[Closed] Best way to sell a poorly car

Whichever way you choose, be very clear in the advert and on the receipt you give the buyer about things you know are wrong with it.

Make no statements about it's potential reliability, or how much it'll cost to fix, otherwise you could be held to them.

MOT just proves it worked on the MOT date.

i sold a  running but basically scrapper car and was amazed at what it went for on ebay hundreds more than it was worth,

not the auction place that will be the worst

7. Stealth ad on STW

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On a more serious note, the turbo on my Fiat Bravo died earlier this year, £1k to fix/replace at the local garage. Car was only worth similar and needed other work coming up (full service/timing belt/broken climate control cog).

I put a post on a facebook owners group that I was part of and a guy messaged me interested. I was brutally honest to the point where most people would have walked away, but he still offered me £300 for it and he came that weekend to tow it away (with his own Bravo!).
Turned out he was an Italian car enthusiast/spare time tinkerer and he was planning to fix it up and sell it on.
No idea how he got on with it, but I got more than I would have for scrap.

£600 to fix. So thinking it’s time to get rid. Aside from the turbo issue, its a good reliable car, with 12months MOT.

I know that in classic STW fashion I'm ignoring your actual question but if it were mine I'd fix it if I reckoned I'd get another year out of it without anything much else going wrong. It's not worth much anyway and it's a known quantity. Older cars are always a bit of a gamble but unless you replace it with new or in warranty you'll always be taking a bit of a punt.

ahem, trade it in against another and don't mention it.. unless asked...

Gumtree is free, honest advert and see what offers you get. start at working value minus 600.

We Buy Any Car

Garage beat WBAC by £300 - my old Galaxy in mint condition was worth £3k tops, in the condition we had it I *might* have sold it for £2k, but knowing it had faults 'hidden'... WBAC offered £1800, garage £2100 as trade in. Seemed (surprisingly) reasonable.

Galaxy was 2006 / 168k / cracked windscreen, needed: new wheel bearing front, new suspension bushes front and rear (most of them...), new spring front, clutch had started slipping, iffy starting in cold due to all glow plugs dead, exhaust I had patched once (Front section), service due in next month, MOT the month after, four new tyres, new discs and pads all round, timing belt next year (I do 25k a year), rear screen de-icer packed in, two speakers packed in, central locking hit and miss, airbag fault if you moved the drivers seat and rust on bottom of windscreen pillars... all told, a few £000 in next few months....I was expecting scrap...

You could always try We Buy Any Car and pray that it doesn't go into limp-mode on the brief test drive. My FIL did this on a Mondeo with a flaky ECU. Also very recently I was very pleasantly surprised about the initial value they offered for my 11 year old van, (though circumstances meant I didn't go for the appointment, so don't know how much the final offer would have been).

I sold my in laws car on eBay (05 RAV4 ) on a 99p no reserve auction, stating that we thought the gear box was knackered and within minutes I had people calling me up offering cash. Sold it for £1100 eventually....was shocked!

Thank all.

Jonners. Was tempted to fix it. I reckon with a new turbo it would be good for at least another few years, so wouldn't be an extreme cost in the long run. But in the mean time, I've been offered a too good to be true bargain that I snapped up. So now the Audi is not required.

tthew. How long is the WBAC test drive? The limp mode only ever (if it does) kick in after a few miles, and at 50mph ish. So round town its fine, though I've not thrashed it.

Junkyard. Why is the auction place the worst? Full of scrap dealers?

WBAC, not really going to lose anything but your time if its a low offer.

Ebay/gumtree, but be prepared to deal with a lot of muppets offering you £200, or swap for a mini moto etc.

What is it anyway? Diesel, petrol quattro? Where are you based?

You will find it's worth on an eBay auction, might as well start 99p, properly described of course.

just put 'auction only' message on and ignore any low offers.

I did this with a car that had a broken gearbox, basically worthless to me.

Got a few hundred in hand and they took it away, bonus!

Avoid the auction houses, they make eBay fees look reasonable.

How long is the WBAC test drive?

They don't.

They start, look for warning lights, walk around, compare condition to your online report, job done.

I was 'penalised' £200 I think as I was missing the delivery stamp, and so my 'full service history' (file and inch thick of every invoice in date order for 11 years, with 16 stamps in service book, but no dealer delivery inspection stamp....) was not 'full'...

I recently sold my car to We Buy Any Car, they didn't test drive it at all, the guy said you drove it here so it obviously runs.  They will knock a fair bit off the valuation for chips etc that are present on every car, I managed to push it back up a bit though and the guy made a phone call after it was obvious I wouldn't take the offer.

II advertised my last car on both eBay and Gumtree.

eBay definitely had less time wasters. I wouldn't use Gumtree for a car sale again.

Sounds like it's a good job I didn't go for the WBAC appointment, if they knock loads off for condition I'd have probably ended up owing them, but when I did the online thing it didn't actually ask about physical condition just the MOT history and such. My van looks like it's been crashed through a hedge.

Junkyard. Why is the auction place the worst? Full of scrap dealers?

high fees/charges and  people only go to an auction to get a bargain.no one sells a quality car via auction [ except top top end] and no one not in a rush for the money sells their car there so prices are low.