerb weightsuspension, brake and emissions failures−0.16fails (22 models)

The deprivation result is the one worth dwelling on. The intuition that poorer areas defer repairs is strong enough that most people treat it as established. We tested it twice — once on raw failure rates (r = 0.04) and again, more fairly, on whether an advisory turns into a failure — and it did not hold any of the three times we tried it — on raw failure rates, on advisory-to-failure conversion, and again with deprivation measured properly inside each nation rather than England alone. We are closing it. What does predict local failure rates is the density of test centres, which is a statement about testing, not about cars.

All external-factor correlations (machine-readable)
Factorrn areasLow-Q fail %High-Q fail %Gap ppLow-Q factorHigh-Q factor
MOT centre density (per 10k vehicles)0.5978635.744.4+8.75.38.5
Urban share (0–1)-0.4288642.935.6-7.30.41
Road-salt proxy (g/m²-yr)0.3758638.744.2+5.5217.8684.1
Frost days (days/year)0.3718639.443.8+4.411.238.3
Distance to coast (km)-0.2648643.239.9-3.35.679.3
Terrain gradient (% grade)0.2455239.944.2+4.20.53.3
Income deprivation (score)-0.0887339.838.5-1.20.10.2

Deprivation uses England IMD 2019 income score only (Scotland SIMD is a different scale). Salt proxy is a simplified NWSRG-style dry-salt sum from air Tmin; coastalness is distance from the area centroid to the nearest coastline.

Every dot is a postcode area — size = how many were tested there, colour = share failing. These figures are not age-adjusted: coastal and rural areas often run older fleets and salted roads, so higher raw fail rates do not automatically mean a worse local stock of this model.

Map labels: Scotland · N. England · Wales · London · S. West. Colour scale: 31%–49% failing.

Nissan NV200 survival: which cars are still on the road

By age 15 is well below the reference at 0.9%, against 100.0% at the ages 4–6 reference level.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Nissan NV200 survival: which cars are still on the road — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: vehicle age, years · survival vs ages 4–6 · scale 0–105%.

Survival vs fail rate by age
AgeTestsSurvival vs ages 4–6Fail %
39,70061.2%26.49%
412,90781.4%30.67%
515,68398.9%33.1%
618,971100%38.99%
720,156100%41.86%
820,097100%45.11%
917,874100%46.45%
1013,69186.4%47.56%
1110,46966%49.05%
126,45640.7%48.51%
133,50522.1%49.02%
141,3008.2%46.85%
151440.9%43.06%

By age 14, only about 8% as many cars of this family present for MOT as at ages 4–6 (reference n≈15,853); survivors still fail at 46.9% vs 30.7% at age 4. Older cars that still appear are a selected subset — weaker ones have already left.

How many miles does a Nissan NV200 last?

100,000+ miles is highest at 30.2%; 200,000+ miles is lowest at 1.5% — the gap is 28.7 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

OdometerTests ≥ thresholdShare of sample
100,000+ miles45,44730.19%
150,000+ miles11,6647.75%
200,000+ miles2,2431.49%

Of 150,524 tests of this family with a usable odometer in 2024, 30.2% had reached 100k miles, 7.8% had reached 150k miles, 1.5% had reached 200k miles. This is a cross-section of cars still presenting for MOT, not a full birth cohort.

How many years is a Nissan NV200 likely to last?

Bought at age 5 is highest at 6.8 years; Bought at age 12 is lowest at 1.2 years — the gap is 5.6 years.

bigger number = longer remaining lifeyears on the observed survival curve

Age nowTypical mileage (p50)Expected years left
5—6.8
8—3.7
10—at least 2.1
12—at least 1.2

estimateEstimate only — not a warranty: a typical 10-year-old example of this family has at least 2.1 expected years of further MOT-present life. The curve is observed only until age 14, so the true figure is likely higher.

Nissan NV200 faults that come together

Emissions & leaks + Road Wheels stand out at 6.92×, against 1.00× if the faults were independent.

above 1.0× = more than expectedbelow 1.0× = less

Group AGroup BTogetherLift
Noise, emissions and leaksRoad Wheels496.92× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureNoise, emissions and leaks5725.86×
Body, chassis, structureRoad Wheels285.71× (rough estimate)
Road WheelsSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems295.7× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems5195.12×
Identification of the vehicleNoise, emissions and leaks514.99× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSteering844.92× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSteering774.69× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureIdentification of the vehicle324.52× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems334.49× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems2874.09× (rough estimate)
BrakesIdentification of the vehicle974.06× (rough estimate)
BrakesNoise, emissions and leaks1,2123.67×
BrakesSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems7843.31×
Noise, emissions and leaksSteering763.2× (rough estimate)
BrakesSteering1773.19× (rough estimate)
Road WheelsTyres553.14× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureBrakes7143.13×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems2,2893.1×
BrakesRoad Wheels503.02× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentRoad Wheels1553.01× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment2232.99× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaks3,0442.96×
Noise, emissions and leaksSuspension2,2532.9×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSuspension1,6032.87×
Road WheelsSuspension1112.84× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleSuspension1562.77× (rough estimate)
SteeringSuspension3612.76× (rough estimate)
Road WheelsVisibility772.7× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSuspension1,4362.67×
BrakesSuspension4,7792.63×
Body, chassis, structureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment1,8522.6×
Noise, emissions and leaksTyres8852.53×
BrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment6,0362.51×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsVisibility1,0242.51×
Identification of the vehicleTyres632.49× (rough estimate)
BrakesTyres2,0202.47×
Noise, emissions and leaksVisibility1,3962.46×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspension13,8082.44×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSteering4212.43× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureTyres5822.41×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsTyres5992.39×
Body, chassis, structureVisibility9182.34×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentTyres5,9172.33×
Identification of the vehicleVisibility952.31× (rough estimate)
SteeringTyres1322.25× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentVisibility9,0632.19×
SuspensionTyres4,1632.16×
TyresVisibility2,9672.11×
BrakesVisibility2,7962.11×
SuspensionVisibility5,9041.89×
SteeringVisibility1681.76× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSeat belt installation check12too few (rough estimate)
Road WheelsSteering10too few (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleSteering8too few (rough estimate)
Seat belt installation checkSuspension8too few (rough estimate)

Defects in «Body, chassis, structure» and «Noise, emissions and leaks» appear together 5.86× more often than chance (572 co-occurrences in the same test; lift≥1.3, n≥500).

Lift = how many times more often both groups appear on the same test than if independent. A pair is listed from 5 tests with both faults; the lift is shown from 20, and called above chance only when its 95% interval excludes 1 (see rough estimates).

Is low mileage better for a Nissan NV200?

Cars driven under 5,000 miles a year is well below the reference at 24.2%, against 43.4% for cars driven 8,000–12,000 miles a year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

BandFail %Tests
<5k miles/year24.24%14,564
8–12k miles/year43.35%39,262
Gap (low − normal)-19.1 pp—
By fuel and age

Diesel

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
521.071,34834.343,518-13.27 pp
623.431,51541.014,694-17.58 pp
726.711,43044.215,499-17.49 pp
827.841,39047.446,180-19.6 pp
932.251,26248.256,085-16 pp
1031.2798550.235,019-18.96 pp
1132.8277451.914,132-19.1 pp
1235.648651.52,666-15.9 pp
1336.3330053.011,428-16.68 pp
1442.6111548.86526-6.25 pp

At matched ages 5–14, cars averaging under 5k miles/year fail at 24.2% vs 43.4% for 8–12k miles/year — 19.1 pp lower (n_low=14,564, n_normal=39,262). In this family low annual use is associated with fewer MOT fails, not more — the ‘garage queen’ penalty is not visible in overall fail rates. Diesel alone: 27.3% low-use vs 44.6% normal (-17.3 pp).

Which Nissan NV200 engine is best?

diesel 1.2–1.5 is highest at 100.5; petrol 1.5–1.8 is lowest at 37.9 — the gap is 62.6 points.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

Engine bands against this model's own failure rate at the same ages
FuelCapacityvs own age normRaw fail %Tests
petrol1.5–1.8 litre37.914.72%1,012 (rough estimate)
diesel1.5–1.8 litre83.734.53%278 (rough estimate)
diesel1.2–1.5 litre100.543.3%135,061

Splitting this model by fuel alone hides the thing that actually differs. Within the same badge, the diesel 1.2–1.5 runs at 100.5 against this model's own age norm while the petrol 1.5–1.8 runs at 37.9 — a spread of 62.6 points between two cars that share a name.

Read this one with more care than the rest of the page. Age is held constant, but who buys which engine is not: the largest capacity in a range is often a performance or executive variant that is garaged, cherished and lightly driven, while the smallest is frequently a fleet or entry car worked hard from new. The gap below is real in the test records; how much of it is the engine and how much is the owner, this data cannot separate. Bands under 100 tests are not shown; bands under 5,000 tests are rough estimates.

Best year for a Nissan NV200, and the years to avoid

Build year 2019 is highest at 110.4; Build year 2020 is lowest at 81.3 — the gap is 29.1 points.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

build year vs the same model at the same age · 100 = as expected

Nissan NV200 build year vs the same model at the same age · 100 = as expected — 2024 UK MOT data
Nissan NV200 by build year, tests 2019–2024. Below 100 is better than the model's own age norm.
Every build year with its confidence interval
Build yearvs own age norm95% CIRaw fail %TestsVerdict
202081.361.7–100.922.76%290no different
2019110.4102.6–118.132.33%2,425worse
2018103.799.5–107.932.77%7,196no different
201786.583.6–89.328.71%12,291better
201696.293.9–98.434.4%20,251better
20159896–10038.29%25,235no different
2014103.6101.4–105.943.4%18,323worse
2013105.4103.5–107.347.09%24,135worse
2012105.5103.3–107.748.9%18,440worse
2011100.197.7–102.547.68%13,785no different
20109591.8–98.245.69%7,463better
200989.479.3–99.543.53%696better

The best build year here is 2017 and the weakest is 2012. Comparing build years sounds simple and is not: within a single year of testing, a car's build year and its age are the same number, so a naive comparison of years is a comparison of ages wearing a disguise. Each year below is measured against the same model at the same age in other cohorts, across six years of testing — 6 of 12 years come out distinguishable from their own model's age norm.

Two limits worth knowing before you act on this. Age, test year and build year are locked together by arithmetic, so the test-year effect is taken from the observed national failure level of each year rather than estimated — it is an adjustment, not a solution.

Nissan NV200 MOT repair costs

The MOT-failure repair budget per test runs from £139.13 to £264.35, against £54.85 for the test itself.

bigger number = costs morepounds per test, MOT-failing faults only

MOT repairs, budget
£139–264
per test, repairs only
The test itself
£54.85
statutory cap, unchanged since 2010
How the figure is built: chance of failing × typical price of that repair
ComponentFails per 100 testsTypical repairIts priceContribution
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment41.3 (nat. 18.09)Battery replacement (standard 12V lead-acid)£140£57.82
Suspension26.4 (nat. 15.36)Suspension coil spring (single corner)£180£47.52
Brakes11.9 (nat. 11.25)Front brake pads (parts + labour, typical hatchback)£150£17.85
Tyres10.6 (nat. 8.7)Tyre (single mid-range 16" fitted)£90£9.54
Noise, emissions and leaks3.2 (nat. 3.67)Exhaust rear silencer£200£6.40

Multiply how often each component fails on this model by what that repair usually costs, and you get the amount an owner should expect to budget per test for MOT-failing faults only — roughly £139 to £264, on top of the test fee itself. It is a budgeting figure, not a quote: the spread between a set of pads and a set of discs is most of the range.

Prices are modal quotes from a hand-kept catalogue of published UK garage guides — we do not scrape the booking sites, their terms forbid it, so this list is short and updated by hand with a source and date against each line. Each line prices one typical repair in that group, not a full remedy, and only groups our catalogue actually covers are counted. The contrast worth noticing is the second card: the legal maximum for the test has been £54.85 since 2010, while the repairs it uncovers have followed inflation the whole time.

For scale from a different direction: Warrantywise, which sees used-car warranty claims rather than test failures, puts the average claim at £2,052 across the ten highest-claim models it ranks and £539 for Honda, the lowest-claim make in its index (Warrantywise index 2026, 1.6 million claims, cars aged 3–15). Those sit an order of magnitude above the figures in this table, and the gap is the point: a warranty claim is a gearbox or an engine, which almost never fails an MOT, while the faults that do fail one are corrosion, lamps and tyres, which no warranty pays for. The two numbers answer different questions and neither replaces the other.

Nissan NV200 running costs for a fleet

Vehicles failing at age 10 stand out at 47.0%, against 33.0% at age 5, tested in the same year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fails per 100 at age 5
33
vehicles needing work (rough estimate: 789 tests)
At age 10
47
other cars of this model tested at age 10 in 2024
Repairs per 100
£13,913
plus £5,485 in test fees
Off the road
1d
median; 42.02% cleared same day
Failure rate and typical odometer by age
AgeFailsMedian odometerTestsGap vs age 5
313.19%14,363273-19.8 pp
422.15%25,307149-10.8 pp
532.95%54,012789+0.0 pp
636.53%58,7591,763+3.6 pp
735.79%54,9912,277+2.8 pp
840.1%71,4943,237+7.1 pp
944.1%84,3974,054+11.1 pp
1047.31%94,9652,913+14.4 pp
1150.11%107,8773,802+17.2 pp
1250.79%116,3032,851+17.8 pp
1349.49%119,3722,144+16.5 pp
1447.54%119,9141,157+14.6 pp
1543.66%110,835142+10.7 pp

The number a fleet manager needs is not the failure rate, it is the year the car starts costing more. Between cars aged 7 and cars aged 8, both tested in 2024, the failure rate of this model is 4.31 percentage points higher — the steepest one-year step in this cross-section of different cars, and a natural planning point for replacement.

Repair spend uses the same modal prices as the section above, so it inherits the same limits: one typical repair per component group, not a full remedy. Downtime is the gap between the failed test and the passed re-test, which is the window a vehicle is legally off the road.

Nissan NV200 rust problems: where they corrode

Age-standardised corrosion susceptibility stands out at 1.83×, against 1.00× for the national age-standardised rate.

above 1.0× = rusts more than averagebelow 1.0× = rusts less

How it rusts
1.83×
1.4% of tests record a corrosion defect vs 0.77% typical — age-standardised
Salt Belt exposure
86th
percentile among the models published here, from its tests across 86 postcode areas

This Nissan NV200 fails on corrosion far more often than average once age is held constant, and its owners live in areas that are saltier than most for the models we publish.

Corrosion is the one failure mode that is as much about geography as about the car. We keep the two apart on purpose: a model can look rusty simply because it is popular in Scotland, and a model can look clean simply because it is bought in Surrey. Blending them into a single score would hide which of the two is doing the work.

Exposure is this model's tests weighted by an area corrosion index built from frost days, salt load and distance to the coast — the composite validated at r = 0.42 against corrosion defects we actually record. It is published as a rank, not a raw score, because every mainstream model skews towards low-corrosion areas for the simple reason that most of Britain's cars are in the south. Susceptibility is standardised to the national age profile, so an old fleet does not get labelled a rusty model.

Does a Nissan NV200 advisory become a failure?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment are highest at 36.5%; Road wheels are lowest at 0.5% — the gap is 36.0 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

chance the same component fails at the next MOT, given an advisory now

Nissan NV200 chance the same component fails at the next MOT, given an advisory now — 2024 UK MOT data
Nissan NV200, advisory → failure conversion by component group, chained tests 2019–2024. Chart labels and rates: Lamps & electrical 36.5% · Suspension 29.1% · Brakes 12.3% · Tyres 10% · Body & chassis 9.6% · Seat belts & restraints 7.9% · Noise, emissions, leaks 7.2% · Steering 3.8%.
Advisory today → failure at the next test, with how long you have
ComponentFails next timeTypical lead timeMiles of warningAdvisories tracked
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment36.5%12.1 months8,4055,720
Suspension29.1%12 months8,02224,725
Brakes12.3%12 months6,95018,016
Tyres10.0%12.1 months7,61527,843
Body, chassis, structure9.6%12.1 months8,160802
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems7.9%12.1 months9,8351,591
Noise, emissions and leaks7.2%12 months8,5452,739
Steering3.8%12 months7,340977
Identification of the vehicle3.2%12.2 months8,1451,229
Road wheels0.5%12.2 months17,064585

This is the question an advisory note actually raises, and it needs six years of test history to answer. We followed the same vehicles from one MOT to the next across 2019–2024 and measured how often a component that was merely advised came back as a genuine failure at the next test.

Read it as a budgeting horizon, not a prophecy: the most likely component above turns into a failure for about 36 in 100 cars, and the median gap is 12.1 months and roughly 8,405 miles. The rest were repaired, sold, scrapped, or simply held. Rows with fewer than 500 tracked advisories are not shown.

What will fail next on a Nissan NV200?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment after a failure at age 12-14 are highest at 41.3%; Tyres after a passed at age <3 are lowest at 5.6% — the gap is 35.7 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

Probability of each component failing at the next test, by age and last result
AgeLast testMost likely next failuresCars tracked
<3passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 8.9% · Visibility 7.7% · Tyres 5.6%3,995
<3advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 15.3% · Visibility 10.0% · Tyres 7.7%1,116
<3failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 19.4% · Visibility 11.4% · Tyres 9.0%1,793
3-5passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 12.5% · Visibility 7.7% · Suspension 7.5%18,041
3-5advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 17.3% · Suspension 12.3% · Visibility 10.7%8,079
3-5failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 24.5% · Suspension 15.3% · Visibility 13.1%12,891
6-8passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 18.0% · Suspension 15.7% · Visibility 9.3%15,852
6-8advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 24.4% · Suspension 22.8% · Visibility 13.9%11,618
6-8failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 31.1% · Suspension 25.8% · Visibility 16.0%21,429
9-11passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 21.7% · Suspension 18.9% · Visibility 10.1%6,488
9-11advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 30.8% · Suspension 26.0% · Visibility 15.5%6,786
9-11failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 36.6% · Suspension 28.5% · Visibility 18.3%12,113
12-14passedLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 24.4% · Suspension 17.2% · Visibility 10.2%664
12-14advisoryLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 37.3% · Suspension 29.3% · Visibility 18.5%843
12-14failureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 41.3% · Suspension 28.4% · Visibility 18.6%1,459

The same chains, cut differently: given a car's age and how its last test went, which component most often causes trouble at the following one.

The pattern that repeats across every family: a failure at one test roughly doubles the chance of a failure on the same component at the next one, and an advisory sits about half-way between a clean pass and a failure. Age bands in years; probabilities are per car, not per defect item.

Nissan NV200 ownership: what six years of MOTs show

The ten-day re-test pass rate is highest at 55.3%; The later re-test pass rate is lowest at 2.7% — the gap is 52.5 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fixed same day
42.02%
of failures re-tested
Fails /10k miles
0.513
miles actually driven
Clean streaks
36.37%
3+ tests, nothing noted
Odometer anomaly
1.226%
reading went backwards

Failing is usually a same-week event, not a disaster. Of 43,558 failures followed through to their re-test, 42.02% were repaired and passed the same day and 55.26% within ten days; the median gap is 1 day. 135,050 defect items were cleared in the process.

Per mile driven, not per year. Dividing failures by the miles that actually went onto the odometers between consecutive tests gives 0.513 failures per 10,000 miles, on a median of 6,686 miles a year across 27,719 chains. This is the number to compare between models — an annual rate quietly rewards cars that barely leave the drive.

Two populations hide inside one model. 36.37% of these cars strung together three or more tests with nothing recorded at all, while 32.43% carried the same advisory three times or more — the same fault, noted, ignored, noted again. When you buy used you are buying one of those two histories, and the MOT record shows which.

Odometer anomalies: 1.226% of 27,731 chains show a reading lower than the previous test, with a median drop of 22,195 miles. We call this an anomaly and not fraud on purpose — instrument swaps, imports, unit mix-ups and keying errors all land in the same bucket. Obvious typos (drops under 100 miles or over 90% of the reading) are already excluded.

Nissan NV200 safety recalls and how to check yours

DVSA recall campaigns stand out at 7.

bigger number = more recorded casescompare like-for-like scope, not sample size alone

recall campaigns launched per year

Nissan NV200 recall campaigns launched per year — 2024 UK MOT data
Campaigns launched per year for the Nissan NV200. Source: DVSA vehicle safety recalls. Chart values: 2010: 1 · 2011: 0 · 2012: 1 · 2013: 0 · 2014: 0 · 2015: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2017: 0 · 2018: 1 · 2019: 0 · 2020: 1.
Most recent safety recall campaigns for the Nissan NV200
ReferenceLaunchedVehiclesConcern
R/2020/29402/11/20202,547THE WELDED JOINT ON THE ACTUATOR PLATE WITHIN THE REDUCER MAY BE OF POOR QUALITY AND THE P
R/2018/23405/09/201843INTERNAL IGNITION SWITCH SPRING MAY HAVE BEEN MAUNFACTURED WITH A SURFACE DEFECT
R/2016/08131/08/20164,377BACK DOORS / HATCHBACK MAY BE UNSUPPORTED WHEN OPEN
R/2016/08131/08/20164,377BACK DOORS / HATCHBACK MAY BE UNSUPPORTED WHEN OPEN
R/2015/00716/02/201527,252LOSS OF STEER
All 7 campaigns
ReferenceLaunchedBuild datesVehiclesConcern
R/2020/29402/11/202018/07/2019 – 09/09/20192,547THE WELDED JOINT ON THE ACTUATOR PLATE WITHIN THE REDUCER MAY BE OF POOR QUALITY AND THE P
R/2018/23405/09/201830/03/2017 – 29/05/201743INTERNAL IGNITION SWITCH SPRING MAY HAVE BEEN MAUNFACTURED WITH A SURFACE DEFECT
R/2016/08131/08/201601/08/2009 – 27/11/20154,377BACK DOORS / HATCHBACK MAY BE UNSUPPORTED WHEN OPEN
R/2016/08131/08/201601/04/2014 – 04/03/20164,377BACK DOORS / HATCHBACK MAY BE UNSUPPORTED WHEN OPEN
R/2015/00716/02/201517/02/2012 – 30/07/201227,252LOSS OF STEER
R/2012/10324/09/201227/02/2012 – 20/04/20127,329POSSIBLE LOSS OF STEERING
R/2010/06108/06/201001/02/2010 – 03/03/2010125BRAKES MAY NOT OPERATE CORRECTLY

DVSA lists 7 safety recall campaigns for the Nissan NV200, covering roughly 46,050 vehicles in total. A recall is the manufacturer fixing a fault for free, so an open recall on your car costs nothing to clear.

Counter-intuitive, and measured on our own data: across the 25 families published here, more recalls go with a lower MOT Risk Index (r = −0.52). Heavily recalled models are not worse cars in the test bay — an active manufacturer removes the fault before it becomes an MOT failure.

Check whether a specific car has an outstanding recall — free, by registration — at DVSA's recall service. Source: DVSA vehicle safety recalls (check-vehicle-recalls.service.gov.uk), OGL.

Nissan NV200 technical service bulletins: what dealers are told

US market, Nissan NV200 and its variants, model years 2015–2021 only. A count of bulletins, not a UK failure rate.

NHTSA manufacturer communications are 227.

bigger number = more recorded dealer communicationsnot affected vehicles or confirmed faults

These are the issues the manufacturer fixes quietly: service communications sent to dealers without a public recall campaign. They show what the service network has been told even when the issue never became news.

United States · NHTSA manufacturer communications

US technical service bulletins by communication year; leading subjects cover the full file
Communication yearBulletinsLeading subjects across all years
20148
  • Equipment (75)
  • Electrical system (72)
  • Powertrain (32)
  • Engine and cooling (31)
  • Air Bags (17)
  • Structure (11)
  • Petrol fuel system (10)
  • Visibility (10)
201531
201641
201714
201819
201915
202018
202127
202210
202327
202415
20262

Caveat worth stating plainly: this is NHTSA data about US-specification cars. British cars sold under the same name often use different gearboxes, engines and equipment, so a bulletin may describe a component that was never fitted here. The file counts dealer communications, not affected vehicles or confirmed failures, and it cannot tell you whether an individual UK car has the issue. A communication can carry more than one subject tag, so topic counts do not have to add up to the total. Source: NHTSA Manufacturer Communications API (US-market vehicles; queried model years 2015-2022). Licence: U.S. Government work / public domain · retrieved 2026-09-25.

Nissan NV200 owner complaints: what goes wrong

US market, Nissan NV200 and its variants, model years 2015–2021 only. A count of owner complaints, not a UK failure rate; NHTSA has no UK denominator.

Restraints are highest at 28; Visibility is lowest at 4 — the gap is 24.

bigger number = more recorded casescompare like-for-like scope, not sample size alone

Owner complaints (US) against actual MOT failures (UK) for the same component groups
ComponentComplaintsShareMOT fail items per 100MOT rankAgreement
Restraints2832.2%not in top 6—complained about, rarely an MOT failure
Lamps & electrical910.3%41.3#1complained about and fails often
Tyres89.2%10.6#5complained about, fails occasionally
Brakes66.9%11.9#4complained about, fails occasionally
Engine (not MOT-tested)66.9%not in top 6—complained about, rarely an MOT failure
Visibility44.6%15.6#3complained about and fails often

Two different populations answering two different questions: the MOT records what an inspector can measure once a year, the complaint file records what annoyed or frightened an owner on the road. A component high in one column and absent from the other is the interesting case — driver-assistance and electronics dominate complaints while almost never appearing as an MOT failure item.

What the reports actually say
MY AIR CONDITIONING BROKE FOR THE 3RD TIME.I BELIEVE ALL A/C UNITS SHOULD BE REPLACED WITH A DYSON FLOOR BLADELESS FAN STYLE A/C AND HEATING UNIT WITH SURGE PROTECTOR WIRE TO FUSE BUS.THIS DYSON BLADELESS COOLING AND HEATING FAN WILL INCREASE FUEL ECONOMY,REDUCE COSTLY REPAIRS,LONGER ENGINE AND BATTERY LIFE
NHTSA complaint, filed 03/21/2019
REAR A/C HAS ZERO FLOW THEREFORE THE BACK GETS EXCEPTIONALLY HOT...THIS IS THE SECOND TIME WE HAD THIS ISSUE. LAST YEAR NISSAN CHANGED COMPONENTS AND TOLD US THE ISSUE HAD BEEN RESOLVED. NOW ITS HAS HAPPENED AGAIN. LOTS OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT THIS ONLINE.
NHTSA complaint, filed 08/07/2018

US owners have filed 87 complaints about the equivalent Nissan NV200 to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, including 5 that mention a crash, 1 a fire and 8 an injury. These are owner reports, not verified findings — but they are the only large public record of what drivers themselves notice, and they cover the years between MOT tests.

Caveat worth stating plainly: US-specification cars, self-selected reporters, no denominator — complaint counts scale with how many cars were sold there and how motivated owners are to file. The mechanical gap matters as much as the statistical one: American cars of the same name often carry different gearboxes, engines and equipment — automatics where Britain buys manuals — so a drivetrain complaint filed in Ohio may describe a part that was never fitted here. Read the ranking inside a model, not between models, and treat drivetrain entries with particular caution. Source: NHTSA ODI consumer complaints (US market, public domain) — US-spec vehicles, indicative only.

Nissan NV200 MOT: quick answers

Nissan NV200 MOT Risk Index stands out at 155.1, against 100 for a car with the same age profile.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

What is the Nissan NV200 first-time MOT pass rate?
55.86% of first attempts passed in 2024 (25,567 tests). This is the first-time figure: retests after repair are excluded. Basis: first-time, excluding retests.
Why does this number differ from other sites?
Other sites often report a pass rate that includes retests or counts all attempts. Our 44.14% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 25,567 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 155.1 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Nissan NV200 with other cars

Ford Transit Custom is highest at 156.9; Citroen C4 Grand Picasso is lowest at 151.9 — the gap is 5.0 points.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

Same brand

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Similar risk

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Same size class

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By build year

Nissan NV200 2009Nissan NV200 2010Nissan NV200 2011Nissan NV200 2012Nissan NV200 2013Nissan NV200 2014Nissan NV200 2015Nissan NV200 2016Nissan NV200 2017Nissan NV200 2018Nissan NV200 2019Nissan NV200 2020

By area

Nissan NV200 MOT failure rate by postcode area

By failure group

Nissan NV200 body, chassis and structure failuresNissan NV200 brakes failuresNissan NV200 vehicle identification failuresNissan NV200 lamps, reflectors and electrics failuresNissan NV200 noise, emissions and leaks failuresNissan NV200 road wheels failuresNissan NV200 seat belts and airbags failuresNissan NV200 steering failuresNissan NV200 suspension failuresNissan NV200 tyres failuresNissan NV200 visibility failures


Data details & how to cite

Scope: class-4 vehicles (cars), initial tests only, outcomes pass / fail / fixed-on-the-spot at the station (PRS counts towards the failure rate — the defect was present at arrival). Index = observed initial failures ÷ failures expected for this fleet's exact age profile, ×100; margin of error is a 95% confidence interval. Covers ALL generations together — a 3-year-old and a 15-year-old are very different cars; a generation split is on the roadmap. Dataset release dataset_release_id=dvsa-2024-v2, frozen baseline; headline claim_id=family-stats:nissan-nv200:dvsa-2024-v2. Full method: methodology.

Cite: MOT Risk Index (2026). Nissan NV200 MOT statistics 2024 (data release dvsa-2024-v2; downloadable dataset motriskindex-families-2024-v5, doi:10.5281/zenodo.22975051). https://motriskindex.co.uk/cars/nissan-nv200/ · Published 2026-07-30.