When you guys go to purchase something thats nearly new - and its raining or drizzaling. how can you fully inspect it!?

I mean i know they do a spot check and make sure every panel and scratch is noticed. and noted but I dont want to take it back if theres a scratch - they might blame me!?

Its happend before. but i need the car today so hmmm

any tips?!

thanks!

Edit - seems to have cleared up a fair bit:) hopefully itl be dried up and i can have a better inspection:)

Edited 25 July, 200817 yr by L-Y-K

You can't as the rain will hide the scratches very well, especially if well waxed.

Leon, you're not taking this "student" thing very seriously - unless of course you've been up all night and hence, thats why you'r eposting at 5:44 AM

but least you be able to see how well its been valeted and what the beading is like

I done this a few years ago when I was younger, we looked at a Micra and it was drizzling with rain and it had been, even just looking at it it looked a good looking car, we did wipe the water off the body and had could find no marks or dings on it, so I bought the car. When I picked the up a few days later I could see wee scratches and marks on the car. Needless to say I had endless problems with the car and traded it in a year and a half later.

i once bought a mk2 golf of guy in a pub when it was dark outside, he told me it was red, but when i sobered up in the morning i found out it was that horrible brown colour

ask them to take it into the garage and dry it off so you can inspect it.

Leon, you're not taking this "student" thing very seriously - unless of course you've been up all night and hence, thats why you'r eposting at 5:44 AM

Hey I've finished back in the beginning of err june! until october now:)

I've been working every night non stop almost since i've got back. I aint slacking! Promise!

as for the rest of the comments thanks! it was usnny in the end theres slight hazey swirls but nothing thats really noticibla

here is Boho:D

Edited 25 July, 200817 yr by L-Y-K

It worked out well for us once, and with something more fundamental than scratches.

My dad was buying a new car, and insisted on looking at and test-driving a Morris Marina in a 'orrible pale pinky colour. He commented that it was "handling funny", and I asked him to stop. We got out, and I walked back down the road a wee bit, then realised one back corner wasn't as shiney as the other. Long story short, it had been well and truly whacked on one corner, was bent, and there was a major leak into the boot!

Nice one Leon - Now get a Cupra splitter on it in time for TRAX!

Nice one Leon - Now get a Cupra splitter on it in time for TRAX!

yeah i got a couple of weeks to do that:) Woo!

the stupid dealers scuffed my dash already though with those bloody trade plates!! arrgh!!! :(