Tips for buying a used car

Buying a used car has a lot of psychology and some technical knowledge. We give you the keys to get your decision right.

The cars for sale in raleigh has very tempting offers. It is true that many believe that buying a second-hand vehicle is paying for someone else’s problems; unfortunately, some “professionals” of dubious morals have done a lot of damage to this sector … But, with these simple tricks, it will be difficult to give you “cat for a hare”. So, once you have decided on a specific model and you have located some “candidates”, follow these steps to get your decision right:

Talk to your landlord

You have to try to be a little psychologist; talking to the seller we can find out if he is a careful person with the car or not, why he sells it, if he is the first owner…

Key questions:

• Why do you sell the vehicle?
• How many owners have you had?
• Have you suffered serious accidents?
• Do you have the assistance book with the revisions sealed?
• Does the car “sleep” in the garage?
• Are there bills for possible repairs? Does it let you see them?
• Points to review

After a bit of conversation, you have to become a member of CSI.

The first thing to do is look at the e exterior car; Check if you have hits. Scratches and small parking dents should not discourage you when buying a car: they will serve as a weapon to negotiate the price, but they do not mean anything serious.

Look for asymmetries in the body. If a headlight is lower, if the bumper has more gap between it and the wing on one side than on another or if the bonnet fits more on the side … it tells us that there is a blow badly repaired; that should put us on alert.

Check all the lights, pilots, mouldings … Do not trust the cars that equip the “tuning” rear tulips, sometimes they are mounted after an accident, since they are cheaper than the original ones.

Open the hood and check the headlight anchors, front struts and shock absorber supports. Keep playing the seven differences … if the welding of one of the struts is different from the one of the opposite, it may have been repaired.

Ask the owner to start the car. See if in the starting process the propeller rattles too much: it could indicate that some motor support is broken.