Common Nissan Micra MOT failures
Based on 3,008,376 Nissan Micra tests on record carrying an official DVSA defect code, so every category below is counted from real failures rather than estimated.
Real DVSA defect codes
Every category comes from the official MOT Inspection Manual section code DVSA attaches to each defect, not guessed from keywords.
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Built from DVSA's published MOT data for Great Britain, not only from vehicles looked up here.
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Where MOT tests find problems: Nissan Micra
A test can find problems in more than one category, so the figures above do not sum to 100%. Each percentage is the share of classifiable tests that found at least one defect in that category. Based on 3,008,376 classifiable tests for Nissan Micra.
What Nissan Micra failures look like
3,008,376 Nissan Micra tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 1,840,486 tests (61.2%), with brakes on 740,919 tests (24.6%) and with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 739,524 tests (24.6%). A test can fail on more than one thing, and an MOT can be failed on one defect while another is only advised, so these counts do not add up to the number of tests.
Narrowed down from the categories to the individual defects themselves, three come up on more than one test:
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Tyre worn close to legal limit/worn on edge
MOT inspection manual reference 5.2.3, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension
Recorded on 829,049 of the 3,008,376 tests: 124,475 failures and 704,574 advisories or minors.
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Suspension arm pin or bush worn but not resulting in excessive movement
MOT inspection manual reference 5.3.4, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension
Recorded on 631,313 of the 3,008,376 tests: 170,989 failures and 460,324 advisories or minors.
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Coil spring corroded
MOT inspection manual reference 5.3.1, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension
Recorded on 281,473 of the 3,008,376 tests: 77,199 failures and 204,274 advisories or minors.
Where there is enough data to compare: Nissan Qashqai (5,300,525 tests), Nissan Juke (2,725,441 tests), Nissan Note (1,759,326 tests), Nissan X-Trail (951,323 tests), every Nissan model (17,452,101 tests).
Clauses are read from the manual reference at the end of every defect on the cached test records, and a defect shown here has to appear on at least two of them before it is named. The site-wide breakdown explains how that works and compares every make.