MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Skoda Octavia MOT pass rate
The Skoda Octavia passed 79.8% of its 196,913 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 2.5 percentage points better than average.
How the Skoda Octavia holds up with age
Every car fails the MOT more often as it gets older. What matters when you are buying is how steeply that happens for this particular model. These are the 2025 pass rates for the Skoda Octavia grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 24,254 | 90.03% |
| 6–10 years | 92,562 | 84.68% |
| 11 years and over | 79,357 | 70.83% |
The Skoda Octavia drops 19.2 percentage points between its early years and the 11-plus bracket, which is a steep decline. On an older example, the MOT history is worth reading closely before you buy.
Why the Skoda Octavia fails its MOT
Across every Skoda Octavia that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was suspension, accounting for 28.23% of all recorded failure items. These are the areas worth having checked before you buy, and worth budgeting for on an older example.
| Failure area | Share of failure items | Recorded items |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 28.23% | 26,346 |
| Tyres | 17.41% | 16,245 |
| Brakes | 17.4% | 16,240 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 16.7% | 15,585 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 6.29% | 5,872 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 4.89% | 4,566 |
How the Skoda Octavia compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Skoda Octavia sits 324th of 651 models in this data , and 8th of the 12 Skoda models covered . Skoda as a whole averaged 80.35%, so this model runs 0.5 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Skoda Octavia
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Skoda Octavia came to its 2025 test at 102,002 miles and 10.1 years old. Most examples tested were diesel.
The useful check is the individual car's own MOT record: how many times it has failed, what for, and whether advisories keep reappearing. A recurring advisory on corrosion, suspension or brakes tells you far more than a model-wide average, and a mileage that does not move consistently between tests is a warning in itself.
Check a specific Skoda Octavia
Run the registration through a free MOT history check to see that car's test results, advisories and recorded mileages. For the risks an MOT never covers — outstanding finance, insurance write-off records, stolen markers and ownership history — a full car history check brings them together in one £15 report.
Also useful: mileage check · write-off check · free car check
Other Skoda models
- Skoda Fabia 75.71% pass rate · 226,072 tests
- Skoda Yeti 77.8% pass rate · 74,810 tests
- Skoda Superb 80.63% pass rate · 64,194 tests
- Skoda Karoq 90.93% pass rate · 60,637 tests
- Skoda Citigo 83.39% pass rate · 51,764 tests
- Skoda Kodiaq 89.35% pass rate · 43,040 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Volkswagen Golf 79.21% pass rate
- Toyota Yaris 80.34% pass rate
- Audi A3 79.9% pass rate
- Honda Jazz 80.64% pass rate
- Kia Sportage 80.57% pass rate
- Hyundai I10 79.04% pass rate
Figures aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025, class 4 initial tests only, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Retests are excluded, so these are first-time pass rates.