Unfortunately, this dealer is not prepared to take a hit on a car he has taken a chance on at auction and got burnt, and this will sadly be at someone else’s expense. You can tell the level of dishonesty when you look at the flood of positive reviews on autotrader that appear in short periods of time for the dealer. The dealer doesn’t have enough cars to warrant so many reviews on a short period of time!!
I also enquired about the car and got a reply that did everything possible to skirt around the issue but sound reassuring. The dealer is playing on the fact it has a fresh MOT (if love to see an invoice for the brakes that were previously an advisory - bet they’ve not been replaced) and AA inspection. He can’t accept that a MOT won’t find the poor Hidden damage repairs, neither will the AA.