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How to Test Drive and Buy a Used Car - YouTube
Channel: ChrisFix
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hey guys chrisfix here and today I'm
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going to show you what to look for when
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you test drive a used car and how I
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negotiate with the owner of the car and
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what to look for in the cars title to
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make sure the bank doesn't own the car
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or that it isn't a salvage or flooded
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car in the previous episodes of how to
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buy a used car we met with the owner did
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an engine interior and exterior
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inspection so all that's left is the
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test-drive so let's get to it actually I
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should mention this first only go for a
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test drive if you're really interested
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in the car because you don't want to
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waste anybody's time I know I'm gonna
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make Frank an offer as long as the car
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drives as expected and I just want to
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make that clear alright so get in the
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car start er up and then go over in your
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head the main tests you want to do on
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this test drive the main things that
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we're going to want to test are the
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engine transmission brakes and
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suspension to do that make sure you get
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some highway driving as well as city
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driving and I have everything you need
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to check on my checklist and you can
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download that with the link in the
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description so when you inspect the used
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car you won't forget anything now let's
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get going now you want to spend about 10
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minutes taking the car for a test drive
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and just drive normally if there are any
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problems there's a good chance in those
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10 minutes from just driving around
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normally that you're gonna find these
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problems and we're gonna go jump on the
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highway right away because it's right
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here
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so again right now I'm driving normally
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and it's a good idea to tell the owner
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of the car what you're going to be doing
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for example we're going to be doing a
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hard acceleration test and a hard
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braking test obviously you want to be
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safe when you do all this but you want
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to let the owner know just to be
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courteous and also because you don't
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want freaking out when you're jamming on
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the gas and jamming on the brake so
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here's a merge and here's a good chance
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to really accelerate hard so I'm going
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to do a hard acceleration here
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the engines warmed up it shifts nice
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for a 2.5 liter this thing has pretty
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good pet now I'm letting it Coast I want
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to make sure it's not slowing down too
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fast like the brakes are locked up or
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something like that that definitely
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passed the hard acceleration test I do
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feel a little bit of a shimmy you're
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talking about the the brakes being no
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good so that could be from the brakes
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don't forget to test the cruise control
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turn it on with the button back here
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comes on on the screen then you get set
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there we go beautiful it works then when
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you hit the brake it shuts off awesome
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and I actually get off here so it was a
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relatively short Highway test we don't
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have to go far we just wanna make sure
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it feels smooth everything felt really
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smooth do you ride this on the highway a
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lot or is your or your trips local I'd
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take it to the city every once in a
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while the handles pretty well on the
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highway my opinion but typically it's
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pretty local it's a good idea to ask the
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owner a lot of questions whatever comes
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to mind he knows the car you don't he
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knows how he's driven you have no clue
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you know these roads pretty well yeah
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I'm familiar with the area I'm about a
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half an hour away so I've been here
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plenty of times the malls right around
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the corner yeah so now we're kind of do
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the city driving we're just getting a
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feel for how it reacts on the stop and
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go so now I'm going to hit the brakes
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hard because it doesn't look like
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there's anybody around so go to speed
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limit and I'm going to try to lock up
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the ABS so the ABS didn't turn on we
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didn't get any skidding I'm gonna try it
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one more time
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there we go
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I felt the ABS in the pedal and that
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means it's working there's no ABS lights
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on in the dash so that's good that's
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what we want to see it stops straight
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when you hit the brakes
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even when I'm going so when you hit the
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brakes at stopping straight check for
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that here's actually a good spot that we
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could mess around with turning hard you
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want to turn the wheel all the way until
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you can't turn it any more this will
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test the front bearing cv joints and the
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axles the ball joints and the power
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steering you want the steering wheel to
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turn easily with no noises groaning or
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whining is going to be the power
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steering pump squeaking is a bad ball
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joint or bad tie rod a click could be a
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bearing or CV joint that's in the front
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X and then when everything sounds good
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you want to turn it the other way and
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feel and listen again this feels and
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sounds good so the test drive is going
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great all right at this point we can
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start heading back
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perfect timing some bumps in the road
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one of us Apprendi bangs or nuts
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that could be shocks or sway bar
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bushings going bad also make sure the
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steering feels comfortable and
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predictable
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that was really good test for the
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suspension suspension feels good it's
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nice and firm you would think it would
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be a little bit softer for a luxury car
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but this is like one of those luxury
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sports cars
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Farmar suspension so that pretty much
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covers what you want to do on a test
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drive there are a few tests that I like
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to do on every test drive which I showed
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you but for the most part just pay
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attention to the gauges pay attention to
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anything that doesn't feel normal or
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seem normal again hitting the brakes you
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can see there is a shimmy here but it's
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nothing horrible it's just like work
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brake rotors so I'm pretty sure that's
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where it is you said I need the brakes
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that's my guess yeah I'm thinking that
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front to Gregg's has to be replaced yeah
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that plus the tires in alignment could
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be what's causing the shaking the good
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thing about this test drive is the
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engine is buttery smooth and powerful
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and the transmission shifts are crisp
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and overall the cars handling great
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basically the car is something I would
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want to own it feels reliable and I feel
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comfortable driving and the last thing I
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want to say is always be nice and
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respectful to the owner when you touch
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drive in the car because it isn't your
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car that's what Craigslist gets exactly
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I've had a my fair share of people look
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at this car got some weirdos
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all right and there we go that's how you
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check out a used car we checked out
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everything on this checklist and thanks
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to Frank the owner of the vehicle for
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letting us film and everything and now
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comes to the fun part where we do the
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negotiation now before we negotiate this
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is what's going through my head I want
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the car this is the best one I've seen
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mechanically out of all the Jaguars I've
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looked at my main concern is the
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vibration in the steering wheel it's
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going to need new tires new brakes and
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an alignment right away plus the hood
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cable has to get replaced
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so the hood doesn't go flying and then
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it does need new wheels because they're
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not the right ones for this car which
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could also be causing the vibration at
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speed and then I need to figure out why
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the backup sensors aren't working but
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the car could still be driven if I don't
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fix that right away so he's asking
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$3,000 the car is worth about 2,500 in
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fair condition so I'm going to try to
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get the car for around two thousand
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dollars because that's somewhat
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reasonable but at the same time you
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don't want a lowball and because that's
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just gonna make them feel disrespected
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or mad and that's the last thing you
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want so what I do to prevent that is I
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explain my offer also a very important
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thing we learned from the test-drive is
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what he said right here I've had my fair
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share people look at this car so we
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probably wants to sell it already
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because he's shown it so much and I'm a
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serious buyer with cash in hand and I'm
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ready to take the car today right now
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so use that information to your
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advantage and here's how I negotiated
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let's go for it
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again thank you very much for letting us
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check out your car letting me film I
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really appreciate it I'm sure all the
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viewers appreciate it and not a problem
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and now comes to the fun part where we
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negotiate and I really I like the car
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this is the best Jaguar I've seen it
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does have a few things here and there
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the wheels and tires they need to be
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replaced I think your offer of $3,000 is
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a little bit too high you said you loved
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the car yeah no I do like the car but
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I'd like to make you an offer of $1,500
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for this car I think that's what it's
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worth
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well I don't think I could do 15 I
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I need to put the money towards my new
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car so 15 is not gonna I can drop it a
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little maybe 26 we're still a little bit
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too far off I'll be honest like I I
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can't go above 2 that's that's too much
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I'm I'm really would you do 1,800 uh I
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can come down to 21 that's still for
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this car it's still a little bit a
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little bit too high one I'm gonna I'm
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gonna make you an offer
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1,900 that's my final offer you have my
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number I'm here right now with the cash
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I'll buy it right now that's up to you
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I'm interested you know I'm ready to buy
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it right now take it off your hands
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right now and for 19 I think I think I'm
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gonna hold off for now I have a couple
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more people that said they want to come
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and look at it so I'm kind of set at the
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$1,900 mark I honestly just don't think
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the car is worth more than that I'm
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gonna be putting in about $1,000 but you
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have my number I really appreciate the
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test-drive letting me film and
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everything the viewers appreciate it so
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thank you very much and again you have
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my number give me a call if you don't
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sell it will do close but no cigar all
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right I'll tell you what change your
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mind I can do two grand I'm really firm
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at that 1,900 there's just there's a lot
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of stuff that need to get done to it I
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love the car for me I'm comfortable at
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1,900 I'll give it to you for 1919 yeah
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we got a deal give me that camera
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get this handshake on camera got
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ourselves a deal I'm gonna just go over
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and park real quick all right sounds
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good all right look at that that is our
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new car that is awesome
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my dad is gonna love this I'm pumped to
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go bring this home this is I love the
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look of Jaguars and this one was the
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nicest one I've driven he's at my price
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range you know that's what I mean don't
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get emotional if he comes down he comes
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down if he doesn't he doesn't so now
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we're gonna go fill out the paperwork
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he's going to give me the title I'm
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going to give him the cash money and
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we'll go off of that all right the car
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is almost ours we negotiated we came to
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an agreement with the price now we have
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the title in our hand
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and we need to make sure we check a few
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things before we hand over the money the
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title or the pink slip whatever you want
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to call it is the piece of paper that
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you need in your name to own the vehicle
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so the first thing we'll do is we want
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to check out this top section here
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there's a lot of important information
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you want to make sure this VIN number
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right here matches the VIN on your car
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if this VIN does not match this title is
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not for the correct car and then you
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could also verify you know it's a 2003
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Jaguar x-type it's a four-door and it's
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silver good and then right here is going
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to be the mileage that Frank bought the
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car at so Frank bought the car when I
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had one hundred and twenty nine thousand
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miles it now has like one hundred and
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thirty-five thousand miles so he put
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about six thousand miles on it right
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next to the mileage there's a letter
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right here and this letter is very
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important a means that it's the actual
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mileage but if you see an S that means
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the cars salvage or a T that means that
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the car was used as a taxi F is for
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flood peas for police LS for lemon law
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and so on so you want to check this out
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everything on this title up here is
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looking good there's one more thing up
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here we want to check we want to make
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sure that the person showing us the car
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is the listed owner on this title so
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Frank was showing us the car and he's
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the owner it also has his driver's
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license down here just in case you want
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to verify you know you could just ask to
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make sure the driver's license is the
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same because you can't have somebody
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else selling you the vehicle
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besides this owner listed right here now
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even if Frank is listed here he might
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not own the car the bank might own the
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car and that's what we're going to look
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at right down here if there's a stamp
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right in this section right here that
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means the bank owns the car now if
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there's a stamp here but then right here
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it says lien released by and it's signed
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off and there's a stamp on this that
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means that the lien was paid off so the
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bank doesn't own the car anymore Frank
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owns the car so once you check all this
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information on the front of the title
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now it's time to sign the back of the
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title this is where you need to focus
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and pay a lot of attention because you
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can't mess up here you can't have any
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cross-outs
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because then this title is void and then
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you have to get the owner to come with
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you to DMV if do all this paperwork and
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it's just not worth it just pay
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attention here take your time don't rush
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after everything's all signed off now
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you could give your seller the money
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take this and the car is now yours now
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you're going to go to DMV and take care
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of business
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thanks again Frank I really appreciate
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it made my day this is this is cool so
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driving home the new jag that is exactly
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how you do it that is how
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you buy a used car hopefully you learned
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a lot again comment below future Jaguar
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videos to come hopefully not repair
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videos but we do need new tires
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we need new rims and need some breaks
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and couple other things so stay tuned
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come on
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