Pocket Inspector — Used Car Edition

**About to hand a stranger thousands of dollars for a used car? Inspect it like a pro first — right there on their driveway, with your phone.**

Every used car has a story. The seller is telling you the good version. Pocket Inspector checks the real one:

1. **The Car & The Deal** — year, seller, asking price, mileage, all logged before you fall in love with it.

2. **Snap the evidence** — odometer, engine bay, all four tires, the rust spot, the title. Pictures don't forget and don't get talked out of anything.

3. **The Walk-Around: 42 checks in the order a pro does them** — Paperwork & Title, Cold Start, Under the Hood, Leaks & Underside, Tires & Wheels, Body & Rust, Inside & Electronics, The Test Drive, Smells & Sounds. Every check is one tap: **Good / Caution / Red Flag.**

It knows the classics sellers hope you'll skip: the engine conveniently *warm* when you arrive (hiding a cold-start problem), the check-engine bulb pulled so the light "never comes on," milky sludge under the oil cap, flood silt hiding under the carpets, tires older than the car story.

**The Killer List:** six automatic walk-aways — title games, VIN games, head-gasket sludge, frame rust-through, a slipping transmission, flood evidence. Mark one Red Flag and the verdict ends the conversation for you: **WALK AWAY.** No price fixes those.

**Live score, honest verdict:** every car scores 0–100 as you tap. BUY IT, NEGOTIATE HARD, ONLY IF THE PRICE DROPS A LOT, or WALK AWAY — no gut-feel gambling.

**The Offer Calculator (the money feature):** tap the fixes the car honestly needs — brakes $350, tires $600, A/C $800, transmission $2,200, twelve of them — and it turns the asking price into a *fair offer*, then writes your negotiation script in plain words: "I like the car. Here's what I found…" Say it, then let the silence work.

Save every car you inspect and compare them side by side by score before your money picks a winner.

*Honest note, printed right in the app: Pocket Inspector is the free filter — it spots what a pro looks for and kills bad deals on the spot. On the one car that passes, a mechanic's pre-purchase inspection (~$100) is still money well spent. Spend $100 on the winner, not $4,000 on the loser.*