I believe it really needs front sills/bottom of the arches repaired and chassis legs repaired. Sad that these dealers cannot do things properly.
I also believe the price hike is so when someone buys it, finds the faults and comes back he will say that he will refund £500 or similar.
I’m with JS46 I’d report them to trading standards, then I would look to see where they advertise and give them negative reviews any where I could find them. You didn’t like what they did to you so why let them do it to someone else.
I’d give him a chance via his own Customer Enquiry website to get that POS off to a Spares/Repairs business first and do the honourable thing to redeem his ways. Or else.
I doubt he paid 4 figures for it.
Failing that, go for it. In short, let him choose his own level of grief and rope length.
It does beg questions about his other offerings, given MGB’s are even more notorious for structural tub rot.
Hence Heritage shells etc.
Exactly, what are the MGs like?
If he’s into repairing classics then why let a car out of the workshop or describe it’s condition in the way it has. It’s deceitful.
This really does need reporting.
Ho Ho, made up wording on that advert. What’s “sportpack suspension”. Beats Chinese after market coil overs I suppose.
Given the rough MOT history of that car, the “repairs” were done in 2018, when the car catastrophically failed its MOT due to rust.
Wrong nut fitted?
The car was obviously traded in some place, went to auction.I doubt the selling garage did any work on it.
I’m guess the fiberglass was from someone trying to build up a “jacking point”. All sounds rather old school. Were the “spot welds” even real? A well known MX5 restorer states that visible spot welds is a sure fire way to spot a car that hasn’t been touched.Or it means a car where someone has gone out to deceive, by adding “spot welds” for effect
There’s a lesson; when looking at cars, get the tyre jack out and see if the lip collapses, crunches, snaps off, bends inwards. Another lesson is to look beyond the bling on any car. Even after looking at MX5 for for 4-6 months.
£2400 retail car, the dealer likely paid less than £1000 for it.
When I got my Jag, I traded a 1 owner 58 plate facelift top of the range Ford Focus convertible, with 80k miles against it. It had a few dings on it. I wasn’t too unhappy to get £900 for it, and I wasn’t surprised to see it on the forecourt a week later, with refinished wheels, all the paintwork sorted out, for £2700. It sold quickly. I know I would have struggled to sell it.
An enquiry via the website produced the response that the car will be ready to view later in the week after welding work has been completed.
Interesting to see if that is true or flannel.
The car came from “car contacts” in reading previously. There was paper work stating that the car had been repaired on the 27/02/19 for the rear sills and suspension defects.
Car contacts also claimed they inspected the vehicle on their ramp at that time and gave the vehicle a clean bill of health.
You could ask for proof of the work, see if he just patched up the holes or actually replaced the panel.
I am glad you winged it back - its pretty disgraceful condition. Odd the MOT history only goes back four years. I have 1999 NB with over twice the milage with a full MOT history from new. Go on the club website.
I found the car on ebay now, with the number plate hidden for obvious reasons.Not on the guys main site either.
Just a warning for others not to buy.
Wow 
, it looks great , might make an offer 
It needs outed on Fleabay…but that’s not easy.
It needs scrapping, not selling.
I emailed him at his business address 2/3 weeks back telling him numerous informed eyes were on it…no response.
He knows well it’s a shed.
Yes its pretty much impossible to get ebay to step in.
There’s another dealer on there that gets dodgy MOT. I viewed one of his cars that was full of rot, he wanted £1500 for it but I said no, see it on ebay 3 days after and it had a new mot. Checked the MOT data, no advisories.
Maybe mx5 attract cowboy traders.
Oh deary me. 
Waiting for the 
to turn up here again.
TBH Mick…best not say anything if it does…perhaps at most direct him to this thread.
Caveat Emptor and all that.
These things can get toxic pretty quick…and “go legal”.
It’s happened concerning a certain “specialist” before who turned out sheds at 1st prices.
No name, no packdrill.
It’s still on ebay. My guess is that you asked the right questions and therefore to you, it’s not available and is sold so you don’t bother to go view it etc.
you maybe right , he wants some one with no clue about mx5 issues to go view it , see how shiny it looks and fall in love , only to be bitterly disappointed come next MOT time 
