Just to confirm:
You bought a car on Wednesday and found issues immediately.
On Thursday you took it to a Toyota dealer who carried out an inspection and found 13 things wrong including tyres with no tread (you say wheels with no thread but I think we know what you mean). Why on earth did you no see those faults before you bought it. You drove the car and if you had been caught its 3 points per faulty tyre plus up to a £2500 fine per tyre, 4 illegal tyres and that's your licence gone and £10000 out of your pocket, have an accident causing injury or death to a 3rd party and its prison time.
You then sent a notice rejecting the car and another letter and e-mail going back on this asking for mediation. Not sure but I suspect doing the latter would suggest you no longer want to reject it. Then you contacted the Ombudsman who told you they cannot help, no idea if it works like that.
Then on Friday small claims court you started procedures without giving the seller time to react to the rejection/mediation requests.
This seems more like buyers remorse than real dissatisfaction. Its a 9 year old car and it will never be 100% perfect. You should take some of the blame for not spotting the bald tyres, this indicated to me that you have not really looked at it before buying.
And I find it difficult to believe any main dealer at present can take a car in for an inspection within such a short period. Many are keeping established customers waiting weeks for an appointment.
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