It's never new to learned that people deny themselves a whole lot of stuffs, and saved a bunch, to buy their new(I mean, foreign used) vehicles.
Such vehicles could be their first, or an addition, to existing ones.
But what has amazed me over the years, has being the immediate problems such vehicle (s) encounters, or develops, as it leaves the port of laden(Apapa), to a client's destination.
You'd hear stories of such vehicles either braking down due to engine or transmission system issues, a sudden development of some sort of "strange" problems.
Yeah, I know you might say these are used vehicles that could get to developed some faults along the way, considering it has being either purchased off an auction platform, or had being parked for a long time, from its country of purchase.
No one is ever happy, to spend extra funds on a purported "new" car, after purchases. It hurts, to realised on taking delivery of your first car to say, you begin to spend so much on repairs.
SO WHAT TO DO BEFORE TAKING DELIVERY OF YOUR CAR
1. RESEARCH. If you're a novice on cars, try as much as possible, to be informed about your vehicle of purchase.
This won't caused you much, in terms of resources. All you need to do is spend a few times on the internet, and research common problems embedded in your vehicle of purchase. Visit forums, and get to read what other car owners are saying about the car. Is it something you could cope with, despite the information you may get there?
2. GETTING A DRIVER, to drive the car to your destination. If you're a novice not familiar with the Port, hire a driver that can assist with driving the car down to your destination.
This person, must be someone whom you could trust, and you know.
Don't send people, or mechanic(s) alone to take delivery of your car, if you have that gut feelings that they are not professional enough to undertake the tasks.
3. CAR INSPECTIONS FIRST! As you are at the port, and ready to take delivery of the car over there, its important you carry out few checks on the it, before driving it to your destination.
a). Ensure all fluids are intact (gauged). Don't ever assumed because a car was imported into the country, that gives it a clean bill of health. In some cases, and if you're lucky, your hypothesis could be correct.
Not carrying out basic fluids checks before even starting an engine, has costs vehicle car owners, untold pains, ranging from catastrophic mechanical problems, and eventual selling off of the vehicle at below purchase prices.
Fluids you could check spans from the engine oil, transmission system oil, brake fluids, and power steering fluids, if your car is equipped with such.
b). visually look at the brake pads, and/or brake shoes, to ascertain their lever of wear.
Guage mentally, if the pads/brake shoes ought to be replaced immediately, or afterwards.
Your safety should be paramount FIRST, before anything else.
Driving your car off the Port, without such checks amounts to a huge risks and a gamble with your life.
c). RETRIEVE CODES. There are various reasons why dashboard lights such as ABS, VSC, and check engine lights pops up. Some could be some form of intermittent fault, or a permanent error problem with the emissions, or power train portions of the vehicle.
Getting a small potable diagnostic tool, would helped you established a baseline, before driving off the car to your destination. That, would helped you in keeping track of the BEFORE codes, when the car came to your destination, and the AFTER, after every REPAIRS.
d). All other checks such as body paints, and a hosts of others can be done, if you got the time.
Credit: TRYGO
Such vehicles could be their first, or an addition, to existing ones.
But what has amazed me over the years, has being the immediate problems such vehicle (s) encounters, or develops, as it leaves the port of laden(Apapa), to a client's destination.
You'd hear stories of such vehicles either braking down due to engine or transmission system issues, a sudden development of some sort of "strange" problems.
Yeah, I know you might say these are used vehicles that could get to developed some faults along the way, considering it has being either purchased off an auction platform, or had being parked for a long time, from its country of purchase.
No one is ever happy, to spend extra funds on a purported "new" car, after purchases. It hurts, to realised on taking delivery of your first car to say, you begin to spend so much on repairs.
SO WHAT TO DO BEFORE TAKING DELIVERY OF YOUR CAR
1. RESEARCH. If you're a novice on cars, try as much as possible, to be informed about your vehicle of purchase.
This won't caused you much, in terms of resources. All you need to do is spend a few times on the internet, and research common problems embedded in your vehicle of purchase. Visit forums, and get to read what other car owners are saying about the car. Is it something you could cope with, despite the information you may get there?
2. GETTING A DRIVER, to drive the car to your destination. If you're a novice not familiar with the Port, hire a driver that can assist with driving the car down to your destination.
This person, must be someone whom you could trust, and you know.
Don't send people, or mechanic(s) alone to take delivery of your car, if you have that gut feelings that they are not professional enough to undertake the tasks.
3. CAR INSPECTIONS FIRST! As you are at the port, and ready to take delivery of the car over there, its important you carry out few checks on the it, before driving it to your destination.
a). Ensure all fluids are intact (gauged). Don't ever assumed because a car was imported into the country, that gives it a clean bill of health. In some cases, and if you're lucky, your hypothesis could be correct.
Not carrying out basic fluids checks before even starting an engine, has costs vehicle car owners, untold pains, ranging from catastrophic mechanical problems, and eventual selling off of the vehicle at below purchase prices.
Fluids you could check spans from the engine oil, transmission system oil, brake fluids, and power steering fluids, if your car is equipped with such.
b). visually look at the brake pads, and/or brake shoes, to ascertain their lever of wear.
Guage mentally, if the pads/brake shoes ought to be replaced immediately, or afterwards.
Your safety should be paramount FIRST, before anything else.
Driving your car off the Port, without such checks amounts to a huge risks and a gamble with your life.
c). RETRIEVE CODES. There are various reasons why dashboard lights such as ABS, VSC, and check engine lights pops up. Some could be some form of intermittent fault, or a permanent error problem with the emissions, or power train portions of the vehicle.
Getting a small potable diagnostic tool, would helped you established a baseline, before driving off the car to your destination. That, would helped you in keeping track of the BEFORE codes, when the car came to your destination, and the AFTER, after every REPAIRS.
d). All other checks such as body paints, and a hosts of others can be done, if you got the time.
Credit: TRYGO