Pass rate
71.3%
Below average — 1.6 pts behind the 72.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 237 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £64–£163
2002 Nissan D22 MOT pass rate
- 2002
- typical 132,782 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
23.4% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2000 73.9% pass
- Avoid 2007 63.0% pass
Across the 9 years on record, a spread of 10.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 64.9%
- Typical mileage
- 133k mi
The 2002 Nissan D22 MOT pass rate is 71.3% of its MOT tests — 1.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 23.4% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Body & chassis: 3.6× the national share
Body & chassis accounts for 20.0% of everything recorded on the 2002 Nissan D22, against 5.6% nationally — 14.4 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 23.4%, but at 21.0% nationally that one is ordinary. Look underneath for corrosion near the jacking points and suspension mounts; surface rust is normal, flaking metal is not.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 32% of this model’s typical repairs come in under £30 in parts — the failures here tend to be the kind that need a garage rather than a bulb.
- Based on a small sample. 237 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 2002 Nissan D22 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.9%, so this figure is 1.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 64.9%. The median 2002 Nissan D22 in this dataset had covered 132,782 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 69.1% of the time, April–September 75.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 10.55% of tests.
- 237 recorded tests behind this page.
- 71.3% overall pass rate, 64.9% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Nissan D22, the average is 70.3% — best year 2000 (73.9%), worst 2007 (63.0%).
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
- 237
- Typical mileage (median)
- 132,782 mi
- Make and model
- Nissan D22
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the D22 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 0% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Nissan D22 is most common
Across all D22 model years on record (2000–2009): 981 Nissan D22 cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 2,577 tests. Ashford (TN) has the most, with 36 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ashford (TN) | 36 | 74.2% |
| 2 | Peterborough (PE) | 28 | 68.7% |
| 3 | Portsmouth (PO) | 28 | 70.8% |
| 4 | Gloucester (GL) | 27 | 65.9% |
| 5 | Exeter (EX) | 25 | 57.0% |
| 6 | Taunton (TA) | 25 | 69.3% |
| 7 | Birmingham (B) | 24 | 76.8% |
| 8 | Plymouth (PL) | 24 | 65.6% |
| 9 | Southampton (SO) | 22 | 69.4% |
| 10 | Newton Abbot (TQ) | 22 | 72.7% |
| 11 | Ipswich (IP) | 21 | 72.2% |
| 12 | Norwich (NR) | 19 | 70.0% |
| 13 | Derby (DE) | 19 | 72.1% |
| 14 | Yeovil (BA) | 18 | 62.1% |
| 15 | Swansea (SA) | 18 | 73.1% |
| 16 | Brighton (BN) | 18 | 63.8% |
| 17 | Shrewsbury (SY) | 16 | 71.4% |
| 18 | Guildford (GU) | 16 | 65.9% |
| 19 | Poole (BH) | 15 | 72.5% |
| 20 | Oxford (OX) | 15 | 67.4% |
The twenty areas with the most Nissan D22 cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the D22
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South West | 77 | 64.9% |
| East of England | 38 | 73.7% |
| South East | 35 | 77.1% |
| West Midlands | 24 | 87.5% |
| East Midlands | 17 | 76.5% |
| Wales | 16 | 68.8% |
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 2002 D22
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 2002 D22
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 lights 10.6% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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.
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Check the suspension joints 5.5% of tests
“ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated”
With the car parked on level ground, rock the top of each front wheel in and out while someone watches the suspension arm. Clunks, or rubber boots split and greasy, are what testers record here.
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Check the windscreen 5.5% 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.
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 2002 D22 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £64–£163 — and 32% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £64–£163
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: chassis condition corroded to the extent that…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 40%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 32%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 237 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 D22, side by side
9 model years on record, from 2000 to 2009. Across them the pass rate runs from 63.0% to 73.9% — a spread of 10.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 73.9% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2001 67.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2002 71.3%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2003 69.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2004 71.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 69.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 63.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2008 68.5% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2009 67.7% position lamp not working
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 2002 Nissan D22 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 2002 cars with a similar record
- Vauxhall Zafira 71.3%
- Toyota Hilux 71.3%
- Volvo V70 71.4%
- Rover 75 71.4%
- Suzuki Grand Vitara 71.4%
- Vauxhall Astra 71.5%
Closest pass rates among 2002 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 2002 Nissan D22 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 924 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 220 | 23.40% | 20.98% | +2.42 |
| Brakes | 190 | 20.20% | 20.89% | −0.69 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 188 | 20.00% | 5.57% | +14.43 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 128 | 13.60% | 12.21% | +1.39 |
| Tyres | 53 | 5.60% | 19.76% | −14.16 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 43 | 4.60% | 5.52% | −0.92 |
| Visibility | 39 | 4.20% | 4.97% | −0.77 |
| Steering | 25 | 2.70% | 2.57% | +0.13 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 25 | 2.70% | 1.76% | +0.94 |
| Non-component advisories | 13 | 1.40% | 4.18% | −2.78 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 10.6% | £5–20 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 6.3% | £5–25 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 6.3% | £60–150 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 5.5% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 5.5% | £80–200 |
| Chassis condition corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced Body, chassis, structure | Major | 4.2% | £180–450 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.8% | £18–45 |
| Chassis condition or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of a body mounting Body, chassis, structure | Major | 3.8% | £180–450 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 3.8% | £80–180 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 3.4% | £180–450 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 25.3% | £80–180 |
| Wheel bearings has excessive play Suspension | Advisory | 19.8% | £20–55 |
| Chassis condition corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 15.6% | £180–450 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 12.7% | £200–700 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 11.4% | £45–95 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Advisory | 10.1% | £60–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 1 | 0.0% | 11,388 mi |
| 30-60k | 8 | 75.0% | 54,113 mi |
| 60-90k | 22 | 77.3% | 81,526 mi |
| 90-120k | 42 | 73.8% | 102,352 mi |
| 120k+ | 134 | 72.4% | 152,803 mi |
Source: 237 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.
2002 D22 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2002 Nissan D22?
71.3% of the 237 2002 Nissan D22 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.9% for cars first used in 2002. First-attempt pass rate: 64.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2002 Nissan D22?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (10.55%), headlamp lens slightly defective (6.33%), service brake performance excessively binding (6.33%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2002 Nissan D22 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 0.0% of the time, falling to 72.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2002 Nissan D22 in this dataset had covered 132,782 mi.
Does the season affect the 2002 Nissan D22 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 69.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 75.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.