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Unless you're going to sell your car to a scrapyard, you really want to keep its price
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as high as it's possible. If you own your vehicle and you're going to sell it to someone or to some
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dealership, you will want to know several things that people are doing to depreciate the price of
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their cars. And the first thing is smoking in your car. If you smoke cigarettes, nicotine,
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electronic cigarettes, whatever, everything is going to smell. So, all fabrics, and plastic,
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and also filters in the air conditioner system, and the system itself will emit this smell. And
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when someone who doesn't smoke will sit in this car to buy it, for example, they will not be glad,
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and the price will actually go down because you will need a lot of time, effort, and money to
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clean this and to make it smell like normal. Also, the second thing is skipping regular
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maintenance. There is common sense in this; so, something may break, something may die in
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your car if you skip regular maintenance like oil changes, fluid changes, filter changes,
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and so on. But there is one more thing: if you maintain your car perfectly, you will have
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the records. And when the used vehicle has these records about the service, about the maintenance,
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it will cost more because the buyer will rely on the information on these records in the dealership
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or maybe you will have it in an independent shop. So if you have these records, and if these records
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are official, it's like perfect. But if you even have the bills from some independent shop,
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it's okay, and it really keeps the price of your car on the average level, not below this. The
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third thing that makes your car cheaper is any DIY body repairs. So if you decide to repair a scratch
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and you buy some scratch repair kit in the paint shop, in the paint store, this repair will not
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probably be perfect. And anyone who will buy this car for like a dealership for sale or someone for
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themselves, they will notice this, and any body things they depreciate your car really heavily.
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And if you want this car to keep its price as high as possible, you probably need to go to a
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body repair shop and have this scratch or dent or whatever repaired professionally. Now, the fourth
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thing that can depreciate the price of your car is carrying your pets in the car without thinking
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about the consequences. Because the dog or your cat, they can have some smells that are not really
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good for a car. And if a dog, for example, goes in the back seat of your car without any covers,
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without any protection, this seat will start smelling, especially if it's not leather seat but
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fabric seat. It will start smelling really bad. And when a person or a dealership representative
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will get into your vehicle to understand if it's good or not, they will understand that it needs a
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lot of cleaning, it needs a lot of effort to keep this smell out of the car because it's going to
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be, like, integrated into the seats, into the fabric. To avoid this, you will need to think
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about some protection things that will protect the seat and other units of the interior of your
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vehicle from any smells of your pet. And the fifth thing is putting up with any body damage.
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You know, if it's like not a new car, it's like a 10-year-old car, and it has some dent, it's not
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really beautiful, but we don't care about this. We put up with this. We drive this car. It doesn't
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affect the speed. It doesn't affect anything, and you just keep driving it. But if you're
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going to sell this car, this dent, this scratch, or whatever will highly depreciate the car. The
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price will be lower because body repair is really expensive. If someone is going to buy this car,
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they will understand that, whoa, it costs like $500 to repair the dent or to replace the body
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part that is affected. But if you, before you're going to sell the car, if you go to a cheaper body
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repair shop and do this job for 100 bucks, you will obviously save your money. So, putting up
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with any body damage is like losing your money. So maybe you'll find some mechanic, some guy who will
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repair this much cheaper than you eventually will have to lose when you sell this car.