Hi Lauriee, as others have said it is a 9 year old KA costing £1100, you should expect some wear including rusting. And let's face it, we all would do things differently with the benefit of hindsight (if only I'd phoned Cheryl the day she found out about Ashley!)

As you haven't collected the car yet, I would say to the dealer that he will be aware that under Sale Of Goods Act he will be liable for any failure within 6 months so in order to prevent a minor fault becoming a major one you would like him to have the car independently MOT'd prior to collection. You will pay for the MOT but he needs to pay for any necessary rectification.

If he refuses you have 3 choices:

1. Refuse the car & go legal, but I don't hold up much chance
2. Take the car & accept it is a 9 year old £1100 car. I guess £1100 is a lot of money to you but you don't get much of a car for it, I'm afraid
3. Take the car, have it independently MOT'd immediately & should it fail, then reject the car under SOGA / sue for the rectification costs. You should have a case (in my non-expert opinion)

Good luck

Edited by bonzo dog on 09/12/2010 at 09:58

Thanks everyone for your replies! It looks like rust is a known problem with KAs, but something which I only discovered having bought it. I think that the next step will be to get another garage to have a look and say what the extent of the rust is. Btw, the second hand dealer from whom I bought it did offer to have it re-MOTed the other day (when I tackled him about the rust having already bought it) if I paid an extra £400!! very unreasonable.

easy ! book the car in for an mot, pick the car up and take it straight for its test !. the dealer is legally obliged to make sure the car is roadworthy, if it fails an mot then it is not ! then inform trading standards. who will take action against him and hopefully he will not do this to anyone else. he will also wish he had been more helpfull !!!