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Nissan Navara
Nissan Navara MOT pass rate and common problems
The Nissan Navara passed 67% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 5.3 percentage points below the 72.3% UK average. The item testers recorded most often was coil spring fractured or broken.
Checking a specific car? Its own results, advisories and recorded mileages are in a free MOT history check.
How the Navara 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 Navara runs 0.8 points behind the Nissan average. It is 16th of the 25 Nissan models in the data. The average Navara arrived at its test 9.5 years old with 95,763 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.
Navara MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Nissan Navara cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 79.1% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 56.3%, a drop of 22.8 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years | 15,477 | 79.1% | 6.8 pts above |
| 6 to 10 years | 32,015 | 68.3% | 4 pts below |
| 11 years and over | 21,419 | 56.3% | 16 pts below |
That is a steep decline with age, so the headline rate flatters older examples. The UK average of 72.3% covers cars of every age, so compare like with like.
Where Navara failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Nissan Navara cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Suspension and lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment together account for 47.3% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Navara MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Nissan Navara cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 40.7% of everything testers recorded against failed Nissan Navara cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Navara
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Suspension
Recorded most often: coil spring fractured or broken and ball joint excessively worn. 13.4% of failure items.
2
Noise, emissions and leaks
Recorded most often: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction. 5.3% of failure items.
3
Brakes
Recorded most often: brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick and rigid brake pipes excessively corroded. 5.3% of failure items.
4
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: position lamp not working. 4.7% of failure items.
The car's own MOT history matters more than any model average. A free MOT history check shows whether a specific Navara has failed on these items before, or had them noted as advisories. Buying one? See the used Nissan Navara buying guide.
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Nissan Navara MOT FAQs
What is the Nissan Navara MOT pass rate?
67% of Nissan Navara cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 69,015 tests. That is 5.3 percentage points below the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 403rd of 575 models.
What does a Nissan Navara most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Nissan Navara cars failing their 2025 MOT was coil spring fractured or broken, on 8.8% of failure items. Next were malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (5.3%) and position lamp not working (4.7%).
Which area causes the most Nissan Navara MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was suspension at 24.4%, followed by lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 22.9%.
Do older Nissan Navara cars fail their MOT more often?
Nissan Navara cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 79.1% of MOT tests in 2025, against 56.3% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Nissan Navara has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Nissan Navara 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 Navara'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.