Seen a peugeot for the missus , few years old but perfect for her.

Its advertised as recently having head and belt done but no receipts as garage selling it did the repairs.

Is there a way of checking the work has actually been done and not just a way of bumping the price up ?

There is no way of knowing. Is this one of the Peugeot 1.2 Puretech engines that have Wet Belt issues / failures, hence the repair required. Maybe best leave that one where it is if it is.

3 minutes ago, Evolution13 said:

There is no way of knowing. Is this one of the Peugeot 1.2 Puretech engines that have Wet Belt issues / failures, hence the repair required. Maybe best leave that one where it is if it is.

Its a 207 1.4 millesim

Is it a 2010 car. 1.4 VTi. So 'Timing chain' issues with some of those. Not a belt as far as i know. Hardly bumping price if it needed the head doing. So ask again about the CAM BELT. See if the sales person knows Jack Sh-!t. Non VTi is 8 or 16 valve and cam belt. Known to possibly have head failures

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This is it :

Even with a new MOT i would be avoiding unless it is no more than £500. Maybe it has another years life.

Edited 15 April15 Apr by Evolution13

She's got her heart set on another one.

Bought same car 5 years ago (2007 plate) for £1000, hardly needed to do any work on it in that time , 19 years old now and coolant and oil are mixing and mot due in a month

Generally people put far too much faith in an MoT. Best to remember even a strict and genuinely done MoT is just one (hopefully trained) person's opinion that the vehicle meet the minimum statutory standards at that one point in time only (it could fail one second later) and it does not mean the vehicle is in as good condition as it could or should be or that it won't have issues as soon as it leaves the test centre.

Edited 15 April15 Apr by nta16