2011 Nissan GT-R MOT pass rate

2011
typical 49,855 mi

Pass rate

93.9%

Above average — 18.0 pts ahead of the 75.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.

Across 540 recorded tests.

Typical repair bill £55–£178

Most common fault

Brakes

34.5% of faults · 20.9% nationally

mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.

Part only £25–£55 for Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded. What fitting it takes →

Every failure, with what it costs →

Which year to buy

Best 2021 98.7% pass
Avoid 2013 93.3% pass

Across the 14 years on record, a spread of 5.4 points. See every year →

First-attempt pass: 93.8%
Typical mileage: 50k mi

The 2011 Nissan GT-R MOT pass rate is 93.9% of its MOT tests — 18.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 34.5% of what testers record.

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MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Nissan GT-R does in your corner of the country.

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Expert verdict

Brakes: 1.7× the national share

Brakes make up 34.5% of everything recorded on the 2011 Nissan Gt-R, against 20.9% nationally — 13.6 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.

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 75.9% and this one manages 93.9% — 18.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
When it fails, it costs. Only 9% 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.

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

How does the 2011 Nissan GT-R compare?

Cars of this age and mileage average 75.9%, so this figure is 18.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 93.8%. The median 2011 Nissan GT-R in this dataset had covered 49,855 mi.

Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 94.9% of the time, April–September 92.9%.

The single most recorded failure item is "Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds manufacturer's specified limits", noted on 2.04% of tests.

540 recorded tests behind this page.
93.9% overall pass rate, 93.8% on a first attempt.
Across every year of the Nissan GT-R, the average is 95.6% — best year 2021 (98.7%), worst 2013 (93.3%).

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: 540
Typical mileage (median): 49,855 mi
Make and model: Nissan GT-R
Updated: 2026-11-05

Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.

Top part to budget for

Emissions Repair

Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.

Does mileage affect the GT-R MOT pass rate?

0-30k 92.9%

30-60k 96.3%

60-90k 90.5%

90-120k 85.7%

Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 77% so small gaps stay visible.

Regional pass rates for the GT-R

Region	Tests	Pass rate
South East	95	91.6%
South West	89	93.3%
North West	78	97.4%
West Midlands	60	98.3%
East of England	50	96.0%
Yorkshire	41	87.8%
Scotland	31	90.3%
London	27	96.3%
North East	25	100.0%
East Midlands	23	87.0%
Wales	21	90.5%

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 2011 GT-R

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.

Brakes 34.5%

+13.6 pts vs national national 20.9% Price brakes parts

Tyres 20.2%

in line with the national share national 19.8% Compare tyre prices

Suspension 17.0%

−4.0 pts vs national national 21.0% Price suspension parts

Emissions & leaks 10.3%

+4.8 pts vs national national 5.5% Price emissions & leaks parts

Show the other 6 fault categories

Body & chassis 4.5%
Advisories 4.5%
Visibility 3.6%
Steering 2.2%
Lamps & electrics 1.3%
Road wheels 0.9%

Shares are of every item recorded on 2011 Nissan GT-R tests — a composition, so they add to 100% across all sections, not per test.

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 2011 GT-R

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.

Check the exhaust and emissions 2.0% of tests

“catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds manufacturer's 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.
Check the brake pipes 0.7% of tests

“rigid brake pipes excessively corroded”

Brake pipes run under the car, usually in front of the rear wheels. Flaking or crusty metal is what fails; a light dusting of surface rust does not. Worth asking a garage to look while it is on a ramp.
Check the windscreen 0.7% 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.

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 2011 GT-R through its MOT

Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £55–£178 — and 9% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.

Average repair across the 10 common items: £55–£178
Cheapest common item: washers not working: £5–£15
Dearest common item: catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content…: £60–£250
Common items a careful owner can do at home: 40%
Repairs that still cost under £30: 9%

Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 540 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 GT-R, side by side

14 model years on record, from 2008 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 93.3% to 98.7% — a spread of 5.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.

2008 97.1% position lamp not working
2009 95.8% windscreen damaged but not…
2010 94.8% windscreen damaged but not…
2011 93.9%
catalyst emissions carbon…
2012 95.7% catalytic converter missing where…
2013 93.3% catalyst emissions carbon…
2014 95.8% catalyst emissions carbon…
2015 95.9% tread depth below requirements of…
2016 95.5% catalyst emissions carbon…
2017 97.6% catalyst emissions carbon…
2018 95.6% catalytic converter missing where…
2019 97.5% wipers does not clear the…
2020 94.4% wipers does not clear the…
2021 98.7% has ply or cords exposed

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 2011 Nissan GT-R 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.

Compare 2011 with another year →

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Other 2011 cars with a similar record

Closest pass rates among 2011 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 2011 Nissan GT-R 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 221 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
Brakes	77	34.50%	20.89%	+13.61
Tyres	45	20.20%	19.76%	+0.44
Suspension	38	17.00%	20.98%	−3.98
Noise, emissions and leaks	23	10.30%	5.52%	+4.78
Body, chassis, structure	10	4.50%	5.57%	−1.07
Non-component advisories	10	4.50%	4.18%	+0.32
Visibility	8	3.60%	4.97%	−1.37
Steering	5	2.20%	2.57%	−0.37
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment	3	1.30%	12.21%	−10.91
Road Wheels	2	0.90%	0.75%	+0.15

The exact failure items, in the tester's words

Share of the 540 tests on this vehicle that recorded each item
Recorded item	Severity	Tests	Est. cost	Part
Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds manufacturer's specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks	Major	2.0%	£60–250	Emissions Repair →
Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes	Major	0.74%	£80–180	Brake Pipe →
Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility	Minor	0.74%	£80–200	Windscreen →
Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content at idle exceeds manufacturer's specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks	Major	0.56%	£60–250	Emissions Repair →
Has ply or cords exposed Tyres	Major	0.56%	£45–95	Tyres →
Washers not working Visibility	Major	0.56%	£5–15	Windscreen Washer →
Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes	Major	0.37%	£18–45	Brake Pads Set →
Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content at idle exceeds default limits Noise, emissions and leaks	Major	0.37%	£60–250	Emissions Repair →
Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres	Major	0.37%	£45–95	Tyres →
Anchorage loose Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems	Major	0.19%	£40–120	Seat Belt →

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.

Items recorded as advisory on this vehicle
Recorded item	Severity	Tests	Est. cost
Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes	Advisory	7.4%	£80–180
Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres	Advisory	4.8%	£45–95
Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes	Advisory	3.0%	£45–110
Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension	Advisory	2.0%	£30–75
Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn Suspension	Advisory	1.5%	£18–45
Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes	Advisory	1.3%	£45–110

Pass rate by mileage

Mileage	Tests	Pass rate	Median odometer
0-30k	56	92.9%	23,617 mi
30-60k	301	96.3%	45,019 mi
60-90k	169	90.5%	70,224 mi
90-120k	14	85.7%	98,360 mi

Source: 540 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.

2011 GT-R MOT questions

What is the MOT pass rate for a 2011 Nissan GT-R?

93.9% of the 540 2011 Nissan GT-R tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 75.9% for cars first used in 2011. First-attempt pass rate: 93.8%.

What are the most common MOT failures on a 2011 Nissan GT-R?

The three most recorded items are catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds manufacturer's specified limits (2.04%), rigid brake pipes excessively corroded (0.74%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (0.74%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.

Does mileage affect the 2011 Nissan GT-R MOT pass rate?

Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.9% of the time, falling to 85.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2011 Nissan GT-R in this dataset had covered 49,855 mi.

Does the season affect the 2011 Nissan GT-R MOT pass rate?

Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 94.9% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 92.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.