In June this year my wife and I bought a Lexus L400 form a dealer (not Lexus dealer), on checking the car we found that the spare tyre was flat, so the salesman said it would be sorted out, it was put in for an MOT where they did some work on it to get it through the MOT.
On picking up the car I checked to see if it had been blown up and it had.
Yesterday on cleaning the boot out, I had to take the spare out because something had fallen down past it, and the spare is bald and has a great big gash in it.
Took the car back to the dealer and they say that there is no legal requirement for the car to have a legal spare tyre for them to sell the car, ?????????, which I find hard to believe, they offer to do a new tyre at trade price at the garage which did the MOT. I always thought it was a legal requirement to have five legal tyres for an MOT but the garage says not so. So I asked if they had taken the spare out to inflate it they said no they hadn't, so someone at the dealer's took out the spare and inflated it, and put it back in the car. That person must have seen the state of the tyre.
I am wondering if anyone could advise on the legal requirements of selling a car with illegal tyres and on MOT's?
I am going to speak to a lawyer to find out where I stand