plenty of time to get a mechanic over to it to get it appraised. Just trusted it to be sold to me as being fit for use..but I guess you win some, you lose some...but my wallet is deffo feeling like its "losing" at the mo..lol! darthrule 21-02-2011, 22:12 Sorry to hear that mate. I was lucky with mine, paid 1900 and it sailed through it's mot with only brake pads as an advisory... Had only done 80k too. For a first buy I was thorough but lucky. baby_emi 21-02-2011, 22:12 jesus hannah what a pain in the arse. 2nd paleredfox as i bought my fto to repair and guys at camskill have been such a great help with parts. As well as all the advice on here as well as all the friendly fto members and ive managed to get my fto back on road. I hope you can to. Wish you all the best hun x aleredfox 21-02-2011, 22:15 Who was the member? Its a shame because the majority of us, I would like to think, are pretty honest and if they had any idea the car was like that it would have been declared. Although of course they might not have known it was as bad:) What a shame, I hope you get it sorted. MossTech 21-02-2011, 22:16 Oh no, that's not good at all. I paid 2000 for mine, it was up for 2500, and I got it from a used car place which gave it