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Bought vehicle from used cars trader and it failed MOT 2 days later

TheElite · 2020-11-19 15:01:47

Hi all My father bought a wheelchair accessible vehicle from a trader/used car garage in London 2 weeks ago for around £10,000 (paid on credit card). It's a few years old but it's in good external condition with low mileage. It's a mobility vehicle so has a lot of electronic components. One of the components is the…

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born_again Posts: 24,116 Forumite

1 December 2020 at 7:58PM

frost500 said:

Why would you pay 10k for a car without 12months warranty?

Since when has a MOT been a warranty?

How much you spend on a 2nd hand car makes no difference to any warranty, most of which are not even worth the paper they are written on.

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