How To Properly Inspect a Car for Highway miles!

Hi, I'm Greg, your car angel. In this video I will teach you how to safely buy a car that has high mileage now that you are going out and looking to buy a car that you are going to buy. evaluate whether the

miles

that are on the odometer are easy

highway

miles

or hard city miles, so I'm going to use this car here that has very high miles as an example of how to determine if a car has

highway

miles. Now I'm going to show you five different areas to make that assessment. The reason you are looking for a car with higher mileage is because you will actually get a better price from the seller.

You go to see how much the car is worth online, usually you go to a site like Kelley Blue Book and you have to enter the miles into the site. Now, nowhere on Kelley Blue Book is there any of these, the other sites are asking the question. If these are hard miles in the city or easy miles on the highway then what you are doing is buying a car at a discount because of the miles but without the wear and tear associated with the mileage set and that is why it does have a lot It makes sense to always look for a car driven on the highway rather than a car driven in the city.

This particular car is a 2002 Toyota 4runner. Now forerunners are noted for their reliability and longevity and it is not uncommon to find them with more miles on them, however, this particular car has three hundred and twenty thousand miles on it with the original engine and transmission and still runs in top condition now the question is how can a car get so many miles and the answer is highway driving so im going to go over all the different areas to evaluate this car to make sure all the miles are highway and so you can look at the same areas that I'm going to present to you to make sure that the car that you're looking at also has these same features, the first place to start is by looking at the brake pedal, where now what you're looking at is the brake pedal. , we're at the bottom right of this, normally it would be here now, normally that's where you see all the wear on the brake pedal now, if you see metal, that's a sure sign.

I've seen cars with a hundred thousand miles in the city and you see this area here has a lot of wear and tear and that's a walk away every time you see that you just walk away from the car, that means all the miles that are on the car are for and on. , it stops and goes, it stops and goes, and that is very difficult for a car, now clearly, it has minimal wear. that area, so it's a clear sign, now some people might say they can replace the brake pedal, so now we're going to go and corroborate some of this information.

That's the second point where you need to look is your your seat belt is wearing out so now the point you want to look at is locating it and in this car you can see it right there you see a little bit of a frayed area and in a car with three hundred and twenty thousand miles, that is. so minimal that it's almost a joke. I've seen cars with a hundred thousand miles on them where this would already be mangled much worse than this, so the area that you look at and now I'm going to show you, you see how This goes over the body and you can see that the area right there is where it just start on a body so it's a high friction point and that's why you look at this this should show minimal wear and minimal fraying right where the friction point is the next area and you might want to do this area first just because there are a lot of times where you're at a dealership for a long time and you can't get in the car, so a lot of times I do this first and this. it's how damaged the radiator fins are from high speed gravel and bugs hitting them at 75 miles an hour now, if you notice here you'll see there's a lot of damage to the radiator in the front, that's a great sign and That means this is a high speed impact that doesn't occur when driving in the city.

There will be slower air movement in this area, so that is a great sign. The next area you look at is the hood of the car and really the entire front end and what you're looking for is what I call Road Rash Road Rash is due to the high speed impact of small debris when driving on the road. This is a great sign. You want to see this now if the car shows all the miles of the road except this one. so that means in all likelihood the hood was repainted and then you have to start doing the

inspect

ion for a front crash, but what you're looking for is the same type of pattern here and you can actually see it pretty clearly in all of this. the front grill going down is just beautiful, it's really cool to see and again a car that doesn't have this pattern will look good but the engine and transmission will be in poor shape due to the high degree of use in urban driving.

The

inspect

ion area for highway miles is the headlight lens. It should have the same wear pattern seen here on the hood fascia. The reason this particular car doesn't have the same wear pattern. These look very new it is because they are Glass Most cars today have plastic lenses but what you are looking for is the same Road Rash pattern on all the headlights and that is a good sign now if you have a headlight that looks new on one side and worn on the other. side obviously, so the car has been in an accident and you're going to have to figure out why that headlight was replaced and then get in, but that's the last area and now the key is you want all of these areas, the hood. the headlight lens, the radiator fins, the brake pedal, the seat belt, you want them all to tell the exact same story and that story is that there is minimal wear and tear on the car, so if you've checked all of these things and has In a foolproof car driven on the road, you also want to make sure that maintenance is done on a regular basis, especially oil changes, because when someone drives 30,000 miles a year on the highway, they still need to do oil changes and that will be every two days. month if they change the oil every 5,000 miles and it will be easy for the owner to skip it or stretch the oil line limits, so you want to see regular oil changes.

I'm Greg, his car angel, give us a like, thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video, take care.