Selling car with history of problems

motorguy

sickofusernames wrote: »

I couldn't sell it privately knowing all the problems, I believe in karma. Do the right thing and px it.

So good karma is trading the car into a dealers without declaring the problems. Hows that any different than selling it to a private seller?

Or is it ok to crap on dealers?

Strider590

pgilc1 wrote: »

So good karma is trading the car into a dealers without declaring the problems. Hows that any different than selling it to a private seller?

Or is it ok to crap on dealers?

The dealers won't care anyway, if it's not a noticeable issue they'll shove a dodgy MOT on it and flog it on without touching the problems.

It's ok to crap on dealers, but in fact your actually crapping on some poor sap who'll eventually buy the car.




As for "bad karma", a car is a car and in my experience it's always "better the devil you know, than the devil you don't". Selling a car because it's had a few issues is just daft.
Look after a car, check it's levels, listen out for odd noises before they turn into expensive repairs...... Why do women (yes some men too) just turn the radio up and pretend they can't hear the metalic grinding noise coming from the engine bay?
Basically, selling a car because it doesn't look after itself is beyond daft.

iolanthe07

There is nothinng wrong with having a re-conditioned gearbox. If it is kosher (best of all factory re-conditioned) it will be as good as new. Having spent so much on the car, I'd tend to keep it.

eschaton

Hammyman wrote: »

Madness. You know its got a new engine. I'd have hung onto it.

JQ. wrote: »

I think he's saying he sold it with the knackered engine still in place.

At least someone can read - why would someone flog a car for £2,000 less than value after spending £3,500 on an engine?

motorguy

Strider590 wrote: »

The dealers won't care anyway, if it's not a noticeable issue they'll shove a dodgy MOT on it and flog it on without touching the problems.

It's ok to crap on dealers, but in fact your actually crapping on some poor sap who'll eventually buy the car.

Well thats my point really, no one could claim 'good karma' for trading a car in to a dealer and saying nothing.

Homersimpson

I sold a car once that was nothing but trouble, I put this on the e-bay advert and told the buyer that i thought it was cursed! He still bought it, had trouble with and threatened to sue me, even if you do the right bthing it can still come back to bite you. I would sell it privately and just be honest as to what you've had done.

harveybobbles

pgilc1 wrote: »

Or is it ok to crap on dealers?

Most people do.

About 90% of cars we get in PX have something serious wrong with them, despite them "being the best that they've had and how sorry they will to see it go..."

And "its never let me down"
And "oh its never missed a beat"

etc etc...

Took a car in swap a few month ago and I said to the man, or !!!!!! as he is now referred to "I'll just nip up the road in to to make sure it drives ok". He got twitchy...

Anyway, as I pulled out, I noticed a Fishermans Friend on the speedo binacle. Nothing odd there really, as people do leave things like that. So as I moved it out of the way to reveal the engine management light!

blue_haddock

ah yes harvey it always amazes me that whatever car your selling always has a few imperfections and so they want money off but the punters car is always mint, well apart from the trolley dent on the rear quarter, the lacquer peel on the front wing and the soggy carpet in the footwell!

harveybobbles

the ones who want perfection usually have the worlds dirtiest car car to px or the most battered one.

iolanthe07

harveybobbles wrote: »

the ones who want perfection usually have the worlds dirtiest car car to px or the most battered one.

It works the other way round too, you know. Unscrupulous dealers will wind the odometer back and mask all sorts of problems with their tricks. I read of one once who put sawdust in a noisy transmission - well it worked for about as long as the poor sucker of a buyer's test drive.