If you decide to buy a used car, first contact your friends and family. Perhaps one of them knows a person who wants to sell his vehicle. This will help minimize the risk of buying a stolen vehicle. Go to the car market if you could not find anything suitable in your immediate environment.
Instructions
Step 1
Buying a used car at a car dealership is safer. Often this is a car handed over in exchange for a new car. It may have been purchased earlier at the same dealership. Hence, her story is well known. Unfortunately, cases of sale of stolen cars by car dealerships also take place.
Step 2
Perhaps you still decide to look at the car market. It may happen that you find a car there, the price of which is significantly lower than the market average. This circumstance should make you wary. The car market is not the cheapest place to sell cars.
Step 3
Ask for the documents and check the engine and body numbers yourself with those indicated in the TCP. Any discrepancy should cause you to abandon the purchase. On a stolen car, the license plates may be intercepted. When inspecting, pay attention to whether the color of the paintwork of the body and number plates matches, whether there are traces of damage or corrosion of the metal. On front-wheel drive VAZ vehicles, the identification number is attached using a spot welding factory. Rough welds should alert you.
Step 4
Offer the seller an independent review. Study his passport carefully. If the seller refuses the expertise, citing the fact that it is a useless waste of money, and instead of a passport tries to slip any other document, refuse the purchase. A person who has nothing to hide will certainly satisfy your requests in order to dispel any doubts that have arisen.
Step 5
Keep in mind, however, that after the examination has been passed, the vehicle may be replaced. This also happens, although not often. The expert is shown a car with original numbers. Then the seller, under a plausible pretext, is briefly absent along with your future purchase. As a result, you get a car with broken license plates.
Step 6
Look carefully at the TCP and the registration certificate. They should not contain any corrections, erasures, traces of dirt, etc. All numbers and letters, especially those that can be easily altered, must have the same height, spelling and color and be unambiguous to read. When buying a foreign car, carefully check the customs documents.
Step 7
Perhaps the most effective way to avoid buying a stolen vehicle is to be present in person when it is deregistered.
