Rav4 - MOT Advisories.. help me

rule one of buying a used car - check MOT history before even thinking about contacting / speaking to the dealer.

At this kind of price bracket - no dealer is actually going to "fix" all of the above - to do all the above properly is going to cost thousands and lose the garage a ton of money. They're banking on purchasers not spotting this and just selling them a ticking time bomb of deferred maintenance.

Find a car that's been properly serviced and doesn't have a tone of pending work the dealer is hiding.

Their idea of fixing this will be to give it the cheapest new tyre they can find and give everything underneath a quick coat of paint with a rattle can to hide the corrosion and taking it to a different MOT station that will be "friendly" to them and just not list the other bits of worn bushings etc..
 
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He sent a video saying it's surface corrosion, not deep... dirt & paint. He said they will clean it up with a wire brush and underseal it all. He knocked on it a few times and they it's all solid. I've taken screenshots of the corrosion he pointed out: (not videos)
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