Pass rate
85.1%
Above average — 1.1 pts ahead of the 84.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 26,450 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £39–£130
2016 Skoda Citigo MOT pass rate
- 2016
- typical 42,673 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
29.3% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2019 93.8% pass
- Avoid 2012 84.3% pass
Across the 8 years on record, a spread of 9.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 82.7%
- Typical mileage
- 43k mi
The 2016 Skoda Citigo MOT pass rate is 85.1% of its MOT tests — 1.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 29.3% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Skoda Citigo does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.5× the national share
Tyres make up 29.3% of everything recorded on the 2016 Skoda Citigo, against 19.8% nationally — 9.5 points above. Check all four tyres yourself, including the inner shoulders, and look at the date stamp — a tyre can pass on tread and still be six years old.
Written from this page's own figures: fault shares against the national composition, the like-for-like pass rate, and the priced repair list. How these are worked out
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How does the 2016 Skoda Citigo compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 84.0%, so this figure is 1.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 82.7%. The median 2016 Skoda Citigo in this dataset had covered 42,673 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 84.7% of the time, April–September 85.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Position lamp not working", noted on 2.28% of tests.
- 26,450 recorded tests behind this page.
- 85.1% overall pass rate, 82.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Skoda Citigo, the average is 86.9% — best year 2019 (93.8%), worst 2012 (84.3%).
Figures count every completed test on this vehicle-year in the dataset, including retests. See methodology for the exact definition.
This page's data
- Tests analysed
- 26,450
- Typical mileage (median)
- 42,673 mi
- Make and model
- Skoda Citigo
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Headlight Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Citigo MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 64% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Citigo
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 5,195 | 87.7% |
| North West | 3,149 | 85.6% |
| South West | 2,814 | 85.7% |
| Yorkshire | 2,809 | 83.7% |
| West Midlands | 2,802 | 86.2% |
| Scotland | 2,544 | 77.1% |
| East of England | 2,324 | 87.4% |
| East Midlands | 1,573 | 84.9% |
| North East | 1,394 | 82.3% |
| Wales | 1,340 | 85.7% |
| London | 506 | 89.1% |
Regions come from the postcode area recorded at the test station. Areas on region borders are assigned to the region with the majority of their population.
What fails a 2016 Citigo
Everything a tester recorded on this vehicle, grouped into the inspection sections that produced it. The notch on each bar is the national share, so you can see at a glance whether this car is unusual or just ordinary.
A test can record several items, so these percentages do not add up to 100%. The exact strings, with prices, are in the full DVSA record at the bottom of this page.
Before your test
Three checks worth doing on a 2016 Citigo
These are not generic tips — they are the faults recorded most often on this exact model, rewritten as things you can check yourself. All three take about ten minutes and cost nothing.
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Check the lights 2.3% of tests
“position lamp not working”
Switch everything on and walk round the car: both headlamps on dip and main, every indicator, both brake lights, reverse, fog and the two number-plate lamps. A bulb is a few pounds and a five-minute job.
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Check the suspension joints 2.2% of tests
“pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn”
With the car parked on level ground, rock the top of each front wheel in and out while someone watches the suspension arm. Clunks, or rubber boots split and greasy, are what testers record here.
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Check the windscreen 1.6% of tests
“windscreen damaged”
Check the driver’s side of the screen within the swept area for chips and cracks; anything larger than 10mm in the driver’s central view is a fail. Most chips can be resin-repaired for far less than a new screen.
Shares are the proportion of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item, so they overlap: one test can record several.
What it costs to get a 2016 Citigo through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £39–£130 — and 36% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £39–£130
- Cheapest common item: wipers does not clear the windscreen…
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 30%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 36%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 26,450 MOT tests on this vehicle. They exclude diagnostics, retest fees and garage labour where the part is a DIY fit, and they are not figures from the DVSA dataset. Older and higher-mileage examples cost more than the average. How these estimates are built → · All MOT repair costs → · Cheapest cars to put through a test →
Every year of the Citigo, side by side
8 model years on record, from 2012 to 2019. Across them the pass rate runs from 84.3% to 93.8% — a spread of 9.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2012 84.3% service brake performance…
- 2013 85.2% service brake performance…
- 2014 85.4% service brake performance…
- 2015 86.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 85.1%position lamp not working
- 2017 88.4% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2018 90.5% wipers does not clear the…
- 2019 93.8% headlamp aim too low
Colour is the pass rate on a fixed scale, so a block means the same thing on any model. Each year links to its own page with the full fault breakdown.
Compare the 2016 Skoda Citigo with another year
The raw pass rate mostly measures age. The year comparison adds the like-for-like figure, the mileage bands and the repair bill.
Other 2016 cars with a similar record
- Kia Rio 85.1%
- Volkswagen Scirocco 85.1%
- Hyundai Tucson 85.0%
- BMW 116 85.0%
- SEAT Mii 85.0%
- Volkswagen Cc 85.2%
Closest pass rates among 2016 cars with at least 2,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. See the full rankings: best and worst MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2016 Skoda Citigo 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 10 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 28,004 individual items recorded on this vehicle, and the same share across all cars nationally. A single test can record several items, so a row is not a percentage of tests.
| Category | Items | This car | Nationally | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 8,264 | 29.30% | 19.76% | +9.54 |
| Brakes | 6,811 | 24.10% | 20.89% | +3.21 |
| Suspension | 3,739 | 13.20% | 20.98% | −7.78 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 2,740 | 9.70% | 12.21% | −2.51 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1,915 | 6.80% | 5.52% | +1.28 |
| Visibility | 1,686 | 6.00% | 4.97% | +1.03 |
| Non-component advisories | 1,586 | 5.60% | 4.18% | +1.42 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 811 | 2.90% | 5.57% | −2.67 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 258 | 0.90% | 1.76% | −0.86 |
| Road Wheels | 194 | 0.70% | 0.75% | −0.05 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 2.3% | £5–25 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.2% | £40–150 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.0% | £5–25 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.6% | £80–200 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.6% | £60–250 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 1.3% | £60–150 |
| Fuel cap/sealing device ineffective Body, chassis, structure | Major | 1.2% | £80–250 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.1% | £30–80 |
| Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds default limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.97% | £60–250 |
Severity is as recorded: Major and Dangerous fail the test outright; Minor and Advisory do not. Costs are estimates from typical UK parts prices — see how they are built.
What testers noted without failing the car
Advisories are the early warnings — the same parts a year or two before they fail. Reading them is how you tell a car that has been maintained from one that has been patched.
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 15.2% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 10.7% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 7.0% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 6.7% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 4.8% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 3.0% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 6,850 | 91.1% | 20,873 mi |
| 30-60k | 13,579 | 84.8% | 43,996 mi |
| 60-90k | 4,929 | 79.5% | 71,234 mi |
| 90-120k | 914 | 75.5% | 100,625 mi |
| 120k+ | 170 | 72.9% | 134,341 mi |
Source: 26,450 recorded tests on this vehicle-year. Every row above is recomputed from the same DVSA extract as the rest of the page — see the methodology.
2016 Citigo MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2016 Skoda Citigo?
85.1% of the 26,450 2016 Skoda Citigo tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 84.0% for cars first used in 2016. First-attempt pass rate: 82.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2016 Skoda Citigo?
The three most recorded items are position lamp not working (2.28%), pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (2.24%), position lamp not working (2.04%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2016 Skoda Citigo MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.1% of the time, falling to 72.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2016 Skoda Citigo in this dataset had covered 42,673 mi.
Does the season affect the 2016 Skoda Citigo MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 84.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 85.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.