Dodgy MOT - small claims court advice

molerat

MinuteNoodles said:

16 year old car with 16 year old plastic clips holding the various rods together between the door handles and the door latch, any of which can break at any time purely due to ageing. At the very worst it's the door latch, in either case you're looking at sub £50 for the parts and an hour of your time to sort it out even if it's the first time you've ever done it.

I am still trying to figure out how it is going to cost £350 P&L to fix.  With a car of that age you either a)  fix it yourself or b) have very deep pockets and pay someone to do it.  If you can't a) or don't have b) you don't buy that type of car.

That said I know someone with a Skoda that has dropped the window, very common problem apparently.  Costs an arm and a leg to fix in a garage - £7.99 for the parts on ebay !

lincroft1710

Car_54 said:

lincroft1710 said:

Manxman_in_exile said:

I agree with the last three posters that I don't see the point of spending all your money on a 15 or 16 year old car and then worrying about repair costs.  (And who'd buy a car with a non-working passenger door and then try to sell it without fixing it?).

I could also perhaps understand somebody travelling halfway across the country to buy a proper MG, but not the one the OP has.

(Better duck down into the trench before the OP defends their actions again... )

If you think about it no MG saloon since the 1930s has been a "true" MG, they've been slightly faster versions of either Morris, Wolseley, Austin or Rover family saloons, the ZT being based on the Rover 75

Weren't even "true" MGs put together largely from various Morris bits?

Well that is how they started in the 1920s, modified Morrises.