Service/MOT - but they logged the wrong mileage.

Thurrafork

Hello folks


Probably making a ... hillock... out of a molehill here but thought I'd get some second opinions.


I took my Peugeot in for a full service and MOT today - just under a year since my last.
When they called to say it was ready they said there wasn't too much wrong, and in fact had only done a small service as there was so little mileage since the last year.
So I went and collected it and paid and got it home and saw on the MOT certificate a Odometer reading history...
Last years: 45033 miles.
This year: 45807 miles.
This seemed odd to me as I've definitely done more than 800 miles over the last year.
I went down to the car and checked the odometer: 49814 miles!
So I've actually driven about 4800 miles in the last year.
Obviously they'd read the second digit - the '9' - as a '5'.
Unfortunately they'd closed for the night by the time I'd realised this little hiccup!
Would they have entered this incorrect odometer reading for some nefarious purpose I can't imagine, or do you imagine it's an honest mistake?
I can go back the day after tomorrow and have a chat with them about it, but could any problems arise from this?
I'd rather them correct the mileage on their records and in my maintenance book just so everything is correct.
But also since perceived low mileage was their reason for not doing a 'Full' service, I'm a little concerned that the 'lesser' service they did do might have overlooked something significant. I don't want my car to suffer problems due to something that probably would've been spotted with a full service.
Do you get what I mean?
But I'm not really inclined to pay for another service since I've already paid and this is their mistake.
What do you reckon folks?


Thanks

AdrianC

Honest mistake. There's absolutely no gain for anybody.

<5k in a year is fairly low mileage anyway. Never mind "small" and "full" service, what have they actually done, and what have they actually done over the last few years and how much mileage?

Thurrafork

Thanks AdrianC - that's what I thought.
Still worth getting them to correct the figure on their records and in my maintenance book though, no? Or should I just forget about the whole thing.


They did the MOT test, a basic emissions test (probably part of the MOT actually), they replaced a tyre, did an oil change, replaced an oil filter, 'sundries and environmental charges'. Whole thing was £212 inc vat.


Slightly more expensive than previous years I think, but the tyre probably bumped it up a little.
I usually do about 4000miles a year. Light use.

Chrisv

If you do decide to get the MOT centre to change the details, you must do so within 7 days. After 7 days the MOT centre are unable to amend the certificate, and from personal experience it's a quite long-winded process to have it amended by VOSA after the 7 days.

Mercdriver

It is an honest mistake, but if you have any plans to sell the car soon it would be better if corrected. Only 800 miles done in a year would either be too little, or suspicious.

arcon5

With the discrepancy so small if just let it correct itself next year tbh.

Thurrafork

Thanks folks.
I'll probably get them to correct it even though I guess it won't really make any difference to anything.
On that subject - I'll get them to correct it in my maintenance book, but the record of it that they put into their computer - is that likely to be just the in-house database of the garage only, or are they entering it into some kind of national VOSA (or something) database?

AdrianC

There are national mileage-recording schemes - MOT aside - but it's unlikely they're contributing to them.
https://ds.hpicheck.com/marlin/nmr.do

TBH, though, it'd be more of a concern if it was the other way round - they'd recorded high this time around - because there's the potential for next year's entry looking like it's been clocked.

Norman_Castle

As its simple to correct I would get it done. There may be extra servicing to do due to the extra miles.

Richard53

If you are keeping the car more than a year, then the MoT mileage will of course correct itself next time. But I would still get it changed if I could. The MoT record is something I check when looking at a second-hand vehicle, and any anomaly like this, even several years in the past, would make me wonder what was going on. At the very least, you would be explaining the discrepancy to every potential purchaser. Better to get it right straight away.


If you don't plan to sell until the car is in banger territory, then this doesn't really apply.

prowla

It seems quite common for the wrong mileage to be logged with an MOT; I was recently looking for a used car and it seemed to happen quite often for the ones whose MOT history I checked.