Nissan NV300 — MOT statistics 2024

The Nissan NV300 failed 26.81% of 2,354 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 171.6 (100 = expected for its age profile). This van fails its MOT about 72% more often than expected for its age. Small sample — treat with care.

Age-adjusted peer: Toyota Proace (index 168.5) — the two published results are 3.1 index points apart.

Nissan NV300 common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Suspension stands out at 12.5 per 100 tests, against 5.1 per 100 tests across UK vans and pickups of the same ages.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

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.

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

Nissan NV300 MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Brakes are highest at 30.5 per 100 tests; Steering is lowest at 2.2 per 100 tests — the gap is 28.3 per 100 tests.

higher bar = flagged more oftenadvisory items per 100 initial tests

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

Tyres, brakes and suspension: Nissan NV300 against cars of the same age

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 van 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.

A failed test raises next year's chance of failing again by 5.4 percentage points. 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 van with vehicles of the same age, and then with vehicles of the same age and the same annual mileage, 2019-2024, on 7,008 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.

Mileage matters here: matching on how much these are driven moves the figure by 31.1 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 van 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 NV300 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.

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 NV300 perform as it gets older?

The NV300 at age 7 stands out at 35.1%, against 20.2% for all vehicles of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart axes: van age, years · failure-rate scale 0–38%.

Takeaway: solid line: this family; dashed: all cars.

How dangerous are Nissan NV300 MOT failures?

Major defects are well below the reference at 34.9 per 100 tests, against 52.8 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Chart values: Minor 11.0 · Major 34.9 · Dangerous 8.4.

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 NV300 MOT matter?

Aug is highest at 29.4%; Feb is lowest at 22.2% — the gap is 7.2 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart scale: 21%–33%.

bars: Nissan NV300 · dashed: all class-4 cars

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 7.2 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 NV300 average mileage by age

At age 5, the middle half of NV300s runs from 41,242 miles to 85,886 miles, against 60,157 miles as the median.

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

Chart axes: van age, years · odometer scale 0–117k mi.

Does high mileage mean more Nissan NV300 MOT failures at the same age?

Within the same age group, split by odometer (2024 MOTs), so this separates wear from age: at ages 3–5, 17.3% of those with under 40,000 miles failed first time versus 33.7% of those with 100,000–140,000 miles.Inside this age group, higher mileage goes with more failures.

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

A typical 5-year-old NV300 has ~60,157 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the Nissan NV300 fails its MOT most

Edinburgh area is highest at 36.2%; Nottingham area is lowest at 9.0% — the gap is 27.2 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

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.

Nissan NV300 survival: which cars are still on the road

By age 7 is well below the reference at 42.1%, against 100.0% at the ages 4–6 reference level.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

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

By age 7, only about 42% as many cars of this family present for MOT as at ages 4–6 (reference n≈1,316); survivors still fail at 34.5% vs 24.9% at age 4. Older cars that still appear are a selected subset — weaker ones have already left.

How many miles does a Nissan NV300 last?

100,000+ miles stands out at 10.9%.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Of 7,009 tests of this family with a usable odometer in 2024, 10.9% had reached 100k miles. This is a cross-section of cars still presenting for MOT, not a full birth cohort.

How many years is a Nissan NV300 likely to last?

Bought at age 5 stands out at 1.6 years.

bigger number = longer remaining lifeyears on the observed survival curve

estimateObserved only until age 7. The curve does not run five years past the stated age with the share still tested under 50%, so no 'years left' number is given.

Nissan NV300 faults that come together

Emissions & leaks + Steering stand out at 5.12×, against 1.00× if the faults were independent.

above 1.0× = more than expectedbelow 1.0× = less

Defects in «Noise, emissions and leaks» and «Steering» appear together 5.12× more often than chance (35 co-occurrences in the same test; 66 pairs compared).

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 NV300?

Cars driven under 5,000 miles a year is well below the reference at 6.9%, against 27.1% for cars driven 8,000–12,000 miles a year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

At matched ages 5–14, cars averaging under 5k miles/year fail at 6.9% vs 27.1% for 8–12k miles/year — 20.2 pp lower (n_low=218, n_normal=717). 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: 6.9% low-use vs 27.1% normal (-20.2 pp).

Nissan NV300 MOT repair costs

The MOT-failure repair budget per test runs from £53.22 to £101.12, against £54.85 for the test itself.

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

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 £53 to £101, 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 NV300 running costs for a fleet

Vehicles failing at age 7 stand out at 35.0%, against 27.0% at age 5, tested in the same year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

No single year stands out as the point where this model starts costing more: the year-to-year steps in its failure rate are too small or rest on too few tests to name one (D1 rule: a step is named only with at least 2,000 tests on both sides and a jump above 3 percentage points).

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 NV300 rust problems: where they corrode

Age-standardised corrosion susceptibility is well below the reference at 0.34×, against 1.00× for the national age-standardised rate.

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

This Nissan NV300 fails on corrosion much less often than average once age is held constant, and its owners live in areas that are saltier than most for the models we publish. Both point the same way and reinforce each other: it resists corrosion even though its owners live in saltier areas than most.

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 NV300 advisory become a failure?

Suspension is highest at 19.0%; Tyres are lowest at 6.5% — the gap is 12.5 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

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

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 19 in 100 cars, and the median gap is 12 months and roughly 13,326 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 NV300?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment after a failure at age 6-8 are highest at 21.3%; Suspension after a passed at age <3 is lowest at 5.4% — the gap is 15.9 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

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 NV300 ownership: what six years of MOTs show

The ten-day re-test pass rate is highest at 54.6%; The later re-test pass rate is lowest at 2.8% — the gap is 51.8 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Failing is usually a same-week event, not a disaster. Of 1,333 failures followed through to their re-test, 42.61% were repaired and passed the same day and 54.61% within ten days; the median gap is 1 day. 2,937 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 0.23 failures per 10,000 miles, on a median of 10,647 miles a year across 1,704 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. 34.15% of these cars strung together three or more tests with nothing recorded at all, while 11.2% 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: 0.703% of 1,707 chains show a reading lower than the previous test, with a median drop of 24,720 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 NV300 safety recalls and how to check yours

DVSA recall campaigns stand out at 4.

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

recall campaigns launched per year

DVSA lists 4 safety recall campaigns for the Nissan NV300, covering roughly 399 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 NV300 MOT: quick answers

Nissan NV300 MOT Risk Index stands out at 171.6, 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 NV300 first-time MOT pass rate?

73.19% of first attempts passed in 2024 (2,354 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 26.81% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 2,354 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 171.6 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Nissan NV300 with other cars

Mercedes-Benz Citan is highest at 181.7; SsangYong Rodius is lowest at 164.2 — the gap is 17.5 points.

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

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By build year

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By area

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By failure group

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