All generations and engines together · 52,097 MOT tests in the 2025 data · typical mileage at age 7: 41k
Computed from DVSA MOT results, all of Great Britain, 2025. Nothing here is opinion.
Share of tests where each item was recorded. The dark tick is the class average across all tracked models; bars are scaled within each group.
The rows that judge the model rather than its keeper. 25,609 tests in this band.
Tyres, pads and stone chips say more about how the car was driven and maintained than about how it was built.
Owner folklore from forums and the motoring press. Most of it never shows up in an MOT, which is why this section exists at all.
The Citigo's automatic isn't a conventional torque-converter box, it's an automated manual (ASG), and owners regularly report it hunting for gears, hesitating from a standstill, or dropping out of drive as if it's found neutral by itself. Specialist gearbox repairers list gear slippage, delayed engagement and clutch wear as recurring ASG complaints, and forum owners have reported full clutch and actuator replacements running into four figures. Manual cars are not affected.
A long-running and very repeatedly reported owner complaint: a creak or knock from the rear, usually over bumps or at low speed, that dealers often can't pin down on the first visit. The usual cause is a dry bush at the base of the rear shock absorber, or anti-roll bar bushes losing their grease, not a broken part, and a lubrication fix often cures it. This model's MOT data shows suspension as the standout failure category for cars its size, so the age-related wear owners complain about and the numbers examiners record do line up, even if the actual fix is cheaper than the noise makes it sound.
Water collecting in the rear footwells, sometimes several inches deep after heavy rain, is a recurring complaint traced almost always to blocked plenum chamber drains at the base of the windscreen rather than a failed door or window seal. It's been reported on cars as young as three years old and is cheap to fix once found, but leaves you drying or replacing sodden carpet and underlay if it goes unnoticed for a while. Skoda hasn't acknowledged it as a design fault.
Cars built around early-to-mid 2016 were recalled over a bonding fault on the panoramic sunroof panel that could let it rattle loose. Separately, owners have reported the roof's seals deteriorating with age and letting water in, with one reported case needing a full roof replacement costing over £900. Check any recall work was actually carried out, and on cars fitted with the panoramic roof, look for staining around the interior lining.
Some manual Citigos have needed a new clutch well before you'd expect, in a few reported cases within the first year or under 15,000 miles, occasionally preceded by a burning smell. It's not universal, plenty of manuals cover 60,000 miles or more without trouble, but specialist gearbox repairers list sticking or spongy clutch pedals as a known complaint on this car. A full clutch replacement is typically £400-£700.
Built from the two sections above.
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