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Skoda Yeti — MOT statistics 2024

The Skoda Yeti failed 23.39% of 75,713 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 80.9 (100 = expected for its age profile). This car fails its MOT about 19% less often than expected for its age.

MOT risk index 80.9, 95% CI 79.9–82.0 (100 = national average) 100 80.9 0 200
Index
80.9
100 = age-normal
Raw fail rate
23.39%
n = 75,713
Dangerous /100
6
national ≈11
Diesel − petrol
+7.2 pp
fail-rate gap
Rank
271 of 761
lower index = better

Age-adjusted peer: Honda e (index 81.0) — the two published results are 0.1 index points apart.

Skoda Yeti common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment are well below the reference at 5.4 per 100 tests, against 10.2 per 100 tests across UK vehicles of the same ages.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Skoda Yeti common problems: what actually fails the MOT — 2024 UK MOT data

family vs national — matched to UK vehicles of the same ages — top component groups, per 100 tests. Legend: This family · National avg. Combined labels: family / national average. A gap here reflects how these vehicles are driven, used and maintained as well as how they were built — an MOT defect is a test outcome, not a breakdown.

Component-group comparison table

Each ratio carries a 95% interval. With 6 groups compared here, roughly one apparent difference in twenty is chance alone.

GroupThis familyCases behind itUK, same agesFamily / national
Suspension8.638,9909.30.93×0.92–0.94
Tyres5.625,3068.40.67×0.66–0.67
Lamps & electrical5.424,66110.20.53×0.53–0.54
Brakes5.123,2397.60.67×0.67–0.69
Visibility4.419,9326.40.69×0.68–0.70
Body & structure2.310,4932.50.91×0.90–0.93
Named defects — items per 100 initial tests, this family vs UK national average; this model measured on 453,061 tests, 2019-2024, national column 2024
What failedper 100 tests (this family)per 100 tests (UK average)ratio family / UKWhat to check
Tyre seriously damagedA tyre seriously damaged2.472.540.97×Check tyre tread depth across the full width
Windscreen or window damaged or seriously…Windscreen or window damaged or seriously discoloured but not adversely affecting driver's view2.182.360.92×Check wipers, washers and windscreen chips in the driver's view
Suspension joint dust cover missing or no longer…A suspension joint dust cover missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc1.411.780.79×Listen for knocks over bumps — worn joints show up on the test
Transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot…A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot severely deteriorated1.061.480.72×Ask the seller about: A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot severely d
Tyre cords visible or damagedA tyre cords visible or damaged1.151.630.71×Check tyre tread depth across the full width
Spring or spring component fractured or seriously…A spring or spring component fractured or seriously weakened2.192.860.77×Ask the seller about: A spring or spring component fractured or seriously weakened
Brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mma brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm1.412.150.66×Feel for brake judder and pulling on the test drive
Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the…Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the windscreen1.082.220.49×Check wipers, washers and windscreen chips in the driver's view
Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the…Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements1.333.590.37×Check tyre tread depth across the full width
Suspension pin, bush or joint excessively wornA suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn2.534.870.52×Listen for knocks over bumps — worn joints show up on the test

Named defects ranked by how much more often they appear than the national average — not by raw rate.

Skoda Yeti MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Tyres are highest at 34.9 per 100 tests; Identification is lowest at 1.2 per 100 tests — the gap is 33.7 per 100 tests.

higher bar = flagged more oftenadvisory items per 100 initial tests

Skoda Yeti MOT advisories: what gets flagged — 2024 UK MOT data
Advisory rates table
GroupAdvisories per 100
Tyres34.9
Brakes26.8
Suspension23.4
Non-component advisories5.6
Emissions & leaks1.7
Identification1.2

Advisories are wear the tester noted but didn't fail — what will need money soon.

Tyres, brakes and suspension: Skoda Yeti against cars of the same age

AgePartSkoda YetiSame age, petrol and dieselDifference
3 yearsTyres3.594.17-0.58
3 yearsBrakes0.731.77-1.04
3 yearsSuspension0.360.63-0.27
4 yearsTyres3.694.54-0.85
4 yearsBrakes1.12.43-1.33
4 yearsSuspension0.861.21-0.35
5 yearsTyres3.755.06-1.31
5 yearsBrakes1.533.09-1.56
5 yearsSuspension1.272.19-0.92
6 yearsTyres3.835.54-1.71
6 yearsBrakes2.153.81-1.66
6 yearsSuspension2.313.72-1.41
7 yearsTyres3.815.95-2.14
7 yearsBrakes2.934.55-1.62
7 yearsSuspension3.735.68-1.95
8 yearsTyres46.31-2.31
8 yearsBrakes3.85.38-1.58
8 yearsSuspension5.667.78-2.12

Failing items per 100 initial tests, 2019-2024. The comparison group is every petrol or diesel car tested at the same age, so weight and drivetrain show up rather than fleet age.

If a car like this fails, does it fail again?

A failure rate does not say whether a failure is a one-off or the start of something. This follows the same vehicles into their next ordinary MOT a year later — retests after a repair are excluded, because they follow a failure by definition. 2019-2024.

After this year's testFails next yearVehicles followed
It failed25.0%16,305
It passed16.9%301,264

A failed test raises next year's chance of failing again by 8.1 percentage points. The failure most likely to come back is body, chassis, structure — 34.5% of those vehicles fail again next year. Some of this is the vehicle and some is the owner: a car that was let go once tends to be let go again. One caveat: a car that fails may be sold or scrapped rather than tested again, so these figures describe the vehicles that came back.

Adjusted for how much these are actually driven

The headline index adjusts for the fleet's age. Wear, though, follows mileage: a three-year-old taxi and a three-year-old garage queen sit in the same age band. These two rows compare every car with vehicles of the same age, and then with vehicles of the same age and the same annual mileage, 2019-2024, on 449,260 tests. Both stand on the six-year corpus so they are measured on identical data — compare them with each other, not with the headline index above, which is measured on 2024 alone.

Standardised forIndexReading
Age only74.2fails less often than expected
Age and annual mileage75.4fails less often than vehicles driven as much
Share doing under 3,000 miles a year5.1%a normal spread of use

Mileage changes little here (+1.2 points): this fleet is driven about as much as the vehicles it is compared with. One limit to keep in mind: mileage is partly a result of how often a car breaks down — one that spends weeks in the workshop covers fewer miles — so the mileage-matched figure can understate a real weakness. Tests with no usable odometer reading are left out of it.

How the Skoda Yeti compares with cars of its own age and size

Not against the whole fleet — against cars of the same size class tested at the same age, 2019-2024.

AgeSkoda YetiSame class, same ageDifferenceTests
3 years12.44%11.69%+0.75 pp29,200
4 years11.22%13.31%-2.09 pp37,227
5 years12.02%15.1%-3.08 pp49,521
6 years14.31%17.39%-3.08 pp59,891
7 years16.1%20.23%-4.13 pp66,786
8 years19%23.3%-4.29 pp61,030
9 years21.74%26.83%-5.09 pp51,652
10 years24.56%30.12%-5.55 pp39,342
11 years27.83%33.52%-5.68 pp26,970
12 years30.71%36.51%-5.79 pp16,436
13 years32.95%38.91%-5.96 pp9,601
14 years36.21%40.84%-4.64 pp4,267
15 years37.32%42.31%-4.99 pp544

Raw first-time failure rates within each age, so fleet age cannot flatter either side. A positive difference means this model fails more often than its own class at that age.

How does the Skoda Yeti perform as it gets older?

The Yeti at age 11 is well below the reference at 26.0%, against 33.2% for all vehicles of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

How does the Skoda Yeti perform as it gets older? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · failure-rate scale 0–47%.

Takeaway: a 10-year-old Yeti has roughly a 24% chance of failing its MOT.

Data table
AgeSkoda YetiAll vehiclesGap
715.0%20.2%-5.2 pp
818.9%23.3%-4.4 pp
921.3%26.5%-5.2 pp
1023.9%30.1%-6.2 pp
1126.0%33.2%-7.1 pp
1230.3%35.7%-5.4 pp
1332.1%38.2%-6.1 pp
1436.0%40.4%-4.4 pp
1537.3%41.6%-4.3 pp

Is a Skoda Yeti ULEZ compliant?

The share of classifiable 2024 Skoda Yeti MOT tests likely ULEZ compliant by first-registration date is 58.6%.

Based on 75,666 classifiable initial MOT tests. This describes the tested fleet, not a specific car. MOT data do not record Euro class, so likely compliance is inferred from fuel and first-registration date. For the only authoritative answer, check the registration with TfL's official ULEZ checker.

higher = larger share likely compliantinferred from fuel and first-registration date; not a recorded Euro class

Age-band estimate from classifiable initial MOT tests
Vehicle age at testLikely ULEZ-compliant shareTests
Under 3 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 1
3–5 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
6–7 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 11,280
8 years100.0%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 13,177
9 years61.2%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 12,616
10–14 years31.7%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 38,048
15–17 years24.6%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 544
18 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
19 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
20+ yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0

Skoda Yeti petrol vs diesel: which ages best

Diesel is highest at 26.5%; Petrol is lowest at 19.4% — the gap is 7.2 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Skoda Yeti petrol vs diesel: which ages best — 2024 UK MOT data
Fuel split table
FuelTests% failingGap vs best
Diesel42,70826.5%+7.2 pp
Petrol33,00419.4%+0.0 pp

Chart sample sizes: n=43k · n=33k.

How dangerous are Skoda Yeti MOT failures?

Major defects are well below the reference at 21.3 per 100 tests, against 52.8 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

How dangerous are Skoda Yeti MOT failures? — 2024 UK MOT data
Severity table
SeverityThis family /100National /100Family / national
Minor6.7914.220.48×
Major21.2652.750.40×
Dangerous5.5911.150.50×

Chart values: Minor 6.8 · Major 21.3 · Dangerous 5.6.

Per 100 tests on this family. National average: Minor 14.2 · Major 52.8 · Dangerous 11.2 per 100.

Does the month of a Skoda Yeti MOT matter?

Oct is highest at 19.8%; May is lowest at 17.2% — the gap is 2.6 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Does the month of a Skoda Yeti MOT matter? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart scale: 16%–33%.

bars: Skoda Yeti · dashed: all class-4 cars

Month-by-month table
MonthSkoda YetiAll vehiclesGap
Jan18.38%31.12%-12.7 pp
Feb17.72%29.99%-12.3 pp
Mar17.54%28.26%-10.7 pp
Apr18.15%29.78%-11.6 pp
May17.16%28.79%-11.6 pp
Jun17.67%28.15%-10.5 pp
Jul18.28%29.33%-11.0 pp
Aug18.24%29.2%-11.0 pp
Sep18.43%28.19%-9.8 pp
Oct19.78%30.34%-10.6 pp
Nov19.33%30.58%-11.3 pp
Dec19.04%29.33%-10.3 pp

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 2.6 percentage points — booking month barely matters for this family. Seasonality partly reflects registration-date clustering, not weather.

Before reading the shape: most of it is not about cars. Britain changes its registration plates twice a year, and 18.9% of these cars were first registered in March with another17.1% in September — 36% in two months against the 17% an even spread would give. An MOT falls due three years after first registration, so the buying calendar becomes the testing calendar. That shapes how many cars are tested each month — not how often they fail: the busiest months here are not the worst ones, so read the failure line on its own and the volume behind it separately.

Skoda Yeti average mileage by age

At age 8, the middle half of Yetis runs from 38,652 miles to 70,746 miles, against 53,288 miles as the median.

further right = more milesmedian is the typical car; band is p25–p75

Bars: Skoda Yeti · dashed: all class-4 cars — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · odometer scale 0–145k mi.

Does high mileage mean more Skoda Yeti MOT failures at the same age?

Within the same age group, split by odometer (2024 MOTs), so this separates wear from age: at ages 10–14, 15.2% of those with under 40,000 miles failed first time versus 41.2% of those with over 140,000 miles.Inside this age group, higher mileage goes with more failures.

Does high mileage mean more Skoda Yeti MOT failures at the same age? — 2024 UK MOT data
Skoda Yeti: first-time failure by mileage within each age group (2024)
AgeOdometer% failing95% intervalTests
6–9<40k miles12%11.3–12.6%10,221
6–940-70k miles18%17.4–18.6%16,735
6–970-100k miles24.2%23.3–25.2%7,598
6–9100-140k miles31.5%29.6–33.5%2,149
6–9140k+ miles34.8%30.1–39.9%362 (rough estimate)
10–14<40k miles15.2%13.9–16.6%2,798
10–1440-70k miles20.7%19.9–21.5%10,173
10–1470-100k miles28.1%27.4–28.9%12,473
10–14100-140k miles34.7%33.7–35.6%9,467
10–14140k+ miles41.2%39.5–42.9%3,109
15+40-70k miles18.6%10.7–30.4%59 (rough estimate)
15+70-100k miles33.6%26.2–41.8%137 (rough estimate)
15+100-140k miles40.9%34.4–47.7%208 (rough estimate)
15+140k+ miles46.9%38.4–55.5%128 (rough estimate)

line: median · band: middle half of the fleet (p25–p75)

Mileage by age (p25 / median / p75)
Agep25Medianp75Tests
732,51545,20760,50511,237
838,65253,28870,74613,177
945,85862,55582,86912,616
1052,29571,37493,02012,246
1161,48881,902106,60710,275
1270,15792,737117,0256,635
1373,48095,912121,6735,189
1478,144102,902130,4193,703
1584,782111,553137,669544

A typical 8-year-old Yeti has ~53,288 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the Skoda Yeti fails its MOT most

Dundee area is highest at 28.9%; Nottingham area is lowest at 11.7% — the gap is 17.2 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Skoda Yeti line: median · band: middle half of the fleet (p25–p75) — 2024 UK MOT data
Toughest areas% failingvs model overall
Dundee (DD)28.92%+10.6 pp
Aberdeen (AB)27.9%+9.5 pp
Outer Hebrides (HS)27.89%+9.5 pp
Kirkcaldy (KY)27.3%+8.9 pp
Halifax (HX)26.59%+8.2 pp
Easiest areas% failingvs model overall
Nottingham (NG)11.69%-6.7 pp
Harrow (HA)12.81%-5.5 pp
Dartford (DA)12.99%-5.4 pp
Bromley (BR)13.17%-5.2 pp
Uxbridge (UB)13.44%-4.9 pp

Why do areas differ?

For each external factor we correlate the area fail rate with the factor across postcode areas that have ≥800 tests of this family, then compare the bottom vs top fifth (quintile) of the factor. Correlation, not causation — factors travel together (the north is colder and often poorer; urban areas are denser and less salted). Road surface condition is joined now, for the 91 English areas the DfT publishes, and it explains nothing: the correlation with suspension failures is −0.01 and with body and structure failures 0.07. Potholes wreck wheels and tyres between tests, but by the time a car reaches the bay the road it drives on leaves no measurable trace.

In areas with the highest frost days this model fails 4.9 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.62, n=111 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest road-salt proxy this model fails 5.3 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.61, n=111 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest mot centre density this model fails 4.9 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.53, n=111 areas with ≥800 tests).

Skoda Yeti Why do areas differ? — 2024 UK MOT data
Values shown in the quintile chart
FactorLow QHigh QGapCorrelation
Frost days17.5%22.4%+4.9 ppr=0.62
Road-salt proxy17.3%22.6%+5.3 ppr=0.61
MOT centre density15.9%20.8%+4.9 ppr=0.53

Factors that only mean something combined

Some conditions are useless on their own and informative multiplied together. Frost days alone say little — Britain barely freezes. Salt tonnage alone says little — it tracks frost. Distance to the sea alone says little. Multiply the first two and divide by the third and you get an index of how hard an area attacks a car's underside, and it lines up with the corrosion defects we actually record. We built five such combinations and tested each against our own data. Three survived; two did not, and the failures are listed here on purpose — a proxy that was never checked is decoration. One survivor only survived on the second attempt: built from a crude stand-in for street parking it failed outright, and rebuilt from the census — terraced streets carrying more cars than they have driveways — it works, and carries information the salt index does not.

Composite area indicators, each tested against a defect rate we measure
CompositeBuilt fromTested againstrVerdict
Underbody corrosionfrost days × salt load ÷ (distance to coast + 1)share of tests with a corrosion defect+0.42holds (116 areas)
Tyre wearrain days × annual miles ÷ age at first tyre advisoryshare of tests failing on tyres+0.45holds (116 areas)
Overnight corrosionterraced housing × cars per household × frost daysshare with a corrosion defect+0.41holds (102 areas) — and adds signal beyond the first index
Deferred maintenancedeprivation × advisory-to-failure conversion ÷ labour ratecars repeating the same advisory−0.26fails (118 areas)
Powertrain stressengine capacity ÷ kerb weightsuspension, brake and emissions failures−0.16fails (22 models)

The deprivation result is the one worth dwelling on. The intuition that poorer areas defer repairs is strong enough that most people treat it as established. We tested it twice — once on raw failure rates (r = 0.04) and again, more fairly, on whether an advisory turns into a failure — and it did not hold any of the three times we tried it — on raw failure rates, on advisory-to-failure conversion, and again with deprivation measured properly inside each nation rather than England alone. We are closing it. What does predict local failure rates is the density of test centres, which is a statement about testing, not about cars.

All external-factor correlations (machine-readable)
Factorrn areasLow-Q fail %High-Q fail %Gap ppLow-Q factorHigh-Q factor
Frost days (days/year)0.62311117.522.4+4.911.738.4
Road-salt proxy (g/m²-yr)0.61311117.322.6+5.3224.5682.9
MOT centre density (per 10k vehicles)0.53211115.920.8+4.95.19
Urban share (0–1)-0.35511119.816.6-3.20.41
Terrain gradient (% grade)0.3486817.820.4+2.60.54.2
Distance to coast (km)-0.31211120.117.1-2.95.879.5
Income deprivation (score)0.1669217.018.1+1.10.10.2

Deprivation uses England IMD 2019 income score only (Scotland SIMD is a different scale). Salt proxy is a simplified NWSRG-style dry-salt sum from air Tmin; coastalness is distance from the area centroid to the nearest coastline.

Every dot is a postcode area — size = how many were tested there, colour = share failing. These figures are not age-adjusted: coastal and rural areas often run older fleets and salted roads, so higher raw fail rates do not automatically mean a worse local stock of this model.

Map labels: Scotland · N. England · Wales · London · S. West. Colour scale: 14%–26% failing.

Skoda Yeti survival: which cars are still on the road

By age 15 is well below the reference at 1.1%, against 100.0% at the ages 4–6 reference level.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Skoda Yeti survival: which cars are still on the road — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · survival vs ages 4–6 · scale 0–105%.

Survival vs fail rate by age
AgeTestsSurvival vs ages 4–6Fail %
329,20059.7%12.44%
437,22776.2%11.22%
549,521100%12.02%
659,891100%14.31%
766,786100%16.1%
861,030100%19%
951,652100%21.74%
1039,34280.5%24.56%
1126,97055.2%27.83%
1216,43633.6%30.71%
139,60119.6%32.95%
144,2678.7%36.21%
155441.1%37.32%

By age 15, only about 1% as many cars of this family present for MOT as at ages 4–6 (reference n≈48,879); survivors still fail at 37.3% vs 11.2% at age 4. Older cars that still appear are a selected subset — weaker ones have already left.

How many miles does a Skoda Yeti last?

100,000+ miles is highest at 11.3%; 200,000+ miles is lowest at 0.2% — the gap is 11.1 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

OdometerTests ≥ thresholdShare of sample
100,000+ miles50,80211.31%
150,000+ miles6,8871.53%
200,000+ miles8040.18%

Of 449,315 tests of this family with a usable odometer in 2024, 11.3% had reached 100k miles, 1.5% had reached 150k miles, 0.2% had reached 200k miles. This is a cross-section of cars still presenting for MOT, not a full birth cohort.

How many years is a Skoda Yeti likely to last?

Bought at age 5 is highest at 6.5 years; Bought at age 15 is lowest at 0.5 years — the gap is 6.0 years.

bigger number = longer remaining lifeyears on the observed survival curve

Age nowTypical mileage (p50)Expected years left
5—6.5
8—3.5
10—2
12—at least 1.4
15—at least 0.5

estimateEstimate only — not a warranty: a typical 10-year-old example of this family has about 2.0 expected years of further MOT-present life on the 2024 survival curve. Derived from how many cars of each age still appear for test, not from a longitudinal panel.

Skoda Yeti faults that come together

Brakes + Steering stand out at 12.60×, against 1.00× if the faults were independent.

above 1.0× = more than expectedbelow 1.0× = less

Group AGroup BTogetherLift
BrakesSteering52712.6×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems86611.36×
Noise, emissions and leaksSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems1416.94× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksRoad Wheels236.47× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureNoise, emissions and leaks6205.75×
Identification of the vehicleLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment1035.59× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaks1,1595.42×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSteering275.35× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSteering755.31× (rough estimate)
BrakesNoise, emissions and leaks8915.29×
SteeringSuspension3794.97× (rough estimate)
BrakesIdentification of the vehicle724.96× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureIdentification of the vehicle464.95× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureRoad Wheels334.9× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleNoise, emissions and leaks244.89× (rough estimate)
SteeringTyres2474.85× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSteering1274.75× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentRoad Wheels614.57× (rough estimate)
BrakesRoad Wheels474.47× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSuspension2,4964.29×
Body, chassis, structureSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems1654.29× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSuspension1,3014.24×
Identification of the vehicleSuspension1114.19× (rough estimate)
Road WheelsSuspension794.12× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSteering2184.11× (rough estimate)
BrakesSuspension3,7064.08×
Identification of the vehicleTyres714.01× (rough estimate)
BrakesSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems2393.98× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment1,6043.96×
BrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment2,4773.92×
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSuspension4233.86× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspension4,3703.79×
Body, chassis, structureBrakes1,1883.72×
Road WheelsVisibility463.71× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleVisibility633.68× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsTyres2683.66× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksTyres7333.57×
BrakesTyres2,1473.54×
Road WheelsTyres453.51× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsVisibility2433.43× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentTyres2,4753.21×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentVisibility2,2112.97×
Noise, emissions and leaksVisibility5722.88×
TyresVisibility1,7772.48×
SuspensionTyres2,7322.47×
BrakesVisibility1,3652.32×
Body, chassis, structureTyres8992.31×
SteeringVisibility1132.29× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureVisibility8082.15×
SuspensionVisibility2,1852.04×
Speedometer and speed limiterSuspension15too few (rough estimate)
Road WheelsSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems12too few (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems10too few (rough estimate)
Speedometer and speed limiterVisibility8too few (rough estimate)
Road WheelsSteering5too few (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSpeedometer and speed limiter5too few (rough estimate)

Defects in «Brakes» and «Steering» appear together 12.60× more often than chance (527 co-occurrences in the same test; lift≥1.3, n≥500).

Lift = how many times more often both groups appear on the same test than if independent. A pair is listed from 5 tests with both faults; the lift is shown from 20, and called above chance only when its 95% interval excludes 1 (see rough estimates).

Is low mileage better for a Skoda Yeti?

Cars driven under 5,000 miles a year is well below the reference at 12.4%, against 22.1% for cars driven 8,000–12,000 miles a year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

BandFail %Tests
<5k miles/year12.42%78,755
8–12k miles/year22.09%122,649
Gap (low − normal)-9.68 pp—
By fuel and age

Diesel

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
58.643,18413.078,898-4.43 pp
69.534,07316.4111,965-6.89 pp
710.764,67618.7814,088-8.02 pp
813.344,44622.5614,179-9.22 pp
913.523,98026.0613,307-12.54 pp
1016.963,14828.6610,857-11.7 pp
1118.522,12833.667,832-15.14 pp
1221.061,20636.864,702-15.8 pp
1325.3270338.752,596-13.43 pp
1428.4134540.791,233-12.39 pp

Petrol

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
58.478,43014.585,492-6.12 pp
610.379,41818.215,904-7.83 pp
710.8110,01918.856,203-8.04 pp
811.998,04321.834,997-9.85 pp
912.355,76724.813,700-12.46 pp
1014.553,90429.292,653-14.74 pp
1116.412,37630.521,763-14.1 pp
1217.651,50135.441,236-17.78 pp
1322.9199532.86770-9.94 pp
1429.341337.69268-8.39 pp

At matched ages 5–14, cars averaging under 5k miles/year fail at 12.4% vs 22.1% for 8–12k miles/year — 9.7 pp lower (n_low=78,755, n_normal=122,649). In this family low annual use is associated with fewer MOT fails, not more — the ‘garage queen’ penalty is not visible in overall fail rates. Diesel alone: 13.3% low-use vs 23.0% normal (-9.7 pp).

Which Skoda Yeti engine is best?

diesel 1.5–1.8 is highest at 107.6; petrol 1.2–1.5 is lowest at 80.6 — the gap is 27.0 points.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

Engine bands against this model's own failure rate at the same ages
FuelCapacityvs own age normRaw fail %Tests
petrol1.2–1.5 litre80.615.03%10,209
petrol1.0–1.2 litre90.315.25%178,894
petrol1.5–1.8 litre97.523.85%5,363
petrol1.8–2.0 litre104.825.6%336 (rough estimate)
diesel1.0–1.2 litre10626.02%246 (rough estimate)
diesel1.8–2.0 litre106.620.36%229,364
diesel1.5–1.8 litre107.621.54%28,435

Splitting this model by fuel alone hides the thing that actually differs. Within the same badge, the diesel 1.5–1.8 runs at 107.6 against this model's own age norm while the petrol 1.2–1.5 runs at 80.6 — a spread of 27 points between two cars that share a name.

Read this one with more care than the rest of the page. Age is held constant, but who buys which engine is not: the largest capacity in a range is often a performance or executive variant that is garaged, cherished and lightly driven, while the smallest is frequently a fleet or entry car worked hard from new. The gap below is real in the test records; how much of it is the engine and how much is the owner, this data cannot separate. Bands under 100 tests are not shown; bands under 5,000 tests are rough estimates.

Best year for a Skoda Yeti, and the years to avoid

Build year 2010 is highest at 110.8; Build year 2013 is lowest at 94.4 — the gap is 16.4 points.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

build year vs the same model at the same age · 100 = as expected

Skoda Yeti build year vs the same model at the same age · 100 = as expected — 2024 UK MOT data
Skoda Yeti by build year, tests 2019–2024. Below 100 is better than the model's own age norm.
Every build year with its confidence interval
Build yearvs own age norm95% CIRaw fail %TestsVerdict
201796.994.7–9912.53%60,255better
2016101.699.7–103.414.34%79,572no different
2015101.699.7–103.415.85%76,076no different
201498.897.1–100.517.58%74,048no different
201394.492.7–96.119.26%62,312better
2012103.1101.1–105.223.81%40,891worse
2011103.6101.4–105.826.82%32,215worse
2010110.8108.3–113.331.79%23,447worse
2009105.799.6–111.833.08%3,473no different

The best build year here is 2013 and the weakest is 2010. Comparing build years sounds simple and is not: within a single year of testing, a car's build year and its age are the same number, so a naive comparison of years is a comparison of ages wearing a disguise. Each year below is measured against the same model at the same age in other cohorts, across six years of testing — 5 of 9 years come out distinguishable from their own model's age norm.

Two limits worth knowing before you act on this. Age, test year and build year are locked together by arithmetic, so the test-year effect is taken from the observed national failure level of each year rather than estimated — it is an adjustment, not a solution.

Skoda Yeti MOT repair costs

The MOT-failure repair budget per test runs from £35.73 to £67.89, against £54.85 for the test itself.

bigger number = costs morepounds per test, MOT-failing faults only

MOT repairs, budget
£36–68
per test, repairs only
The test itself
£54.85
statutory cap, unchanged since 2010
How the figure is built: chance of failing × typical price of that repair
ComponentFails per 100 testsTypical repairIts priceContribution
Suspension8.6 (nat. 15.36)Suspension coil spring (single corner)£180£15.48
Brakes5.1 (nat. 11.25)Front brake pads (parts + labour, typical hatchback)£150£7.65
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment5.4 (nat. 18.09)Battery replacement (standard 12V lead-acid)£140£7.56
Tyres5.6 (nat. 8.7)Tyre (single mid-range 16" fitted)£90£5.04

Multiply how often each component fails on this model by what that repair usually costs, and you get the amount an owner should expect to budget per test for MOT-failing faults only — roughly £36 to £68, on top of the test fee itself. It is a budgeting figure, not a quote: the spread between a set of pads and a set of discs is most of the range.

Prices are modal quotes from a hand-kept catalogue of published UK garage guides — we do not scrape the booking sites, their terms forbid it, so this list is short and updated by hand with a source and date against each line. Each line prices one typical repair in that group, not a full remedy, and only groups our catalogue actually covers are counted. The contrast worth noticing is the second card: the legal maximum for the test has been £54.85 since 2010, while the repairs it uncovers have followed inflation the whole time.

For scale from a different direction: Warrantywise, which sees used-car warranty claims rather than test failures, puts the average claim at £2,052 across the ten highest-claim models it ranks and £539 for Honda, the lowest-claim make in its index (Warrantywise index 2026, 1.6 million claims, cars aged 3–15). Those sit an order of magnitude above the figures in this table, and the gap is the point: a warranty claim is a gearbox or an engine, which almost never fails an MOT, while the faults that do fail one are corrosion, lamps and tyres, which no warranty pays for. The two numbers answer different questions and neither replaces the other.

Skoda Yeti running costs for a fleet

Vehicles failing at age 10 stand out at 24.0%, against 15.0% at age 7, tested in the same year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fails per 100 at age 7
15
vehicles needing work
At age 10
24
other cars of this model tested at age 10 in 2024
Repairs per 100
£3,573
plus £5,485 in test fees
Off the road
0d
median; 50.54% cleared same day
Failure rate and typical odometer by age
AgeFailsMedian odometerTestsGap vs age 5
715%45,20711,237—
818.91%53,28813,177—
921.35%62,55512,616—
1023.89%71,37412,246—
1126.04%81,90210,275—
1230.32%92,7376,635—
1332.07%95,9125,189—
1436.02%102,9023,703—
1537.32%111,553544—

The number a fleet manager needs is not the failure rate, it is the year the car starts costing more. Between cars aged 11 and cars aged 12, both tested in 2024, the failure rate of this model is 4.28 percentage points higher — the steepest one-year step in this cross-section of different cars, and a natural planning point for replacement.

Repair spend uses the same modal prices as the section above, so it inherits the same limits: one typical repair per component group, not a full remedy. Downtime is the gap between the failed test and the passed re-test, which is the window a vehicle is legally off the road.

Skoda Yeti rust problems: where they corrode

Age-standardised corrosion susceptibility is close to the reference at 0.97×, against 1.00× for the national age-standardised rate.

above 1.0× = rusts more than averagebelow 1.0× = rusts less

How it rusts
0.97×
0.74% of tests record a corrosion defect vs 0.77% typical — age-standardised
Salt Belt exposure
87th
percentile among the models published here, from its tests across 111 postcode areas

This Skoda Yeti fails on corrosion at about the average rate once age is held constant, and its owners live in areas that are saltier than most for the models we publish.

Corrosion is the one failure mode that is as much about geography as about the car. We keep the two apart on purpose: a model can look rusty simply because it is popular in Scotland, and a model can look clean simply because it is bought in Surrey. Blending them into a single score would hide which of the two is doing the work.

Exposure is this model's tests weighted by an area corrosion index built from frost days, salt load and distance to the coast — the composite validated at r = 0.42 against corrosion defects we actually record. It is published as a rank, not a raw score, because every mainstream model skews towards low-corrosion areas for the simple reason that most of Britain's cars are in the south. Susceptibility is standardised to the national age profile, so an old fleet does not get labelled a rusty model.

Does a Skoda Yeti advisory become a failure?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment are highest at 17.1%; Non-component advisories are lowest at 0.0% — the gap is 17.1 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

chance the same component fails at the next MOT, given an advisory now

Skoda Yeti chance the same component fails at the next MOT, given an advisory now — 2024 UK MOT data
Skoda Yeti, advisory → failure conversion by component group, chained tests 2019–2024. Chart labels and rates: Lamps & electrical 17.1% · Suspension 13.2% · Body & chassis 8.3% · Brakes 8% · Tyres 6.5% · Seat belts & restraints 3.8% · Noise, emissions, leaks 2.5% · Identification of the veh… 1.9%.
Advisory today → failure at the next test, with how long you have
ComponentFails next timeTypical lead timeMiles of warningAdvisories tracked
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment17.1%12 months6,4131,051
Suspension13.2%12 months7,27847,121
Body, chassis, structure8.3%12 months7,3932,365
Brakes8.0%12 months6,73556,483
Tyres6.5%12 months6,48772,198
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems3.8%12.1 months7,6951,218
Noise, emissions and leaks2.5%12 months8,2625,351
Identification of the vehicle1.9%12 months8,3143,606
Non-component advisories0.0%——18,259

This is the question an advisory note actually raises, and it needs six years of test history to answer. We followed the same vehicles from one MOT to the next across 2019–2024 and measured how often a component that was merely advised came back as a genuine failure at the next test.

Read it as a budgeting horizon, not a prophecy: the most likely component above turns into a failure for about 17 in 100 cars, and the median gap is 12 months and roughly 6,413 miles. The rest were repaired, sold, scrapped, or simply held. Rows with fewer than 500 tracked advisories are not shown.

What will fail next on a Skoda Yeti?

Suspension after a advisory at age 12-14 is highest at 25.1%; Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment after a passed at age <3 are lowest at 1.3% — the gap is 23.8 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

Probability of each component failing at the next test, by age and last result
AgeLast testMost likely next failuresCars tracked
<3passedTyres 3.6% · Visibility 3.5% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 1.3%16,100
<3advisoryTyres 4.2% · Visibility 3.9% · Brakes 2.1%3,251
<3failureTyres 4.5% · Visibility 3.0% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 2.3%2,628
3-5passedTyres 3.2% · Visibility 2.8% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 1.9%80,713
3-5advisoryTyres 4.7% · Visibility 4.2% · Brakes 3.0%34,978
3-5failureTyres 5.3% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 4.7% · Visibility 4.4%16,130
6-8passedSuspension 5.1% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 3.3% · Tyres 3.0%75,107
6-8advisorySuspension 7.1% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 5.2% · Tyres 5.0%47,304
6-8failureSuspension 10.4% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 8.1% · Brakes 6.0%26,329
9-11passedSuspension 12.2% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 5.4% · Body, chassis, structure 4.1%27,184
9-11advisorySuspension 16.2% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 8.5% · Brakes 6.5%21,014
9-11failureSuspension 20.2% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 11.4% · Brakes 8.8%16,830
12-14passedSuspension 18.2% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 7.8% · Body, chassis, structure 5.6%3,237
12-14advisorySuspension 25.1% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 11.0% · Brakes 9.3%2,961
12-14failureSuspension 24.9% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 14.9% · Brakes 11.3%3,098

The same chains, cut differently: given a car's age and how its last test went, which component most often causes trouble at the following one.

The pattern that repeats across every family: a failure at one test roughly doubles the chance of a failure on the same component at the next one, and an advisory sits about half-way between a clean pass and a failure. Age bands in years; probabilities are per car, not per defect item.

Skoda Yeti ownership: what six years of MOTs show

The same-day re-test pass rate is highest at 50.5%; The later re-test pass rate is lowest at 1.7% — the gap is 48.8 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fixed same day
50.54%
of failures re-tested
Fails /10k miles
0.296
miles actually driven
Clean streaks
51.04%
3+ tests, nothing noted
Odometer anomaly
0.736%
reading went backwards

Failing is usually a same-week event, not a disaster. Of 62,738 failures followed through to their re-test, 50.54% were repaired and passed the same day and 47.72% within ten days; the median gap is 0 days. 119,110 defect items were cleared in the process.

Per mile driven, not per year. Dividing failures by the miles that actually went onto the odometers between consecutive tests gives 0.296 failures per 10,000 miles, on a median of 5,632 miles a year across 77,057 chains. This is the number to compare between models — an annual rate quietly rewards cars that barely leave the drive.

Two populations hide inside one model. 51.04% of these cars strung together three or more tests with nothing recorded at all, while 27.32% carried the same advisory three times or more — the same fault, noted, ignored, noted again. When you buy used you are buying one of those two histories, and the MOT record shows which.

Odometer anomalies: 0.736% of 77,060 chains show a reading lower than the previous test, with a median drop of 15,841 miles. We call this an anomaly and not fraud on purpose — instrument swaps, imports, unit mix-ups and keying errors all land in the same bucket. Obvious typos (drops under 100 miles or over 90% of the reading) are already excluded.

Skoda Yeti safety recalls and how to check yours

DVSA recall campaigns stand out at 5.

bigger number = more recorded casescompare like-for-like scope, not sample size alone

recall campaigns launched per year

Skoda Yeti recall campaigns launched per year — 2024 UK MOT data
Campaigns launched per year for the Skoda Yeti. Source: DVSA vehicle safety recalls. Chart values: 2011: 1 · 2012: 0 · 2013: 0 · 2014: 0 · 2015: 0 · 2016: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2018: 0 · 2019: 0 · 2020: 0 · 2021: 0 · 2022: 0 · 2023: 1 · 2024: 0 · 2025: 1.
Most recent safety recall campaigns for the Skoda Yeti
ReferenceLaunchedVehiclesConcern
R/2026/00218/07/202511Takata drivers side front airbag
R/2023/08627/03/20235On affected vehicles from a certain production period there is a possibility that the gas
R/2017/19222/06/20171,293PARTS OF SEAT BELT PRETENSIONER MAY BE DISLODGED ON DEPLOYMENT
R/2016/07206/04/2016217SIDE AIRBAG GAS GENERATOR CANISTER MAY FAIL
R/2011/17115/12/20111,867FUEL MAY LEAK

DVSA lists 5 safety recall campaigns for the Skoda Yeti, covering roughly 3,393 vehicles in total. A recall is the manufacturer fixing a fault for free, so an open recall on your car costs nothing to clear.

Counter-intuitive, and measured on our own data: across the 25 families published here, more recalls go with a lower MOT Risk Index (r = −0.52). Heavily recalled models are not worse cars in the test bay — an active manufacturer removes the fault before it becomes an MOT failure.

Check whether a specific car has an outstanding recall — free, by registration — at DVSA's recall service. Source: DVSA vehicle safety recalls (check-vehicle-recalls.service.gov.uk), OGL.

Skoda Yeti inspection results in other countries

Netherlands APK is well below the reference at 42.4%, against 50.8% nationally.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Same model, different national inspection regimes
CountryTestThis model failsNational averagePositionSample
United KingdomMOT (class 4)23.39%26.01%-2.6 pp75,713
NetherlandsAPK42.4%50.8%-8.4 pp9,279
FinlandKatsastus19.3%26.3%-7 pp5,213
NorwayPKK35.4%33.7%+1.7 pp4,693

The countries disagree about this car, and that is worth saying out loud rather than averaging away. A model can sit above its national average in one country and below it in another because the fleets are not the same cars: different model years, different engines, different roads and salt, and inspection rules that weight components differently. Treat each row as evidence from one regime, not as a verdict.

What Finland fails it for — share of recorded faults
Fault areaShare
Axles, wheels and suspension55.8%
Brake systems28.5%
Environmental hazards8%
Other equipment and accessories2.7%
Lighting devices and electrical equipment1.5%

Useful as a cross-check on the UK defect table above: the categories are named differently, but a component that dominates in both regimes is a genuine weak point of the model rather than an artefact of one country's testing style.

The exact faults Netherlands records — APK defect codes, 2024
CodeFaultRecordedType
210Tyre pressure not at the correct value1,819failure
205Tyre with insufficient tread747failure
516Dipped headlight incorrectly aimed730failure
RA2Excessive leak of other fluids434advisory
203Tyre damaged387failure
AC1Tyre down to 1.6–2.5 mm of tread330advisory
391Wipers leave insufficient visibility274failure
576Indicator colour wrong or not permitted238failure

Worth dwelling on how mundane the top of that list is: tyre pressure, tread depth, headlight aim. The Dutch APK records 0.941 defects per inspection against a much higher national failure rate than Britain's, and the reason is not that Dutch cars are worse — it is that the two regimes draw the line between "note it" and "fail it" in different places. Codes are the RDW's own; the English wording here is our translation of the Dutch original.

Britain is not the only country that inspects every car every year, and the Skoda Yeti is on the road in all of them. Each national regime writes its own rules, so the pass rates below are not comparable to each other — what does travel across a border is whether a model sits above or below its own country's average.

Rows with fewer than 500 inspections are not published. Sources: RDW open data — Meldingen Keuringsinstantie + Geconstateerde Gebreken + Gekentekende voertuigen (2024), CC0. Not an RDW endorsement.; Traficom — Periodic inspections of cars by model / by model and fault object 2024, CC BY 4.0; Statens vegvesen — Periodisk kjøretøykontroll (PKK) 2024, CC BY 4.0. Adapted; licences and full notice.

Skoda Yeti MOT: quick answers

Skoda Yeti MOT Risk Index is well below the reference at 80.9, against 100 for a car with the same age profile.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

What is the Skoda Yeti first-time MOT pass rate?
76.61% of first attempts passed in 2024 (75,713 tests). This is the first-time figure: retests after repair are excluded. Basis: first-time, excluding retests.
Why does this number differ from other sites?
Other sites often report a pass rate that includes retests or counts all attempts. Our 23.39% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 75,713 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 80.9 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Skoda Yeti with other cars

Honda e is highest at 81.0; Honda Jazz is lowest at 80.8 — the gap is 0.2 points.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

Same brand

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Similar risk

Honda e (index 81.0)Honda Jazz (index 80.8)Volkswagen Tiguan (index 80.8)

Same size class

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By build year

Skoda Yeti 2009Skoda Yeti 2010Skoda Yeti 2011Skoda Yeti 2012Skoda Yeti 2013Skoda Yeti 2014Skoda Yeti 2015Skoda Yeti 2016Skoda Yeti 2017

By area

Skoda Yeti MOT failure rate by postcode area

By failure group

Skoda Yeti body, chassis and structure failuresSkoda Yeti brakes failuresSkoda Yeti vehicle identification failuresSkoda Yeti lamps, reflectors and electrics failuresSkoda Yeti noise, emissions and leaks failuresSkoda Yeti road wheels failuresSkoda Yeti seat belts and airbags failuresSkoda Yeti steering failuresSkoda Yeti suspension failuresSkoda Yeti tyres failuresSkoda Yeti visibility failures

Inspections abroad

Skoda Yeti in NorwaySkoda Yeti in FinlandSkoda Yeti in the Netherlands


Data details & how to cite

Scope: class-4 vehicles (cars), initial tests only, outcomes pass / fail / fixed-on-the-spot at the station (PRS counts towards the failure rate — the defect was present at arrival). Index = observed initial failures ÷ failures expected for this fleet's exact age profile, ×100; margin of error is a 95% confidence interval. Covers ALL generations together — a 3-year-old and a 15-year-old are very different cars; a generation split is on the roadmap. Dataset release dataset_release_id=dvsa-2024-v2, frozen baseline; headline claim_id=family-stats:skoda-yeti:dvsa-2024-v2. Full method: methodology.

Cite: MOT Risk Index (2026). Skoda Yeti MOT statistics 2024 (data release dvsa-2024-v2; downloadable dataset motriskindex-families-2024-v5, doi:10.5281/zenodo.22975051). https://motriskindex.co.uk/cars/skoda-yeti/ · Published 2026-07-30.