Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Buying a Used Car

We started looking for used cars again. It is such a tiring process for us because we have no idea about cars and are skeptic about each car we like. One of our friends suggested a website that we can use to check the history of the vehicles that we are interested in. Here is the link. We only new about carfax which charges you $34.99 for 1 report and $44.99 for 5 reports. The link I suggested gives you free access to vehicle history reports but you have to create an account and can only look up 3 vehicle history reports per day. 

Buying a used car is very risky and currently we're trying to find ways to minimize that risk. Our more experienced friends suggested that we should definitely show the car to a mechanic before we actually buy it. Showing a car to a mechanic usually costs about $50-$100 here in Columbus, OH. However, we haven't taken any car to a mechanic yet.

I am interested in smaller cars like Suzuki Reno and Honda Fit. Unfortunately, the car dealers usually have large sedans. We are still looking around for the perfect car for us that doesn't cost much.

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