I don't believe they're MG dealers, as it's the Marshall group. I had this from an initial enquiry:
"When the car was under first registered, it was under the Motability scheme, so for the first 3 years of its usage, all elements of servicing and maintenance are covered by the manufacturer at the local main dealership.
We then purchased the car and sold to its 2nd keeper, which who as traded the car back in with us recently, due to a change in there current circumstances and needing a car with a longer range.
We have carried out inspection service's of the car in its time with us, so everything has always been carried out by a main dealer."
They annoyed me a bit with their sales tactic so I'm playing quite breezy at the moment. I had a look round the car on Sunday and it seemed ok, then went inside to have a chat about where they could go on the price, as it was over-valued (IMHO). I suggested a couple of prices to come down to, and they did the usual back and forth to the sales managers office, and couldn't get down to what I had proposed, so I walked away. Cue a call at 4:15 before they closed saying they could get it down to 10900 with a second year of their warranty included, but I had to go and do the reservation on their website. That only reserves it for 48 hours, and I can't get back there before this coming weekend (2 hr round trip, plus lugging the pregnant wife and youngest out with me), so they wanted £500 to take it off sale.
I've been chocka at work so I'm letting the sales guy dangle now, and in the meantime keeping an eye out in case I get my head turned by anything else.
Has anyone here had any other major issues with their cars of this kind of age? I'd seen reports of underbody rust and poor paintwork, but I think they could be isolated rather than endemic issues.
