All generations and engines together · 15,090 MOT tests in the 2025 data · typical mileage at age 7: 76k
One of the worst superminis to buy at this age, but about average per mile driven. Watch suspension and lights & electrics. One to judge on its mileage rather than its age, and worth it only if its MOT history has no repeating suspension advisories.
Owner folklore from forums and the motoring press, with how well each report stands up. Most of it never shows up in an MOT, which is why this section exists at all.
Owners of manual Logans report the car occasionally refusing to go into any gear, usually in slow traffic. The likely cause is the shared brake/clutch fluid reservoir: a diaphragm valve can stick, stopping the clutch from disengaging properly. The fix is a brake fluid change and, if that doesn't clear it, a new clutch slave cylinder, typically £100-300 at an independent garage. No recall or dealer bulletin found for it, so it's treated case by case.
A separate but related complaint on the 1.5 dCi diesel manual: the gearchange feels notchy and reluctant to find gears cleanly, especially when cold. Owners have linked it to gearbox oil condition and worn selector cables rather than anything more serious. A clutch/gearbox check and fresh gear oil often improves it; if it doesn't, linkage bushes or the selector cable itself may need replacing, a job in the low hundreds of pounds.
The 1.5 dCi is a shared Renault-Nissan diesel unit, and owners report the usual diesel-EGR story: sooting around the EGR valve and turbo, rough idle, and a loss of power that gets worse with short journeys and skipped oil changes. Most cases are an EGR clean or valve replacement (roughly £150-450); full turbo replacement is rarer but runs closer to £600-1,200. No official recall found, this is wear-and-tear behaviour typical of the engine family rather than a one-off fault.
On the 0.9 TCe three-cylinder turbo petrol, owners and independent trackers of the engine report timing chain wear, a leaking thermostat housing, and failing ignition coils becoming more common from roughly 80,000km (about 50,000 miles) onward, particularly where oil changes have been stretched. None of this is manufacturer-acknowledged as a pattern fault; it shows up as individual repairs rather than a campaign. A chain job is a bigger bill than a cambelt would be, expect somewhere in the £400-800 range if it's needed.
A long-standing complaint: knocking over bumps, creaking on turns and a loose feeling through the steering at low speed, blamed on worn bushes and shock absorbers. This is a supermini-class car and suspension is the class's measured MOT signature fault, so the pattern in the data lines up with what owners describe. Typical fix is bushes, top mounts or shocks on the front end, £150-300 a side, more if it's left until it fails an MOT outright.
Ranked from this model’s own MOT record, then from what owners report.
Saveable checklistThe physical checks its own defect data says are worth your time, most telling first.
These judge the seller’s upkeep rather than the model, and they are where the haggling money is.
Drawn from the reports above rather than the MOT data. These are the model-specific ones.
Computed from DVSA MOT results, all of Great Britain, 2025. Nothing here is opinion.
Share of tests where each item was recorded. The dark tick is the class average across all tracked models; bars are scaled within each group.
The rows that judge the model rather than its keeper. 9,177 tests in this band.
Tyres, pads and stone chips say more about how the car was driven and maintained than about how it was built.
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