All generations and engines together · 4,605 MOT tests in the 2025 data
One of the best small SUVs per mile driven. Watch seatbelts/airbags and suspension. A solid used buy, provided its MOT history has no repeating seatbelts/airbags advisories.
Owner folklore from forums and the motoring press, with how well each report stands up. Most of it never shows up in an MOT, which is why this section exists at all.
The small 12V battery that runs the locks, lights and onboard computers can drain flat even though the main traction battery still shows plenty of charge, sometimes leaving the car needing a manual unlock and a jump start. Owners on the Enyaq owner forums describe repeated dashboard 12V warnings, in one case intermittent drain going on for over a year before it was pinned down. It turns up at any age and isn't tied to one model year or trim. No recall covers it; the usual fix is a 12V battery swap or a dealer software update, free under warranty, and a replacement battery out of warranty is a modest job.
A handful of owners have had the car's onboard AC charger fail or slow right down, in one case taking over two days to fully charge a 2023 Enyaq 60 that was only seven months old. The dealer diagnosed a faulty high-voltage charger unit and replaced it under warranty. It looks like a component quality issue rather than wear, since it's shown up on cars still well within their first year. No TSB or recall has been published, so treat it as a real but occasional fault rather than something every car will get; out of warranty a replacement charger unit would be an expensive job.
An amber airbag warning light and an "Airbag: Error" message on the dash is one of the most repeated complaints on Enyaq owner forums, sometimes appearing on cars only a few hundred miles old and sometimes triggered again after a software update. Dealers have struggled to pin the cause down quickly; fixes described by owners range from a software reset to a full airbag control module replacement, a job one owner's dealer called "a rather big job" needing a couple of days in the workshop. This lines up with the measured MOT data for this model, where a failed SRS warning lamp shows up far more often than the class average, so this looks like a genuinely elevated risk area rather than forum noise.
Some owners get a touchscreen that freezes or needs a restart, usually clearing itself after a reboot or the next software update. It isn't universal, most owner reviews describe the system as fine day to day, but it's a recurring enough theme to be worth checking on a test drive. No dealer fix beyond routine software updates has been documented for it.
The official line is reassuring: Honest John says it has heard "no horror stories" about the Enyaq, and Skoda's brand ranking in HJ's own Satisfaction Index has been climbing. Owner reviews on Parkers tell a patchier story, though, averaging just 2.3 out of 5 across a small sample, with comments like "lovely car when it is working" and "hard to fault... when it was working." The sample size is small enough that this is a flag to dig into a specific car's history rather than proof of a widespread problem.
Ranked from this model’s own MOT record, then from what owners report.
Saveable checklistThe physical checks its own defect data says are worth your time, most telling first.
These judge the seller’s upkeep rather than the model, and they are where the haggling money is.
Drawn from the reports above rather than the MOT data. These are the model-specific ones.
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. 4,605 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.
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