Selling a rubbish car privately

longshins

hi there, I’ve never sold a car privately but I’m going to give it a go this time. I have a 2005 diesel Astra with 120k in the clock. Not a lot wrong with it but I need something bigger and a trade in this time isn’t an option. So for a car like mine that’s not worth a great deal what’s the best approach? Get a MOT and put it on Facebook? Any advice? Thanks.

Dominic

Gumtree...........lots of idiots but lots of fast response ;  just filter the response  ..........if not then Autotrader

John_P

I sold my last one on gumtree.   I only put up an ad on the off chance and I was overloaded with offers.    
FB would probably be the same if you find a local buying and selling group.    

Lestratcaster

Sold mine on Gumtree too, had a fucked up gearbox and clutch so a motor trader bought it to sell the parts on. Was literally listed for 5 minutes and had 3 interested buyers.

boogieman

Get it MOT’d if it’s due anytime soon, it’ll give people confidence that it’ll give them at least a year’s use of it. Facebook is worth a go, I sold my Focus that way. Otherwise yup, Gumtree, but be prepared to put up with lots of idiots, stupid questions and low ball offers.

funkyfraz

Gumtree all the way. If you can stick an mot on it then that's a huge plus point (haven been the purchaser of many rubbish cars in my past) 

57Deluxe

local supermarket Ad board

Fretwired

I sold my wife's 1997 Mondeo on eBay - we expected to get about £350 to £425 but it sold for £1,600 to a guy from Brentford who drove up and paid cash.

longshins

With eBay are you not left wide open to getting stung by scammers?

Fretwired

longshins said:

With eBay are you not left wide open to getting stung by scammers?

How is someone going to scam you with a car? We did cash on collection. You can be scammed on any platform, especially Gumtree.

Legionreturns

You'd probably get up to £5k on a Scrappage scheme. Yes, you'd have to buy a new car...but you'd have a big deposit!

longshins

Fretwired said:

longshins said:

With eBay are you not left wide open to getting stung by scammers?

How is someone going to scam you with a car? We did cash on collection. You can be scammed on any platform, especially Gumtree.

As in they pay by PayPal then say there was a bogey on the gearstick and start an eBay dispute.

Fretwired

longshins said:

Fretwired said:

longshins said:

With eBay are you not left wide open to getting stung by scammers?

How is someone going to scam you with a car? We did cash on collection. You can be scammed on any platform, especially Gumtree.

As in they pay by PayPal then say there was a bogey on the gearstick and start an eBay dispute.

Like I said COD ... I have also done COD with expensive guitars. Sod PayPal and eBay's rules.

Fretwired

Legionreturns said:

You'd probably get up to £5k on a Scrappage scheme. Yes, you'd have to buy a new car...but you'd have a big deposit!

Good idea, especially as its a diesel which the government are keen to tax more.

ronnyb

I've ad quite a bit of success in the past parking the car up in a prominent position at the side of the road with a for sale notice in the window. Costs nothing.

p90fool

Just get it nicked.
 A mate of mine left an unwanted Honda CX500 with the key in it under a railway arch in East London - mind you, when he came back three weeks later it was still there, only someone had nicked the key.

longshins

p90fool said:

Just get it nicked.
 A mate of mine left an unwanted Honda CX500 with the key in it under a railway arch in East London - mind you, when he came back three weeks later it was still there, only someone had nicked the key.

The back doors don’t lock on my car. I wish somebody would nick it!

midlifecrisis

p90fool said:

Just get it nicked.
 A mate of mine left an unwanted Honda CX500 with the key in it under a railway arch in East London - mind you, when he came back three weeks later it was still there, only someone had nicked the key.

lol reminds me of the guy who left his banjo in his unlocked car. when he came back he found five more banjos in it.

Danny1969

Last car I sold was via Ebay motors. I put it on the site and got a message asking if the aircon worked. When I said it did a guy came out and paid cash straight away and it went off to Africa in a container with 20 other Ebay cars, all with aircon. That's all they seemed to care about, never even asked about MOT