Skoda Superb MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Skoda Superb in Great Britain in 2025 — 65,630 tests. Figures cover every Superb first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Superb ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
77.7%
5.4 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
65,630
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
7.1%
of Superb first tests; national 7.3%
Typical mileage at 10 years
108,750
middle half: 81,250–148,750 miles (2,500-mile-band midpoints)

How many Skoda Superb cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 81,175 Skoda Superb cars that were taxed or on SORN: 76,345 taxed and 4,830 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 Superb vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
76,345
94.0% of the 81,175 Superb cars taxed or on SORN; 170 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
4,830
declared off the road by their keepers — 6.0% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Superb cars is still rising: 76,345 at the end of 2025, up 1,643 (2.2%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 771 at the end of 2014 to 4,830 at the end of 2025, up 526.5%. 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 Superb 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 Superb cars, year 2014: 33kTaxed Superb cars, year 2015: 37kTaxed Superb cars, year 2016: 45kTaxed Superb cars, year 2017: 53kTaxed Superb cars, year 2018: 60kTaxed Superb cars, year 2019: 64kTaxed Superb cars, year 2020: 66kTaxed Superb cars, year 2021: 69kTaxed Superb cars, year 2022: 70kTaxed Superb cars, year 2023: 73kTaxed Superb cars, year 2024: 75kTaxed Superb cars, year 2025: 76k76k
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YearTaxed Superb cars
201432,806
201537,139
201645,087
201753,327
201859,749
201963,775
202065,725
202169,020
202270,320
202373,030
202474,702
202576,345

Superb 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.

01k2k3k4k5k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Superb cars on SORN, year 2014: 771Superb cars on SORN, year 2015: 1kSuperb cars on SORN, year 2016: 1kSuperb cars on SORN, year 2017: 2kSuperb cars on SORN, year 2018: 2kSuperb cars on SORN, year 2019: 3kSuperb cars on SORN, year 2020: 3kSuperb cars on SORN, year 2021: 3kSuperb cars on SORN, year 2022: 3kSuperb cars on SORN, year 2023: 4kSuperb cars on SORN, year 2024: 4kSuperb cars on SORN, year 2025: 5k5k
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YearSuperb cars on SORN
2014771
20151,051
20161,478
20171,961
20182,050
20192,596
20203,205
20213,078
20223,336
20233,811
20244,237
20254,830

Which model years survive

Taxed Superb cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 76,345 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 Superb cars
20253,8915.1%
20243,7975.0%
20235,0806.7%
20222,9043.8%
20213,7945.0%
20204,6496.1%
20196,4968.5%
20187,1909.4%
20178,97311.8%
20168,21610.8%
20154,5566.0%
20144,3935.8%
20133,3954.4%
20123,5784.7%
20112,4573.2%
20101,5472.0%
All other build years (nine years, each under 1%)1,4291.9%

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 SUPERB 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 Superb ages

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

Skoda SuperbAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Skoda Superb, vehicle age 3: 88.1%Skoda Superb, vehicle age 4: 85.5%Skoda Superb, vehicle age 5: 85.2%Skoda Superb, vehicle age 6: 82.3%Skoda Superb, vehicle age 7: 83%Skoda Superb, vehicle age 8: 80.7%Skoda Superb, vehicle age 9: 79.6%Skoda Superb, vehicle age 10: 72.1%Skoda Superb, vehicle age 11: 69.3%Skoda Superb, vehicle age 12: 66%Skoda Superb, vehicle age 13: 64.8%Skoda Superb, vehicle age 14: 63.5%Skoda Superb, vehicle age 15: 64%Skoda Superb, vehicle age 16: 61.9%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 Superb 61.9%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Superb testsSuperb pass rateAll cars
33,14788.1%88.5%
44,20885.5%87.2%
54,84985.2%86.0%
66,70282.3%83.5%
77,34883.0%80.9%
88,98980.7%78.2%
98,07179.6%74.9%
104,50272.1%71.9%
114,33669.3%68.6%
123,42266.0%65.8%
133,57664.8%63.5%
142,48963.5%61.2%
151,58664.0%59.3%
1677561.9%58.3%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Superb aheadSuperb behind
-6-3+0+3+6Age 3: -0.4 points vs the average car3Age 4: -1.7 points vs the average carAge 5: -0.8 points vs the average car5Age 6: -1.2 points vs the average carAge 7: +2.1 points vs the average car7Age 8: +2.5 points vs the average carAge 9: +4.7 points vs the average car9Age 10: +0.2 points vs the average carAge 11: +0.7 points vs the average car11Age 12: +0.2 points vs the average carAge 13: +1.3 points vs the average car13Age 14: +2.3 points vs the average carAge 15: +4.7 points vs the average car15Age 16: +3.6 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3-0.4
4-1.7
5-0.8
6-1.2
7+2.1
8+2.5
9+4.7
10+0.2
11+0.7
12+0.2
13+1.3
14+2.3
15+4.7
16+3.6

The Superb fleet on the road, by age

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

02k4k6k9kAge 3: 3k3Age 4: 4kAge 5: 4k5Age 6: 6kAge 7: 7k7Age 8: 8kAge 9: 8k9Age 10: 4kAge 11: 4k11Age 12: 3kAge 13: 3k13Age 14: 2kAge 15: 1k15Age 16: 77516Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
33,147
44,208
54,849
66,702
77,348
88,989
98,071
104,502
114,336
123,422
133,576
142,489
151,586
16775

What a Superb fails on

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

Suspension30.8%
Tyres23.1%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment17.6%
Brakes12.3%
Noise, emissions and leaks5.2%
Visibility4.8%
Body, chassis, structure2.5%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems1.5%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.8% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 34.4% of advisories34.4%Suspension: 27.5% of advisories27.5%Brakes: 25.5% of advisories25.5%Non-component advisories: 4.9% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 2.9% of advisoriesIdentification of the vehicle: 2.3% of advisories
TyresSuspensionBrakesNon-component advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaksIdentification of the vehicle
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres34.4%
Suspension27.5%
Brakes25.5%
Non-component advisories4.9%
Noise, emissions and leaks2.9%
Identification of the vehicle2.3%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Superb?

First-time pass rate for the three most-tested Superb 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%Diesel: 75.3% of 47,057 tests75.3%Diesel47,057 testsPetrol: 83.5% of 14,862 tests83.5%Petrol14,862 testsHybrid electric: 84.6% of 3,699 tests84.6%Hybrid3,699 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Diesel47,05775.3%
Petrol14,86283.5%
Hybrid electric3,69984.6%

What mileage is normal for a Superb?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Superb; 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 Superb (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k150k175k357911131516Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 38,750 miles (middle half 23,750–61,250)Age 4: typical 48,750 miles (middle half 33,750–73,750)Age 5: typical 56,250 miles (middle half 38,750–81,250)Age 6: typical 66,250 miles (middle half 46,250–96,250)Age 7: typical 76,250 miles (middle half 53,750–108,750)Age 8: typical 86,250 miles (middle half 63,750–121,250)Age 9: typical 96,250 miles (middle half 71,250–128,750)Age 10: typical 108,750 miles (middle half 81,250–148,750)Age 11: typical 113,750 miles (middle half 86,250–151,250)Age 12: typical 118,750 miles (middle half 88,750–153,750)Age 13: typical 123,750 miles (middle half 93,750–161,250)Age 14: typical 131,250 miles (middle half 101,250–166,250)Age 15: typical 141,250 miles (middle half 111,250–173,750)Age 16: typical 138,750 miles (middle half 108,750–171,250)138k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
323,75038,75061,250
433,75048,75073,750
538,75056,25081,250
646,25066,25096,250
753,75076,250108,750
863,75086,250121,250
971,25096,250128,750
1081,250108,750148,750
1186,250113,750151,250
1288,750118,750153,750
1393,750123,750161,250
14101,250131,250166,250
15111,250141,250173,750
16108,750138,750171,250

What fails at each age

The Superb'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 equipmentVisibilityNoise, emissions and leaksBody, chassis, structureEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres40.7%
3-5 yrsSuspension30.3%
3-5 yrsBrakes12.2%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment5.9%
3-5 yrsVisibility5.3%
3-5 yrsEverything else5.6%
6-9 yrsSuspension31.7%
6-9 yrsTyres31.2%
6-9 yrsBrakes12.1%
6-9 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks7.8%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment7.6%
6-9 yrsEverything else9.6%
10-13 yrsSuspension37.5%
10-13 yrsTyres20.3%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment15.2%
10-13 yrsBrakes14.3%
10-13 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks3.2%
10-13 yrsEverything else9.5%
14+ yrsSuspension33.5%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment19.9%
14+ yrsBrakes14.7%
14+ yrsTyres14.6%
14+ yrsBody, chassis, structure5.5%
14+ yrsEverything else11.8%

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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.