Right,

So I just had an MOT done this morning all passed, couple of advisories but onto that in a minute.

After going back to the car the Trip is telling me an INSP is due, now I only hand an Oil service done a couple of thousand miles ago so I'm not expecting an inspection service for a little while.

Also the trip computer had about 400+ extra miles on it, I'm relatively sure the ODO has not gone up by the same amount. Also I know they didn't take it out for a quick trip to Scotland because I sat there and waited for it and it never left my sight.

Anyone any ideas???

I also got a couple of advisories on tyres which I know about but one was "Vehicle has some covers fitted to unable to see some testable items".

I asked the chap about it and he said lots of modern cars have covers fitted underneath etc that prevent them from seeing things. I soft of accepted this but then he used the example of hub caps preventing them seeing if wheel bolts are fitted. Surely this makes a mockery of the whole MOT testing regime? Next time it might say "Cannot test seatbelts as vehicle has doors fitted".

Anyone else got experience of this?

Don't take this the wrong way, but could it be something as daft as they handed your car back with the MFA set onto the "long term" display, rather than the short term one that resets? I don't know of any way you could accidentally adjust the milage, and even to do it purposefully is quite difficult on this sort of platform I believe.

As for the service display, although you've had an oil change done recently there are also some services which are done on a timed interval (i.e. once a year) rather than a distance interval (every x0,000 miles). It could be that your car has suddenly decided that the interval has passed for its inspection service during the morning (as far as I'm aware the ECU doesn't store a time/date, just number of days elapsed since the last reset so if it was serviced mid-morning then the timer would elapse mid-morning as well)?

I wish my MOT testers would give advisories for not being able to look at things, I always seem to get the ones that get a hammer or wire brush out to see if something's broken, if not they seem intent to make sure something is!

Whether they like it or not I always watch them just as closely as they watch my car just to make sure they aren't the ones causing the damage for failure.

I wish my MOT testers would give advisories for not being able to look at things, I always seem to get the ones that get a hammer or wire brush out to see if something's broken, if not they seem intent to make sure something is!

Whether they like it or not I always watch them just as closely as they watch my car just to make sure they aren't the ones causing the damage for failure.

I'd consider fInding a different Mot station i use one that isn't one that does it for a reduced price as I feel this type is more likely to 'find' something wrong to charge big money to fix. Try finding someone whose been doing it years charges the correct fee and possibly doesnt carry out repairs as doesn't have time and space to do it

Council MOT test centres are the way forward if you don't already have someone you trust, IMO. Check MoneySavingExpert, there's a guide on finding your local one and as they don't do repairs there's no incentive to make stuff up or fail something that shouldn't fail. Charge full price, but don't need to make up their loss in nonsense repairs, so it's worth paying.

Don't take this the wrong way, but could it be something as daft as they handed your car back with the MFA set onto the "long term" display, rather than the short term one that resets? I don't know of any way you could accidentally adjust the milage, and even to do it purposefully is quite difficult on this sort of platform I believe.

As for the service display, although you've had an oil change done recently there are also some services which are done on a timed interval (i.e. once a year) rather than a distance interval (every x0,000 miles). It could be that your car has suddenly decided that the interval has passed for its inspection service during the morning (as far as I'm aware the ECU doesn't store a time/date, just number of days elapsed since the last reset so if it was serviced mid-morning then the timer would elapse mid-morning as well)?

Nah it's not the mileage on the trip computer, it's the one under the odometer that's gone up. I reset it every time I fill up so I can see what mileage I'm getting out of a tank.