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Range Rover Blues:
Crikey mate that's horrendous, how much did you pay?

However much it was you'd be forgiven for thinking that off a fourcourt with a 12 month ticket on it that the car would be sound :-.

You can still pick up solid examples at that age so I hope you get a refund and aren't put off looking for another.

hobbit:
It make ou wonder what else has been put through an 'MOT', before boing sold on

They are putting people at risk,with very dangerous habits, both the mot stationand the sales people

I would recommend a trip to the nearest VOSA testing station, present the mot and ask them to check it over, but see that they will let you take the motor back to get your money back before they pounce on the mot tester

My friend runs an mot garage, and even for me he would not let any of this go, if it fails it fails, I do the work and take it back to them, they know me and what I can do, but I still follow the correct procedure, it means to much to crap on a friend, he can loose too much

The garage probably told the seller to sort the jobs out before selling it, and the seller didn't bother

crazymac:
Same advice as the rest.  :police:

I take my Discovery to a local MOT station who knows me well. He tests the vehicle fairly and with due consideration to safety. I'd rather know that my vehicle is safe! If he can advise me on something he will, as he knows I fix it that day so there is no danger of it coming back to bite him. But sometimes things are a fail, end of story! I sort it and take it back for retest!

These MOT stations make a fair bit of money from MOT's so any threat about VOSA will have them running.

CNorman:
I feel gutted for you as well. Got to say though how much of a bad egg is it. It dont take a lot of garage labour to make something un worth while to repair.

I hope you can take it back but i would have thought the person would have said it was fit for purpose, it apparently has an MOT on it and should go for a year, and no doubt you didnt pay a great deal of money.

My understanding is that it is very difficult to disprove an MOT and that there are very short time frames within which you may report defects, something like 1week for certain things and 1month for big things like severe corrocsion etc :shock:

That would nmake it difficult to "force him under law" to do anything i would have thought.

Still hope that he ends up taking it back.

GreedyGibson:
As said above corrosion issues are 3 month window. you will have to get an appeal form from a testing station and pay for whats called an inverted appeal. Vosa wil then test the vehicle at a neutral site and invite the testing site to attend. if its proved that the pass was issued incorrectly you do get your appeal money back and the garage gets a kicking and the tester will probably get suspended.

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