Nissan Almera MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Nissan Almera in Great Britain in 2025 — 11,249 tests. Figures cover every Almera first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Almera ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
55.7%
16.6 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
11,249
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
10.7%
of Almera first tests; national 7.3%

How many Nissan Almera cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 20,358 Nissan Almera cars that were taxed or on SORN: 9,730 taxed and 10,628 on SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification — kept, but declared off the road by the keeper). The MOT figures above count tests; these count cars, across the whole United Kingdom, cars only. Nissan Almera vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
9,730
47.8% of the 20,358 Almera cars taxed or on SORN; 98 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
10,628
declared off the road by their keepers — 52.2% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Almera cars peaked at 118,301 at the end of 2014 and has since fallen by 108,571 (91.8%) to 9,730 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 5,801 at the end of 2014 to 10,628 at the end of 2025, up 83.2%. A car leaves the taxed count when it is scrapped, exported or declared off the road; the year-end counts do not say which.

Taxed Almera cars, year by year

Cars of this model taxed and on the road at the end of each year, 2014–2025.

050k100k150k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Almera cars, year 2014: 118kTaxed Almera cars, year 2015: 101kTaxed Almera cars, year 2016: 83kTaxed Almera cars, year 2017: 67kTaxed Almera cars, year 2018: 52kTaxed Almera cars, year 2019: 41kTaxed Almera cars, year 2020: 32kTaxed Almera cars, year 2021: 25kTaxed Almera cars, year 2022: 20kTaxed Almera cars, year 2023: 16kTaxed Almera cars, year 2024: 13kTaxed Almera cars, year 2025: 10k10k
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YearTaxed Almera cars
2014118,301
2015100,577
201683,470
201766,507
201852,404
201940,963
202032,261
202124,829
202219,962
202316,018
202412,558
20259,730

Almera cars on SORN, year by year

Cars of this model declared off the road at the end of each year, 2014–2025. Its own scale — for this model, cars on SORN outnumber taxed ones.

05k10k15k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Almera cars on SORN, year 2014: 6kAlmera cars on SORN, year 2015: 8kAlmera cars on SORN, year 2016: 10kAlmera cars on SORN, year 2017: 10kAlmera cars on SORN, year 2018: 11kAlmera cars on SORN, year 2019: 11kAlmera cars on SORN, year 2020: 11kAlmera cars on SORN, year 2021: 11kAlmera cars on SORN, year 2022: 11kAlmera cars on SORN, year 2023: 11kAlmera cars on SORN, year 2024: 11kAlmera cars on SORN, year 2025: 11k11k
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YearAlmera cars on SORN
20145,801
20157,935
20169,753
201710,340
201810,509
201910,892
202011,384
202111,176
202211,058
202311,113
202410,722
202510,628

Which model years survive

Taxed Almera cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 9,730 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. A build year's count depends on how many were sold that year as well as how many have lasted.

Year of manufacture Taxed, end of 2025Share of taxed Almera cars
20068939.2%
20053,15632.4%
20042,43525.0%
20031,27113.1%
20021,05410.8%
20014454.6%
20001781.8%
1999991.0%
19981021.0%
All other build years (five years, each under 1%)971.0%

Population source: Department for Transport / DVLA vehicle licensing statistics, table VEH0124, updated 15 July 2026; counts of the cars on DVLA's register that were taxed or on SORN at the end of each year shown, United Kingdom, cars only, excluding cars recorded with no model name. SortedCars groups DVLA's model name ALMERA under this model. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. SortedCars is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, DVLA or the Department for Transport.

How the Almera ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, Almera vs all cars, 2025.

Nissan AlmeraAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Nissan Almera, vehicle age 19: 57.7%Nissan Almera, vehicle age 20: 53.5%All cars, vehicle age 3: 88.5%All cars, vehicle age 4: 87.2%All cars, vehicle age 5: 86%All cars, vehicle age 6: 83.5%All cars, vehicle age 7: 80.9%All cars, vehicle age 8: 78.2%All cars, vehicle age 9: 74.9%All cars, vehicle age 10: 71.9%All cars, vehicle age 11: 68.6%All cars, vehicle age 12: 65.8%All cars, vehicle age 13: 63.5%All cars, vehicle age 14: 61.2%All cars, vehicle age 15: 59.3%All cars, vehicle age 16: 58.3%All cars, vehicle age 17: 57.2%All cars, vehicle age 18: 57.4%All cars, vehicle age 19: 57%All cars, vehicle age 20: 57.6%All cars 57.6%Nissan Almera 53.5%
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Age (years)Almera testsAlmera pass rateAll cars
191,01857.7%57.0%
203,61053.5%57.6%

Better or worse than the average car?

The Almera's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the Almera beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

Almera aheadAlmera behind
-6-3+0+3+6Age 19: +0.7 points vs the average car19Age 20: -4.1 points vs the average car20Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
19+0.7
20-4.1

The Almera fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the Almera fleet still in use.

01k2k3k4kAge 19: 1k19Age 20: 3k20Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
191,018
203,610

What an Almera fails on

Where the failure items land when an Almera fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Use it as a pre-purchase checklist: these are the areas to look at first.

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment30.4%
Brakes17.7%
Suspension12.9%
Body, chassis, structure8.0%
Tyres7.2%
Noise, emissions and leaks7.1%
Visibility7.1%
Steering4.5%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (94.7% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a Almera, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Brakes: 27.1% of advisories27.1%Suspension: 24.4% of advisories24.4%Tyres: 20.2% of advisories20.2%Body, chassis, structure: 7.8% of advisories7.8%Noise, emissions and leaks: 5.0% of advisoriesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment: 4.0% of advisories
BrakesSuspensionTyresBody, chassis, structureNoise, emissions and leaksLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
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CategoryShare of advisories
Brakes27.1%
Suspension24.4%
Tyres20.2%
Body, chassis, structure7.8%
Noise, emissions and leaks5.0%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment4.0%

What mileage is normal for an Almera?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Almera; the shaded band holds the middle half. A car far outside the band, in either direction, is worth questions the recorded history can answer.

Typical Almera (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k1920Vehicle age (years)Age 19: typical 86,250 miles (middle half 63,750–106,250)Age 20: typical 83,750 miles (middle half 66,250–106,250)83k mi

Mileage values are midpoints of 2,500-mile bands.

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
1963,75086,250106,250
2066,25083,750106,250

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How these figures are computed. Every number on this page is calculated by SortedCars from the DVSA anonymised MOT results dataset (every MOT test in Great Britain — 2025 for single-year figures; trend figures state their span, currently 2023–2025). Where a figure comes from a sample or uses banded values (mileage is banded to 2,500 miles), the page says so beside the figure. Test class 4 only, first tests only — retests are excluded. Class 4 is the car MOT class and also covers car-derived vans, pickups and motorhomes tested to the same standard; where this page says "cars" it means class 4. Pass rate = passes ÷ (passes + failures + pass-after-rectification): a vehicle that failed and was fixed during the visit counts as a fail. Pass rates describe fleets, not individual machines: they reflect how cars were driven, maintained and used as well as how they were built, and beyond recorded mileage none of that is in the data. A well-kept example of a model with a weak average can still pass; a neglected example of a strong one can still fail. No figure is shown for any group with fewer than 500 tests. Alias spellings of a make in the DVSA file are counted under one make name, and all trims and variants of a model are grouped under one model name, using SortedCars' grouping tables. The taxed and SORN counts on this page are the one exception: they are not computed from MOT records but taken from the Department for Transport's vehicle licensing statistics (DfT/DVLA table VEH0124, updated 15 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0), which count the cars on DVLA's register that were taxed or on SORN at the end of each year shown, UK-wide, cars only. They describe a model as a whole, grouped under SortedCars' model names, and say nothing about any one car. “Dangerous” is DVSA's statutory defect category (in force since May 2018): a defect posing an immediate risk to road safety — driving the vehicle before repair is an offence. What these figures are for. These statistics are general information about groups of vehicles. They are not advice, a valuation or a recommendation to buy, avoid or price any particular vehicle, and no decision about one car should rest on them alone — check the car itself and its own records. We take care over the calculations, but we cannot guarantee they are complete, current or free of error, and we accept no liability for loss arising from reliance on them. This does not limit any liability that cannot lawfully be limited — see our Terms & Conditions. If you believe any figure on this page is inaccurate, contact us. SortedCars is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the DVSA or DVLA. DVSA publishes the raw test records; the statistics on this page are SortedCars' own calculations from them. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.