What Is a Quality Check on a Used Car?

If you’re interested in getting one of the used cars on our lot, you might be wondering if you should do a quality check on the vehicle you have your eye on. A quality check involves a car inspection, but it doesn’t stop there.

Research

When you conduct a quality check, you’ll basically do everything possible to learn all the details related to a pre-owned model. As you probably guessed, that will require you to do some research. To start, you should look over the online reviews of the vehicle you want to get using credible websites like Edmunds and KBB, making note of any issues multiple drivers experienced. You can use that information to inquire about whether the automobile you want has suffered similar problems later on.

Next, you should research the vehicle’s current market value given its condition. Once you’ve determined what that is, you should figure out what the true cost of owning the automobile will be. For help factoring the true cost of ownership, you can contact or visit the experts in our Mazda finance center.

Whether you want to buy a standard used car or one of our Certified Pre-Owned Mazda models, you’ll receive a complimentary vehicle history report that will tell you how the vehicle was maintained. It will also reveal if the car was involved in a reported accident and describe any damage the vehicle suffered. This report is critical to determining an automobile’s quality.

Service Records

Before you make an offer on a pre-owned automobile, you should ask to see the car’s service records. Did the previous owner bring their vehicle to our Mazda service center in keeping with the car’s recommended routine maintenance schedule or did they neglect that schedule? Were serious repairs necessary at one point or another? Those are questions you’ll have to answer to determine the car’s quality or lack thereof.

Parts

The parts used to maintain or repair a vehicle greatly influence its quality. OEM parts are the best possible components for vehicles because they’re manufactured by automakers using the same standards employed to produce new automobiles. If you’re interested in one of our pre-owned Mazda models, make sure all of the car’s maintenance and repairs were done using components sourced from our Mazda parts center exclusively.

Test Drive

To get a hands-on feel for a given vehicle’s quality, test driving the automobile is an absolute must. Head over to Superior Mazda to test-drive the pre-owned model of your choice today!