Your fastest (automotive) pre-purchase inspection

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Your fastest (automotive) pre-purchase inspection

View Poll Results: What's your fastest pre-purchase inspection time?
When I saw the car I turned round and went home!	8	32.00%
I said hello to the seller. Said good bye and went home!	1	4.00%
Under 5 mins	10	40.00%
5 mins to 15 mins	3	12.00%
15 mins to 30 mins	2	8.00%
30 mins to 60 mins	0	0%
I always arse about and make a test drive even if I know it is a POS!	1	4.00%
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06-24-2013, 06:39 PM

Stretch

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Originally Posted by Zulfiqar

hmm - I said hello and then goodbye. It was a porch style house with walls and a gate.

advertised as a 1997 Camry - no pictures, repeatedly saying 97 camry on the phone, get there to find a 1987 camry which was a rusting POS - holes in doors the size of saucers.

Do walls and a gate indicate a poor area? Is this kind of a code for you wouldn't expect much from the place or am I over analysing it?

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