Hello everyone! The old driver of the car inspector has met with you again ~ I am your old friend superstar, I am a used car inspection technician who has repaired a luxury car. Helping the majority of car fans to solve a series of problems in buying a car is the service tenet I uphold. The model brought to you today is a very cost-effective second-hand luxury MPV, which can be called the king of second-hand MPV cost performance, it is Chrysler Grand Jay Dragon.
MPV this type of car may be less contact and understanding of the average person, more well-known is the Buick GL8, Honda Odyssey, Honda Alexandry, the king of the three mid-range MPV and Toyota Alpha This well-known luxury "van". Luxury brands may not only focus on the MPV market, so there are not too many blockbuster models, but some niche luxury brands have launched some good MPV. For example, the Chrysler Grand Jaylon I tested today has the title of "Ferrari in MPV".
The exterior atmosphere, the interior luxury, the space and comfort are its three killer skills, so the new car is not cheap, and it takes more than 500,000 yuan to buy. However, as a niche semi-luxury brand of Chrysler, the retention rate of its used cars can be said to be very low, so the used cars of Dajielong are very cost-effective! This time our customer big brother looked at one, originally it was planned to buy Odyssey, Alexandre and the like, when visiting the second-hand car market, I happened to see this big Jet Dragon, I think it is more luxurious than the general MPV, and the price is very affordable! So the first time is to find us to help him check the pass, the car condition is no big problem to take down. So let's take a look at how cost-effective the second-hand Great Jay Dragon is.
Model year: Chrysler Grand Jaylon (imported) 2013 model 3.6L luxury version
Production date: February 2013
Date of registration: March 2014
Meter mileage: 150,000 km
New car guide price: 496,800
Seller offer: 125,000
It can be seen that the great Jielong, which landed more than 500,000 yuan that year, lost more than 400,000 yuan in 7 years, which is really a loss to the grandmother's family. Now the second-hand 14 top-of-the-top Buick GL8 is also more expensive than it, and the key new car is 100,000 cheaper than this Dajielong! No wonder the customer's big brother turned his head to look at this car, it was still very attractive.
The customer brother said that he was engaged in engineering, thinking of buying a commercial car to receive customers, but the budget is limited, think that the Buick GL8 level of the car is enough, but when he sees this big Jielong, he still thinks that this car is more luxurious and more face-saving, and the key price is cheaper! So the eldest brother told me that when testing, just look at whether the vehicle has major accidents and blisters, and the appearance of sheet metal is not important.
Although the eldest brother said so, but superstarS I think there are so many cheap picks in the world? Therefore, we still have to be cautious, and we have the obligation to test the whole according to the process, one is not to miss the inspection, and the other is to check the problem through the details. First of all, you can see that the front bumper has been disassembled and repaired.
And the water tank frame screws are also disassembled, has the front of the car collided? Let's move on.
Then I tested the beam heads on both sides of the front of the vehicle, found that it was the original car state, and did not find anything unusual, basically can rule out the suspicion of a major accident in the front of the vehicle, but now can not be 100% conclusion, after all, the chassis has not been raised to see.
Next, we check the paint surface, first take a value from the roof, you can see that the paint value of the roof is relatively high, it is reasonable to say that the number of paint surfaces of the Great Jielong should be about 200 microns.
And I found that there are also traces of paint in the mouth, and the paint value is exactly doubled, which is a good explanation, this car is the whole car inside and out of the paint, but why do you want to paint the whole car? We went on with the question.
Then it was detected that there was no trace of disassembly of the cover screws, but the paint value floated within four hundred, which was painted, and sheet metal repair, disassembly and replacement could be excluded.
The ABC column on the left and the door fenders are also simply painted and repaired, there is no sheet metal, and the situation is not bad.
And the glass on the left is also the original car, if it is a whole car spray paint caused by the overturning, then the glass must not be broken into a few pieces? Or the appearance of sheet metal repair. But the result of my current test is only spray paint, which is mostly simply spray paint refurbishment, maybe there are more scratches and defects in the vehicle when driving before, so I did the appearance renovation.
Because the appearance of the trunk cover is wrapped in plastic trim, can not be detected by the paint film instrument, we can only see if the screws have been disassembled, and no disassembly traces have been found, since we can't rule out whether there is a rear-end rear end, we will play a big one, and dismantle the rear panel trim to see if it is normal.
When the superstar I removed the rear panel trim, I did not find any signs of collapse deformation repair, but when I shined the flashlight into the collapse hole, I found that there was a lot of mud, and it was not ordinary floating ash, could it be that the vehicle had blisters? Write it down and study it for a while.
Then test the other paint surface of the body, only the right back door has sheet metal repair, the others are spray paint, the overall appearance here is tested, for a car that has been driving for 7 years is not bad, only a small amount of sheet metal, no replacement, the appearance can be scored to 85 points. Let's take a look at how the engine is doing.
This Chrysler Grand Jaylon is equipped with a V6, 3.6L naturally aspirated engine, the maximum horsepower is 283, the maximum torque is 344N·m, matching the 6AT gearbox, 100 km/h acceleration of 8.5 seconds, the overall power is still quite good, much stronger than the 3.0T Buick GL8, and the naturally aspirated engine will be more reliable, just rush this, the Grand Jaylon is much better than the GL8. But everything is absolute, let's take a look at the details of the engine.
First of all, I found that there were disassembly marks on the claw screws, but it didn't explain anything, in case it was simply replacing the claw pads.
But then I also detected that the intake manifold, valve chamber cover screws also have disassembly marks, I don't know if you have found that the part of the superstar I circled is a little abnormal?
Looking at the crankshaft screws and accessory screws at the side end of the engine, everything that can be removed has been removed, and it seems that this engine should have been repaired.
Because the customer's big brother is eager to know the situation of the engine, at present, it is temporarily unable to get on the shelf, so I simply look at it directly from below, and I can see that the screws at the junction of the engine and the gearbox are also disassembled, and the gearbox foot screws have also moved, is this not the engine hoisting overhaul? I am now a little suspicious of this kilometer number, at first glance 150,000 kilometers, twenty thousand a year is quite normal, but the first page of the green book shows a rental company, combined with the engine overhaul, there is a good chance that the hands and feet, so I let the backstage sister check the maintenance record.
Sure enough, it was moved, adjusted fifty thousand kilometers, hey, honest management it is not good, how much effect does it have to adjust these 50,000 kilometers? However, if you only adjust the meter for 50,000 kilometers, it is not a big problem, and then we will check the interior to see what surprises there are.
You can see that the interior must have been carefully taken care of, at a glance it looks very clean and tidy, and the color Chad looks quite straight, do not know to withstand the test no, immediately look at the details.
The result is still quite disappointing, this is already the third big mud I found by the superstar, it is a bit interesting, let's look at other places.
Then I found that the "Ping An of China" label of the seat module is all there, is it difficult for Chrysler to cooperate with Ping An of China to jointly produce seat modules? When the superstar said this sentence, the customer's big brother smiled helplessly and said: "It's not okay, it's still the Ping An branch in Qingdao."
Superstar I also do not bend the corner, directly in place to play a big bar, open the dashboard skeleton cover, at a glance, you can see the skeleton rust, foam board there is water stains and sediment, this is a living blister car teaching material ah.
The skeleton on the right side is also the same, a large area of rust, skeleton screws disassembly, even if the customer brother on the side does not understand the car, Presumably also see the problem of this car. Looking back, I want to understand why the car will be dismantled and the whole car painted and refurbished, that is, to deal with the blister marks.
However, the key placed in the armrest box should have been forgotten to clean it, just like a potato dug out of the ground, and it was detected that the customer brother here did not intend to want this car, but I always felt that this car was still weird, and somehow wanted to use the computer to read the number of kilometers and the fault code.
The result is not to see do not know, a look of shock, the feelings of this car more than once adjusted the table ah, the previous seller adjusted once, this appointment and adjustment again, the real table is actually 260,000 kilometers, if it is really cheap no good goods! At this time, the customer's big brother told me that the seller asked for 145,000 at the beginning, and after a few minutes of talking, he actually cut down 20,000 down, no wonder the seller was so anxious to sell! Now such a car condition he does not dare to ask, if it is just to adjust the meter, this "cheap" he will definitely pick up, blister car even if it is. So the customer's big brother and the seller made a polite remark and left with me.
You can see that the same Chrysler Grand Jaylon on the Internet is still a lot of car sources, but the price is basically more expensive than today's car, normally the seller just started to target 145,000, it should be the normal market price, only because of the reason of soaking water plus adjustment table, it is so simple less than 20,000. Fortunately, the customer's big brother did not take it directly for a while, which avoided buying a blister car, and if he bought it back to pick up and drop off the customer, it would be more than worth the loss. However, the eldest brother said that he still had to find Dajielong later, because even if it was 145,000, as long as the car was in normal condition, the cost performance was still very high, and the Buick GL8 was much more cost-effective. It seems that he has discovered a new continent.
Well, today's test case sharing ends here, thank you for reading! I am a used car inspector superstar, we usually test is a used car, in the usual use, inevitably a little bumpy, the appearance of the covering part of the sheet metal spray paint is normal, even if there are some replacement parts are harmless, can not be as new as the new car to ask for it. However, if there are major problems in the car, it is also impossible to compromise, and in the end, it is still necessary to see if it is your own dish in combination with the condition of the car. Of course, when facing a car that is much cheaper than the market price, you must not covet cheap, you must know that the world will not drop the pie!
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