Nissan model reference
Nissan X-Trail
What our record holds on the X-Trail: the body styles and fuel types it was sold in here, and the road tax a used one pays. The UK sales period is not recorded, and this page says so rather than estimating it.
No reliability figure is published for the Nissan X-Trail that this site could cite. What circulates instead is survey data from panels that select themselves, and warranty claim rates published by companies with something to sell.
Any percentage would be our own calculation. Which years count, and whether a facelift and a new generation sharing the X-Trail name are one model or two, both move the answer, and neither choice is anybody official's.
So the field does not exist. We do not average the other Nissan models into a number and put it here, and we do not push a marque figure down onto the X-Trail. What is real and specific is the paperwork for one car.
No fault ordering is published for the X-Trail
A 2018 1.6 dCi pays the standard rate, £200 for twelve months in 2026/27.
That figure is a worked example for the year and engine named, not a rate for every X-Trail. Read the CO2 figure and the first registration date off the V5C before you budget, because both change the answer.
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Buying a used X-Trail: what the record settles
The UK sales period for the X-Trail is not recorded in the dataset behind this page, so that row is empty. An approximate range would be a guess, and a guess would be worse than nothing here: the years a car was on sale decide which road tax regime it falls under, which is the main reason anybody looks the dates up. It came in one body style here, SUV, with 3 fuel types: petrol, diesel and petrol hybrid.
Which road tax regime a X-Trail falls under depends entirely on the first registration date printed on its V5C. Before 1 March 2001 is engine size, 1 March 2001 to 31 March 2017 is CO2 bands, and 1 April 2017 onwards is the flat standard rate. Check the document, not the model name.
For running costs the fuel matters more than the badge. On the diesels the emissions section is where a neglected car loses its certificate: the particulate filter is inspected and the smoke reading is measured against a limit, and a filter that has never had a long run to clear itself will not pass on a good intention. Four wheel drive versions carry more driveline than the two wheel drive ones. Driveshaft boots, propshaft joints and the extra bushes are all inspected, and they are the items that turn a cheap purchase into an expensive first year.
None of that is a substitute for the record of the actual car. The invoices name what was replaced, when and at what mileage, and the same job appearing twice in three years says more about a X-Trail than any statistic about the model ever could. A mileage that goes backwards across a paperwork trail is worth walking away from whatever the badge is.
Nissan sold its first cars here as Datsun from the late 1960s and opened its Sunderland plant in 1986, which has built Qashqai and Juke for the UK and Europe ever since. The Qashqai created the family crossover class in Britain and has been in the new car top three for years, so it is now equally dominant used. The Micra is the other volume story, with three decades of small hatchbacks still in daily use. That is context on the marque rather than on this car, and there is more of it, along with every other model line, on the Nissan page.