Used car advertised with 12 months MOT but only has 5. What to do?

I think you’re mistaking how few late mondeos were sold. Auto trader has a whopping 60 2017 mondeos with 70,000 miles or less on them. Whack an 11k price limit on and you’re down to 23. In the whole country.

OP if it’s the purple cinch car dont they deliver it to your door for free?

In your position I’d mentally prepare myself to just get a hire car for a bit to cover work, etc, as a Plan B. It’ll cost a few quid but a lot less than £10k.

I also agree with the people that have said the dealer won’t be MOTing it until a sale is agreed.

The charitable explanation here is that there’s no incentive to do so on the dealer side, just to have the sale fall through for some other reason.

The less charitable explanation is that he’s trying to do you over for a few quid given you’ve said you want to drive it away on the day.

FWIW, I literally just bought a 10kish Ford and it was very much the same sort of thing. They did a bunch of work between my putting a deposit on the car and actually buying it a few weeks later.

So I wouldn’t automatically assume the dealer was trying to pull a fast one, but caveat emptor as always with used cars.

oh, and don’t go all “CRA” “false advertising” etc on him 

I do chuckle when that trope comes up on here often with no footing at all but folk believe they are right.

My experience with fords like this one is that often take a bit of money to get through the MOT each year – suspension bushings, brake pipe corrosion etc so I wouldn’t asssume it will just sail through.

Totally irrelevant to the OP but this just shows how mental used car prices have got recently.

A seven year old diesel Mondeo with 80k for £10,000, it’s not that long ago that I bought a 9yr old one with 79k which was advertised for £1,200 (actually gave him £750 and a broken Peugeot)  That’s a hell of an increase!

That’s a hell of an increase!

Have you seen how much new cars are now!! 😳

I doubt I’ll be buying a new car again.

As @tomparkin said. Recently bought a £15k vehicle from a local dealer. Left a 10% deposit and he said it’ll be ready in a week. Rang me 4 days later and said it’s ready. 12 months mot ( which I expected), 4 new tyres (which I didn’t) and a full service with some warrantable parts. They’re not all crooks. Border City Autos Carlisle fwiw.

A seven year old diesel Mondeo with 80k for £10,000, it’s not that long ago that I bought a 9yr old one with 79k which was advertised for £1,200 (actually gave him £750 and a broken Peugeot)  That’s a hell of an increase!

Was it a Mondeo or a Granada 🤣

It baffles me how fixated people get on ‘one’ car. That Mondeo may have a good spec, but in a 90 minute drive you’ll be driving past hundreds of Mondeos for sale that would do the job just as well.

Driving a long way for a rare classic I get – but a Mondeo though? 🤷‍♂️

If you want a big, practical, comfortable estate then your choices are limited because car buying influence has hugely shifted over the last 20 years to people who feel safer if their car looks like a much chunkier version of a hatchback, and like the comfier ride. So the market is flooded with SUVs and Volvo have stopped manufacturing estates.

I had Mondeo estate on my next car shortlist, but the last version seems a bit less reliable than previous, and like most manufacturers, modern cars seem designed to expire shortly after 100k miles.

I can understand getting fixated on one car as if you search autotrader there’s often only a handful of cars out tehre – for instance I search petrol manual Passat estates under 25k miles and I tend to get 4 or 5 results over the whole country

I bought a 7year old mint mondeo with 40,000 miles on it from a Ford main dealer in 2014 for 3200.

I bought another from the main dealer for the mrs, a 2014 fiesta with 8000 on it in 2015 for 6k.

8 years later, they are still selling 2014 fiestas with 60000 miles on them for the same price. Madness.

modern cars seem designed to expire shortly after 100k miles.

Rose tinted specs much.

Who remembers early 1980s VW /Austin metros /mini city’s , early Toyotas and Nissan’s and their life spans

Have you seen how much new cars are now!! 😳

I doubt I’ll be buying a new car again.

Oddly I’m currently thinking the opposite because of used prices…

If I can find a large estate with a manufacturer incentive (e.g. meaty deposit contribution or similar) + 4 years PCP I reckon it could be less per month than buying a 5 year old car I don’t know on used finance/bank loan.  I then end up with a known 4 year old car that I could buy at the end of the deal or if it’s been a lemon then I can hand it back and start again.

@renton

…so did you buy it!? 🤔

oh, and don’t go all “CRA” “false advertising” etc on him – he’s under no obligation to sell it at all, certainly not to sell it today and any negotiating power you had evaporates as soon as you try these sort of arguments.

I wasn’t suggesting that as a course of action at all, rather reminding the OP that he should expect the car to match its description.

I had Mondeo estate on my next car shortlist,

A guy I worked with got a Mondeo estate at the same time I got the hatchback, he wanted something he could get bikes in the back of. He sent it back, said it was like driving a narrowboat. You could probably have fitted a Fiesta in the back of it.

modern cars seem designed to expire shortly after 100k miles.

Really? Old cars at 100k were universally knackered if they even made it that far, Volvo aside. These days 100k is just about broken in.

It’s pot luck on a 100k car, diesel even more so, there’s so many new components that make the simple complicated, if I could afford it, I’d buy new, secondhand you’re just picking up the problems someone else is trading away.

The big question is how was it!

Hi all.

apologies I’ve been out all day.

bottom line is that I have bought it and am very happy with it.

Spoke with the dealer and he was more than happy to keep hold of it for a few days so that he could get it MOT. He apologised that it hadn’t been done beforehand as he had asked for it to be done before he went on his days off.

We both agreed that it would be a faff taking back down for it to be done and so they knocked off the cost of an mot £55 and said get it done up by me and they would cover if anything needed doing.

test drive was great. Drives nice for what it is and was brilliant on the motorway on the way back. Averaged 58mpg without really trying.

cheers all.

I wouldn’t be too worried, can get an MOT done for £150 and I don’t even have to take the car to them.

Anyone that thinks a huge amount of in house MOTs aren’t just printouts are kidding themselves.

…bottom line is that I have bought it and am very happy with it.

Good. Leave some wiggle-room next time 🙂

…can get an MOT done for £150…

Martin Lewis you are not. 

Did you read the post. That’s the price without the car present

and Volvo have stopped manufacturing estates.

Shit? What? I’ve got a factory turning them out at a rapid rate just down the road, why didn’t anyone tell them?

Shit? What? I’ve got a factory turning them out at a rapid rate just down the road, why didn’t anyone tell them?

Let’s hope someone told them not to put them on a boat to the UK.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/content/news/volvo-will-no-longer-make-estates-and-saloons-for-the-uk

Yes, i know they aren’t *sold* in the UK, that’s old news.

They are *manufacturing* thousands of them.