5 warning signs you are buying a lemon
Don't get taken when shopping for car
Author: Robert Elsenpeter, Contributing writer
Updated On: Jan 11 2013 06:54:52 AM PST
For instance, if you are considering the purchase of a 2009 Kia Sorento, you can check the technical service bulletins and find out that there has been a problem with a bumping sensation when the damper clutch is engaged. If that's the case, then you know where to have your mechanic devote extra attention.You can check technical service bulletins at http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/tsbs/.
No. 1: Listen to your gutSometimes, and there may not be tangible evidence why, but the car just doesn't seem right. If that's the case, then just walk away. The car may be pretty and shiny, but there are others out there.There may be not a single thing wrong with it and it runs like a top, but if you have a nagging feeling that it isn't right, then go with that feeling.But what if it is the most perfect car ever and it is the one you've wanted your whole life? Walk away. That car still exists out there somewhere; you just won't bleed money when you finally find it.There is a growing opinion that humans have more than five senses and that intuition is one of them. If that sounds like too much hooey to you, then go ahead and buy that car despite your feelings otherwise, but don't blame us when you're stuck on the side of the road.Distributed by Internet Broadcasting. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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