Archive for January, 2010

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Selling a Used Car in Ontario? Get your UVIP

The Ontario Ministry of Transportation offers sound advice and tips for private car sellers. They spell out the car selling process and provide a template of steps and information required for the sale of a used car. Let’s start with the Used Vehicle Information Packet. This handy little packet provides potential buyers with the basic [...]

Toyota Vehicle Recall: Sticky Accelerator Pedal
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Toyota Vehicle Recall: Sticky Accelerator Pedal

If you own a Toyota, you need to check to see if your model is one of the 2.3 million vehicles being recalled. Toyota has found that there is a potential malfunction in the mechanism that controls the accelerator pedal. On rare occasions it may stick when partially depressed or it may slowly return to [...]

Free CARFAX Reports
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Free CARFAX Reports

I’d be remiss if I had a blog for used car buyers without mentioning CARFAX reports. Anyone who is looking to purchase a used car he should get a CARFAX report. Don’t pay for one, but get one. How to get a CARFAX report for free? Easy. CARFAX makes it easy and so do their [...]

Check Out a Car’s MPG before Purchase
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Check Out a Car’s MPG before Purchase

The last person you should listen to when it comes to how many miles to the gallon a used car gets is the car dealer. Although the dealer may be telling the truth, or the truth as well as he knows it, you need to be 100% sure of how much it will cost in [...]

Before You Leave Your House to Buy a Car
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Before You Leave Your House to Buy a Car

This may sound elementary to you, and if it does, please bear with me. I’ve decided to that the used car purchase process step by step. Starting with the five W’s and H of buying a used car (you journalism folks know what I’m talking about). Who are you buying the car for? What is [...]

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