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BEFORE SHOPPING:

1. Make up your mind what type of body you are after …. a four -door sedan, four-door hardtop, station wagon, or whatever and the general price bracket, then you can tell the salesman about it immediately so that you are shown where the cars may be diagnosed.

2. Choose which shops you would buy a used car by considering the dealer’s years of service in the business, the size and continuity of the establishment . It is more advisable to buy from franchised used – car delaer.

WHEN SHOPPING:

1. Visit several exchange or used car sales center until you have located three or four cars that is worth buying. During initial visits, tell the salesmen you intend to buy in a few says but you are still visiting others lots. This will alert them to a sharply competitive situation.

2. Describe what you want and including the price range. Emphasize that car condition is more important than price.

3. Keep your mind on the cash difference between your trade in and car you might buy.

4. Your own or your mechanic’s inspection should not overlook the tires– one of the most obvious indicators of wear and tear. Insist on replacement if the tires are too sick, or have cracked or cut sidewalls.
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ACQUIRING a secondhand car can sometimes be quite an experience, particularly for uninitiated.

TRICKS abound in the trade specially this time when a lot of unscrupulous “businessmen” are taking advantage of the current boom in car sales and are willing to go to great lengths in sweet talking an unwary buyer into purchasing a car that is ill-suited for his or her needs.

Despite this, growing interest toward the car helped lot in determining the proper car suited for his or her needs, specially for those who acquire cars out of necessity.

Individual preferences and requirements are the main factors in buying cars with such bases as body styling, durability, ergonomics, handling, performances, fuel efficiency , maintenance, parts availability and overall quality leading list.

Depending on requirements set by the car’s purpose, the criterion mentioned may vary on the order of importance.

With the onset of the Christmas season, a lot of families and individual will be dead set on buying a new car.

Thus, the average holidays car buyers should be well equiped with ample knowledge to provide a good measures of odds for bagging the right car.

In the process of prospecting a car buy, bring along a knowledgeable mechanic, if possible somebody you know personally, so that you can consult him when inspecting the car.

Ask the owner for a ride on the car with him/her or the one frequently using the car as the driver. Observr his or her manner of driving carefully. His or her driving habits would tell a lot on how the car wastreated.

A clutch driver would frequently wreck havoc on the car’s clutch and transmission system, while a gas pedal heavy driver could batter a car engines suggesting possible defects in the future for the motor.

Request the owner for a test drive to experience for yourself the car’s qualities.

If possible, test drive the car along a strip of road that is not paved all the way preferably with obstacles such as humps and potholes. This obstacle would bring out whatever metal to metal or unwanted sounds that may be tell-tale signs of faults on the car’s suspension.

On manual -transmission cars, the stick shift should lock on the recesses positively and should work through the gears smoothly without catching or getting crunchy.
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