How to Check a Used Car before You Buy it - Part 3

This is the part three of the article How to Check a Used Car before You Buy it by Knut Holt. Hopefully this will help you to find your best used car. Here we go!
CHECK THE PAPERS AND CAR HISTORY

Then, before buying the car, check all the papers.

• Look at the service book. Has the car had all its services?
• Look at all repair bills. All of these should ideally follow the car.
• Look at the mileage indicator to see how long the car has been driven.
• Take out a history report of the car from authorities, insurance companies or other instances offering such reports. An example of such a report is a Carfax report that can be taken out online.
• In some countries or areas dept issues or fines that an owner has generated follow the car to the new owner. Such issues are especially important to check out. How you can do so, will vary from place to place.
• Ask the seller about history issues, for example accidents the car has gone through. If you have found some signs indicating some issue, ask directly about them. Many sellers will be honest and tell any truth. In other cases you can guess from the way that the seller answers if he is lying or not.

DECIDING

At the end, you must decide several things based on the findings.

• First of all, is this really the car type you need? If not, decline the offer, even though everything looks fine.
• If you have decided that this is the car type for you, then think further.
• Is the car in such a technical condition that it is possible to bring it to the standard you want? If not, decline the offer.
• Then think about how much time and effort the repair of the car will cost you. Even though you let a workshop repair the car, you must spend time by bringing the car to and from the workshop, by explaining what to repair, by waiting, by checking after repair, and so on.
• What do you think the repair of the car will cost?
• Now you can decide if the car is worth buying after all, and the maximal prize worth paying.
• As the last point, discuss the prize with the seller, even if it is within the right prize range.

Then at last, after all checking, and all thinking, and discussing the prize, you can decide to buy or not. If you find this article is helpful, don't forget to give link back to the original author's website : http://www.mydeltapi.com