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steve10:
Two weeks ago I bought a K plate 5dr 200TDI with 12 months MOT from a car dealer. The car has two previous owners, done 127k miles and has a FSH.

This week i took it to my local independent land rover garage for a service and they called me in yesterday to look at it on the Ramp.

What a nightmare - the two rear and one other body mountings are rusted through, the rear cross member is gone, the sills are weak and one of the rear arches has a hole near the seatbelt mounting point. There are also holes in the boot floor (which i did know about).

The garage said it should have never gone through it's MOT and is basically not roadworthy and were amazed it had 12 months MOT on it. It doesn't give me much confidence in MOT's! How the hell can something like this pass?

They have also said it's not worth repairing and I should take it back to the dealer for a refund. I'm taking it back to the dealer today for him to get it inspected so we'll see.

Gutted!!!

clodhopper:
steve, take it straight back to the dealer. don't take no for an answer. i'm sure a mention of trading standards will convince him to do the right thing. was it the dealer who mot'd it himself or is there a third party involved, either way somebody has been acting dishonestly to say the least. hopefully you will find another truck in better condition soon.

steve10:
The dealer got it MOT'd by his local garage.

discowoman:

--- Quote from: steve10 on March 01, 2008, 10:54:49 ---The dealer got it MOT'd by his local garage.





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Then get VOSA involved..probably get an inquiry - and lose their MOT status

chris9119:
Should have taken someone along who knows what there looking for/at....

With that amount of issues, a blindman could have seen them and walked away PDQ

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