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Originally Posted by Shinsplintz 101
Sounds like it's been parked in the sea.
Whist rotten 850s are rare if it is as bad as described by the MOT tester I'd be walking away - gul or not - unless you man knocked £10k off his asking price to cover the ball ache of stripping, welding, repainting & putting it all back together.
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I'm with you Shinsplintz on this one. It's not so difficult to do a decent cosmetic job on rust that'll last perhaps 3 or 4 years but it WILL come to bite you at some point.
Also, I gather the MOT requires testers to use specific terminology. Surface rust and corrosion are two different issues, corrosion obviously being the more severe.
It might not be a dud if the work has been done on it properly rather than a surface job, hence my comment about getting a bodywork specialist to give it a very serious going over.
John