Just for interest, would it be possible to put the reg number of your car on the forum?
I can understand if you don't want to, but it would be just be interesting to have a look at the MOT history and see where the problems were found so that I can check them out on our 53 plate jazz.
I'm quite surprised that there was a corrosion issue as the Haynes manuul states that "the important parts of the chassis are hot dip galvanised", and I was wondering where the corrosion is likely to show up first.
Also, the guy on the High Peak Autos series of vidoeos on Youtube has been saying for quite a while that the minimum value of a scrap car these days is arounf £300, so the salesman could be on to a nice little earner ......
Cheers