What you should ask used car seller?

Before asking for a test-drive you need not only to examine car exterior and interior, but to ask some importaint questions to the car seller. If you find car sale advertisement in newspapers and you like it, so its time to call to the seller and ask.

First conversation with car seller will help you alot. It will help you you to reduce the number of bad cars you will have to see without leaving your home and wasting your time. It will give you representation about the car before you actually see it and, probably, will save you from bad surprises. You will be able to compare answers of the car sellers you called and find that car is worth test-drive. If the information provided by owner differs from reality - this is the first sign that there is something wrong about this car. You shoud be carefull and pay more attention if you feel that seller is not honest.

So, what we shoul ask the car sellers about?

At first, the more papers, repair bills and documents the seller has, the better is. Ask for a phone number of the previous car owner is current owner doest have enough information about it (pay attention on sellers reaction after that question)

Ask seller, why he wants to sell his car. If his answer will be like "I want to get rid from this pile of junk", you should think if you need this pile ;) But, most likely, the answer will be different. Always pay attention on answers manner. It will help you to find out if used car owner lies or not.

Find out the car's milage. Milage will help you to define car's price. Also it is a good reason to bargain about the price. If during test-drive the milage differs from that the seller said before, of milage is not growing while you drive - you must be on guard, something is really wrong about this car.

Ask seller about his car's condition. It is global question, but you need the sellers reacion. Take an interest about a technical and general condition of the car. If the car looks worse than the seller is trying to show it to you, keep that in mind.

Take an interest about presence or features at the given car. The car complete set can essentially influence its price. It is important to know,if it has leather salon, what formats the player supports (CD/DVD/MP3), does the car equipped with conditioner.

Aks how meny owners the car had before. It is better if you are buying the car from the first owner. If the seller is not the first owner - ask him about previous owners. The saying "the less you know, the better you sleep" is not about buying cars. The more you will find out about your future car the less problems you will buy with it.

Take an interest if this car was in accidents. It is very importaind because such cars give mush more trouble. If the seller answers "No, no accidents at all!", but you see, that it is wrong - that means one of the following: you shold not trust this seller or this seller simply doest know much about hist own car.

Ask owner, if he has a service books and repair and service bills. If owner have them all that means that this owner cares about his car and its condition.

If everything seems OK to you, its time to ask the final question: "How much you want for your car?". When you are buying used car it is always good idea to ask for lower price.