£2000 rust bucket, Mot’d Suzuki Vitara a mate just asked me to check over CRUNCHY,Lazy car dealer

He bought this 2 month ago from a dealer for £2000 with 10 months mot on it , he’s not happy, the mot tester can’t hit it with a hammer but someone knew how bad this car was and that’s some terrible bodged corrosion repair using expanding foam and filler

[@Kaisan-vc8fw]

In the mid 1980's I went to look at Triumph Spitfire .... it looked OK ... when the guy went inside to get the keys I literally tapped the front section of the sill .... and my foot went in to the ankle. Il left before he returned 🙋😁

[@robertwalker1742]

When I was young, worked in a garage in north east uk, got a car in for MOT, it had a potato cut off inside a hole in the chassis with black paint over it.

[@Andys_Vauxhall_Vids]

That R/O/S tyre didn't look to clever either!

[@C1_Rocksta]

Whoever mot'd that wants doing assuming its not a licencee mot :D either way glad he got it investigated

[@antonbrum5492]

Why aren't these people who rip car buyers off, put into prison? How many have died by these ripoff merchants.

[@RetroRatz]

Oh my! Oh my!! That's beyond shocking!!! Makes my extremely crusty Talbot look good!!

[@Niracka1]

Hope you reported the seller/MOT centre to trading standards

[@jammiedodger629]

Report the MOT to DVLA, trader to Trading standards and leave a bad google review.

[@grahamherbert3612]

If you're very quiet, you can hear a Vitara corroding in real time.

[@MegaReddevil71]

Shouldn't be hitting it with a hammer until someone from vosa has seen it

[@markwright7357]

You have to get dvsa to re-examine it within 3 months on corrosion, 1 month on any other defect.

[@kevinbartram5302]

You have just likely ruined any chance of a complaint to D.V.S.A. it was obvious that the repair was poor and within 2 months the D.V.S.A would have looked into this within the 3 moths to complain about corrosion. After that you could have looked for a remedy for compensation. If the car has been bought from a dealer then they are who you should seek your compensation from. If you bought it from a dealer you should seek compensation from them but you will likely need an engineers report not just a bloke in a hat with a hammer's word for it to get any compensation as quite often this ends up in the hands of trading standards.

[@WarriorRazor]

Never understand people who do this, so much easier just to weld it up. Take trader and MOT station to court, if it even went to a real MOT.

[@RoyDavidson-g7g]

I'll agree with that somebody must have spent hours bodging that up

[@russthebiker]

But you need to remove seats,trim,wiring harness,fuel tank and battery, before you start And drop the suspension,that's why Billy bodger does things like this

[@nigelbryant5932]

I’ve never seen anything that bad

[@hTyKn1]

Did it come from Arthur Daley Motors?

[@samf5442]

Court case 🤦

[@spamanator666]

Are you going to be able to save it? Or it is headed to the back 40 to be parked forever?

[@Mmmmmmmiwish]

just looking at it you would know it was a true lemon.... and run a mile.... surely he looked underneath

[@jani7683]

Too assess corrosion or suspicious repair, VOSA recommends firm finger and thumb pressure only, or gently use of an approved corrosion assessment tool in the correct manner .. not smacking with a hammer...

[@colinstickland3130]

Big metal spike in my time.

[@inlinefourtr]

Same happened to me with my 4.0L Jeep Cherokee. Looked good on top, lovely to drive. Left it at garage for it's MOT They rang me later saying they wouldn't do inspection because of rust. Sold it on Ebay as a restoration or parts. Good that you show what's out there.

[@melvynwoodman5787]

I had thought this sort of thing was largely a thing of the past. It seems that manufacturers have just found ways to stop the parts we see dissolving whilst they fall apart out of sight. Legislation should force them to be responsible for non accidental structural failures for at least twenty years. I believe that if this was done we would soon have vehicle structures made from stainless steel and carbon fibre. Manufacturers will scream that it’s impossible or too expensive but they currently have no incentive to make it happen. They have been forced into making vehicles safer and more environmentally friendly why should this be different?

[@danilecooley1252]

I thought 1970s and 80s bodges were thing of the past lol

[@mbak7801]

When I bodged my cars in the mid 1970s I did not use expanding foam. Just honest P38 and repair gauze. I used to make a better job than this example. Also it was never to sell just to keep my car a little bit longer.

[@jammiedodger629]

@@mbak7801 Ahhh P38 Isopon, the smell was enough to get you dizzy after a while, and no ford Capri front wing should have been seen without it and covered in grey primer!

[@sicks6six]

the tyres are threadbare, who bought this car, Stevie Wonder, OK fair enough not everyone is a home mechanic but surely people check the sills, bottoms of the doors, the bushing points, coil-over cap plates, leaf spring lugs, look under the boot liner etc the basic stuff, it takes no more than five minutes with a torch and bend down to check this stuff, someone should go see the seller, but that's waste of time they know they did it and they don't care, I value that car at under £100, engine, seats, bumpers, mirrors, eBay them,

[@paulwain7020]

YOU would be suprised how many buy a car for the wife because its shiny and in their words pretty

[@gabbermaikel]

Are they not allowed to hit that hard in a mot if they suspect a bodge? Ì mean over here we get checks from the governing body every now and then(3% of all the tests we do) And i have seen them grab the hammer and do it. And i have done it as wel because we had some customers that i knew would bodge it like this. And yes i loved doing it if i knew they where trying to screw someone over by selling a bodged car like this. I would go all out and make it as big of a mess as i could.

[@eddievanbasten1751]

Starts off with ‘a mate of mine bought a car’. If he was your mate, why didn’t you go with him and inspect the car for him?

[@lazy-car-dealer]

He didn’t ask , just turned up with it

[@reddyreddy2618]

Maybe because he's a big boy now and can go on his own?

[@robinburn4974]

Expanding foam, in my day we used newspaper 🤣🤣🤣

[@jammiedodger629]

And empty beer bottles...

[@connorkelly3462]

Stevie wonder done the mot

[@allanreid4935]

Jesus!! That's a bloody death trap. I've just finished welding the inner sills on my 20 year old camper...at least it's solid if not pretty. My father bought a Morris Ital years ago....looked lovely..brand new respray too. Put it in for test and the sills were basically filler...and he knew about cars!

[@teddiver-gf6dj]

The last mot place should be closed down.

[@reddyreddy2618]

went to look at a ford orion ghia from a car place with a mate who was desperate to buy it, mate was all stary eyed, I ran my fingers around the back arch, lump of filler the size of your fist fell out right in front of the salesman, just see his shoulders drop, no thanks mate!

[@spencereagle1118]

No pride in bodging any longer, what a mess.

[@corin6677]

Years ago my friend his first car was a MK1 Escort with bubble arches . He lived down a dark alley and the Escort only had one spotlight as a reversing lamp which was the thing back then. Needless to say he reversed in to a post one night . Once he set about repairing it he found out that the rear fiberglass arches where packed in with masses of filler and actual ice cream tubs to hold the filler in place😂😂

[@emlyngriffiths5428]

i have found this problem on cars registered in scotland . all the salt during winter . take car for mot as soon as possible after buying it

[@petrol-head-Steve]

On the old mot paper it used to use you had 3 months to report any rust to the DVLA. I'd be going back to the garage and seeing what they had to say before telling them you were informing the DLVA.

[@pureblood1978x]

Window fitter/foam user here. The colour tells me that is brand new foam.

[@carlstark6857]

Let the buyer beware 😮😢

[@MegaReddevil71]

Mot inspector isn't allowed to use a hammer but anyone can see its bodged

[@Imp5011]

That’s Phil Harding off Time Team. Nice to see him still digging.

[@jaggass]

Even Del Boy never sold things as dodgy as that.

[@Mark-on2mt]

Funny

[@Tizzypj]

Typical old car in the uk south east lol

[@paulwain7020]

HOPEB THE DEALER IS FINED

[@autisticnproud]

All comes down to money have a heart

[@roasthunter]

Wow did your man get a refund

[@smashingpumpkin1986]

Just a bit of surface corrosion

[@Brian-om2hh]

£2000, and it's only fit for scrap......

[@russthebiker]

My 64 year old morris has less rust than that

[@jonminson5770]

Did you keep the receipt? Lol

[@jimmyk9523]

New cars don't rust do they? :D

[@volt8684]

Criminal fraud

[@MattCartledge1994]

WTF???

[@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206]

Why you are seeing more and more old cars with "Dodgy" MOT tests on... The price here in the UK of 2nd hand cars is a TOTAL RIP OFF. When I passed my driving test in 1990 you could buy "Good bangers" with a year's MOT test on... for £500 (About £1200 in today's money) People are asking £5000 for 11 Year old Ford Fiestas.... ARE THEY ON DRUGS??? I took my car for its annual MOT 2 months ago.... I had to spend £700 on the car to get an MOT test on the car... But it was better than selling it for scrap and looking for another 2nd hand car. Now I know where you can buy "Dodgy" MOT tests for £150 ..But I would prefer not to do this... However, for the next MOT, I am going to take the car for a pre-MOT test one month before it expires (A mock MOT test on the car...But if it fails I can still use the month MOT that is left on the car) If I am looking at YET ANOTHER huge repair bill just to get another year from my car, I may well be looking at the said "Dodgy" MOT test just to get one more year out of my car (As long as the brakes/steering and tires are safe) Thank you for this video.

[@danpeters5028]

I've seen some bodged vehicles in my time but this is beyond a joke

[@wall2floortiling868]

Surely this is a job for trading standards the people who sell these cars should be held responsible knowing full well there cars a death traps

[@jamesward5721]

Wouldn't cost me a thought. They're all like that or going that way. This is why God invented welding. Cut the grot, weld in fresh metal & treat the entire underside with a proper rust-killer so it doesn't just rust away again. BTW, just at a glance, you could have mushed in the quarter-panels as well - those all go too. That ones ^ are full of filler. Those also need cutting out & replacing. Fun. :-) It goes with the territory on these - you better be able to weld or know someone who can.

[@dannydanny4755]

Reminds me of a 110 station wagon belonging to a guy I know , sills and rear passenger floor ,seat box etc were made from layers of cardboard and filler 👀

[@norwichnorfolk1584]

I assume the car was crushed? and people responsible were looked into by the powers that be?

[@scottm5425]

Garages should be able to report cars like this to the insurance companies and then having them classified as a write-off until an independent engineers report is given that it is structurally safe, before being allowed to go back for an MOT.

[@km_youtube23]

my guy you just described the entire point of an MOT. theres a reason it can only be done a month in advance

[@chrismckay8349]

I'll take it

[@ludeactor]

Bradford MOT there. Buyer beware. Most are horrendous. Birmingham, Bolton, Blackburn too. All lemon shops.

[@distilledgogilba]

I got done in Cheshire, absolute rust bucket of a Jazz that I paid 5k for. Now I only buy used cars where the most recent MOT is from a dealer or Halford/KwikFit types. I reckon they’re less likely to be dodgy.

[@musoseven8218]

Awful - greed and selfishness of some people, putting a family's life in danger. I've seen several "modern" cars, low miles, FSH, only to be as rotten as a pear underneath. Don't buy second hand unless you can have it on a ramp and professionally checked out first!✌️👍😊

[@arthurgay5746]

When will people learn... You have to get the car checked out before you buy it. If they have a problem with that then they have something to hide 🫥 !!!