Nissan Pixo MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Nissan Pixo in Great Britain in 2025 — 10,729 tests. Figures cover every Pixo first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Pixo ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
63.7%
8.6 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
10,729
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
7.8%
of Pixo first tests; national 7.3%

How many Nissan Pixo cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 10,861 Nissan Pixo cars that were taxed or on SORN: 10,283 taxed and 578 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 Pixo vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
10,283
94.7% of the 10,861 Pixo cars taxed or on SORN; 7 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
578
declared off the road by their keepers — 5.3% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Pixo cars peaked at 14,269 at the end of 2014 and has since fallen by 3,986 (27.9%) to 10,283 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 56 at the end of 2014 to 578 at the end of 2025, up 932.1%. 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 Pixo cars, year by year

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

05k10k15k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Pixo cars, year 2014: 14kTaxed Pixo cars, year 2015: 14kTaxed Pixo cars, year 2016: 14kTaxed Pixo cars, year 2017: 14kTaxed Pixo cars, year 2018: 14kTaxed Pixo cars, year 2019: 13kTaxed Pixo cars, year 2020: 13kTaxed Pixo cars, year 2021: 13kTaxed Pixo cars, year 2022: 12kTaxed Pixo cars, year 2023: 12kTaxed Pixo cars, year 2024: 11kTaxed Pixo cars, year 2025: 10k10k
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YearTaxed Pixo cars
201414,269
201514,121
201613,996
201713,818
201813,604
201913,304
202012,957
202112,673
202212,333
202311,843
202411,163
202510,283

Pixo 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 — SORN counts are a fraction of the taxed count.

02004006002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Pixo cars on SORN, year 2014: 56Pixo cars on SORN, year 2015: 77Pixo cars on SORN, year 2016: 115Pixo cars on SORN, year 2017: 156Pixo cars on SORN, year 2018: 188Pixo cars on SORN, year 2019: 237Pixo cars on SORN, year 2020: 292Pixo cars on SORN, year 2021: 308Pixo cars on SORN, year 2022: 325Pixo cars on SORN, year 2023: 369Pixo cars on SORN, year 2024: 432Pixo cars on SORN, year 2025: 578578
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YearPixo cars on SORN
201456
201577
2016115
2017156
2018188
2019237
2020292
2021308
2022325
2023369
2024432
2025578

Which model years survive

Taxed Pixo cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 10,283 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 Pixo cars
20134634.5%
20121,63715.9%
20111,78717.4%
20103,49534.0%
20092,90128.2%

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 PIXO 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 Pixo ages

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

Nissan PixoAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Nissan Pixo, vehicle age 13: 66.2%Nissan Pixo, vehicle age 14: 65.7%Nissan Pixo, vehicle age 15: 62%Nissan Pixo, vehicle age 16: 62.3%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%Nissan Pixo 62.3%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Pixo testsPixo pass rateAll cars
131,72966.2%63.5%
141,85065.7%61.2%
153,62462.0%59.3%
163,05362.3%58.3%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Pixo ahead
-6-3+0+3+6Age 13: +2.7 points vs the average car13Age 14: +4.5 points vs the average carAge 15: +2.7 points vs the average car15Age 16: +4.0 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
13+2.7
14+4.5
15+2.7
16+4.0

The Pixo fleet on the road, by age

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

01k2k3k4kAge 13: 1k13Age 14: 1kAge 15: 3k15Age 16: 3k16Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
131,729
141,850
153,624
163,053

What a Pixo fails on

Where the failure items land when a Pixo 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 equipment33.7%
Suspension18.0%
Brakes17.8%
Visibility10.6%
Tyres9.1%
Body, chassis, structure4.0%
Noise, emissions and leaks2.8%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems2.0%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.0% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Suspension: 35.6% of advisories35.6%Brakes: 30.3% of advisories30.3%Tyres: 20.2% of advisories20.2%Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment: 2.9% of advisoriesBody, chassis, structure: 2.7% of advisoriesNon-component advisories: 2.6% of advisories
SuspensionBrakesTyresLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentBody, chassis, structureNon-component advisories
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CategoryShare of advisories
Suspension35.6%
Brakes30.3%
Tyres20.2%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment2.9%
Body, chassis, structure2.7%
Non-component advisories2.6%

What mileage is normal for a Pixo?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Pixo; 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 Pixo (median)
0k25k50k75k100k131516Vehicle age (years)Age 13: typical 53,750 miles (middle half 36,250–76,250)Age 14: typical 61,250 miles (middle half 41,250–83,750)Age 15: typical 63,750 miles (middle half 46,250–86,250)Age 16: typical 63,750 miles (middle half 46,250–86,250)63k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
1336,25053,75076,250
1441,25061,25083,750
1546,25063,75086,250
1646,25063,75086,250

What fails at each age

The Pixo's failure mix by age band, 2025 — each band's top categories at their true share of that band's failure items; the pale remainder is everything else. How the mix shifts with age is the point of the chart.

SuspensionLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentBrakesTyresVisibilityEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
10-13 yrsSuspension23.1%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment22.2%
10-13 yrsBrakes21.1%
10-13 yrsTyres12.5%
10-13 yrsVisibility9.8%
10-13 yrsEverything else11.3%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment28.4%
14+ yrsBrakes20.8%
14+ yrsSuspension20.8%
14+ yrsTyres9.9%
14+ yrsVisibility8.2%
14+ yrsEverything else11.9%

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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.