October 05, 2017
The Importance of a Car History Check
YOU would expect a history-check website, such as MyWheels.ie, to emphasis the importance of performing a car’s history check. YOU would expect a history-check website, such as MyWheels.ie, to emphasis how important it is to check a car’s history.But that does not detract from the fact that you should.Yet thousands and thousands of people buy a used car without doing so every year. It is hard to understand why but it seems some of us will always be penny wise and pound foolish.They would change their approach if they heard the hard-case instances of people who have paid their money only to find they’ve bought trouble, sometimes really big trouble.So leaving website self-interest qualms aside for a moment, let us look at four major reasons for having the experts check out your car’s history.
1. Safety. This has to be the priority. A history check with the likes of MyWheels.ie, with its huge database, will tell you if the car has been badly crashed, for example. If it has you need to be sure it has been repaired properly and signed off to regulation levels. A steady trickle of cars that should never be allowed on the road again are being sold in Ireland every year. They are death machines. Without checking you could be landed with one.
2. Waste of money: If a car has been clocked – as around one-in-11 appear to b – you could be buying something worth thousands less than you’ve paid for it. There are examples of cars having 40,000km to 150,000km knocked off their odometer. There is a major safety element to this too because parts and vital elements on a clocked car, such as brakes, are likely to be less robust and more heavily worn.
3. Finance: There is a high percentage of cars coming on the market with finance still outstanding. In other words they are being sold by people who still owe money on them. If you buy one of those cars it can be seized by the lending institution and you will be at the total loss of expenditure. A good history check will raise that alert.
4. Peace of mind: Why turn a purchase into a gamble? Why not reduce the risk of being exposed on items 1, 2, 3 when a few euro will get you a proper history check. It’s like a low-price insurance policy. Yes, this may be biased because history checking is this site’s business. But it doesn’t take away from the fact that it can greatly benefit buyers and protect them from unscrupulous sellers.
