Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-30576757-20170221050616/@comment-26070920-20170223134436

Mr Procrastinator wrote: I know people have been getting the time trial Car Data mismatch message half a year ago.

Obviously this isn't a new feature, but is there any difference between the 'feature' now and from six months ago?

There is no threat of a ban anymore. And it now applies to all cars, and regardless of the number of upgrades. Even putting 1 extra upgrade on triggers the warning. Check the comments above. My hunch is that before this release FM could only discover it with cars featured in the Exclusive Series. When fully upgrading, the Exclusive series would be opened. When this happened, they would then peek in your garage. Cars not in the Exclusive Series, or not fully upgraded (but say 26 out of 27) wouldn't be a problem. But that's my theory.