Reject it and get your money back - you've got 30 days from purchase.

Thank you.

I will give it a go and see what happens.

I do appreciate that any car of any age can have problems, and it's the price you pay for buying not new. I was just hoping to have my eyes open to the purchase rather than find out that it has these things wrong so close after MOT. If it had them as advisories, I'd have been able to establish the cost of repair prior to buying it.

It's a shame you can't mot a car yourself before you commit to paying for it and instead have to rely on the honesty of the seller and the validity of an MOT that their mate has probably put on it!

Hey ho, that's life I guess!

Thanks for the help and suggestions

There's lots of could be's.

I'm not unrealistic, and I appreciate an 8 year old car will require work and I'm totally prepared for that. I ran checks, got the whole history, checked all previous mot's, including this one on the 17th September that said zero advisories, 2 weeks ago. So I walked away as far as I was concerned with a car with a clean bill of health so to speak and that's not strictly true in this case.

The tyres are already switched, however, someone passed it like that, and yet it is simply fixed, so why didn't they fix it? There is a bearing noise, hence me taking it today instead of next weekend so its not made up. My point is, non of it was present on the MOT as an advisory and I'd have expected them to be. I even quizzed him on it, and he said it had had a lot of work done.

It wasn't a bargain! I bought it on the basis of full clean service history, relatively low miles for age, and toward the top end of the price range for these cars due to the fact he said work was done and it whizzed through it's MOT no trouble and it's pristine inside and out.

Like someone's already said, it's valid on the day it's tested, but what is the likelihood of there being zero evidence to suggest these problems.

I don't necessarily want to claim from the seller, I wanted to purchase a car and be fully aware of it's faults with an accurate mot at time of purchase, tbf, I traded in a 14yr old 3 series with 180k miles on the clock with lists of issues, which I was completely honest about, turbo failing, handbrake knackered, brakes needed replacing, the last mot listed all the advisories, it's currently up for sale by him with a description I certainly do not recognize, it needed scrapping and I was told not to put it through another MOT I was completely honest with him, I just expected the same in return. Sad thing is, he'll pass on my old car to some other unsuspecting, I'm intrigued by that ones MOT too! Maybe he's a miracle worker and that will show zero advisories as well in it's next mot. He seems to lose owners too, my old car has had 2 owners, it had 3!