How to Personally Inspect Your Car
When you are wearing old clothes, you are not so afraid to get dirty. After all, it is just an old clothe getting dirty and not a new one. When it comes to used cars, it is most probably the same. The first owner of the car must have left his old car with dirt, sot o speak, before he had decided to resell it.
So when you are considering buying a used car, inspect the car carefully before deciding. According to one car professional, he always starts to inspect by looking into the car’s trunk. If he saw oil can there or an oil stain on the floor of the car, it is suspected that the car’s engine is burning a lot of it and probably needs work. And if you saw some rusts inside, you might think that the trunk is leaking and maybe so do some of the car’s parts. If the tread of the spar tires show cupping, then you might suspect that the front end needed some working on it.
Check the car’s sides, trunk and across the hood for ripples. These ripples indicate poorly repaired clash damage. You can see evidences of cheap repairs and rust when you peer into the fender wells on beneath the doors, under the rocket panels.
Check the car while driving; listen for some grinding sounds and abnormal clunks. When you are done with test drive, let the car idle so you can check under for signs of fluids dripping.
Once the car passes your check and the price suits your budget, have a mechanic thoroughly check it before deciding to purchase it.