2018 Skoda Karoq: MOT pass rate and reliability

91.3% of 2018 Skoda Karoqs pass the MOT first time, measured across 13,982 DVSA tests on that model year alone. The average one had covered 46,468 miles.

How the 2018 compares

  • Against all Skoda Karoqs (91.6%, 47,069 tests): -0.3 points
  • Against all 2018 cars (85.9%): +5.4 points
  • National first-time pass rate, all cars and years: 77%

Every Skoda Karoq model year

Pass rates fall as cars age, so the only fair comparison for a 2018 car is other cars of the same age. The full run for the Skoda Karoq:

Year Pass rate Tests Avg mileage
2018 91.3% 13,982 46,468
2019 92% 13,944 40,285
2020 91.5% 10,150 31,623
2021 91.5% 8,602 25,805
2022 92.5% 227 21,689

What this means if you are buying a 2018 Karoq

The 2018 sits close to the Skoda Karoq average, so there is no strong model-year signal either way. Judge the individual car on its own history. Check the exact car with the free MOT history checker before you buy, and run its VIN and mileage through our free VIN decoder and clocking check.

What an 8-year-old car fails on

A 2018 car is 8 years old now, and age drives the failure mix more than the badge does. Across all cars tested, these are the categories that actually cause failures:

  • Lights and electrical: 10.36% of all cars tested
  • Suspension: 8.65% of all cars tested
  • Tyres: 6.23% of all cars tested
  • Brakes: 6.1% of all cars tested
  • Visibility: wipers, washers, glass: 4.65% of all cars tested
  • Body, chassis and structure: 3.18% of all cars tested

That is below average for a car this age, worth a mileage-consistency check since an unusually low reading is sometimes clocking rather than luck. On a 2018 Skoda Karoq the average at test was 46,468 miles, so treat anything far above that as a car that has worked harder than its peers, and anything far below as one worth checking for the faults that come from standing still.

The strongest year for this model is 2022 at 92.5%, and the weakest in our data is 2018 at 91.3%. That 1.2 point spread across the model's life is why comparing a 2018 car against a newer one tells you very little.

Nearby model years

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