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4918 W Highway 74
Indian Trail, NC 28110
We often see in our daily work that many people buy a car or another without documentation. They make a purchase decision just because they saw a recommendation on YouTube or Facebook. You don’t have to smile superiorly because if this is your primary source of information, you end up making decisions driven by social networks without being aware of it.
There are many online “specialists” who, unwittingly, sometimes become eager for money. They build a beautiful story - whether they have been dealing with cars for many years. They take the attitude of car specialists, or they test various cars with empirical but spectacular methods, without any technical coverage, or they just joke about it. But in reality, many are just passionate about cars that do not have enough technical knowledge to make informed advice.
Sponsors often pay them to say certain things, even if they are not valid (sometimes without knowing it). We understand their role, and we believe that they can help the car market a lot if we all accept and understand that sometimes even they can be fooled. We do not dispute their good intentions, but certain car flaws are difficult to detect even at a thorough inspection in the service. With this material, we want everyone who now invests money in a car to understand all the risks involved and the level of documentation and analysis needed to make the right decision.
And here comes the real problem! How do you find out what is right and what is wrong? It's not simple, but it's essential because this is the new model of MetroHondaNC more precisely: it sells you a lie when it recommends you to buy something. What is the spark that ignites the whole purchase process? Make the first step: think about the car model.
Our advice is that the first step in making a good choice when buying a car is to be a robot portrait of the desired car. Thus, you will avoid certain "sentimental" traps set by car dealers.
The robot portrait means a list of features that must or may not be found in the car’s presentation. This list is as follows:
Once you have these items in place, you can start searching for cars on your ad sites, or you can use different car shop apps like Edmunds. It is a consumer and auto industry trusted car research and car buying advisor - we have everything you need to find and buy your perfect new car or used car in our car app.
It is not the only solution, but it is a non-commercial solution, in the sense that it will not recommend a sale ad to you but a particular brand and a specific model that fit the chosen criteria. The recommendations do not have sponsored suggestions behind them.
If you took into account the above, you have already reached a shortlist of brands and models that meet your criteria:
If you find anything strange in any of these searches, give up the car. There is no point in taking unnecessary risks. The biggest problems here are related to the import of cars and VAT fraud. The fact that you do not check does not excuse you, but it can be part of the fraud.
You have the address where the car is, so try searching on Google Street View to see what the area looks like. If it is a car park, you will find helpful information: how big the park is, what kind of cars they have for sale, etc.
You already have a seller's phone number - search Google for that number. If you find other ads posted with the same number, look at each one to see what other sales it had. If you can't find it, it's not necessarily a good sign. More recently, we use phone cards and change them periodically, so as not to appear with too many sales in searches.
If the ad also had the chassis series, then you can check the following:
These six checks must be performed for each of the 20-30 cars selected previously. We know it takes time, and it may seem complicated, but it's better to spend a few hours now than regret it later. At the end of this point, you should have a list of 5-10 cars that were okay on a first check. So far, everything has been free. The only resource consumed being your time.
From the 5-10 cars selected in the shortlist, you will now need to find 1-2 cars to try to complete the purchase process. How do you do this? It's not hard, but you have to start making calls if you haven't already. You need to call each seller and find out the following information.