Skoda Karoq MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Skoda Karoq in Great Britain in 2025 — 61,412 tests. Figures cover every Karoq first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Karoq ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
89.0%
16.7 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
61,412
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
3.9%
of Karoq first tests; national 7.3%

How many Skoda Karoq cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 97,368 Skoda Karoq cars that were taxed or on SORN: 96,747 taxed and 621 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. Skoda Karoq vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
96,747
99.4% of the 97,368 Karoq cars taxed or on SORN; 58 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
621
declared off the road by their keepers — 0.6% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Karoq cars is still rising: 96,747 at the end of 2025, up 9,811 (11.3%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 175 at the end of 2018 to 621 at the end of 2025, up 254.9%. 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 Karoq cars, year by year

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

020k40k60k80k100k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Karoq cars, year 2014: 0Taxed Karoq cars, year 2015: 0Taxed Karoq cars, year 2016: 0Taxed Karoq cars, year 2017: 88Taxed Karoq cars, year 2018: 14kTaxed Karoq cars, year 2019: 29kTaxed Karoq cars, year 2020: 40kTaxed Karoq cars, year 2021: 51kTaxed Karoq cars, year 2022: 60kTaxed Karoq cars, year 2023: 73kTaxed Karoq cars, year 2024: 87kTaxed Karoq cars, year 2025: 97k97k
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YearTaxed Karoq cars
20140
20150
20160
201788
201813,954
201928,634
202040,487
202151,279
202260,487
202373,062
202486,936
202596,747

Karoq 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.

02004006008002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Karoq cars on SORN, year 2014: 0Karoq cars on SORN, year 2015: 0Karoq cars on SORN, year 2016: 0Karoq cars on SORN, year 2017: 0Karoq cars on SORN, year 2018: 175Karoq cars on SORN, year 2019: 169Karoq cars on SORN, year 2020: 293Karoq cars on SORN, year 2021: 191Karoq cars on SORN, year 2022: 173Karoq cars on SORN, year 2023: 364Karoq cars on SORN, year 2024: 332Karoq cars on SORN, year 2025: 621621
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YearKaroq cars on SORN
20140
20150
20160
20170
2018175
2019169
2020293
2021191
2022173
2023364
2024332
2025621

Which model years survive

Taxed Karoq cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 96,747 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 Karoq cars
20259,6089.9%
202414,10114.6%
202313,17813.6%
20228,3898.7%
202111,01811.4%
202012,26712.7%
201914,33914.8%
201813,76214.2%
All other build years (one year, each under 1%)850.1%

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 KAROQ 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 Karoq ages

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

Skoda KaroqAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Skoda Karoq, vehicle age 3: 92.2%Skoda Karoq, vehicle age 4: 89%Skoda Karoq, vehicle age 5: 87.9%Skoda Karoq, vehicle age 6: 88.1%Skoda Karoq, vehicle age 7: 88.5%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%Skoda Karoq 88.5%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Karoq testsKaroq pass rateAll cars
38,70392.2%88.5%
411,18889.0%87.2%
512,32787.9%86.0%
614,41388.1%83.5%
713,95288.5%80.9%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Karoq ahead
-8-4+0+4+8Age 3: +3.7 points vs the average car3Age 4: +1.8 points vs the average carAge 5: +1.9 points vs the average car5Age 6: +4.6 points vs the average carAge 7: +7.6 points vs the average car7Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3+3.7
4+1.8
5+1.9
6+4.6
7+7.6

The Karoq fleet on the road, by age

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

05k10k15k20kAge 3: 8k3Age 4: 11kAge 5: 12k5Age 6: 14kAge 7: 13k7Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
38,703
411,188
512,327
614,413
713,952

What a Karoq fails on

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

Tyres34.0%
Suspension18.5%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment16.4%
Brakes16.0%
Visibility7.3%
Noise, emissions and leaks2.9%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems2.0%
Body, chassis, structure0.9%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.1% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 40.9% of advisories40.9%Suspension: 25.9% of advisories25.9%Brakes: 24.0% of advisories24.0%Non-component advisories: 7.5% of advisories7.5%Identification of the vehicle: 0.8% of advisoriesRoad Wheels: 0.3% of advisories
TyresSuspensionBrakesNon-component advisoriesIdentification of the vehicleRoad Wheels
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres40.9%
Suspension25.9%
Brakes24.0%
Non-component advisories7.5%
Identification of the vehicle0.8%
Road Wheels0.3%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Karoq?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Karoq fuel types, 2025, against the all-cars average. Fleet ages differ by fuel — newer fleets help the electrified bars.

50%60%70%80%90%100%all cars 72.3%Petrol: 89.3% of 48,030 tests89.3%Petrol48,030 testsDiesel: 87.9% of 13,382 tests87.9%Diesel13,382 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Petrol48,03089.3%
Diesel13,38287.9%

What mileage is normal for a Karoq?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Karoq; 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 Karoq (median)
0k25k50k75k357Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 23,750 miles (middle half 16,250–31,250)Age 4: typical 31,250 miles (middle half 23,750–41,250)Age 5: typical 38,750 miles (middle half 28,750–48,750)Age 6: typical 46,250 miles (middle half 33,750–58,750)Age 7: typical 51,250 miles (middle half 38,750–66,250)51k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
316,25023,75031,250
423,75031,25041,250
528,75038,75048,750
633,75046,25058,750
738,75051,25066,250

What fails at each age

The Karoq'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.

TyresSuspensionBrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentVisibilityEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres39.7%
3-5 yrsSuspension26.7%
3-5 yrsBrakes14.9%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment5.9%
3-5 yrsVisibility5.2%
3-5 yrsEverything else7.6%
6-9 yrsTyres38.9%
6-9 yrsBrakes22.3%
6-9 yrsSuspension17.4%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment7.7%
6-9 yrsVisibility5.5%
6-9 yrsEverything else8.2%

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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.