If there's one step you don't skip when buying a used car in the UAE, it's the independent pre-purchase inspection. It's the difference between buying a car you understand and buying a gamble.
What a proper inspection covers
- Full mechanical assessment — engine, transmission, drivetrain
- Structural and body inspection for accident repairs
- Diagnostic scan for stored fault codes
- Mileage verification against the car's real history
- Specification and GCC vs import confirmation
- Outstanding finance, lien and unpaid-fine checks
Why "independent" is the key word
A dealer offering to "inspect" a car they're selling you has an obvious conflict of interest. An independent inspection — arranged by you, or by someone working only for you — has no incentive to gloss over problems. The verdict you get is the real one.
What it saves you
A pre-purchase inspection typically costs a few hundred dirhams. Against a purchase of tens or hundreds of thousands, it's trivial — and it routinely uncovers issues that either kill a bad deal or give you the leverage to negotiate the price down. On high-value cars especially, the inspection often pays for itself many times over in the negotiation alone.
How Kerb handles it
Whether you're using our full buying service or you've found a car yourself, we arrange a full independent inspection and history check, then give you a straight, honest verdict — is it worth buying, and at what price? We're never the one selling you the car, so the answer is always in your interest.
Want this handled for you — properly, on your side, in any language?
Talk to Kerb