When buying a used car, it is easy to fall prey to an unscrupulous seller. By purchasing a car restored after a serious accident, the buyer runs the risk of facing a host of problems during the further operation of a used car. Sometimes the repairs are done so well that it becomes very difficult to recognize a broken car, however, there are several simple ways to protect yourself as much as possible from buying a car that has been in a serious accident.
Instructions
Step 1
Inspect the vehicle carefully. In a broken car, the gaps between body parts differ from each other, the color of individual parts is also different. Such a car was painted for sure.
Step 2
Always inspect your vehicle in bright light. The car must be perfectly clean.
Step 3
There is an old tried and tested method that helps to determine if there is a thick layer of putty on the body. You should try to stick a weak magnet to various parts of the car body. Where there is a thick layer of putty, the magnet will stick worse than where it is not.
Step 4
The plastic bumper after repair can be identified by the sound. If you knock on the bumper in different places, you can hear by sound the places where the thicker layer of putty was applied.
Step 5
Glasses and headlights can also help identify a damaged car. Very often the year of manufacture is indicated on the glasses. If the car has glasses of different years of production, then we can say that this car has been in an accident. New headlights can also speak of a past accident.
Step 6
When inspecting the car, you need to raise the boot mat and carefully examine the welds. In the modern automotive industry, spot welding is mainly used. Car service technicians often use a semiautomatic device for welding.
Step 7
Inspect all visible seams under the hood of the vehicle. Also check the hardness of the sealant with which the joints were sealed. If the hardness of the sealant is different, then this fact also indicates that this car has been visited by a repairer.
Step 8
Be sure to check the wheel alignment: the wheel alignment angles must be within tolerance. If the geometry of the car body is broken, then it is better to refuse to buy this car.
Step 9
Bend back the rear and windshield seals. If the color of the paint under them differs from the main color of the car body, then this indicates that the car was painted. Similarly, it is necessary to consider the boot lid and door seals.
Step 10
Ask the seller in which car service the car was serviced. If the car was serviced in a company car service, then you can find out all the useful information about it there, you just have to hint that after buying a car you will also be serviced by them.
