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How To Buy a Used Car - tips and advice from Top Gear's Steve Berry - YouTube
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Buying a used car is something that almost all
of us are going to do at some point
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and it can be scary it's a big purchase so you've
got to kind of take the emotion
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out to the buying process and look at
the information that's available to you
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There's loads of information available
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from all sorts of places especially
online
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and you should look at that, but for
what it's worth here's what i look
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for when I'm buying
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a used car
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There are all sorts of things you can check
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without even getting inside and starting the engine
Does the mileage ring true
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with the exterior condition of the
car. Now if this car had been flogged
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up and down the motorway
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for tens of thousands of miles there'd be
telltale signs
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not least
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scratches and nix in the paint work
especially here on the leading edge of
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the bonnet
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also check the windscreen for little cracks
and scratches
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Now the conditions of the wheels and
the tyres is usually a dead giveaway
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this one
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has got a bit of a
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curving mark on it there
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but that's not too serious
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don't kick tyres
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kicking tyres
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tells you nothing, modern tyres the
constructions incredibly rigid
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but if you do go to buy a used car
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you will have to take with you a twenty
pence piece because
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if you put it in the tread
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then it'll give you some indication
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of whether the tyres are legal, 3mm
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is the legal requirement, there should be
a bit more on a car of this age
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with the kind of mileage that this one
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is supposed to have. When I say supposed to have
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there is startling statistic - 1 in 3
used cars
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has been clocked - the mileage has been wound back
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to increase resale value so you need to
be careful
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Look at the wing mirrors - they are a dead
giveaway. What kind of condition are they in
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do they look like they've spent
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many many many thousands of miles on
a motorway? Are they covered in scratches
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are they faded>
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Have they been clattered?
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is the glass cracked? The mirror's always a
good indication.
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Here's another tip for you - most cars are
central locking these days so you can
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tell that if there are a lot of scratches
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around where the keyhole is that here is
a car that's got problems perhaps with it's
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electrics
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or it's done many many more miles that
it's supposed to have had
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and that's why there's been a key put into
that lock so many times.
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Check the fuel filler cap as well
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has it been forced has he been replaced
have the keys been lost at some point
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do the keys all tally together
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these are all sorts of things that you
can ask asks questions, ask the
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previous keeper why the mileage is so low or
why the mileage is so high
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and these are all things that you can
do
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before you even get into that car
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or think about starting the engine
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Right, we've got the keys
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let's have a look in the boot. First thing, the parcel
shelf these things at the very easily
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detachable we all do it you put it aside
you drive off - expensive to replace
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Check the carpet
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is it dry? If it's not the boot
seal.
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might've failed that could be an
expensive job
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Right, let's check the spare tyre.
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There isn't one.
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instead
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we've got one of those
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emergency get you home kits
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Check the jack make sure it works. Make sure
the wheel brace is actually the right
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wheel brace - the number of cars i've got
in
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where somebody's just stuck a
wheel brace
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in the back of the car so make sure it fits.
If you're lucky enough to have alloy wheels like
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these car does
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check that the lock (the key for the
lock on the alloy wheels) is there. If it isn't
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with the car that can be hundreds of
pounds to replace
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Right, Let's uh...
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see what's going on under
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the bonnet
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For goodness sake when you put the bonnet
up like this don't start randomly taking
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the tops off to check levels.
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If this car had just been running and you undid
this one
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you'd get a scolded hand. There's a warning
helpfully on here but do dip the oil though
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because it tells you so many
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things about the car. let's try this one -
there we are...
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so let's stick it in there and see what it
tells me
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all's good
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If it's below the minimum mark then walk
away from the car - if the car has been run
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with your level below the minimum that's
low oil pressure
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moving parts of the engine aren't getting lubrication
that they need
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walk away from it. However
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if when you dip it and you look at
the indicator and it's over the
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maximum mark that is a classic sign
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of a car that's using oil - oil has been
rapidly topped up
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when they know that your coming round to
see it so ii it's
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under the minimum walk away
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it is over the maximum ask why.
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Right what can we tell from sitting
here about this car?
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without starting the engine? Well we want
to know, don't we, if the mileage that's
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showing
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is the actual mileage this car has done.
There are some tell-tale giveaways about
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how much use a car has had - for instance
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when you get into the car
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you're inevitably rub against the door
seal and the bolster of the seat
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that's this bit
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so check, compare the two. Look at the
bolster on this side
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but look at the bolster on the
other side. If there's dirt or wear
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or if the stitching's coming undone
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the car's probably had a lot of use
likewise
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a leather covered stearing wheel is a dead
giveaway as well wear on the wheel if
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the colour's a little bit reduced where
you'd put your hands at the ten-to-two position
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likewise the gear stick. This one's leather
covered - again
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if there's signo of wear and the stitching's
come undone it's probably a high mileage
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car.
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I would've given you a tip about whether
the previous owner was a smoker
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car by looking at the ashtray but
like a lot of modern cars
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this one doesn't come with ashtray. What
it does come with though is all of the
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documentation that you need - the warranty,
the maintanance shedule, the service
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record of the car so you can check when
and where
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this car been serviced. It doesn't
matter too much these days
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if the handbook isn't there
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because you can download them from the
internet. What you can download though
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are the codes for things like alarms and
for the radio so make sure that you've
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got that information because if you
haven't
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if the battery's disconnected
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you can't reset the alarm, you can't
reset the stereo and that could cost you
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a hundreds of pounds.
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So, if after those comprehensive checks
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you're still interested
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you'll be wanting to take the car
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for a test drive which is another story.
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But before the test drive
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you can be assured
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that as one of the UK's leading
retailers of used cars The Co-operative
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Motor Group
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makes sure it does a hundred point check
on every used car it sells so that you can
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be assured that the car you're interested in
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is exactly the cor
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that you think it is.
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