Buying a new car is always a great joy. Someone saved up for a very long time, someone took out a loan at crazy interest rates, but even those people who can afford to change cars several times a year choose and change cars with great pleasure.
When buying a used car, we, one way or another, are ready to find that it has been in an accident, has been scratched, repainted. That the kilometers he traveled are twisted, and the engine is on its penultimate gasp.
But, buying a car in the salon from an authorized dealer, no one can even imagine that it is broken, that the salon workers or strangers in general have traveled on it for more than six months. Usually they find out about this after an accident or long-term operation, at a service station, when a solid piece of putty falls off the side, and when choosing a colorist, the colorist sees a color mismatch in the details of the car.
Have you seen how most cars are transported? On open auto transporters, brand new, uncovered, unprocessed cars flaunt, therefore, driving on our roads, it is quite difficult to completely avoid chips and scratches. When descending and driving cars, troubles such as dents and stripped paint can also arise.
Large salons have their own paint shops, but even in the absence of one, the salon can work with outside masters. It is very easy to fix minor defects, it takes 2-3 days and that's it, the car is as good as new, but in fact the hood was painted, the fender was changed, the strut was straightened, the gaps were set, everything was as it should be. And there is this miracle of technology, waiting for the buyer, and he comes, and is very happy, just soars on the wings of bliss and it does not occur to him that his car is no longer off the assembly line.
Or an unscrupulous salon employee took a new car for a drive, ran into a bump, boiled the engine, or drove 10 thousand kilometers, and the car needs to be sold. What to do? Of course, to fix, clean, polish, twist off the excess from the meter and - voila, the car has its original appearance. There are also cases of returning the car to the salon, a very rare occurrence, but still. After troubleshooting, the car can also be included in the number of new ones, but, for example, driven from another salon due to its closure.
I am not at all claiming that the vast majority of cars in the cabin are painted or have another defect, that all showrooms and dealers are guilty of such tricks, but it is always worth being on the alert. If possible, when going to choose a car, take with you a person competent in this matter. An acquaintance from a car service, a painter you turn to about painting or a person who is engaged in the sale and purchase of cars, they will help you for a small fee. (Such a service is definitely available in many car services and even in car markets)
If you do not have the opportunity or you do not trust such people, you do not have such a service in your city or for some other reason, then here are some tips that should help you:
1. Always look at the cleanliness of the engine compartment. Somehow mud, called anti-corrosion from the factory, is not practiced. Everything under the hood glitters, there are no greasy stains, the corks to all the barrels are screwed tightly, the liquids are poured without drips.
2. Look at the gaps, they should be the same in all parts of the machine, if the gap is curved, then the part is oblique.
3. Look carefully at the sealant in the seams, the sealant is applied at the factory by an automatic machine, the layer and configuration should be the same for all parts of the car.
4. Painting: there are 2 options. 1) When the car is assembled from parts from the warehouse, i.e. they can be painted in different series of the same color, and have slight differences in color or tone. 2) When the car is painted entirely, i.e. all parts are painted with one batch of paint and are immediately assembled. If your model is painted, as in the first version, then a slight difference is acceptable, but it is a detailed difference, and not a sharp transition or a spot in the middle of the part. In the second variant of painting, there should be no color difference across the car.
There is one more snag, the so-called "unpainted" - this is when the car is painted unevenly, with spots, the ground shines through (this, unfortunately, is the fault of some cars assembled in Russia and China). This defect can be seen in the bright sun or under some lanterns at night, but it is extremely difficult to notice it for the untrained eye, usually it is noticed by a colorist or a very meticulous auto-painter. Occurs due to the fact that the factory saves paint.
5. All fasteners on the painted parts of the body must also be painted, except for the plastic latches, ie. you see that all the bolts on the doors are in color, and on the front right 2 screws are not painted, or there are traces of unscrewing, then the part or opening was painted partially or completely. All plastic is put on the car after the final painting and high-temperature drying so that it does not melt.
6. On expensive foreign cars made abroad, some parts, for example, the muffler, are covered with a special film, under the hood there can be a protection made of foam or similar material.
Good luck with your choice and satisfaction with your purchase!
