If you feel an MOT should not have been issued for corrosion issues then you have, in law, 3 months from the date of the MOT being issued to appeal to VOSA.

So you are outside that time period.

You purchased from a private seller - so you have no legal rights there.

You failed to do your research before purchase - which would have flagged up the MOT failure. Your own negligence there.

Basically, you have no rights in law at all. Time to move on, and learn for the future.

Hi, thanks for everything, but the crux of the question is, what comeback if the MOT has been manipulated? Mike.

From your second post '' a week into our ownership, the front cross member if the chassis which holds the radiator in place was so rusty it fell apart at emergency tow ring and dropped causing the sump pan to contact the front wheel when cornering''

As i read that you had to do some towing with the vehicle, was it stuck and needed recovery, or were you towing something out, or am i reading this completely wrong and the tow ring wasn't used at all?

In an off road type situation the standard towing eyes are not meant for vehicle recovery situations where forces above and beyond the weight of the vehicle itself might be exceeded, special recovery mountings are available bolted to the strongest thickest parts of the chassis for such things, the standard towing eyes are usually at extremities.

Even if the vehicle was brand new using the standard towing point (which double as a tie down point for transporting) damage could well result in serious damage.

Thing is as damage has now happened, who is to say what influence corrosion had to the result.

If it hasn't been used for towing, and if i'm reading this wrong i apologise, and it just fell apart in normal motoring then maybe an engineers report to VOSA (or whatever thay are called this week) might get some action against the MOT station involved, but unless you bought from a trader with assets i can't see how you are going to get any recompense for the cost of the vehicle or the engineers report, even if you were to win such a claim against either the seller or the MOT station.

I hope i'm wrong, not trying to belittle your disappointment, i'd be just as upset if it were me.

I've run older Landcruisers for some years, people neglect them 'cos its a Toyota truck innit' and leave salt and crud covering the chassis, which isn't treated like a modern car body with galvanised dips and special paints and sealers, they're literally just painted with an undercoat and chassis black much like other vehicle chassis and regular car subframes which despite people's ideas to the contrary rot like billio, hence need regular care in order to stop rust, they're thicker than integral chassis but as we all know if salt is left to do it's thing, rust can do it's work faster than people think.

The very first place you look when buying a Landcruiser or other similar vehicle is underneath, i've spent 2 minutes under LC's before and been back in my car on the way home having never even looked at the body seats engine or anything else.

Edited by gordonbennet on 18/04/2017 at 11:23