Pass rate
76.1%
Around average — 2.3 pts ahead of the 73.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 222 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £82–£217
2000 Nissan Terrano MOT pass rate
- 2000
- typical 98,562 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
21.9% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Which year to buy
- Best 2000 76.1% pass · this year
- Avoid 2006 67.7% pass
Across the 7 years on record, a spread of 8.4 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 72.1%
- Typical mileage
- 99k mi
The 2000 Nissan Terrano MOT pass rate is 76.1% of its MOT tests — 2.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 21.9% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Body & chassis: 3.6× the national share
Body & chassis accounts for 20.2% of everything recorded on the 2000 Nissan Terrano, against 5.6% nationally — 14.6 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 21.9%, 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 8% 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. 222 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 2000 Nissan Terrano compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.8%, so this figure is 2.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 72.1%. The median 2000 Nissan Terrano in this dataset had covered 98,562 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 79.7% of the time, April–September 72.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Chassis condition or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of a body mounting", noted on 5.41% of tests.
- 222 recorded tests behind this page.
- 76.1% overall pass rate, 72.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Nissan Terrano, the average is 70.9% — best year 2000 (76.1%), worst 2006 (67.7%).
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
- 222
- Typical mileage (median)
- 98,562 mi
- Make and model
- Nissan Terrano
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Corrosion Welding Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Terrano MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 59% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Nissan Terrano is most common
Across all Terrano model years on record (2000–2006): 2,054 Nissan Terrano cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 5,118 tests. Peterborough (PE) has the most, with 74 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 | Peterborough (PE) | 74 | 69.2% |
| 2 | Sheffield (S) | 65 | 78.8% |
| 3 | Swansea (SA) | 60 | 64.6% |
| 4 | Shrewsbury (SY) | 58 | 65.1% |
| 5 | Norwich (NR) | 53 | 68.8% |
| 6 | Exeter (EX) | 48 | 61.8% |
| 7 | Leicester (LE) | 48 | 74.4% |
| 8 | Derby (DE) | 48 | 76.4% |
| 9 | Ashford (TN) | 47 | 76.7% |
| 10 | Wrexham (LL) | 44 | 70.4% |
| 11 | Nottingham (NG) | 38 | 72.0% |
| 12 | Doncaster (DN) | 38 | 73.7% |
| 13 | Birmingham (B) | 37 | 82.7% |
| 14 | Portsmouth (PO) | 35 | 75.8% |
| 15 | Cardiff (CF) | 34 | 60.5% |
| 16 | Ipswich (IP) | 31 | 66.3% |
| 17 | Northampton (NN) | 31 | 76.4% |
| 18 | Coventry (CV) | 30 | 75.8% |
| 19 | Gloucester (GL) | 28 | 68.3% |
| 20 | Reading (RG) | 27 | 80.0% |
The twenty areas with the most Nissan Terrano 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 Terrano
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 74 | 73.0% |
| South West | 28 | 75.0% |
| East of England | 27 | 70.4% |
| West Midlands | 24 | 79.2% |
| Yorkshire | 23 | 82.6% |
| East Midlands | 21 | 71.4% |
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 2000 Terrano
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 2000 Terrano
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 corrosion 5.4% of tests
“chassis condition or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of a body mounting”
Look under the sills, around the jacking points and where the suspension mounts meet the body. Flaking, holed or crumbly metal fails; a brown stain on sound metal does not.
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Check the windscreen 4.5% 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.
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Check the suspension joints 4.0% of tests
“track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or 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.
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 2000 Terrano through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £82–£217 — and 8% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £82–£217
- Cheapest common item: position lamp not working
- £5–£25
- Dearest common item: chassis condition or chassis has excessive…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 30%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 8%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 222 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 Terrano, side by side
7 model years on record, from 2000 to 2006. Across them the pass rate runs from 67.7% to 76.1% — a spread of 8.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 76.1%chassis condition or chassis has…
- 2001 75.8% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2002 71.2% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2003 71.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2004 70.1% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2005 69.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2006 67.7% 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 2000 Nissan Terrano 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 2000 cars with a similar record
- Land Rover Discovery 75.7%
- BMW 3 Series 76.5%
- Saab 9-3 76.6%
- Toyota Corolla 76.7%
- Honda Civic 75.3%
- MG Mgf 75.0%
Closest pass rates among 2000 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 2000 Nissan Terrano 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 678 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 | 151 | 21.90% | 20.98% | +0.92 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 139 | 20.20% | 5.57% | +14.63 |
| Brakes | 103 | 15.00% | 20.89% | −5.89 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 77 | 11.20% | 12.21% | −1.01 |
| Tyres | 54 | 7.80% | 19.76% | −11.96 |
| Steering | 43 | 6.20% | 2.57% | +3.63 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 39 | 5.70% | 5.52% | +0.18 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 29 | 4.20% | 0.82% | +3.38 |
| Visibility | 27 | 3.90% | 4.97% | −1.07 |
| Non-component advisories | 16 | 2.30% | 4.18% | −1.88 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chassis condition or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of a body mounting Body, chassis, structure | Major | 5.4% | £180–450 |
| Prescribed areas prescribed area strength or continuity significantly reduced Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 5.4% | £40–120 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 4.5% | £80–250 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 4.5% | £80–200 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 4.0% | £180–450 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 4.0% | £18–45 |
| Battery(ies) insecure but not likely to fall from carrier Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.1% | £60–140 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Major | 3.1% | £45–120 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 3.1% | £80–250 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.1% | £5–25 |
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 | 15.3% | £80–180 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 11.7% | £45–95 |
| Wheel bearings has excessive play Suspension | Advisory | 11.7% | £20–55 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 10.8% | £200–700 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 10.4% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 9.5% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 1 | 100.0% | 300 mi |
| 30-60k | 25 | 84.0% | 47,179 mi |
| 60-90k | 55 | 80.0% | 76,913 mi |
| 90-120k | 61 | 77.0% | 103,229 mi |
| 120k+ | 64 | 67.2% | 145,860 mi |
Source: 222 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.
2000 Terrano MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2000 Nissan Terrano?
76.1% of the 222 2000 Nissan Terrano tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.8% for cars first used in 2000. First-attempt pass rate: 72.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2000 Nissan Terrano?
The three most recorded items are chassis condition or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of a body mounting (5.41%), prescribed areas prescribed area strength or continuity significantly reduced (5.41%), joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (4.50%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2000 Nissan Terrano MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 67.2% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2000 Nissan Terrano in this dataset had covered 98,562 mi.
Does the season affect the 2000 Nissan Terrano MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 79.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 72.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.