kick the tires

Verb

colloquial idiomatic obsolete

Japanese Meaning

（慣用句）購入や採用の前に、対象物の状態や品質が期待に沿ったものかどうかを、ざっと点検して確認すること。 / （口語）実際に詳しく調べる前に、見た目や基本的な性能を仮にチェックする行為。

Before signing the lease, she wanted to kick the tires and make sure the apartment's plumbing worked.

契約にサインする前に、彼女はアパートを念入りに点検して配管が正常に動くか確認したかった。

Sense（1）

But, like the Color-Sonics machine, US operators have had no opportunity to "kick the tires" on Cine-Jukebox.

Sense（2）

(obsolete) To inspect a vehicle's tires by kicking them to check for defects or poor quality.

If the dealer or his used car manager goes out to the car, he may kick the tires as though he expected them to collapse at the force of the blow.

kicks the tires

（ present singular third-person ）

kicking the tires

（ participle present ）

kicked the tires

（ participle past ）

kicked the tires

（ past ）