Wheel bearings has excessive play on the Nissan Navara

Wheel bearings has excessive play on the Nissan Navara is recorded on 8,756 tests — 3.3% of all its MOT tests, against 0.6% across every car in the data. That is 5.5× the national share.

Is this unusual for this model?

Compared with	What it says
Every car in the data	0.6% of tests record it — this model is 5.5× that share
The 252 models compared	18 of 252, highest first
The model's own record	262,149 tests · every year of the Navara →

A share of tests is not a probability for your car: it counts every Nissan Navara tested, whatever its mileage, service history and use. The like-for-like comparison on the model page is the fairer number.

Year by year

In 2003, 9.8% of this model's tests recorded it; in 2015, 3.8%. The share has fallen 6.0 points over that time. Worst year 2003 at 9.8%; best 2014 at 1.6%.

Year	Failures recorded	Tests	Share of tests
2003	233	2,390	9.8%
2004	645	8,757	7.4%
2005	722	9,832	7.3%
2006	587	21,726	2.7%
2007	547	25,893	2.1%
2008	547	20,418	2.7%
2009	661	13,902	4.8%
2010	577	22,011	2.6%
2011	896	30,510	2.9%
2012	691	25,956	2.7%
2013	595	26,530	2.2%
2014	629	40,488	1.6%
2015	1,119	29,544	3.8%

Years with fewer than 0.2% of tests recording the item are left out: a year with two failures in 400 tests is noise, and this table is not here to make noise look like a trend.

What it costs

A typical UK repair for this item is £20–£55 fitted. It is a job a careful owner can do at home. What the part is, and what to buy →

Prices are typical UK supply-and-fitting estimates, not quotes. What happens if it fails covers the retest rules.

Where this sits

Wheel bearings has excessive play: every model, every year → — the item's own page, with the part guide.
Nissan Navara MOT pass rate by year → — the model's whole record, and what else it fails on.
Every Nissan model →