What do you say to this MOT history?

[Yusee]

I wouldn’t buy this car.
Had a distorted rear wheel- presumably repaired, and needed new rear tyres in 17k.
If the offer looks too good to be true, it probably is!

[Yusee]

And apart from the fact that it’s likely to have been crashed, the owner(s) has clearly not looked after it- it is more advisories on 3 mots as my 33 year old Peugeot has had ever!

[Carbon VW]

Walk away, the engine bay as others have pointed out looks suspect. The front end and bonnet paintwork is very poor (and always looks worse in person). Rear wheel looks distorted. Bolster wear. Dodhy MOT history. Plenty of better examples out there. AVOID

[Alex1969]

I wouldn’t buy this car.
Had a distorted rear wheel- presumably repaired, and needed new rear tyres in 17k.
If the offer looks too good to be true, it probably is!

I'm now leaning to this too. Too many things possibly wrong:
Took two weeks to get photos on, were they repairing or making good of a bodge job.
The engine bay looks way to clean from the photos possible sign of everything needing replacing due to a front end collision.
Both plates have the dealership name that is currently selling it so did this garage repair the front end.
The above possibly explains why both the headlights on the mot history were to low because they were replaced, not to standard.
Tyres are needing replacing almost every MOT, signs of the car being driven hard or tracked.
Wheel distorted, maybe from hitting pot hole, possible signs of carelessness, although sometimes unavoidable, or just ragging it everywhere hitting inconsistencies in the road.

[Watts]

All helpful advise above but really OP, if you like the car just go and have a look. It costs nothing and pictures can be deceptive. These cars suffer badly from stone chips so you can expect plenty on the bonnet or that it has had a respray. A 6 year old car is not going to be factory fresh! The Santiagos can buckle but are quite strong, two of mine had a bit of distortion but it made no difference to the drive plus these ones have been painted so the diamond cut issues won't be a problem. It has Dunlops all round so someone has spent a bit of money. But as I said, go and have a look! You can't decide on just pictures. Also I only scraped 20k miles out of a set of Pirellis so 17k is entirely possible to wear a set out. Go and have a look! Did I say that before?

[Alex1969]

Is it just me or does the bonnet look peppered with stone chips or has it just visited a cheap car wash all it’s life and the drivers bolster needs done by looks of it
And if u can see a dealers name on either of those plates your eyes are better than mine

Yeah the bonnet does look bad but I always think if there are a few stone chips, which mainly happen on the motorway or dual carriageway, the car has had easy miles as its mainly been driven on motorways. Or this could be the owner tailgating every car on country roads, which would not surprise me with the history of the car. Yeah, I also noticed the driver bolster, didn't really think much of it but maybe signs of a lot of short journeys since its only 48k so shouldn't be that worn? I watched the video to see the dealership name on the plates and slowed it down so i could read it and I'm pretty sure it says moorelands LTD and then the postcode.

[Alex1969]

All helpful advise above but really OP, if you like the car just go and have a look. It costs nothing and pictures can be deceptive. These cars suffer badly from stone chips so you can expect plenty on the bonnet or that it has had a respray. A 6 year old car is not going to be factory fresh! The Santiagos can buckle but are quite strong, two of mine had a bit of distortion but it made no difference to the drive plus these ones have been painted so the diamond cut issues won't be a problem. It has Dunlops all round so someone has spent a bit of money. But as I said, go and have a look! You can't decide on just pictures. Also I only scraped 20k miles out of a set of Pirellis so 17k is entirely possible to wear a set out. Go and have a look! Did I say that before?

Yeah, good point. If it was close i would but its over a 100 miles away from where i am.

[kmpowell]

https://www.mattjohnsonprestigecars.co.uk/used-cars/volkswagen-golf-2-0-tsi-bluemotion-tech-gti-performance-pack-ss-5dr-barrow-in-furness-202006270581039

[Alex1969]

https://www.mattjohnsonprestigecars.co.uk/used-cars/volkswagen-golf-2-0-tsi-bluemotion-tech-gti-performance-pack-ss-5dr-barrow-in-furness-202006270581039

Thanks, but this is over my budget, really 14,500 is my max budget at the moment, its just this car was, what i thought, a really good find so was willing to go the extra mile. Also this white one doesn't have sat nav. But still a nice car. 

[barrym381]

https://www.mattjohnsonprestigecars.co.uk/used-cars/volkswagen-golf-2-0-tsi-bluemotion-tech-gti-performance-pack-ss-5dr-barrow-in-furness-202006270581039

Child seat has made that rear seat look terrible