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Originally Posted by speeder
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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Agree with some of this, had cars here that are not worth driving into the shop.
The first thing I always ask:
Where is the service history? If a one-owner car it MUST have it.
How many keys? One key, no books = auction car
Where did it come from?
My words to any potential buyers coming into the shop:
You don't need this car, you want it, so only buy the one that is right.
Mark