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Okay guys I just want to go over what to look for when you're buying a car used off of maybe side of the road you want a cheap vehicle for a couple grand a few things you want to keep in mind first thing you want to do is don't buy it at night take a look at it in the daylight you want to see it in good sunlight and you want to be able to compare panels to each other to make sure that they all look uniform if it's been painted first warning signs stay away it's either been an accident or it's rusty if one panels rusty most likely and other panels rusty and it's on its way out the tires are very important if you're spending a few grand on a vehicle even eight grand if the tires of war you're looking at could possibly another eight hundred thousand for new boots so you want to look at the tires you want turn them all the way out one one way and you want to run your feet your hands over and make sure that it's wearing evenly if it's feathered at all where it's cupped it means it's a bad alignment and that could be worn parts and you'd have to replace those suspension parts or again it could be in an accident so make sure that your concern in good shape underneath the hood you want to try a few things first and foremost you can you want to check your transmission fluid usually a yellow handle you want to look for nice red fluid um that's not low and you want to smell it make sure that's not burnt you want to check your engine oil make sure that it's not low in any means and that it's in good shape nice and clear and again doesn't smell good oil isn't as telltale because there was an issue they would have changed the oil beforehand and you can actually tell the how much you brakes of war but how much fluid is left in your reservoir this is the brake fluid reservoir if your brakes are war it means that your Pistons are coming out farther and this reservoir will be lower if it's full it's a good sign that your brakes are in good shape but somebody could have topped up the fluid as well so what I'm saying is low oil means that the brakes are wore when the reservoir is full it means it could be could have really good brakes or somebody's topped it off so you have to take that with a grain of salt you want to check over belts general condition of it you want to check make sure there's as little corrosion and rust on exhaust and aluminum parts and check your antifreeze when it's cold make sure that there's no oil or anything in there and it looks nice and green or pink depending on what what's in there now I go to investment is a obd2 reader you can pick these up really cheap now this one I paid forty five bucks for and every single car built after 99 has a obd2 port so underneath the dash is a plug where this plugs in the Civic Center right by the console turn your ignition on and best case you want to look for zero diagnostic out of codes you can read the VIN you can read the codes so just hit enter it checks your can bus which is your computer for...
