MoT advisory - "various marks to body and wheels"

[danp]

Was looking at the MoT history of a car I saw advertised, and came across the above as an advisory.

Not seen that before and not quite sure what they're advising - it's more battered than it should be?!

[TooMany2cvs]

danp said:

Was looking at the MoT history of a car I saw advertised, and came across the above as an advisory.

Not seen that before and not quite sure what they're advising - it's more battered than it should be?!

It's whatever the tester thought was worth pointing out at the time.

Recent?

[danp]

TooMany2cvs said:

It's whatever the tester thought was worth pointing out at the time.

Recent?

It was from a couple of years ago, if it's something cosmetic that's irrelevant to the test itself I'm not sure why it'd be worthy of mention tho'.

[p4cks]

Funny you should start this topic OP, I had my Abarth 500 MOTd a month or so ago and the advisory was 'Exhaust noisy (7.1.4)'.

Granted it was a Monza which sound deeper than normal but I wouldn't have thought it would ever make it to an advisory list!

Have MOT testers become more anal of late?

[saaby93]

A common one seems to be discs corroded, which of course is what happens to discs. Is it just a note to show they have done some checks in case DVSA is watching them? Also indicators slightly discoloured (code for the orange paint is beginning to peel off the bulbs)

[Hub]

It seems they can 'advise' whatever they see fit.

[mike9009]

My car got an advisory this year for an air freshener obscuring the view. I did wonder why it had been taken down from the rear view mirror......

[xjay1337]

New DVSA mot i believe don't have option for manual entry.