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Team California
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: los angeles, CA.
Posts: 41,462
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It's very important to know and trust the shop doing the PPI and you don't have to spend hundreds of dollars to put a car on a rack and have look around. My buddy does a pretty thorough PPI on Mercedes and BMW in about 20 minutes and sometimes doesn't charge anything for it, especially if it's for a regular customer.
Sometimes we don't even have to put a car on a rack to advise someone not to buy it. If a car looks OK on first sniff, you can tell a lot quickly once it's on a rack. It's impossible to do any kind of PPI w/o getting under a car, IMO.
PPIs are a great idea but don't have to cost a fortune and most cars I see are DQ'ed before even racking them.
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