Kia · Pre-Purchase Inspection
Independent 150-point check before you buy a used car in Dubai. Priced per Kia model, not per brand.
What follows is what pre-purchase inspection on a Kia specifically involves, what it costs, and what we check while the car is with us.
Factory paint is a consistent thickness within a narrow band. A repaired panel reads two or three times that, and a filled one reads off the scale. A gauge sweep takes ten minutes and finds accident repair that a good body shop made invisible. It is the single most informative test on a used car in this market.
Cars are imported into and exported out of the UAE constantly, and some arrive with water history. Corrosion under carpets, silt in the spare wheel well, cloudy headlamp interiors and mismatched seat-rail bolts are the tells. Separately, a car that has spent ten years outdoors here has heat-cracked dash plastics, perished bushes and cooked rubber regardless of mileage.
Kia is a Korean make, and Sportage and Seltos gearboxes want their fluid changed on the shorter interval here; the schedule assumes a cooler climate than this one. For a pre-purchase inspection specifically that means we price the parts to the model rather than the badge, and we check the items that go alongside it on this range instead of quoting a flat figure and finding out later.
The vehicle database lists 114 Kia models, and parts, labour time and price all move between them. Pick yours from the list below for the detail that applies to your car rather than to the range.
Pick your model for the price and the labour time that apply to your car.
About 90 minutes for the inspection itself, and you get the written report with photographs the same day.
Yes for most of the checks. A full underbody and chassis inspection needs a lift, so if the seller will release the car for an hour we would rather do it properly at the workshop.
There is no pass or fail — there is a report of what the car is and what it will need. What you do with that is your decision, and we will price the work so you know the real number.
Call, or send your location on WhatsApp. We will tell you the price before we set off.
