Sellers that fail to supply details of cars issues.

[Ahbefive]

Just browsing autotrader for cars as you do. Come across a car that looks well priced and the ad doesn't point towards it bring a moneypit.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

Then you check the m.o.t history (which many people don't know is possible).

Just wow.

And no, I'm pretty sure that the seller wouldn't have sorted these items and then listed it at such a reasonable price. People are aholes sometimes.

I'm a bit surprised that a car can pass an m.o.t with so many advisories.

[Ahbefive]

Or they could be rusty bits that after another 7k miles in the rain and salt are pretty much ready to give it up.

I just think it's a bit stty to fail to mention a single bad point in an ad if the car needs £1k+ of work straight away.

I'm sure that there are much worse examples of this though and would love to see if anyone can find 2 pages of advisories on a car advertised as mint or similar.

[Ahbefive]

r11co said:

Ahbefive said:

I'm a bit surprised that a car can pass an m.o.t with so many advisories.

No offence, but that demonstrates how ignorant you are. Advisories are discretionary on behalf of the tester and are just his/her opinion. No legal sigificance.

Indeed I'm not an m.o.t tester but judging by that list I would be looking to change bushes (do these come with the arms or can the bush be pressed in?) Anti roll bar drop links, brakes and brake lines. Discretionary points maybe but also bits that could be failing the next m.o.t depending on how far gone they are.

To me this seems an oversight/deceiptful not to be mentioned at all in the ad.

My impreza I owned for 7years only ever has an advisory for tyres wearing a bit low on one m.o.t and my Volvos pass with no problema. In fact I have only had 2 cars ever that had lots of advisories or failure points (a 106 and a ZX )so I'm not used to seeing a huge list like this.

Edited by Ahbefive on Monday 27th March 21:17

[Ahbefive]

Chedders said:

Found this, seems a little cheap, was tempted to view:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/292065820351

Quick search on cazana.com, oh!

That is the sort of thing people would buy and think its pretty much a new car with so few miles and warranty etc. Not a good seller. Pretty dishonest imo.

[Ahbefive]

r11co said:

You are joking, aren't you? The car was 'priced accordingly. £1200 for a TT with suspension components that are old but 'not significantly weakened' is a bit of a result.

Well first of all £1200 was not the price.

Secondly, maybe I'm just used to seeing a clean m.o.t sheet on my cars when they pass the m.o.t and also used to listing faults with cars when I sell them even if they are minor.

If a seller has nothing to hide then whats the problem?

I did think this would end up as another "bash the op" thread but was really more interested in seeing more/worse examples of this sort of thing rather than hear peoples excuses as to why they don't list faults in their cars when they sell.