Used Car - fraudulent MOT?

Retrogamer

With the bulbs issue you should have either contacted VOSA and request them to re MOT the vehicle, or contacted the seller to ask them to put it right. It would have to have been done neither the time and if i never got any response i would have chased it up

The wheel cylinder issue - where are they leaking from exactly?

Possum23 wrote: »

Could I make a claim under the Sale of Goods Act 1979? Can I have them for selling me a vehicle with a fraudulent MOT?

If the seller knew of any faults that make it un roadworthy and sold it to you as roadworthy then you may have a claim under that.
Be very difficult to prove of course.

Another garage done the MOT, so the trader could plead ignorance to any wrong doings as they never done it. As for the MOT, to prove it was faked you would need to contact VOSA and have them re-MOT the vehicle within 30 days of the MOT being issued so they can double check everything and make a decisions.
Too many time has passed for this though .

paddyrg

Just for the future, each city usually has an MOT test centre that don't do repairs, just MOT's. Your council may even nominate the one they use for their vehicles. These places have zero interest in passing our failing you, they have no interest in bogus repair work, and no incentive to risk 100% of their business to knock out hooky passes. These are the easiest people to trust with no vested interests.

It also helps the mechanics to stay honest - do the work they're paid for as it's independently checked.

earthstorm

We use a VOSA test center for our vans and my own car after the garage we used for MOTS did a pre test on one of our vans that we knew needed some work, It passed even though the radiator was only tied on a single shoelace (we were awaiting new brackets) and the windscreen wash bottle was leaking. lucky it was pretest after getting bottle and radiator fixed i took it to vosa centre and it failed as 1 brake servo was about to fail, so now all vehicles go there.