Ultimately we all act on best advice, to check the MOT history is simply "best advice", there is no suggestion that anyone has cut corners, we all tend to economise wherever or whenever possible.
The important point here is that
YOU need to know what was or what has not done in order to pass the emission test ie was an "Italian Tune Up" carried out aka high speed run to clear the Cat to get it through the test BUT PLEASE NOTE - the mileage
has not increased over the 2 month and 3 test time scale - so it was neither road run nor rolling road stressed.
So what was/was not done to get it through the test?
What was replaced, which parts were fitted or was it an "empathetic" test?
Was the MOT carried out by the seller or their agents?
With such low mileage on the clock one wouldn't anticipate an emission problem in the first place - the back box hasn't been change, one assumes that the mid box and cat are also unchanged.
Think long and hard here - yes, it appears to be a lovely motor, but it clearly has had problems and from what one infers from the MOT record, they may not have been full corrected or addressed i.e if a new CAT is really what is needed you're looking at big expanse at the next MOT unless you know a "sympathetic" MOT'er
No aspersions whatsoever are attached to any information which the seller may have provided, the bottom line here is "caveat emptor" i.e "Let the buyer beware". You get what you pay for................
