Thanks for the reply,

The car drives really well, the steering is steady at speed, so I had no reason to suspect the tracking. The broken spring doesnt rattle, you can just see the one side is sitting slightly lower.

It knaws at me because the car I traded in had good quality tyres all round, and the tracking had been done, it was a good car.

The car had an MoT in Jan 2011, so its been sold with the remainder of that, they wouldn't put a fresh one on it, as my trade in was on its last month I didnt argue too much. Car was sold retail, not sold as seen or trade.

Regards

Cheers for the replies, guys.

Its a proper car, low mileage, demo then 1 local owner with full BMW Service history.

Its only done 1000 miles since the MoT in Jan 2011, then they must have sold it to this garage, who had it on the forecourt for a couple of months. There was an advisory issued for the tyres at the last MoT, found it online just now.

The garage is just saying they cut me a really good deal, it was a lot less than I would pay for an approved used BMW, and if it isnt covered under the warranty (not much is), its wear and tear and my responsibility.

It doesnt help that they are 40 miles away, so its not easy to turn up and complain.

I think this time I'll put it down to experience, get the tracking done, a new tyre and the spring replaced.

But the lesson learned, seems to be, always ask for a new MoT on a used car.

Surely that wouldve got AT LEAST an advisory if the tyre is really that bad (a photograph might be nice if you wouldnt mind mate, ive got visions of racing slick in my mind at the moment) because if not, either the MOT station passed an unroadworthy car or the dealer has swapped them back and sold the good ones. Which again would be daft and strange because its hardly worth the bother for all the fuss you'd end up with.