Getting a second car checked pre-purchase

boogerballs

Hi All,

Any suggestions who to use to do a check on a second hand car I am interested in buying. It’s from a car sales company, not a main dealer, and it looks ok but I know nothing mechanically about cars.

I found a company called Dublin diagnostics who charge 120e to call onsite and check it out. Has anyone any experience of these?

http://www.dublindiagnostics.com/

Heres Johnny

Any mechanic you know and trust or get recommendations from friends and family.
It's money well spent to get it checked but of course its not foolproof

colm_mcm

Stick a link to the car up here too.

trixiebust

No experience of the above crowd tbh. If you are getting a pre inspection done, make sure it is a place that actually does the diagnostic check.

Some of these guys don't do one. It could end up being very costly in the long run.

User1998

Dublin Diagnostics inspected a car I was selling, not buying. He arrived with the buyer and looked over the whole car for crash damage, plugged an OBD in, had a good look at the engine for a while, test drive, and done a history check, also had a chat with the buyer for a good while, could have been testing all the electrics as well at that point I’m not sure. In the end he couldn't find 1 thing wrong with the car. (Not saying thats a bad thing on his part) But fair play to him for not making stuff up that was wrong with the car

damon5

One thing i would think would be important too would be to definately have full access to the underside chassis,suspention,brake components etc checked out up on a ramp like they do in the NCT,without a lot could be overlooked.....