Selling a car - best method?

ViolaLass

We wants to move our car on and get another. Can anyone recommend the best way to sell please? I'm aware of various websites but I'm not sure which are considered better than others or whether another method would be better.

Silver-Surfer_2

Few more details are required, make, model, age and condition will get you the best help.

shaun_from_Africa

There are other factors that will also make a big difference as to how and where you try to sell.

Do you need the money from the sale to help fund the new purchase?
Have you got storage space for both your current car and any new one?
Will you be able to keep the old car insured once you buy its replacement?

ViolaLass

It's a Honda Jazz 2002(? or thereabouts). I don't know what words I should be using for condition - it works fine, we just think it's time to upgrade.

We don't need the money to buy the next one but we wouldn't like to get nothing for it. We could store both and we could keep both insured.

Thanks for your replies.

loskie

Put a full MOT on it, Clean it inside and out and sell on Gumtree. Price it realistically and it will sell easily.
Brief factual advert, avoid stupidly overused comments like "first to see will buy".
Make sure on a test drive the driver has at least 3rd party cover, don't leave the keys in it when you swap seats. The minute it is sold and you have the cash in your hand, cancel the insurance and VED/Tax.
Have any paperwork in an organised folder.
Be honest and price realistically.
If a good example of a Jazz should sell easily.
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/buy_sell/selling/

It's not as bad as you think

butterfly72

I've just sold mine privately getting 2K more than the part ex value I was given! I advertised mine on a local Facebook group and had 2 parties test drive. Person that bought it was a friend of many of my friends so I was confident about receiving a bank transfer too.


I've also sold on Gumtree, but had one or two shady characters come round..I made sure the OH was with me for the viewings.


I've also sold a small cheap car by putting a for sale sign in the window. A colleague saw it in the work car park and bought it for her daughter the first day the sign went up!

19lottie82

For cars under £1k, like yours, I agree that gumtree is the best bet (Also put a sign in the window). Make sure it's clean, and always advertise it at slightly higher than the minimum that you will take for it, as 95% of the time, would be sellers will always want to haggle on the price.

DragonQ

Best price I can get for my car is from the blokes at the MOT garage.

chiny

So, how to deal with insurance during the buyer's test drive ? For a cheap car, maybe eyeballing the buyer's policy for "third party any car" is OK but what if the car being sold is worth a few £k ?

jimjames

I'd use Ebay classified, it does cost but I've found much more reliable buyers than Gumtree which has generated timewasters in the past.