Second hand car buying tips from an Old Salt
Submitted by old salt on Sun, 2012-10-07 21:09
Here is Old Salty's second car buying tip for cheap cars, came in handy today:
Gently knock on the neighbours door and ask how reputable the person selling the car is? I was almost going to buy a car today only to hear the car had been rear ended something cronic and just recently been fixed.
I didnt even bother looking at it, I hate to sound racist but if they are middle eastern etc be wary and take extra measures like service records books matching the VIN number etc and asking when the last major service occured as well as getting it inspected.
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tim-o
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Not hard to spot dodgy
Not hard to spot dodgy repairs even good repairs are easily found if you know what to look for, as for servicing, carbon build up in the engine is a dead give away, shit engines that do get regular oil changes build up with carbon anyhow, unless run on lpg, the rest is conditional inspection and a REVS check. You can blow 300 on an RAC inspection but most workshops will do it for a fraction of that, say 1 hours labour generally
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Justo82
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Get auto check to do your
Get auto check to do your inspections. Ex Rac employees and they're mobile.
Revs is no longer around. You need to pay for a PPSR check (personal property and security registry). This is Australia wide where as revs was only wa. This also eliminates the need for a WOVR check (written off vehicles register). PPSR will have a list of money owing, storm damage, if its been written off (repairable or total), and if its ever been stolen. Well worth the money.