{"id":47,"date":"2026-10-06T07:47:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-carmarket\/what-to-do-on-a-test-drive\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:24:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:24:40","slug":"what-to-do-on-a-test-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-carmarket\/what-to-do-on-a-test-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do on a test drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A test drive around the block tells you almost nothing (sample guide).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Start the car cold if you can, and watch the warning lights go out. Drive in town, on the highway and up a hill; brake firmly once on a quiet straight road and feel whether the car pulls.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turn the radio off and listen over bumps and at full lock in a parking lot. Try every window, the air conditioning and the heated seats. Then compare what you noticed with the car&#8217;s walkaround sheet.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drive the roads you drive every day, with the radio off (sample guide).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-carmarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-carmarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-carmarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-carmarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-carmarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-carmarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-carmarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-carmarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-carmarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-carmarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-carmarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}