MOT NO LONGER AN ASSURED SOURCE? CAMRY SALE.

[Ocellia]

When looking at Cars for sale, I’ve always used MOT history as a guide to the cars condition. Recently looking at -what appeared to be - a very nice 3 litre Camry, I was reassured by a pretty clean MOT history, to buy the car. (Plus a good video)
But, while getting a knocking sound checked at my local garage.the mechanic emerged from under the car, saying ‘did you buy this from a garage? You know you can take it back within 30 days….it’s crusty’! Sure enough, it was rusty. How did it manage to avoid being mentioned on the MOT Check, as it wasn’t ‘mild’ corrosion? Certainly knocked my belief in MOT as a source of information. Who has the time -or money -to trail about looking at cars in detail,let alone get repeated AA checks on cars?
I can understand it being missed here, as the Camry was in lovely condition ‘above the waterline’, but chassis,springs,transmission……all rusty. Not a surprise in age, it was an S reg car, so expected. But…..missed by MOT? Why?

….and, yes, it’s back for sale…..buyer beware?

[blue_haddock]

Moody MOT's have always been available if you were friendly with a tester.

Nothing new here....

[fouroaks]

You should buy this one , it looks great. https://www.motors.co.uk/car-71238160/?i=12&m=...

[Richard-390a0]

[Paddymcc]

Surely a Camry around 20+ years old is going to be like the titanic underneath at this stage of its life?

[vikingaero]

Best ones are the dealers that state "No rust whatsoever!" in the advert and the MOT they had done a few days previously has advisories on the rusty subframe etc.

[chrisch77]

Ocellia said:

....... Who has the time -or money -to trail about looking at cars in detail.....

Only people that don't want to waste their money on a rusty 25 year old car that wasn't even sold in the UK to start with?