A Toyota Master Diagnostic Technician takes you on the journey of a car's certification process at the dealership going through the full Certified Pre Owned car inspection and reconditioning process.

So are you Buying a Certified Pre Owned car? In this video I will walk you through the entire process of certification for Toyota Certified Vehicles.

Certified Pre Owned cars go through a very thorough inspection to make sure that first it meets the standards set by the manufacturer. And most importantly that it lives to the expectations of the new owner.

Certified Pre Owned cars are usually more expensive that conventional used cars because of the inspection and reconditioning process that they go through.

I'll first explain the important differences between Certified cars and regular used cars. Then we'll start the process on the Sales department side on what they do before they even request certification from the Service department.

Once the Sales department does their due diligence to make sure that this car is worthy of certification then it heads over to the service department and the inspection journey begins.

The first thing in any technicians agenda for the Certified Inspection is surprisingly to knock the car off certification believe it or not. We want to make sure that this car doesn't have deal breakers. Things that would disqualify this car from certification regardless if it can be repaired or not.

Things like major accidents, Poor maintenance history or even excess wear and tear.

Certified inspections leave nothing unchecked. The meticulous inspection needs to be followed through to the end because unlike traditional used car inspections, Certified Pre Owned Cars involve the manufacturer in their certification process.

The information in this video can actually be used to check used cars. I shared many tips here that I hope you will find useful in your next used car shopping experience.

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0:00 Intro
0:29 Overview
2:26 Pre-Inspection Checks
4:17 Service Department Inspection
6:28 Body Inspection
12:49 Mechanical Inspection
15:10 Under Car Inspection
17:41 Getting Ready to Certify : Maintenance Inspection
21:03 Function Check
23:46 Inspection Completed. Now What?
26:08 Things that could Disqualify cars from Certification
28:47 Car is Certified! Now What?
31:38 Red Flags when buying a Certified Car