3-5-Year Skoda Octavia Recorded MOT Outcomes

12.3%
historical failure rate from 218,672 tests in this age band
14.6 percentage points below the dataset-wide reference of 26.9%

Evidence scope: The source groups vehicles into broad age bands. It does not provide a model-year-specific result here, and it does not include an individual vehicle's condition, service history or current defects. This page is descriptive, not predictive or diagnostic.

Recorded Component-Category Rates

These percentages are sample-size-weighted historical rates for this model and age band.

Component categoryRecorded rate
Tyres2.3%
Lamps & Electrics1.7%
Suspension1.2%
Brakes1.0%
Visibility0.5%
Body & Chassis0.1%
Steering0.0%

A category rate does not show that a particular vehicle has a fault in that area.

Other Recorded Age Bands

Age bandFailure rateTestsHighest recorded component category
0-2 years 9.4% 52,718 Tyres
3-5 years 12.3% 218,672 Tyres
6-10 years 20.8% 336,527 Lamps & Electrics
11-15 years 36.5% 178,699 Suspension
15+ years 44.0% 71,577 Suspension

Method: Failure and component-category rates are sample-size weighted. Only age/mileage groups with at least 100 tests are included. The checked-in source contains 148,509,908 tests and 39,969,903 failures.

Source: DVSA anonymised MOT tests and results, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.

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