Struggling without a car

[P4D]

DanL said:

Buy from a main dealer - should have a reasonable warranty and they’ll have prep standards to hit.

Purchased the Volvo from a main dealer and it came with an odd size tyre which I’m sure is an MOT failure, numerous 10 inch scratches down the passenger door that you could feel with your nail, and a lovely dent in the rear quarter

[DanL]

P4D said:

DanL said:

Buy from a main dealer - should have a reasonable warranty and they’ll have prep standards to hit.

Purchased the Volvo from a main dealer and it came with an odd size tyre which I’m sure is an MOT failure, numerous 10 inch scratches down the passenger door that you could feel with your nail, and a lovely dent in the rear quarter

Buy from a better main dealer.

[snuffy]

P4D said:

Update:

We went to a car supermarket today and found a Kia we both liked. It was in good condition given it was 3 years old and the MOT history was clean, never any advisories or fails. Sat down with the salesman, and surprise surprise, it had missing services so we dodged it.

I seem to be having absolutely zero luck.

If its 3 years old then the most number MOTs it will have had is one. And you'd not really expect to see any advisories on a 3 year old car anyway.