Pass rate
92.9%
Above average — 6.9 pts ahead of the 86.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 239 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £36–£108
2017 Nissan 370 Z MOT pass rate
- 2017
- typical 27,701 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
40.4% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2018 96.0% pass
- Avoid 2009 83.4% pass
Across the 12 years on record, a spread of 12.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 92.4%
- Typical mileage
- 28k mi
The 2017 Nissan 370 Z MOT pass rate is 92.9% of its MOT tests — 6.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 40.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Nissan 370 Z does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.0× the national share
Tyres make up 40.4% of everything recorded on the 2017 Nissan 370 Z, against 19.8% nationally — 20.6 points above. Check all four tyres yourself, including the inner shoulders, and look at the date stamp — a tyre can pass on tread and still be six years old.
- Beats its own age and mileage. Once you allow for how old and how far these cars have been driven, the expected pass rate is 86.0% and this one manages 92.9% — 6.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 239 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
Written from this page's own figures: fault shares against the national composition, the like-for-like pass rate, and the priced repair list. How these are worked out
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How does the 2017 Nissan 370 Z compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 86.0%, so this figure is 6.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 92.4%. The median 2017 Nissan 370 Z in this dataset had covered 27,701 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 93.5% of the time, April–September 92.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 1.67% of tests.
- 239 recorded tests behind this page.
- 92.9% overall pass rate, 92.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Nissan 370 Z, the average is 87.9% — best year 2018 (96.0%), worst 2009 (83.4%).
Figures count every completed test on this vehicle-year in the dataset, including retests. See methodology for the exact definition.
This page's data
- Tests analysed
- 239
- Typical mileage (median)
- 27,701 mi
- Make and model
- Nissan 370 Z
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the 370 Z MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 75% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the 370 Z
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 65 | 93.8% |
| West Midlands | 34 | 94.1% |
| East Midlands | 30 | 90.0% |
| East of England | 27 | 96.3% |
| South West | 16 | 87.5% |
| North West | 16 | 87.5% |
| Wales | 15 | 80.0% |
Regions come from the postcode area recorded at the test station. Areas on region borders are assigned to the region with the majority of their population.
What fails a 2017 370 Z
Everything a tester recorded on this vehicle, grouped into the inspection sections that produced it. The notch on each bar is the national share, so you can see at a glance whether this car is unusual or just ordinary.
A test can record several items, so these percentages do not add up to 100%. The exact strings, with prices, are in the full DVSA record at the bottom of this page.
Before your test
Three checks worth doing on a 2017 370 Z
These are not generic tips — they are the faults recorded most often on this exact model, rewritten as things you can check yourself. All three take about ten minutes and cost nothing.
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Check the windscreen 1.7% of tests
“windscreen damaged”
Check the driver’s side of the screen within the swept area for chips and cracks; anything larger than 10mm in the driver’s central view is a fail. Most chips can be resin-repaired for far less than a new screen.
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Check the exhaust and emissions 1.3% of tests
“catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits”
Listen for a blow at idle and have someone rev it gently. Then look at the tailpipe smoke: blue is oil, white when warm is coolant, black is over-fuelling. Any of those and the emissions test is the least of it.
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Check the lights 1.3% of tests
“side repeaters with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning”
Switch everything on and walk round the car: both headlamps on dip and main, every indicator, both brake lights, reverse, fog and the two number-plate lamps. A bulb is a few pounds and a five-minute job.
Shares are the proportion of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item, so they overlap: one test can record several.
What it costs to get a 2017 370 Z through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £36–£108 — and 38% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £36–£108
- Cheapest common item: side repeaters with a multiple light source…
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 38%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 239 MOT tests on this vehicle. They exclude diagnostics, retest fees and garage labour where the part is a DIY fit, and they are not figures from the DVSA dataset. Older and higher-mileage examples cost more than the average. How these estimates are built → · All MOT repair costs → · Cheapest cars to put through a test →
Every year of the 370 Z, side by side
12 model years on record, from 2009 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 83.4% to 96.0% — a spread of 12.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2009 83.4% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2010 86.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2011 88.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 89.5% catalyst emissions carbon…
- 2013 89.9% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2014 87.2% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2015 91.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 90.3% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2017 92.9%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 96.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 92.9% catalyst emissions lambda reading…
- 2020 95.5% headlamp aim too far to the right
Colour is the pass rate on a fixed scale, so a block means the same thing on any model. Each year links to its own page with the full fault breakdown.
Compare the 2017 Nissan 370 Z with another year
The raw pass rate mostly measures age. The year comparison adds the like-for-like figure, the mileage bands and the repair bill.
Other 2017 cars with a similar record
- Jaguar F-Type 92.9%
- Mazda Mx-5 93.0%
- Toyota Prius 92.8%
- Honda Jazz 92.6%
- Lexus Ct 92.5%
- Porsche Macan 93.4%
Closest pass rates among 2017 cars with at least 2,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. See the full rankings: best and worst MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2017 Nissan 370 Z 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 10 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 108 individual items recorded on this vehicle, and the same share across all cars nationally. A single test can record several items, so a row is not a percentage of tests.
| Category | Items | This car | Nationally | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 44 | 40.40% | 19.76% | +20.64 |
| Brakes | 16 | 14.70% | 20.89% | −6.19 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 13 | 11.90% | 12.21% | −0.31 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 10 | 9.20% | 5.52% | +3.68 |
| Visibility | 10 | 9.20% | 4.97% | +4.23 |
| Suspension | 4 | 3.70% | 20.98% | −17.28 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 4 | 3.70% | 5.57% | −1.87 |
| Non-component advisories | 3 | 2.80% | 4.18% | −1.38 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 2 | 1.80% | 1.76% | +0.04 |
| Road Wheels | 2 | 1.80% | 0.75% | +1.05 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.7% | £80–200 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Rectified | 1.3% | £60–250 |
| Side repeaters with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.3% | £3–15 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.3% | £45–95 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.3% | £8–22 |
| Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds manufacturer's specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Rectified | 0.84% | £60–250 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.84% | £45–95 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.84% | £3–15 |
| Wheel bearings rough when rotated Suspension | Major | 0.84% | £20–55 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.84% | £8–22 |
Severity is as recorded: Major and Dangerous fail the test outright; Minor and Advisory do not. Costs are estimates from typical UK parts prices — see how they are built.
What testers noted without failing the car
Advisories are the early warnings — the same parts a year or two before they fail. Reading them is how you tell a car that has been maintained from one that has been patched.
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 8.0% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.3% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 2.1% | £45–110 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 2.1% | £80–180 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 1.3% | £18–45 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Advisory | 0.84% | £20–55 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 139 | 95.0% | 18,565 mi |
| 30-60k | 94 | 90.4% | 41,480 mi |
| 60-90k | 6 | 83.3% | 66,054 mi |
Source: 239 recorded tests on this vehicle-year. Every row above is recomputed from the same DVSA extract as the rest of the page — see the methodology.
2017 370 Z MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2017 Nissan 370 Z?
92.9% of the 239 2017 Nissan 370 Z tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 86.0% for cars first used in 2017. First-attempt pass rate: 92.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2017 Nissan 370 Z?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.67%), catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits (1.26%), side repeaters with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning (1.26%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2017 Nissan 370 Z MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.0% of the time, falling to 83.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2017 Nissan 370 Z in this dataset had covered 27,701 mi.
Does the season affect the 2017 Nissan 370 Z MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 93.5% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 92.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.