67.8%
Nissan Cube
Nissan Cube MOT pass rate and common problems
The Nissan Cube passed 67.8% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 4.5 percentage points below the 72.3% UK average. The item testers recorded most often was position lamp not working.
Checking a specific car? Its own results, advisories and recorded mileages are in a free MOT history check.
How the Cube compares
Initial MOT tests in 2025, retests excluded. A car that failed and was repaired at the test station counts as a fail.
67.8%
Nissan average
72.3%
UK average, all cars
The Cube is level with the Nissan average. It is 14th of the 25 Nissan models in the data. The average Cube arrived at its test 14.8 years old with 90,445 miles recorded.
A pass rate records whether cars met the roadworthiness standard on test day. It is not a reliability score, and part of any gap reflects how old the tested cars were.
Cube MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Nissan Cube cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 62.9% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over it rose to 68%, 5.1 percentage points higher.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years | 132 | 62.9% | 9.4 pts below |
| 6 to 10 years | 265 | 68.7% | 3.6 pts below |
| 11 years and over | 2,371 | 68% | 4.3 pts below |
Older examples test at least as well as newer ones here, which usually says more about how the surviving cars have been kept than about age itself. The UK average of 72.3% covers cars of every age, so compare like with like.
Where Cube failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Nissan Cube cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment and suspension together account for 54% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Cube MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Nissan Cube cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 38.1% of everything testers recorded against failed Nissan Cube cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Cube
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: position lamp not working, registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps, rear fog lamp not working and headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect. 16.4% of failure items.
2
Suspension
Recorded most often: ball joint excessively worn, pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn and ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt. 13.1% of failure items.
3
Visibility
Recorded most often: wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively. 3.2% of failure items.
4
Tyres
Recorded most often: tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm. 2.9% of failure items.
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Nissan Cube MOT FAQs
What is the Nissan Cube MOT pass rate?
67.8% of Nissan Cube cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 2,772 tests. That is 4.5 percentage points below the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 390th of 575 models.
What does a Nissan Cube most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Nissan Cube cars failing their 2025 MOT was position lamp not working, on 8.2% of failure items. Next were ball joint excessively worn (6.3%) and pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (4.2%).
Which area causes the most Nissan Cube MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 33.4%, followed by suspension at 20.6%.
Do older Nissan Cube cars fail their MOT more often?
Nissan Cube cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 62.9% of MOT tests in 2025, against 68% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Nissan Cube has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Nissan Cube that failed in 2025. They show where the model most often needs attention, not the condition of any individual car.
How do I see a specific Nissan Cube's MOT history?
Enter its registration on the free Carpeep MOT history check to see that car's own test results, failures, advisories and recorded mileages.
MOT figures are aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025: class 4 initial tests, retests excluded, with failure items from failed tests (advisories and minor defects excluded), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. MOT results describe roadworthiness at test, not mechanical reliability.