Advice - MOT Fail & Advisories before buying car

Joe_Horner

s_b wrote: »

an advisory is what it is
as already said its the tester who sets them but for it to be a tyre and brakes i expect them to be changed
the last mot tester i used he started getting all silly putting things like slight underbody corrosion when this was a 5 year old car ,how can i sell this when new buyer reads this on his fresh mot receipt or worse on the net before he comes to collect

Yes, I can see your point but that's a problem with the buyers (which is the bit I don't understand) rather than a problem with advisories.

I can get a fresh MOT on any of my cars tomorrow if I want, with no advisories, and with the car still parked outside my front door. I choose not to, but it's not difficult to arrange despite all the computerisation. If I was a selling dealer with an attached MOT station then that'd be potentially even easier.

So, the OP's new car has been tested - and the tester has obviously looked at it and not hidden / ignored anything that he spotted. That should be nothing but a good thing in any sensible buyer's eyes. What the selling side choose to do about what he's found is a separate matter between the buyer and them.

Personally, for that sort of money, I'd be approaching them to clear the sheet but, possibly because I know my way round cars (& MOTs) very well indeed, the brake disk advise is the one point I wouldn't necessarily hold out for, at least without seeing the disks and knowing what I was looking at. I'd be quite surprised if they refused any of it, and wouldn't be at all surprised if they're doing it all anyway as part of the service it's also booked in for.

But, whatever they agree, the points picked up are certainly not any reason to lose faith in the car.


eta: Incidentally, I'd actually like to be advised of "slight underbody corrosion" because 9as the advisories are meant to) it gives me a heads-up to do something about it before it becomes major, car-scrapping, underbody corrosion! That said, a verbal advisory when you collect it does just as well for that.

Turn_to_Grey

Ex Motability ? Make sure you get a full set of keys too.

arcon5

You inspect the car THEN do the deal. Not do a deal then renegotiate. Especially things like a tyre which any person can reasonably spot

burlington6

Advisories are a waste of time. Either fail them or don't.

Had an advisory on my car last year. 12 months later, using the same station and tester the advisory from last year seems to have mysteriously fixed itself.

Anyone who looks at buying a used car and is paranoid about advisories should really be buying a new vehicle