PAPERS
- Check the database of stolen cars.
- Check the previous owner - Used Vehicle Information Package (UVIP).
- Papers validity, police records.
- The Safety Standards Certificate (the technical state), the emission test.
- Compare the motor number and the bodywork number with papers.
- The service book - bigger repeairs, km records.
BODYWORK
- The crash checking - the different color of doors and the body, a paint on the rubber washer, the different paint under the carpet in the trunk, no fitting doors and the hood.
- The rust - doorsills, mudguards, the bottom of the doors, under the carpets, under the carpet in the trunk, under decorative slats.
- Washers - wash the car and check the interior for water, check also the trunk.
- Kilometers checking - the windscreen wiper tracks, worn down pedals, the oversat drivers seat.
MOTOR
- The oil leakage - control the motor block surface, bottom of the motor. Very cleaned motor signify attempt to cover oil leaking.
- Oil - metal dust in oil (check the oil gauge).
- The exhaust - block end of the exhaust, if the exhaust is without gaps, the motor must go out. Check fumes - musn't be black or blue.
- Cooling - liquid has to be clean, wihout oil and rust, it mustn't bubble by running motor. Check rubber hoses.
CHASSIS
- Joints - turn wheels to the end position, slowly turn them back, when homokinetic joints are worn down then they are crackling.
- Joints - lift the front part of the car with a jack, twitch with the wheel towards you, it mustn't move.
- Control - turn wheels to the straight position, move slowly with the steering wheel, the shift of the steering wheel till tyres have moved must be on your palm width maximum (
DANGEROUS!).
- Tyres - deep of grooves has to be 4 mm, check the geometric wearing down - when not it's a bad geometry. Check side damaging of tyres. All tyres have to have same brand and size. Size has to fit with the technical certificate record. Check the spare tyre - the same parameters.
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- Buffers - press the car down in the point over tyre, release. The car can move 3 x maximum. When the car moves more times - the buffer is damaged. Check the buffer surface - has to be without oil and water.
- Brakes - press the brake pedal down and hold, wait 15 sec. When the pedal will fall down there are untightings in the brake system (
VERY DANGEROUS!).
DRIVING
- Start - smooth cold start, smooth running on the freewheel, smooth hot start. Try add gas (to 3.000 turns) on the freewheel and release the pedal, the motor mustn't go out.
- The clutch - smooth run-up without twitching.
- Sounds - there haven't be strange sounds - knocking, bangs, shooting.
- The motor running - has to be smooth without turns oscillation.
- Gearbox - smooth gear changing without strange sounds. When the car wails during slowing down with the gear on high turns there are damaged cog-wheels.
- Drive - try to find horizontal flat road, release steering wheel, car hasn't deviate from the straight way. When yes, then there is the wrong wheels geometry or chassis geometry (
the car could be crashed).
- Braking - drive straight away, car has to hold the straight direction during intensive braking.
Others
- Level of liquids - oil, brake liquid, cooling liquid, acid in accumulator.
- The accumulator - switch on headlights and backglass heating and start cold motor.
- Electrics - bulbs, signal lamps, the backglass heating, the horn. Bulbs - the parking light, short, long, tail, revers, brakes.
- The windscreen wiper, the sprayer.
- The ventilation - switching between modes, intensive blowing on windscreen, heating, stink checking.
- Side mirrors controlling.
- Side windows - smooth moving, holding in top position - try to push them down from outside of the car.
- Door locks, child locks, the trunk lock, the tank lock.
- Seats - moving front seats, positioning, reclining rear seats.
- Check safety belts.
- The Radio, the antenna.
- The trunk - smooth cover moving.
- The jack, the spanner for safety nuts.
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