Pass rate
83.7%
Around average — 5.8 pts behind the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 455 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £23–£59
2019 Nissan NV250 MOT pass rate
- 2019
- Van
- 3 trims combined
- typical 50,912 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
27.5% 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 2019 83.7% pass · this year
- Avoid 2020 81.2% pass
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 2.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 80.8%
- Typical mileage
- 51k mi
The 2019 Nissan NV250 MOT pass rate is 83.7% of its MOT tests — 5.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 27.5% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Nissan NV250 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.9× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 23.6% of everything recorded on the 2019 Nissan Nv250, against 12.2% nationally — 11.4 points above. Tyres are still the single largest share at 27.5%, but at 19.8% nationally that one is ordinary. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, vans this age and mileage expect about 89.5%; this one manages 83.7% — 5.8 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 70% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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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Every Nissan NV250 first registered in 2019 is combined here — 3 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2019 Nissan NV250 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 89.5%, so this figure is 5.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 80.8%. The median 2019 Nissan NV250 in this dataset had covered 50,912 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 83.0% of the time, April–September 86.6%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 6.59% of tests.
- 455 recorded tests behind this page.
- 83.7% overall pass rate, 80.8% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Nissan NV250, the average is 81.9% — best year 2019 (83.7%), worst 2020 (81.2%).
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
- 455
- Typical mileage (median)
- 50,912 mi
- Make and model
- Nissan NV250
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
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 NV250 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 73% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the NV250
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| North West | 76 | 80.3% |
| South East | 66 | 86.4% |
| East of England | 50 | 84.0% |
| West Midlands | 48 | 79.2% |
| South West | 46 | 84.8% |
| Scotland | 40 | 85.0% |
| Yorkshire | 36 | 88.9% |
| London | 30 | 83.3% |
| Wales | 27 | 85.2% |
| East Midlands | 24 | 83.3% |
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 NV250
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 NV250
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 6.6% 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 windscreen 5.9% 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 wipers and washers 4.6% of tests
“wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively”
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.
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 NV250 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £23–£59 — and 70% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £23–£59
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 70%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 455 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 NV250, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2019 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 81.2% to 83.7% — a spread of 2.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 83.7%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2020 81.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 82.1% windscreen damaged but not…
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 NV250 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 vans with a similar record
- Citroen Berlingo 83.7%
- Peugeot Partner 83.8%
- Citroen Dispatch 83.6%
- Ford Transit Connect 83.5%
- Ford Transit 84.4%
- Ford Transit Courier 84.8%
Closest pass rates among 2019 vans with at least 1,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. Full rankings: best vans and worst vans for MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2019 Nissan NV250 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 489 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 | 135 | 27.50% | 19.76% | +7.74 |
| Brakes | 129 | 26.30% | 20.89% | +5.41 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 116 | 23.60% | 12.21% | +11.39 |
| Visibility | 72 | 14.70% | 4.97% | +9.73 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 10 | 2.00% | 5.52% | −3.52 |
| Non-component advisories | 10 | 2.00% | 4.18% | −2.18 |
| Suspension | 8 | 1.60% | 20.98% | −19.38 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 4 | 0.80% | 5.57% | −4.77 |
| Road Wheels | 3 | 0.60% | 0.75% | −0.15 |
| Steering | 2 | 0.40% | 2.57% | −2.17 |
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 | 6.6% | £5–20 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 5.9% | £80–200 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 4.6% | £8–22 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.7% | £3–12 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 2.4% | £3–12 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 2.4% | £45–95 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.8% | £8–22 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.5% | £3–12 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.5% | £8–22 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.3% | £18–45 |
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 | 15.4% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 8.6% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 7.9% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 4.4% | £45–95 |
| Stop lamp with a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 4.0% | £3–12 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 3.1% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 86 | 86.0% | 21,480 mi |
| 30-60k | 196 | 83.2% | 44,513 mi |
| 60-90k | 127 | 82.7% | 73,947 mi |
| 90-120k | 38 | 81.6% | 100,642 mi |
| 120k+ | 7 | 100.0% | 143,937 mi |
Source: 455 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 NV250 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2019 Nissan NV250?
83.7% of the 455 2019 Nissan NV250 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 89.5% for cars first used in 2019. First-attempt pass rate: 80.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2019 Nissan NV250?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (6.59%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (5.93%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (4.62%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2019 Nissan NV250 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 86.0% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2019 Nissan NV250 in this dataset had covered 50,912 mi.
Does the season affect the 2019 Nissan NV250 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 83.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 86.6%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.