My view is you have a legal claim in the small claims court for the following reasons
1 You relied on the dealers assertions that the cracking was not significant which is false as the manufacturers state a max 10 year life. So clearly this was false.
2 Motordealers have a legal liability to make good defects which arise in the first 6 months.
3 If the dealer did do the MOT and passed a car with those defects you could report them to the MOT authorities and I suspect they wouldn’t want that.
4 I agree with others driving a car with cracked tyres is completely unsafe either for a MX5 or a Morris 1000.
5 I would play hardball with this dealer and start by claiming cost of tyre replacements for the type fitted to the car.
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