Pass rate
88.2%
Above average — 1.3 pts behind the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 28,032 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £28–£77
2019 Nissan Micra MOT pass rate
- 2019
- typical 26,350 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
37.2% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tyre has a tear. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2022 93.8% pass
- Avoid 2000 69.4% pass
Across the 24 years on record, a spread of 24.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 86.7%
- Typical mileage
- 26k mi
The 2019 Nissan Micra MOT pass rate is 88.2% of its MOT tests — 1.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 37.2% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Nissan Micra does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.9× the national share
Tyres make up 37.2% of everything recorded on the 2019 Nissan Micra, against 19.8% nationally — 17.4 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.
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 2019 Nissan Micra compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 89.5%, so this figure is 1.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 86.7%. The median 2019 Nissan Micra in this dataset had covered 26,350 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 96% of tests, with a 88.4% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 88.2% of the time, April–September 88.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn", noted on 2.81% of tests.
- 28,032 recorded tests behind this page.
- 88.2% overall pass rate, 86.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Nissan Micra, the average is 77.9% — best year 2022 (93.8%), worst 2000 (69.4%).
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
- 28,032
- Typical mileage (median)
- 26,350 mi
- Make and model
- Nissan Micra
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Suspension Component
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Micra MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 70% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (96% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Micra
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 4,663 | 89.6% |
| North West | 4,431 | 87.8% |
| Scotland | 3,374 | 84.8% |
| North East | 2,673 | 86.5% |
| West Midlands | 2,466 | 89.1% |
| South West | 2,247 | 90.1% |
| East of England | 2,243 | 90.6% |
| Yorkshire | 2,145 | 87.1% |
| East Midlands | 1,625 | 87.6% |
| Wales | 1,118 | 88.4% |
| London | 1,047 | 89.7% |
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 2019 Micra
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 2019 Micra
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 suspension joints 2.8% of tests
“pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn”
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 wipers and washers 2.4% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
Run the wipers with the screen wet: they should clear it in one sweep without smearing or juddering. Top the washer bottle up and check both jets hit the screen.
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Check the coil springs 1.6% of tests
“coil spring fractured or broken”
Look up inside each wheel arch with a torch, all the way round the spring. A snapped spring usually breaks at the very bottom coil, where a quick glance will not reach.
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 2019 Micra through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £28–£77 — and 39% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £28–£77
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 39%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 28,032 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 Micra, side by side
24 model years on record, from 2000 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 69.4% to 93.8% — a spread of 24.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 69.4% component mounting prescribed…
- 2001 70.4% component mounting prescribed…
- 2002 71.1% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2003 71.6% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2004 72.2% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2005 72.1% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2006 74.2% headlamp aim projected beam image…
- 2007 74.6% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2008 76.0% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2009 76.6% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2010 76.8% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2011 77.9% service brake performance…
- 2012 78.0% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2013 79.2% service brake performance…
- 2014 81.5% service brake performance…
- 2015 83.7% service brake performance…
- 2016 84.7% service brake performance…
- 2017 79.6% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2018 82.6% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2019 88.2%pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2020 90.8% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2021 93.4% wipers blade defective
- 2022 93.8% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2023 88.7% wipers blade defective
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 2019 Nissan Micra 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 2019 cars with a similar record
- Kia Ceed 88.2%
- Peugeot Rifter 88.2%
- Smart Mcc Forfour 88.3%
- BMW X2 SDRIVE18D 88.1%
- Mitsubishi Shogun 88.1%
- Ford Focus 88.0%
Closest pass rates among 2019 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 2019 Nissan Micra 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 27,175 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 | 10,182 | 37.20% | 19.76% | +17.44 |
| Suspension | 6,857 | 25.10% | 20.98% | +4.12 |
| Brakes | 4,256 | 15.60% | 20.89% | −5.29 |
| Visibility | 2,064 | 7.50% | 4.97% | +2.53 |
| Non-component advisories | 1,388 | 5.10% | 4.18% | +0.92 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 823 | 3.00% | 12.21% | −9.21 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 581 | 2.10% | 5.52% | −3.42 |
| Road Wheels | 551 | 2.00% | 0.75% | +1.25 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 245 | 0.90% | 1.76% | −0.86 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 228 | 0.80% | 5.57% | −4.77 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.8% | £40–150 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 2.4% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.9% | £8–22 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 1.6% | £25–65 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.1% | £8–22 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.98% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.94% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.81% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.75% | £80–200 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.66% | £45–95 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 20.2% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 13.9% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 9.2% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.0% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 3.9% | £45–110 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 3.7% | £30–75 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 16,673 | 91.4% | 18,345 mi |
| 30-60k | 9,973 | 84.0% | 40,401 mi |
| 60-90k | 1,184 | 79.1% | 70,158 mi |
| 90-120k | 152 | 78.9% | 100,590 mi |
| 120k+ | 46 | 78.3% | 148,420 mi |
Source: 28,032 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.
2019 Micra MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2019 Nissan Micra?
88.2% of the 28,032 2019 Nissan Micra tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 89.5% for cars first used in 2019. First-attempt pass rate: 86.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2019 Nissan Micra?
The three most recorded items are pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (2.81%), wipers blade defective (2.37%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.89%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2019 Nissan Micra MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.4% of the time, falling to 78.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2019 Nissan Micra in this dataset had covered 26,350 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2019 Nissan Micra?
Petrol: 88.4% pass rate across 26,818 tests. Diesel: 83.3% pass rate across 1,214 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2019 Nissan Micra MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 88.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 88.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.