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At the bottom end of the market (then) I'd speculate that a lot of the stuff had something badly wrong with it that the seller was hoping couldn't be spotted in the very limited inspection allowed, though in this case I wouldn't have spotted it anyway.
same applies to most sellers these days, cars are not looked after as well as they used to be, either through ignorance or just couldn`t care less or can`t afford to.
when I was looking at cars 2 odd years ago, people were calling dented and poor paintwork cars, without the mechanical problems (immaculate condition) not many were, which meant you wasted your time looking at those- yet the price was top end- and as another ex salesman here said you are better off buying private which is where I bought my Civic which I still have
even though it had problems like all different tyres on, needed pads and a good clean up, it passed all mots, had all fluids changed before I bought it and had been serviced, none of the other cars I looked at had even seen a bucket of water let alone a service
friend of mine bought and sold cars from the auctions, but gave it up a few year's ago because the prices were astronomical and as he said he didn`t understand how traders made a profit, he now only buys private after talking to the owners whom you get to know.
I recently started looking for a small car for a relation to learn in and was surprised how much worse condition some cars are now compared to a few years ago, no one seems to have time to give them a clean let alone pay for even oil and filter change which for me has always been every 5 - 6k miles or 6 months, pace of life now seems to have put paid to repair costs or time to get things done, and wait for MOT time to get repairs done
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