That's a shame, yeah definitely think I'm going to cut my losses and get rid annoyingly my surname seems to be a curse on every car I buy!

Thanks for the advice though.

I sympathise, but you have to remember that the law (including consumer protection law) exists to uphold that which is reasonable.

The condition you'd expect to find of a 7-8-year-old car isn't the same as for a nearly-new car. The items you've lsted, as Bromptonaut says, are down to natural wear and tear (I'd include the water pump in that given the age of the car) - and also it doesn't sound as if the problems were noticeably present at the time you bought the car.

Maybe cut your losses and flog it. On a similar budget to replace it, condition is more important than make and model, but in general we'd advocate something Japanese and petrol-powered like a Toyota Auris or Hnda Civic.

There's a grim irony in your surname! I'm old enough to remember that Jowett, who went out of business in 1953, produced some of the most unreliable cars ever, even by the low standards of that era.

Jowett sourced their body pressings from Briggs, which was taken over by Ford and then changed hands again. Difficulty in supply of bodies was what led to their demise.

A Jowett Jupiter won its class at Le Mans in 1951 and 1952, there were several Jowett saloons and vans around when I was a lad in the mid 1950s.