Pass rate
91.8%
Above average — 1.1 pts ahead of the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 34,531 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £41–£101
2020 Skoda Karoq MOT pass rate
- 2020
- typical 29,020 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
37.4% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
0.7 pts down across model years — 4.2% in 2018, 3.5% in 2022.
Which year to buy
- Best 2024 100.0% pass
- Avoid 2020 91.8% pass · this year
Across the 8 years on record, a spread of 8.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 91.2%
- Typical mileage
- 29k mi
The 2020 Skoda Karoq MOT pass rate is 91.8% of its MOT tests — 1.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 37.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Skoda Karoq does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.9× the national share
Tyres make up 37.4% of everything recorded on the 2020 Skoda Karoq, against 19.8% nationally — 17.6 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 8% of this model’s typical repairs come in under £30 in parts — the failures here tend to be the kind that need a garage rather than a bulb.
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 2020 Skoda Karoq compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, 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 91.2%. The median 2020 Skoda Karoq in this dataset had covered 29,020 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 86% of tests, with a 91.9% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 92.4% of the time, April–September 91.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords", noted on 1.89% of tests.
- 34,531 recorded tests behind this page.
- 91.8% overall pass rate, 91.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Skoda Karoq, the average is 92.2% — best year 2024 (100.0%), worst 2020 (91.8%).
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
- 34,531
- Typical mileage (median)
- 29,020 mi
- Make and model
- Skoda Karoq
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Karoq MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 77% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (86% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Karoq
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 7,901 | 91.6% |
| North West | 4,004 | 93.2% |
| South West | 3,515 | 91.8% |
| Scotland | 3,443 | 90.3% |
| East of England | 3,344 | 92.0% |
| West Midlands | 3,217 | 92.6% |
| Yorkshire | 3,025 | 92.1% |
| East Midlands | 2,205 | 87.7% |
| North East | 1,615 | 94.6% |
| Wales | 1,263 | 94.0% |
| London | 999 | 91.9% |
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 2020 Karoq
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 2020 Karoq
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 shock absorbers 1.6% of tests
“shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak”
Press down hard on each corner of the car and let go. It should settle in one bounce; if it keeps rocking, or you can see oil weeping down a shock absorber, that is the fault a tester will find.
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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.
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Check the brakes 0.7% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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 2020 Karoq through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £41–£101 — and 8% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £41–£101
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 8%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 34,531 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 Karoq, side by side
8 model years on record, from 2017 to 2024. Across them the pass rate runs from 91.8% to 100.0% — a spread of 8.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2017 92.3% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2018 92.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 92.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 91.8%has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 92.2% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2022 94.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2023 95.0% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2024 100.0% no single leading item
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 2020 Skoda Karoq 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 2020 cars with a similar record
- Vauxhall Grandland X Griffin 91.8%
- Kia Sportage Platinum 91.8%
- Vauxhall Corsa Ultimate 91.8%
- Nissan Leaf 91.7%
- Hyundai Kona Play T-Gdi 91.7%
- Kia Soul 91.7%
Closest pass rates among 2020 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 2020 Skoda Karoq 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 28,322 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 | 10,627 | 37.40% | 19.76% | +17.64 |
| Suspension | 7,362 | 25.90% | 20.98% | +4.92 |
| Brakes | 5,292 | 18.60% | 20.89% | −2.29 |
| Non-component advisories | 2,350 | 8.30% | 4.18% | +4.12 |
| Visibility | 1,203 | 4.20% | 4.97% | −0.77 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 789 | 2.80% | 12.21% | −9.41 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 222 | 0.80% | 5.52% | −4.72 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 164 | 0.60% | 1.76% | −1.16 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 160 | 0.60% | 0.82% | −0.22 |
| Road Wheels | 153 | 0.50% | 0.75% | −0.25 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.9% | £45–95 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 1.6% | £30–75 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.6% | £80–200 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.71% | £18–45 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.70% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.59% | £30–80 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.54% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.51% | £30–80 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 0.49% | £40–150 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.39% | £45–95 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 14.6% | £30–75 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 11.4% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 9.7% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.2% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.1% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 4.0% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 18,145 | 93.7% | 19,604 mi |
| 30-60k | 14,337 | 90.0% | 40,911 mi |
| 60-90k | 1,764 | 88.7% | 69,514 mi |
| 90-120k | 230 | 85.2% | 99,804 mi |
| 120k+ | 54 | 88.9% | 143,093 mi |
Source: 34,531 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.
2020 Karoq MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Skoda Karoq?
91.8% of the 34,531 2020 Skoda Karoq tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 91.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Skoda Karoq?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.89%), shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak (1.65%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.56%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Skoda Karoq MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.7% of the time, falling to 88.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Skoda Karoq in this dataset had covered 29,020 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2020 Skoda Karoq?
Petrol: 91.9% pass rate across 29,608 tests. Diesel: 91.6% pass rate across 4,923 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2020 Skoda Karoq MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 92.4% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 91.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.