Get A Great Used Car Using A Car History
Nov 21, 2009 More Saving
For many years, buying a used car was just a shot in the dark. You could kick a few tires, look at the engine, take a test drive and hope for the best. Today there is a much better way to buy a car and that is by looking at the car history to see what repairs have been done to the car.
A car history is a tool that can let you know in a factual way the specific repairs that have been done on a vehicle. Since the odometer reading is reported with each repair, you can easily spot any rollbacks on the odometer. In addition, any body repairs will be noted on the report, so you can know if the car has been in an accident.
Although it is possible to get some car history report free, the price of the more detailed reports is often well worth the thirty to fifty dollars that are spent. One trip to the auto repair shop can often cost much more than the car history report.
After you have test driven the auto you think you want to purchase, you should head home and order your own copy of the car history. While not all used car dealers are dishonest, there have been some that will offer a doctored report that shows a vehicle as clean when it has had to have major repairs. The report you get should be no less than two days old.
To order the report you will need the VIN number to request a history of the vehicle. This number can be found on the dash or the driver’s side door panel. The car history will let you know how many owners the vehicle has had and how long they have owned the car. If you see the word lease or fleet on the report, it may have been part of a motor pool and not have had the best of care taken when driven.
It is especially important that after Hurricane Katrina you look for flood damage. In the aftermath of the flooding the hurricane caused, there were thousands of cars shipped all over the country to be resold.
Do not trust the dealers car history report, pay to get your own. Be sure that you double check the VIN number from the report with the one on the vehicle. This can save major headaches down the road. Taking the time to get a report may also give you some cooling off time to be sure that you want to buy the vehicle before signing paperwork.
Also check ask the National Insurance Crime Bureau for a report. This will assure that your are not buying a vehicle that has been stolen and not recovered. You do not want to be stuck with a stolen vehicle. There is no guarantee that you will get the money you have invested back.
Buying a used car no longer has to be a shot in the dark. With a car history, you can know if the car you are considering has had major damage or repairs before you buy the vehicle.
You can easily check used car history online these days but you can also find out lots about car history and the modern car history on Mick website about the very first cars as well as modern cars.
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Car History Of The First Gas Powered Cars
Nov 11, 2009 More Saving
No one knows the car history of the electric vehicle for sure. Most people speculate that it is between eighteen thirty two and eighteen thirty nine. Robert Anderson a Scottish man was the first to build a crude electric carriage. Sometime around eighteen thirty five a man named Professor Stratingh designed an electric car and later his assistant, Christopher built it.
Then sometime around eighteen forty two two men by the names of Thomas Davenport and Robert Davidson built a more successful and practical electric vehicle. Both of these men figured out a way to make the first non-rechargeable electric cells. Around eighteen sixty five a french man named Gaston Plante invented a much better battery which in turn made way for electric vehicles to go much further.
Then in eighteen twenty four another English man named Samuel Brown made a steam engine that would burn gas. This engine was used only one time and it was powered up shooter’s hill in London. In eighteen fifty eight an engineer that was born in Belgian inventor and got a patent on a double, electric spark ignition combustion engine and this was fueled by gas that was made from coal. This man also improved the engine and made a three wheel wagon that completed a fifty mile trip.
The Americans paying attention to this electric vehicle took the invention of an electric tricycle and a six passenger wagon back in the year of nineteen sixty one. The tricycle and wagon was built by two men by the name of A. L Ryker and William Morrison.
The electric vehicles that were around in nineteen o’ two were nothing more than just electric horseless carriages. The Wood’s Phaeton could only go fourteen miles per hour and it cost only two thousand dollars. But this was a lot of money back in the nineteen hundreds. Around nineteen sixteen Woods made a hybrid car and it had an internal combustion engine and also an electric motor.
In eighteen seventy six Nikolaus Otto finally invented and patented a two-stroke engine and they called this the “Otto cycle.” IN the same year the very first successful two stroke engine was claimed invention by Sir Dougald Clerk. In eighteen eighty three the first single cylinder, four stroke engine was built and ran on stove gas, this was made by Edouard Delamare-Debouteville. Delamare’s designs were very advanced for his time and no one knows if he really built a car.
In eighteen seventy three until eighteen eighty three Amedee Bollee Sr. Started building really advanced steam vehicles. And then in eighteen seventy one a professor of physics that worked at the Wisconsin State University built a working steam car and it won a two hundred mile race. This was the first car in history to ever win a race. With all the people that tried to build and patent a new vehicle that would be more costly and energy efficient its a wonder why it took them so long to finally come up with something as good as we have today.
There is so much history to the steam powered car. It’s surprising to know that steam powered stage coaches were made and then at one point banned from the roads. There were a lot of people that tried to invent and improve the steam powered car until finally around the nineteen hundreds electric land vehicles were invented and made the steam powered vehicles obsolete.
Mick is mad about old cars. If you want to find out more about the history of cars you can find lots of interesting facts car history website.
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