Selling/Getting rid of car with no MOT

fdama

Hi,

I've recently bought a used car to replace my aging one. I'm not sure how I should get rid of my old car in order to get the maximum return on it based on circumstances. Its a 2006 Vauxhall Astra 1.6 petrol, 3 dr, with 136,000 mileage and with little service history and no MOT. The exterior and Interior are generally in a good condition for the age. I've owned the car since 2011.

The significant thing is that it does not have MOT as it failed and I was quoted £700 for repairs by my local garage . The repairs required are a new suspension coil, new anti roll bars for the front two wheels, a new Oxygen sensor and a new Thermostat.

I'm not sure where I go from here. How much is the car worth? Or is it worthless? WeBuyAnyCar quoted me £385 but from what I heard they inspect the vehicle and will certainly knock the valuation even lower. Do I scrap the car? I've been quoted £125 for this using an online service.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks.

AdrianC

Yellow Pages, and phone around a couple of scrappies to find out what (if anything) they'll pay you for it, collected.

Then advertise it on eBay or your local post office, spares or repair, faults declared.

If nobody wants to pay you more than the scrap man, get it weighed in.

mollycat

As above^^^, or alternatively cartake back.com have given me an okay price for non-MOT cars recently....if they have a branch near you.

Carrot007

mollycat wrote: »

As above^^^, or alternatively cartake back.com have given me an okay price for non-MOT cars recently....if they have a branch near you.

I can second this, though you do have to be in all day (well someone does).

AdrianC

CarTakeBack is just a network of local scrappies who pay to get referrals. Same people will be taking the car, just bunging some money to a middleman. Phone around instead.

mollycat

AdrianC wrote: »

CarTakeBack is just a network of local scrappies who pay to get referrals. Same people will be taking the car, just bunging some money to a middleman. Phone around instead.

Not round here it's not.

Scrappies round here offered me £120 for my Mondeo, CTB gave me £160 and came from about 50 miles away.

Not sure who the "middleman" getting the "bung" is?

Anyway, maybe you missed the bit where I said "as above ", referring to your post, my input was simply adding an alternative.

Rolandtheroadie

Always had good results with Cartakeback as well.
You talk of maximising return, with the figures involved, I'd rather go down the minimising hassle route.

loskie

put it on ebay

paddedjohn

Go on the local buy-sell sites on Facebook, always people asking for scrap cars

Carrot007

AdrianC wrote: »

CarTakeBack is just a network of local scrappies who pay to get referrals. Same people will be taking the car, just bunging some money to a middleman. Phone around instead.

You say that, mine went off to copart. And the local scrappies around here all say, I can't give you anything but I will take it. So up on that offer!


Yes I could probably get better if I stripped for parts and put on ebay or attempted to sell to some idiot that did not understand it was not in full working condition who moans later. But meh Given the milage on things I get rid of this country does not take condition into consideratio and seems to somehow love abused low milage cars. (The fixes were easy if time consuming (so expensive if you were not the labour), and given all the small niggles added together it was time to get rid!, though for my last rid which was on autotrader I think I priced too low as people seemed to think more was wrong with it than I said! (it was running fine beyond a big scratch above the rear drivers side wheel and the fact the front heaters did nothing (probably leaves somewhere but again that is expensive stip down!))).


So in conclusion unless you have a decent local scrappy then, no. ringing round will do nothing. Probably easier to take all the £100 facebook offers.


Yes you could sell on ebay, but odds on they will want to drive away and make you complicit in the crime.