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Nissan Qashqai
Nissan Qashqai MOT pass rate and common problems
The Nissan Qashqai passed 69% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 3.3 percentage points below the 72.3% UK average. The item testers recorded most often was track rod end ball joint has excessive play.
Checking a specific car? Its own results, advisories and recorded mileages are in a free MOT history check.
How the Qashqai 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 Qashqai runs 1.2 points ahead of the Nissan average. It is 12th of the 25 Nissan models in the data. The average Qashqai arrived at its test 9.3 years old with 73,159 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.
Qashqai MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Nissan Qashqai cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 86.7% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 50%, a drop of 36.7 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years | 103,711 | 86.7% | 14.4 pts above |
| 6 to 10 years | 260,767 | 73.5% | 1.2 pts above |
| 11 years and over | 199,316 | 50% | 22.3 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 Qashqai failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Nissan Qashqai cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Suspension and lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment together account for 43.8% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Qashqai MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Nissan Qashqai cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 48.3% of everything testers recorded against failed Nissan Qashqai cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Qashqai
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Suspension
Recorded most often: ball joint excessively worn, coil spring fractured or broken, pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn and ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt. 17.4% of failure items.
2
Steering
Recorded most often: track rod end ball joint has excessive play. 7.5% of failure items.
3
Brakes
Recorded most often: brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick. 5.9% of failure items.
4
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: position lamp not working. 5.3% of failure items.
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Nissan Qashqai MOT FAQs
What is the Nissan Qashqai MOT pass rate?
69% of Nissan Qashqai cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 600,115 tests. That is 3.3 percentage points below the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 365th of 575 models.
What does a Nissan Qashqai most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Nissan Qashqai cars failing their 2025 MOT was track rod end ball joint has excessive play, on 7.5% of failure items. Next were ball joint excessively worn (6.9%) and brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (5.9%).
Which area causes the most Nissan Qashqai MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was suspension at 25.2%, followed by lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 18.7%.
Do older Nissan Qashqai cars fail their MOT more often?
Nissan Qashqai cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 86.7% of MOT tests in 2025, against 50% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Nissan Qashqai has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Nissan Qashqai 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 Qashqai'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.