Skoda Kodiaq MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Skoda Kodiaq in Great Britain in 2025 — 44,635 tests. Figures cover every Kodiaq first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Kodiaq ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
87.3%
15.0 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
44,635
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
4.5%
of Kodiaq first tests; national 7.3%

How many Skoda Kodiaq cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 77,529 Skoda Kodiaq cars that were taxed or on SORN: 76,908 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 Kodiaq vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
76,908
99.2% of the 77,529 Kodiaq cars taxed or on SORN; 63 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
621
declared off the road by their keepers — 0.8% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Kodiaq cars is still rising: 76,908 at the end of 2025, up 12,506 (19.4%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 139 at the end of 2017 to 621 at the end of 2025, up 346.8%. 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 Kodiaq cars, year by year

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

020k40k60k80k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Kodiaq cars, year 2014: 0Taxed Kodiaq cars, year 2015: 0Taxed Kodiaq cars, year 2016: 0Taxed Kodiaq cars, year 2017: 6kTaxed Kodiaq cars, year 2018: 14kTaxed Kodiaq cars, year 2019: 23kTaxed Kodiaq cars, year 2020: 30kTaxed Kodiaq cars, year 2021: 36kTaxed Kodiaq cars, year 2022: 44kTaxed Kodiaq cars, year 2023: 53kTaxed Kodiaq cars, year 2024: 64kTaxed Kodiaq cars, year 2025: 77k77k
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YearTaxed Kodiaq cars
20140
20150
20160
20176,278
201814,178
201922,595
202029,687
202136,249
202243,962
202353,067
202464,402
202576,908

Kodiaq 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)Kodiaq cars on SORN, year 2014: 0Kodiaq cars on SORN, year 2015: 0Kodiaq cars on SORN, year 2016: 0Kodiaq cars on SORN, year 2017: 139Kodiaq cars on SORN, year 2018: 47Kodiaq cars on SORN, year 2019: 207Kodiaq cars on SORN, year 2020: 259Kodiaq cars on SORN, year 2021: 191Kodiaq cars on SORN, year 2022: 175Kodiaq cars on SORN, year 2023: 240Kodiaq cars on SORN, year 2024: 349Kodiaq cars on SORN, year 2025: 621621
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YearKodiaq cars on SORN
20140
20150
20160
2017139
201847
2019207
2020259
2021191
2022175
2023240
2024349
2025621

Which model years survive

Taxed Kodiaq cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 76,908 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 Kodiaq cars
202512,48616.2%
202411,98215.6%
20239,20012.0%
20227,0899.2%
20216,6838.7%
20207,3149.5%
20198,58111.2%
20187,4679.7%
20176,1067.9%

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 KODIAQ 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 Kodiaq ages

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

Skoda KodiaqAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Skoda Kodiaq, vehicle age 3: 89.8%Skoda Kodiaq, vehicle age 4: 88.9%Skoda Kodiaq, vehicle age 5: 88.1%Skoda Kodiaq, vehicle age 6: 84.5%Skoda Kodiaq, vehicle age 7: 86.3%Skoda Kodiaq, vehicle age 8: 86.1%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 Kodiaq 86.1%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Kodiaq testsKodiaq pass rateAll cars
37,48089.8%88.5%
46,82288.9%87.2%
57,27088.1%86.0%
68,67984.5%83.5%
77,53586.3%80.9%
86,16686.1%78.2%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Kodiaq ahead
-8-4+0+4+8Age 3: +1.3 points vs the average car3Age 4: +1.7 points vs the average carAge 5: +2.1 points vs the average car5Age 6: +1.0 points vs the average carAge 7: +5.4 points vs the average car7Age 8: +7.9 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3+1.3
4+1.7
5+2.1
6+1.0
7+5.4
8+7.9

The Kodiaq fleet on the road, by age

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

02k4k6k9kAge 3: 7k3Age 4: 6kAge 5: 7k5Age 6: 8kAge 7: 7k7Age 8: 6k8Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
37,480
46,822
57,270
68,679
77,535
86,166

What a Kodiaq fails on

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

Tyres30.3%
Brakes17.3%
Suspension14.4%
Visibility13.3%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment13.2%
Noise, emissions and leaks6.1%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems1.6%
Body, chassis, structure1.2%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.5% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 40.2% of advisories40.2%Brakes: 28.7% of advisories28.7%Suspension: 17.6% of advisories17.6%Non-component advisories: 10.3% of advisories10.3%Identification of the vehicle: 1.9% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 0.5% of advisories
TyresBrakesSuspensionNon-component advisoriesIdentification of the vehicleNoise, emissions and leaks
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres40.2%
Brakes28.7%
Suspension17.6%
Non-component advisories10.3%
Identification of the vehicle1.9%
Noise, emissions and leaks0.5%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Kodiaq?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Kodiaq 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: 87.8% of 25,594 tests87.8%Petrol25,594 testsDiesel: 86.6% of 19,014 tests86.6%Diesel19,014 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Petrol25,59487.8%
Diesel19,01486.6%

What mileage is normal for a Kodiaq?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Kodiaq; 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 Kodiaq (median)
0k25k50k75k100k3578Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 28,750 miles (middle half 21,250–36,250)Age 4: typical 38,750 miles (middle half 28,750–48,750)Age 5: typical 43,750 miles (middle half 33,750–56,250)Age 6: typical 53,750 miles (middle half 41,250–68,750)Age 7: typical 63,750 miles (middle half 51,250–78,750)Age 8: typical 71,250 miles (middle half 56,250–88,750)71k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
321,25028,75036,250
428,75038,75048,750
533,75043,75056,250
641,25053,75068,750
751,25063,75078,750
856,25071,25088,750

What fails at each age

The Kodiaq'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.

TyresBrakesSuspensionLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentVisibilityEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres35.3%
3-5 yrsBrakes24.9%
3-5 yrsSuspension16.3%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment6.8%
3-5 yrsVisibility6.6%
3-5 yrsEverything else10.1%
6-9 yrsTyres33.5%
6-9 yrsSuspension17.6%
6-9 yrsBrakes15.8%
6-9 yrsVisibility12.9%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment7.5%
6-9 yrsEverything else12.7%

More vehicles we've checked

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.