Pass rate
66.0%
Below average — 8.0 pts behind the 74.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 194 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £22–£70
2009 Nissan Tida MOT pass rate
- 2009
- typical 82,541 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
26.9% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Part only £35–£75 for Suspension pin or bush excessively worn. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2010 66.7% pass
- Avoid 2009 66.0% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 0.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 53.5%
- Typical mileage
- 83k mi
The 2009 Nissan Tida MOT pass rate is 66.0% of its MOT tests — 8.0 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 26.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Nissan Tida does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.3× the national share
Suspension accounts for 26.9% of everything recorded on the 2009 Nissan Tida, against 21.0% nationally — 5.9 points above. Ask for the front and rear suspension to be checked on a ramp before you buy — worn bushes and broken springs are cheap to look at and expensive to discover at test time.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 74.0%; this one manages 66.0% — 8.0 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- Based on a small sample. 194 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 2009 Nissan Tida compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 74.0%, so this figure is 8.0 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 53.5%. The median 2009 Nissan Tida in this dataset had covered 82,541 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 69.3% of the time, April–September 63.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn", noted on 11.86% of tests.
- 194 recorded tests behind this page.
- 66.0% overall pass rate, 53.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Nissan Tida, the average is 66.2% — best year 2010 (66.7%), worst 2009 (66.0%).
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
- 194
- Typical mileage (median)
- 82,541 mi
- Make and model
- Nissan Tida
- 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 Tida MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 56% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Tida
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 116 | 64.7% |
| North West | 40 | 65.0% |
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 2009 Tida
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 2009 Tida
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 11.9% 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 coil springs 8.3% 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.
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Check the lights 7.7% 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.
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 2009 Tida through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £22–£70 — and 44% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £22–£70
- Cheapest common item: srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: pins
- £40–£150
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 44%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 194 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 Tida, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2009 to 2010. Across them the pass rate runs from 66.0% to 66.7% — a spread of 0.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2009 66.0%pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2010 66.7% pins and bushes pin or bush…
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 2009 Nissan Tida 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 2009 cars with a similar record
- Peugeot 3008 67.0%
- Chevrolet Aveo 67.1%
- Chevrolet Lacetti 67.6%
- Chevrolet Captiva 67.9%
- Citroen Grand C4 Picasso 68.0%
- Fiat Bravo 68.1%
Closest pass rates among 2009 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 2009 Nissan Tida 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 573 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 | 155 | 26.90% | 20.98% | +5.92 |
| Brakes | 142 | 24.70% | 20.89% | +3.81 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 76 | 13.20% | 12.21% | +0.99 |
| Tyres | 65 | 11.30% | 19.76% | −8.46 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 65 | 11.30% | 5.57% | +5.73 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 22 | 3.80% | 5.52% | −1.72 |
| Visibility | 19 | 3.30% | 4.97% | −1.67 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 11 | 1.90% | 0.82% | +1.08 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 10 | 1.70% | 1.76% | −0.06 |
| Non-component advisories | 8 | 1.40% | 4.18% | −2.78 |
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 | 11.9% | £40–150 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 8.3% | £25–65 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 7.7% | £5–20 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 6.7% | £5–25 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 5.2% | £18–45 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 4.6% | £3–12 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Major | 4.1% | £45–120 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 4.1% | £5–25 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 3.6% | £60–150 |
| Horn not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.1% | £8–25 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 17.0% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 16.5% | £45–95 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 15.5% | £45–120 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 12.4% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 12.4% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 11.9% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 9 | 66.7% | 25,776 mi |
| 30-60k | 29 | 69.0% | 47,251 mi |
| 60-90k | 73 | 64.4% | 75,270 mi |
| 90-120k | 63 | 65.1% | 105,824 mi |
| 120k+ | 19 | 68.4% | 130,862 mi |
Source: 194 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.
2009 Tida MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2009 Nissan Tida?
66.0% of the 194 2009 Nissan Tida tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 74.0% for cars first used in 2009. First-attempt pass rate: 53.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2009 Nissan Tida?
The three most recorded items are pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (11.86%), coil spring fractured or broken (8.25%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (7.73%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2009 Nissan Tida MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 66.7% of the time, falling to 68.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2009 Nissan Tida in this dataset had covered 82,541 mi.
Does the season affect the 2009 Nissan Tida MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 69.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 63.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.