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Never Do This When Buying a Used Car on Craigslist, Don't Get Scammed - YouTube
Channel: Scotty Kilmer
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rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk
about how not to get ripped off when buying
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a used car from Craigslist, now I know
quite a bit about buying used cars every
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car I've ever bought in my entire life has
been a used car and over the years I've
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checked out hundreds of used cars for
my customers when they were thinking
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about buying a used car but they wanted
a mechanic to check it out so I checked
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it out for them, now nothing beats buying a
good used car, in my own case I'll often
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pay twenty to thirty percent of the
original price of the car and the car
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still might have eighty percent of it's life left, for example I bought this
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lexus it had sixty thousand miles on it
i paid $4,000 originally it was over
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$30,000 but being a Lexus with 60,000
miles, it's still got at least eighty
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percent of its life left and I sure paid
a lot less than eighty percent of the
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price of the car, the only problem with
buying used cars you got to find
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somewhere to buy it and a lot of people
use Craigslist which actually isn't a
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bad place to look for a used car because
if you go to use car dealers hey I got
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friends that are in the business, let me
tell you, when they're selling you a used car
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the price that they want you to pay is
anywhere two to three or five times what
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they paid for that car, that's why you
see so many used-car Lots around it's an
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extremely profitable business just like
pizza, doesn't cost that much to make a
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pizza that's why they can sell them
cheaper, the materials to make a pizza
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are generally less than a buck, so as you
can find a private individual that's selling
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a car like on Craigslist, it's not a bad
place to look for a used car but there's
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a lot of dishonesty in the world so
let's say you're looking at a car on
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craigslist you go and you're looking at
the car, the first thing you want to find
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out is the person that's selling you
that car the actual owner of the car
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because many disreputable car Lots will
have people who work for them directly
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or indirectly, they'll put a Craigslist
ad you'll go and they'll try to sell you
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the car it's actually a car lot car that
they've driven to meet you somewhere and
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they don't actually own the car,
it's the old bait-and-switch now realize
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first thing you want to ask them is who
owns the car is
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title in your name and if the title
isn't in their name or if it's a
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salvaged or refurbished title, don't buy
it, now and I was young they just called
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them Salvage titles because I meant the
car was Salvage then it was resold but
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they tried to make it look sneaky so
they put things like refurbished on it
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which really doesn't mean anything it
doesn't mean that it was refurbished and
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then someone checked it to make sure it
was done right, it just means the cars
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been totaled by an insurance company and
then you're buying it back and trying to
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put it back on the road, you want to stay
away from those type of cars and be very
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leery of where you meet people on a
Craigslist deal now it's not just for
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your own safety, like you don't want to
go and uh you know dark room of some
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seedy bar to meet somebody, but you don't
even want to say, oh I'll meet you at
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Waffle House parking lot or something
like that, what you want to do is you
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want to meet the person who's selling a
car where they live and you know, hey you
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got a little bit of recourse they live
there, you're buying a car from them
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because there are laws about
pre-existing conditions on used cars
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regardless of what the people might say,
I had a customer do that once they were
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gonna buy a used Mercedes and it was
like twelve thousand dollars and they were meeting in the
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Sears parking lot and I said are you
serious, you're gonna meet somebody you
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never met, hand him all that money cash
in a Sears parking lot for a car that
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you don't know anything about, now he was
smart he didn't give the money and he
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convinced them to bring the car to me to
check it out, I checked it out it was an
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absolute pile of junk, the engine was
coming apart but after I called him up
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told him it was junky he called up the
seller and then within about half an
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hour they said, oh we took the car to the
mercedes-benz dealer and they said
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nothing was wrong with it, but of course
they didn't do that you couldn't do it
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in half an hour anyways and no Mercedes
Benz dealer is ever gonna tell you
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that there's nothing wrong with a car
that you're bringing, they want to sell
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you stuff, so of course if you're looking
at a car on Craigslist and they won't let a
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mechanic look at it, just walk away
there's too many scams out there and
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speaking of scams, bring a scan tool with
you if you're looking at a car on
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Craigslist, this Creader it costs twenty
four bucks that's nothing a lot of times
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guys will reset the codes when there's
trouble, this will show you that that's
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been done, you just plug
to the data port, snaps right in, they're
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fully automated then they set themselves
up and they immediately show you
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information you wanna know, DTC is
detect the trouble codes it says there's
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none, now they could have erased them but
if they did these readiness things would
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not be ready but in this case as you can
see it's ready, the thing you're really
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looking at here is readiness in complete,
readiness and complete is zero that means
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it's complete if there are any numbers
here that would mean that they reset it
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and it's not ready yet because there's a
trouble code somewhere that will pop
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up later, that's the biggest trick in the
book, they can erase the code then you
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don't see the check engine light being
on, but there's still a code that's
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hidden in there when you put in this
thing, if it says readiness and it
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doesn't say zero on the complete that
means that there are a certain number of
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them that aren't completed and there's
probably a problem in the car, don't buy
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the car and then you want to have no
trouble codes and you want to have all
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the readiness done you don't want to
have any that are incomplete, for 24
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bucks this scanner or any little
scanner that you can get that does
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wireless communication with your cell
phone, it will all be able to read trouble codes
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and see if your systems are complete or
incomplete, and that stops a lot of scams
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in just a minute, now of course I got a
whole book on checking out used cars but
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you're gonna be doing some of those
things yourself and some you'll probably
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pay a mechanic the main thing is you
want to take it for a good road test of
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at least 10 minutes, back it up for a
minute or so to see how it feels backing
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up and how it breaks backing up, take
it on the highway get it going at least 60
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miles an hour to see how it goes on a
highway, turn on the AC to make sure it
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works, watch the temperature gauge to
make sure it doesn't overheat, all the
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normal things you're gonna do when you're road testing a car that you're thinking
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about buying, now if you do decide to buy
a car from Craigslist, here's another
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bit of advice so you don't get ripped
off, don't just be carrying cash around
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with you, you tell the seller hey we're
gonna meet at my bank then you're doing
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a transaction in a very safe secure
place and demand that they have the
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title in their hand and if the title
does not say Salvage or refurbished or
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reconditioned and that it's got their
name on it, not some other strange
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person's name, because you can get a good
deal on a car on Craigslist, but you
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can't trust
anyone, except me and the odds of you getting
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me to check it out for you are gonna be
pretty slim unless you live near Houston
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Texas, so if you never want to miss
another one of my new car repair videos,
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remember to ring that Bell!
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