If you are looking to sell your car there are a few tricks you should complete before you do so in order to prepare you car for selling. These small jobs include the basics such as cleaning and performing a small health check. Follow these steps to ensure that your car is as attractive as possible to potential buyers.
Step One
Check your oil. Car buyers absolutely adore giving your car a good check under the bonnet so make sure it has a perfect bill of health. Check you roil level and fill it as needed and make sure the oil is nice and clean, not the thick treacle of old oil.
Step Two
Check your tyre pressure and give it a top up as needed. Replace any tyres that are worn or damaged.
Step Three
You want the buyer to think you’ve taken good care of this car for its entire life so make sure it looks like it. Clean the air intakes of leaves and debris and clear up the Configuration bay area.
Step Four
Wash the exterior of your car using a good quality car shampoo. Make sure you don’t forget all the nooks and crannies of your vehicle. Rinse the car and then dry with Chamois leather. Clean the wheel with an alloy cleaner and then finish off your car with a good wax and polish.
Step Five
Clean the interior of your vehicle, make sure you give the floor of the car a good hovering, dust out any mats etc and shampoo the material seats.
Step Six
Touch any stone chips in the paint with a paint touch up stick. This is very easy to do and very quick as well as inexpensive. Touching up the paint will produce a dramatic effect on the appearance of your vehicle.
Step Seven
Clean the Windows both inside and out. Just doing one side isn’t going to produce sparkling clean windows, they need cleaning both internally and externally. Try to do this after a rainy day when the weather is forecast to be sunny for a while afterwards.
If you normally take your dogs out with you in the back of the car consider not doing so while you are trying to sell your vehicle. This will mean after a good interior clean of your vehicle you won’t get dog hairs on the seats or floor afterwards. This will keep your car looking cleaner for much longer and be