Nissan Qashqai — MOT statistics 2024

The Nissan Qashqai failed 30.07% of 800,602 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 122.9 (100 = expected for its age profile). This car fails its MOT about 23% more often than expected for its age.

Age-adjusted peer: Tesla Model 3 (index 122.9) — the two published results are 0.0 index points apart.

Nissan Qashqai common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Suspension stands out at 31.8 per 100 tests, against 19.9 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

family vs national — top component groups, per 100 tests. Legend: This family · National avg.

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

Nissan Qashqai MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Tyres are highest at 61.2 per 100 tests; Emissions & leaks are lowest at 5.3 per 100 tests — the gap is 55.9 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.

How does the Nissan Qashqai perform as it gets older?

At age 15 stands out at 57.1%, against 39.9% for all cars of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart axes: car age, years · failure-rate scale 0–62%.

Takeaway: a 10-year-old Qashqai has roughly a 31% chance of failing its MOT; from about age 6 it stays above the national age curve.

Nissan Qashqai petrol vs diesel: which ages best

Diesel is highest at 34.2%; Petrol is lowest at 26.0% — the gap is 8.2 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart sample sizes: n=402k · n=399k.

How dangerous are Nissan Qashqai MOT failures?

Major defects stand out at 71.3 per 100 tests, against 63.3 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Chart values: Minor 30.2 · Major 71.3 · Dangerous 15.8.

Per 100 tests on this family. National average: Minor 24.4 · Major 63.3 · Dangerous 12.9 per 100.

Does the month of a Nissan Qashqai MOT matter?

Nov is highest at 32.2%; Mar is lowest at 27.2% — the gap is 5.1 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart scale: 23%–34%.

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

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 5.1 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 19.5% of these cars were first registered in March with another17% in September — 37% 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. Peaks here mark when cars are tested, not when they are worse.

Nissan Qashqai average mileage by age

At age 8, the middle half of Qashqais runs from 47,948 miles to 78,721 miles, against 62,255 miles as the median.

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

Chart axes: car age, years · odometer scale 0–149k mi.

Does high mileage mean more Nissan Qashqai MOT failures?

Same age band (6–14 years), split by odometer — this separates wear from age: 14.6% of the lowest-mileage cars failed versus 53% of the highest.

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

A typical 8-year-old Qashqai has ~62,255 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the Nissan Qashqai fails its MOT most

Torquay area is highest at 41.6%; Glasgow area is lowest at 21.9% — the gap is 19.8 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Toughest areas	% failing	vs model overall
Torquay (TQ)	41.63%	+11.6 pp
Salisbury (SP)	39.59%	+9.5 pp
Bournemouth (BH)	38.63%	+8.6 pp
Dorchester (DT)	38.53%	+8.5 pp
Plymouth (PL)	37.48%	+7.4 pp

Easiest areas	% failing	vs model overall
Glasgow (G)	21.85%	-8.2 pp
Twickenham (TW)	22.03%	-8.0 pp
Uxbridge (UB)	24.28%	-5.8 pp
Dudley (DY)	24.4%	-5.7 pp
St Albans (AL)	24.55%	-5.5 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 4.8 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.39, n=114 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest urban share this model fails 4.5 pp less often than in the lowest fifth (r=-0.35, n=114 areas with ≥800 tests).

In the most coastal fifth of areas this model fails 3.7 pp more often than in the most inland fifth (r=-0.30, n=114 areas with ≥800 tests).

Values shown in the quintile chart

Factor	Low Q	High Q	Gap	Correlation
MOT centre density	26.8%	31.6%	+4.8 pp	r=0.39
Urban share	31.9%	27.4%	-4.5 pp	r=-0.35
Distance to coast	32.7%	29.0%	-3.7 pp	r=-0.30

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

Composite	Built from	Tested against	r	Verdict
Underbody corrosion	frost days × salt load ÷ (distance to coast + 1)	share of tests with a corrosion defect	+0.42	holds (116 areas)
Tyre wear	rain days × annual miles ÷ age at first tyre advisory	share of tests failing on tyres	+0.45	holds (116 areas)
Overnight corrosion	terraced housing × cars per household × frost days	share with a corrosion defect	+0.41	holds (102 areas) — and adds signal beyond the first index
Deferred maintenance	deprivation × advisory-to-failure conversion ÷ labour rate	cars repeating the same advisory	−0.26	fails (118 areas)
Powertrain stress	engine capacity ÷ kerb weight	suspension, brake and emissions failures	−0.16	fails (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)

Factor	r	n areas	Low-Q fail %	High-Q fail %	Gap pp	Low-Q factor	High-Q factor
MOT centre density (per 10k vehicles)	0.386	114	26.8	31.6	+4.8	5	8.7
Urban share (0–1)	-0.350	114	31.9	27.4	-4.5	0.4	1
Distance to coast (km)	-0.302	114	32.7	29.0	-3.7	6.2	79.5
Terrain gradient (% grade)	0.145	67	30.9	32.6	+1.8	0.5	3.7
Income deprivation (score)	-0.076	97	30.1	29.4	-0.7	0.1	0.2
Road-salt proxy (g/m²-yr)	-0.049	114	30.1	29.7	-0.3	221.2	675.1
Frost days (days/year)	-0.045	114	31.2	29.5	-1.7	11.6	38.1

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: 25%–37% failing.

Nissan Qashqai survival: which cars are still on the road

By age 17 stands out at 21.4%, against 100% at the ages 4–6 reference level.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

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

By age 17, only about 21% as many cars of this family present for MOT as at ages 4–6 (reference n≈64,451); survivors still fail at 55.2% vs 9.6% at age 4. Older cars that still appear are a selected subset — weaker ones have already left. DfT licensed stock is 100% of its 2026 Q1 peak (684,098 → 684,098).

How many miles does a Nissan Qashqai last?

100,000+ miles is highest at 22.7%; 200,000+ miles is lowest at 0.2% — the gap is 22.5 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Of 800,369 tests of this family with a usable odometer in 2024, 22.7% had already reached 100k miles, 3.4% reached 150k, and 0.2% reached 200k — a cross-section of cars still presenting for MOT, not a full birth cohort.

How many years is a Nissan Qashqai likely to last?

Bought at age 5 is highest at 9.7 years; Bought at age 15 is lowest at 1.5 years — the gap is 8.2 years.

bigger number = longer remaining lifeyears on the observed survival curve

estimateEstimate only — not a warranty: a typical 10-year-old example of this family (~80,552 miles median) has about 4.8 expected years of further MOT-present life on the 2024 survival curve. Derived from how many cars of each age still appear for test, not from a longitudinal panel.

Nissan Qashqai faults that come together

Road Wheels + Seatbelts & SRS stand out at 9.70×, against 1× if the faults were independent.

above 1.0× = more than expectedbelow 1.0× = less

Defects in «Road Wheels» and «Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems» appear together 9.70× more often than chance (314 co-occurrences in the same test; lift≥1.3, n≥300).

Lift = how many times more often both groups appear on the same test than if independent. Thresholds: lift ≥ 1.3, co-occurrences ≥ 300.

Is low mileage better for a Nissan Qashqai?

Cars driven under 5,000 miles a year stands out at 17.1%, against 30.3% 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 17.1% vs 30.3% for 8–12k miles/year — 13.1 pp lower (n_low=88,029, n_normal=250,847). 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: 18.6% low-use vs 31.2% normal (-12.6 pp).

Nissan Qashqai real MPG against official fuel economy

petrol (2022) real-world fuel use stands out at +20.67%, against 0% for an exact match to the official figure.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Since 2021 every new car in Europe records its own fuel use, and the regulator publishes what those meters say next to the laboratory figure the car was sold on. For this manufacturer the worst gap is 20.67% — petrol cars of 2022 burning 7.36 litres per 100 km against an official 6.1, with CO₂ higher by the same proportion.

This is the manufacturer, not the model. The regulator aggregates by legal manufacturer (NISSAN AUTOMOTIVE EUROPE), so these figures are context for the badge rather than a measurement of this particular car — a point we would rather state plainly than let a reader assume otherwise. The gap itself is not a scandal, it is the known distance between a standardised laboratory cycle and real roads, but it is the distance you actually pay for at the pump. Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), Real-world CO2 emissions from new cars and vans, reporting year 2024, v3, 2023_Cars_Aggregated.csv, CC BY 4.0 — copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Which Nissan Qashqai engine is best?

diesel 1.2–1.5 is highest at 108.0; petrol 1.0–1.2 is lowest at 87.9 — the gap is 20.1 points.

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

Splitting this model by fuel alone hides the thing that actually differs. Within the same badge, the diesel 1.2–1.5 runs at 108 against this model's own age norm while the petrol 1.0–1.2 runs at 87.9 — a spread of 20.1 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 5,000 tests are not shown.

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

Build year 2012 is highest at 110.5; Build year 2020 is lowest at 87.2 — the gap is 23.3 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

The best build year here is 2020 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 — 13 of 14 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. And for cars built before about 2005, a good score says more about which examples survived to be tested than about how that year was built: survivors are self-selected for care.

Nissan Qashqai MOT repair costs

The MOT-failure repair budget per test runs from £108.16 to £205.50, 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 £108 to £206, 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 Qashqai running costs for a fleet

Vehicles failing at age 10 stand out at 31%, against 13% at age 5 in the same 100-vehicle fleet.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

The number a fleet manager needs is not the failure rate, it is the year the car starts costing more. Between age 10 and 11 the failure rate of this model jumps by 12.37 percentage points — the steepest single step in its life, and the 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 Qashqai rust problems: where they corrode

Age-standardised corrosion susceptibility stands out at 2×, against 1× for the national age-standardised rate.

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

This Nissan Qashqai fails on corrosion far more often than average once age is held constant, and its owners live in areas that are about typical for the models we publish. Those two point in opposite directions, which is the informative case: it rusts more than average despite living in gentler places, so the cause is the car, not the postcode.

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 Qashqai advisory become a failure?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment are highest at 31.8%; Identification of the vehicle is lowest at 3.5% — the gap is 28.3 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 32 in 100 cars, and the median gap is 12 months and roughly 6,612 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 Qashqai?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment after a failure at age 15-19 are highest at 32.3%; Brakes after a passed at age <3 are lowest at 1.8% — the gap is 30.5 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 Qashqai ownership: what six years of MOTs show

The ten-day re-test pass rate is highest at 52.1%; The later re-test pass rate is lowest at 2.6% — the gap is 49.5 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Failing is usually a same-week event, not a disaster. Of 642,981 failures followed through to their re-test, 45.25% were repaired and passed the same day and 52.12% within ten days; the median gap is 1 day. 1,678,784 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 0.426 failures per 10,000 miles, on a median of 6,399 miles a year across 562,379 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. 32.92% of these cars strung together three or more tests with nothing recorded at all, while 33.39% 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: 0.685% of 562,482 chains show a reading lower than the previous test, with a median drop of 15,960 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.

Do Nissan Qashqai recalls reduce MOT failures?

R/2023/232 (Body, chassis, structure) beyond the comparison fleet stands out at -0.4 pp, against 0 pp for no movement beyond the fleet.

negative = improved beyond the comparison fleetpositive = worsened

A fair test needs a control. Failure rates climb as any fleet ages, so a simple before-and-after around a recall date makes every campaign look useless. Below, each campaign's component is age-standardised and compared against how every other model published here moved on that same component over the same months. The last column is what is left after subtracting the fleet-wide drift.

Negative in the last column means the recalled component improved faster than the rest of the fleet. Across all campaigns we could measure, roughly half clear that bar and half do not — recalls help, but the effect is small at fleet level and inconsistent between campaigns. not causal: no VIN-level link between a car and a campaign, and no evidence the remedy was carried out. Cells with fewer than 500 tests either side are not published. One limit decides how far this goes: the MOT inspects brakes, lights, suspension and structure, so a recall for an airbag inflator or a wiring fire risk leaves no trace here at all. Read this as evidence about recalls whose component the test actually examines — never as a verdict on whether recalls work.

Nissan Qashqai safety recalls and how to check yours

DVSA recall campaigns stand out at 25, against 0.37 campaigns per 10,000 licensed cars after fleet size is accounted for.

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

recall campaigns launched per year

DVSA lists 25 safety recall campaigns for the Nissan Qashqai — 0.37 campaigns per 10,000 of these cars licensed in Great Britain, covering roughly 107,885 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 Qashqai technical service bulletins: what dealers are told

NHTSA manufacturer communications are 165.

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

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 2026-08-03.

Nissan Qashqai owner complaints: what goes wrong

Engine (not MOT-tested) is highest at 89; Steering is lowest at 8 — the gap is 81.

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

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.

US owners have filed 361 complaints about the equivalent Nissan Qashqai to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, including 27 that mention a crash, 4 a fire and 28 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 Qashqai inspection results in other countries

United Kingdom MOT stands out at 30.1%, against 26.0% nationally.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

The verdict is consistent across every regime we can measure, which is the strongest form this comparison takes: independent inspectorates, different rulebooks, same direction of travel.

Useful as a cross-check on the UK defect table above: the categories are named differently, but a component that dominates in both regimes is a genuine weak point of the model rather than an artefact of one country's testing style.

Britain is not the only country that inspects every car every year, and the Nissan Qashqai is on the road in all of them. Each national regime writes its own rules, so the pass rates below are not comparable to each other — what does travel across a border is whether a model sits above or below its own country's average.

Rows with fewer than 500 inspections are not published. Sources: Traficom — Periodic inspections of cars by model / by model and fault object 2024, CC BY 4.0; Statens vegvesen — Periodisk kjøretøykontroll (PKK) 2024, CC BY 4.0.

Nissan Qashqai MOT: quick answers

Nissan Qashqai MOT Risk Index stands out at 122.9, 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 Qashqai first-time MOT pass rate?

69.93% of first attempts passed in 2024 (800,602 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 30.07% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 800,602 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 122.9 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Nissan Qashqai with other cars

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

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