Email: Issues with MOT Expiry dates

Does this sound like you can get an extended period at any time?

Contacting DVSA to amend an expiry date

If a customer has lost up to a month of their MOT after presenting their vehicle for a test too early, then they can contact us to amend the expiry date.

They can do this by sending am email to mot.modernisation@vosa.gsi.gov.uk giving their:

vehicle registration number
contact details
old MOT test number
new MOT test number

I don't know for sure that dvsa has changed anything without telling us but these days you can't be sure of anything, it just reads to me that if you have passed a test on something to early to receive credit just email dvsa & they will add the days anyway. Sounds crazy to me.

quote : If a customer has lost up to a month of their MOT after presenting their vehicle for a test too early, then they can contact us to amend the expiry date.

They lose over a month if they present it too early . They will not lose 'upto a month' .
I deal with a lot of cars that are for sale and regularly test ones that have over six months left .

I used the much talked about 'feedback' link to point out that customers where losing anything up to 30 days of a valid test whenever a new vehicle record had to be created. For example (and this is one example)when the class field comes back empty after logging reg/chassis details.

That was 9+ months ago, so this is impressive form from dvsa to get around to it as quick as they have. Probably something to do with how easy it is to make changes to the comp2 compared to the previous incarnation.

A big pat on the back for everyone involved.

There's still plenty to be done with comp 2. Yes it should of been better from the start, they could of done that by getting thier finger out sooner, but there's now a list of priorities to get it to where it should be. I'm guessing this one wasn't high up on the list.

Again I can't help myself from a defence of DVSA, in spite of the personal danger. They should have got their finger out sooner. Who missed the part, even though it has been mentioned before, where DVSA got their finger out sooner but having already started to build their new system, we had a change of government (DVSA's bosses remember) and the new mob said 'no no, that's not what we want, it needs to be different'? DVSA then had to start again with a different system, even though there now wasn't time to get it sorted properly before comp1 switched off. With so many reasons for complaint that actually exist, I just thought maybe we could wipe the pretend ones off.
As for the priority list, they don't give out an itemised list I'm afraid but it's things like the new VSI, and all the other things we ask for. Then of course there's the repairs they have to make after every update screws something else up of course. The greater the number of feedback requests for an item to be sorted, created or changed DOES give that item a higher priority on the list. That much we do know.

got no problem with folks defending dvsa,theyre the executive arm,their directions come from whatever bunch of clowns we voted in this time round and as you mentioned their aims differ.it is however their job to administer said scheme and many of the problems we hit(even now)were apparent during the trials and have yet to be addressed,the current gvmnt was already in post prior to comp2 starting remember.had good+bad with dvsa but now that we don't see em except to pull us over the coals on spotchecks/appeals the general opinion of em can only go downwards.no good to them,no good to us.