General Guidelines:

1. Determine Your Budget so you will be able to bargain a deal
 (this site has a budget between $2,500-$12,000 in mind).

2. Narrow Your Choices by Coming Up With a List of less than 4 Cars That You Would Like. We have some suggestions on what make would be good.

3. Determine the value of your candidate cars.

4. Use Our Where to Buy? Location Ideas To Determine You Where You Want to Buy.

5. Negotiate a price with your knowledge of the cars flaws (see checklist) and the cars value (see Bargaining).