Common Nissan Primastar MOT failures
Based on 148,614 Nissan Primastar 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 Primastar
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 148,614 classifiable tests for Nissan Primastar.
What Nissan Primastar failures look like
148,614 Nissan Primastar tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 98,960 tests (66.6%), with brakes on 84,805 tests (57.1%) and with lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment on 32,077 tests (21.6%). 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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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 40,383 of the 148,614 tests: 18,429 failures and 21,954 advisories or minors.
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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 37,778 of the 148,614 tests: 6,727 failures and 31,051 advisories or minors.
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Oil leak, but not excessive
MOT inspection manual reference 8.4.1, in nuisance (emissions and noise)
Recorded on 25,131 of the 148,614 tests: 616 failures and 24,515 advisories or minors.
Where there is enough data to compare: Nissan Qashqai (5,300,525 tests), Nissan Micra (3,008,376 tests), Nissan Juke (2,725,441 tests), Nissan Note (1,759,326 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.