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Ouch, that sucks but it's always the case of buyer beware :(
I hope you paid a good price, might be mint but with discs, pads and 2 tyres + cambelt (if he doesn't plump up for the paperwork) you're looking at another grand I'd have thought.
Are the boxes that bad? How many miles of abuse vs motorway miles are we talking? Rebuilds, replacements, syncros? What's the crack (pun not intended)...