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You're too late, chalk it up.
All old vans have rust.
Get an mot and welding somewhere you trust or punt it on cheap if your conscience allows.
Fixed it for you!
All
oldTransit vans have rust.
I’ve read many times that insurance lapses
Yeah but it doesn't matter how many times you read peoples writen thoughts on what they believe if there's not a source.
Yep just get it fixed
Or worse sees car-unsavvy woman and does the teeth sucking, this’ll be a lot to fix routine.
I've had this when mrs_oab dropped one of ours off for MOT.
They backed down on needing new headlights and springs when I turned up to show them how to adjust headlights instead of buying new ones, and showed them the first few staff cars also had rusty springs.
Get a second opinion, get it welded and a fresh MOT.
Just spoke to her,she'd been to 3 garages with quotes of £1-2K for the welding (& consistent opinion that the previous MOT was dodgy) and the van cost £3k. She's going to chat to CAB about it.
That sucks. 🙁
Update: she called the seller who has offered to do the welding themselves - I suggested she accept this only with an MOT (pay half) and don't get any underseal as she can ask her own garage to do so.
Not sure how this interacts with other welding that needs done but seems a good result to me.
Cheers all! - let's hope it pans out...
Sounds OK. Obviously get the new MOT from another garage
I’d say it’s worth a go - not a bad result if the welding is up to the job. Good luck to her.
£2000 of welding on a £3k van though 😳
Anything she gets is a result. Buying a van for £3k is always a risk.
The good news is that that's effectively an admission of guilt 😉
Story update: the seller made the repairs, actually more than needed for the MOT, but not to a great cosmetic standard. She hadn't got an MOT yet.
I feel it's not a bad result overall, car sellers can be decent!