Buying a car in central Sydney

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Can anybody recommend a good place to do a checkup of a used car
before buying ? Is there some kind of standardized NMRA test or
something ? What would be an estimated price for this check ? Please
help, we dont know anything about cars. Thanks mate!

Rocker wrote:

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Can anybody recommend a good place to do a checkup of a used car
before buying ? Is there some kind of standardized NMRA test or
something ?

yes call the NRMA, they do a standard test usually with about 24hrs
notice. Everyone does (or should do) this.

central sydney (ie the business district) isn't exactly a hot bed
of car selling. Nearest is Williams St (on the way to Kings Cross)
it had a lot of car yards when I lived in Sydney.

A good place is Paramatta Rd (it's quite long),
look in the papers.

There's a lot of used cars 1-2 yrs old that seem to have come
out of car rental businesses. These are usually in good
cosmetic shape and have had routine maintenance. They
are also expensive, but probably reasonable value.

I buy all my cars used from people, but this takes a little while.
If you're visiting, you probably don't have time to look,
but then you've got to sell it when you go too. Do you
know how you're going to get rid of it? You can't sell
a car overnight.

Make sure as part of buying a car that it passes rego.
Most older cars go off the road (are junked) because they
won't pass, not because they aren't roadworthy.

Joe

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Yes NRMA will come to you and test on site for a fee. How long do you
intend on keeping the car?

Some cheaper yards will do guarenteed buybacks if kept in good nick, albeit
at a greatly reduced price you are guarenteed a sale. When I enquired for a
travelling friend from NZ a Brisbane yard quoted me a sale price of $2500
for a 85 Mazda 626 with a guarenteed buyback of $800 after 6 months. Not bad
really seeing as he had to wantentee it unconditionally for the first
month.Try hire a car for that long for $1700. He also said that he would
pay up to $1200 if it was in just as good a condition as when sold.

Theres a public car park that has backpackers and travellers selling their
cars that they may have had up to a year. Usually get a bargain there if
you willing to wait for one. We waited till a couple that was selling an XE
wagon was getting strapped for cash and I could see that it was in good
condition under the road grime.
Bought it for $3000 when it was selling in Tradepost for similar cars at
$4000. Ended up selling it a year later for $3300 so made money
surprisingly.

Beware that some come with VERY dodgey roadworthies so go in with very wide
eyes. and if your intending on selling back in the same state make sure you
dont buy one with out of state plates.

Located at Gazebo end of Kings cross from memory (was a while ago) but
freinds say that it was there last year going fine.


Hope that helps.


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Can anybody recommend a good place to do a checkup of a used car
before buying ? Is there some kind of standardized NMRA test or
something ? What would be an estimated price for this check ? Please
help, we dont know anything about cars. Thanks mate!