Common Nissan Sunny MOT failures
Based on 8,542 Nissan Sunny 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 Sunny
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 8,542 classifiable tests for Nissan Sunny.
What Nissan Sunny failures look like
8,542 Nissan Sunny tests on record carry the manual reference DVSA attaches to each defect. The most frequent problems were with axles, wheels, tyres and suspension on 5,572 tests (65.2%), with brakes on 3,415 tests (40.0%) and with body, structure and attachments on 2,268 tests (26.6%). 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 1,749 of the 8,542 tests: 291 failures and 1,458 advisories or minors.
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Brake pipe corroded, covered in grease or other material
MOT inspection manual reference 1.1.11, in brakes
Recorded on 1,451 of the 8,542 tests: 194 failures and 1,257 advisories or minors.
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Subframe mounting prescribed area is corroded but not considered excessive
MOT inspection manual reference 5.3.6, in axles, wheels, tyres and suspension
Recorded on 1,278 of the 8,542 tests: 709 failures and 569 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.