What are absolute deal breakers when looking to buy a used car? I'd like to get a solid list going for newbs
For me it's the following >rust on axles/exhaust/frames >leaks inside the engine >accidents that caused structural damage >poor and/or improper maintenance
Luis Parker
Cloth seats that aren't brand new replacements because they will be full of the previous owners farts
Matthew Phillips
>rust on exhaust or frame
Must be nice living in Arizona. Only way we find a car like that around here is if it has 0 miles on it and is always stored indoors
Grayson Sullivan
If any of the previous owners were niggers
Eli White
Obama/Hillary bumper stickers
Sebastian Anderson
And where is this? If the frame is rusted to hell it is REALLY hard to justify buying the car at that point
True, they tend to either do zero maintenance because they can't afford it or they nig out their cars
James Brooks
Smell of anus on the shift knob
Wyatt Nelson
t. shitstains.
Dominic Reyes
>Has more than 150k miles >Car hood doesn't close completely >"Needs TLC" >Shit interior >Interior smells like smoke >Paint wearing off on car with rust
Kevin Brown
Then buy something with leather seats
You should do that regardless. Buying a car with used cloth is like buying a used shirt
Jose Anderson
I blow a nut on every cloth seat car I own and rub it in real good. My uncle showed me this. Said it was family tradition but not to speak of it.
Ryan Jenkins
You are a cunt of the highest order
Justin Johnson
I mean it's not significant rust, but pretty much every car here has surface rust on frames and exhaust
Brayden Morales
Nugget what fucking car is sold with a stainless exhaust or doesn't have some surface rust on suspension components
Connor Carter
>Any transmission shuddering when on test drive (auto) >Oil cap is covered in milky shit from blown gasket >Obvious negligence of maintenance >Smoked in >Engine making really strange noises >Motor mounts are fucked 360 and car is a rattle can. >Lack of basic maintenance.
Bentley Lopez
i do this too but on errycar leather or not. also i work on cars so i DO cum and rub it on as much cars as possible.
Aiden Lopez
I seriously doubt that
A lot of cars actually, unless you're budget is sub 2k, in which case you take what you can but you'll have to either put money aside virtually every month just to keep it running, or get rid of it after 1-2 years
Adrian Diaz
I work at a Volvo dealership and like to open up to a random page in the owners manual... just slip some cum in there. A nice treat for those bookworms. Lol!
Levi Morris
KEK
Hudson Wilson
I work at a Chrysler dealer in San Francisco. Whenever black people buy a car, I cut their brake lines. Lmao
Benjamin Morales
rusted frames/axles/anywhere structurally important smells bad or any previous owners were smokers. modded doesn't have roadworthy.
i would buy a subaru with 4 blown head gaskets if it didn't have any of those problems.
Juan Adams
Bought a used car & I shop at thrift stores.
You don't eat at restaurants? Hate to eat with used cutlery...
Jaxon Harris
So Juan, you're the one doing that to my car at Ontario Volvo.
PS: how get job at volvo.
Ian Sanchez
The seller has a vagina.
Jonathan Wilson
Haha! Love you, man.
Gabriel Foster
Something that people forget to mention when shopping for used cars is make sure you DRIVE the shit out of it before you commit to buying it. If you're planning to spend more than a thousand bucks on your ride, make sure you drive it for at LEAST an hour and at sustained high speeds (a little faster than you would normally drive). This will let you find out the real issues that the car has (bad shifting, overheating, rough idle, steering issues, bad shocks or suspension, AC doesnt work, weird smell, you name it).
Jaxon Cooper
That's exactly how I got mine. Love it!
Luis Thompson
I'm not letting anyone drive my car for an hour just because it's expensive.
Ethan Rodriguez
rebuilt title rust on control arms more than 90K miles isnt washed and detailed while presented NOS tanks in the back if its made in Korea 20 year old interior should look like pic related.
Isaiah Garcia
also forgot to add. I would NEVER buy a used car thats been used as an emergency vehicle. They drive them really hard, and I am not talking crown vic here I am basically targeting SUVs
Cooper King
The rebuilt title and everything else but the 90k miles i'd be concerned about, i'd rather have a 150k mile engine with little wear than a 60k engine that hasnt had an oil change, wore out, and has a bunch of blowby.
Joseph Harris
outside of the obvious but where the car has been >car spent some part of its life in a area that snowed i live in socal, we dont get snow, we dont get salted roads
Blake Torres
Same here in Cali, our clearcoats peel off a little especially on black cars that soak up the sun but it's all good.
Michael Powell
yea sucks when that happens but i live in a apartment complex with guarentee parking >resident only parking section with gate >no assigned spots just need a placard >2nd basement floor only half full at anytime having it kept indoors help and waxed also not sure if it decreases the clearcoats life if the owners dont take care of it
Nathaniel Green
For me its no books and or service history
Elijah Young
Title issues Rust but im in Phoenix so it's rare to see actual damaging rust. Minority owners Women owners A lot of aftermarket bullshit Motherfuckers that will only text or email
>inb4 boomer.
Isaac King
Domestic brand
Blake Hall
Any car with a CVT transmission Any Oil/Coolant leaks Anything with a cambelt which hasnt been changed in the last 40,000km Anything with poor rear visibility
Lucas Perry
price too high
Kayden Williams
Non blacks buy Chrysler products?!?
James Perez
>previous owner is anything but a white man
Brayden Carter
>point out issue that wasn't mentioned in ad O-oh yeah but thats a simple fix it just bolts right back on see its in the trunk and that's pretty much all that's wrong with it
>why didnt you do it before listing the car if its so easy? Oh yeah I would but I'm recovering from an injury (that must be invisible)
>hey here's another issue Oh yeahh those are cheap though, just like 50 bucks on ebay and that's pretty much all that's wrong with it
>and another Yeah but that's about it too nothing else other than what you already found yep
Jose Anderson
WAT-stickers
Logan Lopez
>Domestic brand "Import" brand but made in the USA
Eli Baker
>Implying that even 74.5 million Black people in the US could possibly buy 1.5 million Chryslers a year.
Ian Young
>license plate number obscured by thumb >thumb isn't white
Cameron Moore
When I see that it was owned by an Indian cunt
can't stand them as people and their cars fucking stink just like they literally do.
Zachary Wilson
NSFW pictures on a blue fucking board you nigger
Justin Butler
Automatic transmission.
Brayden Hernandez
I would be comfortable with letting the seller drive it for extended periods of time to see if anything happens, provided he actually drives it normal and not in a way to work around any quirks with the vehicle. I'd reimburse gas if we were doing that and I didn't buy though; it seems a bit much.
Hudson Kelly
>rust on exhaust
>smoked in
>isnt washed and detailed while presented
>cloth seats
Suddenly it's clear why there are so many "I can't find any cars" threads and why people buy terrible fucking laughable cars and say "It was the only car I could afford"
Elijah Scott
no kidding, I'm looking for a used Mazda3 and I'm restricting myself to GT models with leather.
Ryder Rivera
Oh look the shitters are here.
Eli Lopez
I kinda agree on the smoked in part for health reasons. In my case my asthma goes insane even with the odor of tobacco. As far as washing and or detailing. The car may not need to be freshly washed, but the owner should make sure that it's at least clean and presentable to any potential buyer. First impressions are really important
Thomas Price
Want to know how I know you've never visited the rust belt?
Jose Wilson
>I seriously doubt that
Kek.
Ryder Phillips
>engine is warm when you come to look at it
Eli Ross
...
Oliver Foster
>German >seller gets offended/defensive when you want to get it inspected before buying it. >salvage title
Asher Roberts
>rust on frame
Then no mazda past 2000 can be a fit for you.
Jonathan Reyes
>20 year old interior should look like pic related. Everything raped with dashboard wipes? God no, I bet that stinks of AutoGlym. Regular light cleaning is better than irregular nuclear option cleaning before a sale.
Wyatt Bell
Here I just improved your selection of used cars by 30%
Gavin Fisher
>tfw factory single stage paint
fade lyf
Sebastian Fisher
Cars that are inappropriately priced. I don't give a shit if the car has leaks, rust or a blown up transmission. If the car is priced accordingly that's all stuff I can fix.
Evan Williams
I live in Louisiana and even I have some slight surface rusting on the underside of my 2011 car. Only a new vehicle is completely rust free.
Jonathan Lopez
>20 year old interior should look like pic related. Rattle can sprayed shit white that's flaking off everywhere?
Noah Nelson
Any sort of rough shift, and it needs to start under it's own power.
Levi Sanders
>I seriously doubt that
Well then you are seriously delusional.
Cameron Gomez
>the owner should make sure that it's at least clean and presentable to any potential buyer. First impressions are really important This is also straight up fucking stupid. It's for sure important if you're SELLING a car but when buying a car, this is probably the number one most desirable "flaw" that can be "repaired" cheaply and easily. It might suggest a disregard for maintenance but between normies not thinking of it and flippers over-using it it's pretty meaningless beyond affecting my offer.
Juan Carter
This is bullshit. Owners manuals come wrapped in plastic.
>Source: Just bought a brand new car. haven't even unwrapped the shit because it's all available online
Samuel Brooks
Veeky Forums how do I tell if a car has significant rust or just surface rust? Every 4Runner I come across here in Ohio is rusted to hell underneath and I don't know if I'm just blowing things out of proportion or if I'm just SoL on 90% of 4runners for sale no matter what
Christian Roberts
This shit drives me up the fucking wall. I'm very clear with sellers before I even meet that I'll buy the car either way, I just want full disclosure so I know what I'm getting into.
Really any time someone uses the words "easy fix" in the ad. No, fuck off, if it was an easy fix you'd a done it.
Cooper Lopez
Still clothed, faggot. Get off of Veeky Forums when you're supposed to be working, fag
Jose Jones
>My asthma is triggered by something that couldn't possibly trigger it.
Fuck off, princess. We don't need you on the roads. God forbid a Prius drives by and you choke on the exhaust.
My dad told me when I was 5 years old that if you ever get to a car deal and it's already running not to even get out of your car.
That's great condition in Minnesota.
It's usually pretty obvious. You can rub surface rust off with your bare hands
Easton Hernandez
>ad doesnt mention major items like mileage >the ad is 2 sentences >horrible grammer in broken english in ad >only one pic of car
I too instinctively look for white male sellers. Ive never known a female or black person to do a single bit of maintenance to their cars until somethings completely fucked.
Also why the fuck is every car on craigslist priced double or triple its bluebook value? No i dont want to pay $6k for your 2003 civic with 220k miles on it.
Connor Miller
how the fuck does rust like that happen? looks like it got infected at the factory.
Christopher Barnes
fk, this girls body looks exactly like my friend while studying abroad. Thanks for making me sad fgt
Aaron Gonzalez
> Rust, at all > Insurance writeoff > Older than 5 years > Base model > Unreliable brand > More than 50k miles
Adrian Howard
That's just surface rust.
Charles Adams
If the dude never bothered getting his fucking car washed, you better believe there are going to be other issues he never bothered taking care of either.
The point is that you want to buy a car that the owner gave a shit about and enjoyed/loved driving. Not something they just used to get around and did the bare minimum to keep running. Some people don't even bother getting their oil changed on time, despite the face it takes 10 mins and is dirt cheap. It's pretty sad a lot of you have since shit standards for buying cars, then you're the same people that bitch and complain that so and so car is terrible. All because you didn't bother trying to find something that wasn't shit
Robert Miller
And must to add to this, always take to a shop even if you like the car
If it's a minority or female owner, almost guaranteed there will be issues they didn't tell you about. If you ask to take it to one and they say no or try talking you out of it, don't buy the car at all.
Eli Jackson
Anything newer than about 2005 is a turn off. Engine codes at time of sale are a turn off.
Jeremiah Myers
Rust in unibody seams. If you find anything like that walk away. It's not worth bothering with.
Nicholas Sanders
Would it be too autistic to get an obd scanner thingy and bring it with you to see an used car?
Samuel James
No but it's pointless because if there is a code the owner most likely erased it
It's far better to have a good shop do it. They can check for pending/deleted codes
Robert Brooks
He didn't mention using a cheap $10 Bluetooth Android scanner.
However with that said, I take my $21 Bluetooth scanner with me and check for pending and deleted codes.
Lincoln Wood
If you already have a high quality scanner that can check those than that's different. But I wouldn't recommend investing in one of you don't have one. Unless you plan on keeping it for yourself.
Henry Sullivan
Like I said, if you go to see a car that's for sale and it's just been fucking detailed it's less likely a sign "the owner gave a shit about it" and more likely a sign that he's trying to distract from something else. I don't know why you expect white males to be any more forthcoming about issues the car might have either but these two facts combined peg you as just exactly the kind of idiot I could make $1,000 flipping some polished turd onto.
>Yeah bro I've been driving it for years it never left me stranded but that's only to be expected from an Echo as long as you keep the oil and filters changed like women never do. Lolniggers amirite? How about that ice cold AC?
Christopher Bennett
BRRAAAAAAP
ffffft
Blake Clark
Poor maintenance intervals
Easton Flores
>meaningless There's a reason dealerships sell cars all polished and shiny and done up with tire shine. People looking for a new car want a shiny object presented to them. When you're selling a car, you polish that shit and make it sparkle. The first impression is everything, and it shows you're not hiding rust under the dirt. With my first car, I literally did polish it until the metal-flake paint sparkled before taking the pictures to sell it with. And it worked, it sold within a week.
Xavier Jenkins
>>rust on axles/exhaust/frames Rust on exhaust? lol
>>leaks inside the engine You mean like totally contained inside the engine? Like main and rod bearing side leakage and oil draining down from the head?
Herp and also derp too?? Wowee zowee
Kayden Murphy
Is that Kalindra the tranny?
Cooper Reed
As soon as you say some dumb bullshit like that I'll say okay let's hop in and head to a meachiac
Then I'd enjoy watching you shake and say something along the lines of >o-oh b-but I changed the o-oil and everything is g-good
Trust me you're not as smart as you think
Henry Clark
>when the seller lies about anything at all
>it's bone stock! >obvious aftermarket bumper and rocker panels
Dishonesty is an instant, irredeemable red flag.
Dominic Wright
Seller says "There's nothing wrong at all" then hesitation to agree for a PPI. Just walk the fuck away.
Gabriel Gomez
Ppi?
Mason Reyes
then you're the one who's just given money to the mechanic, all youve wasted is the sellers time?