Problems after selling car

AdrianC

There's also a large element of the target market that a particular kind of car will attract.

Near-ish new Audi, at below dealer price? No wonder it's attracted attention from a certain demographic.

frost500

I have bought and sold loads of cars in the trade. The web killed off the gold days of honest types selling in the paper. These days it's all chancers from Facebook marketplace, in the bottom of the market. 

Ectophile

frost500 said:

Could not agree more. My advice for selling a car privately,  get a black marker and scrub out your name and address on all the old invoices etc. Do not hand over the full v5, only the green slip. Do not give out your address when they come to view, tell them the street name and post code and to phone when they arrive, wait in the car in the road. They will be looking for the car. Do not let them plug in any diagnostic scanners in to your car. Do not feel intimidated, stick to your price. If they are more than 10mins late, cancel. The motor trade today is full is dishonest people who you should never trust by default.

If I were buying a car from you, and you behaved like that, then I would assume that you were one of those dishonest people.

frost500

And rightly so, I would rather protect my identity and remove the option for the unscrupulous kinds to come back to me with fake problems, or rather, buyers remorse, after I have sold them a car. The cars will still regardless. 

frost500

And rightly so, I would rather protect my identity and remove the option for the unscrupulous kinds to come back to me with fake problems, or rather, buyers remorse, after I have sold them a car. The cars will still regardless. 

facade

I wouldn't buy anything from someone desperate to hide their identity, and if you wont let me run a diagnostic, it is obviously because you know full well what faults I would find.

frost500

ID protection is paramount. Why would you want to hand over documents with your Id on to a stranger? When you sell a car privately, it is sold as seen, the punter should have zero interest in your Id at all, why would they? They should inspect the car, test drive, pay, walk away, no comebacks.  Anybody can buy fault code readers and scanners these days, and you can cause quite a bit of damage using then if you don't know what you are doing. At the very least the connection pins can get bent, as they try and ram in there scanners connectors. At worse they can change parameters. As I said the trade has changed these days, it is like wild west.  In fact it is much safer to partex or use buyanycar.com, saves all the hassle, time waisters etc.

Mercdriver

frost500 said:

ID protection is paramount. Why would you want to hand over documents with your Id on to a stranger? When you sell a car privately, it is sold as seen, the punter should have zero interest in your Id at all, why would they? They should inspect the car, test drive, pay, walk away, no comebacks.  Anybody can buy fault code readers and scanners these days, and you can cause quite a bit of damage using then if you don't know what you are doing. At the very least the connection pins can get bent, as they try and ram in there scanners connectors. At worse they can change parameters. As I said the trade has changed these days, it is like wild west.  In fact it is much safer to partex or use buyanycar.com, saves all the hassle, time waisters etc.

Then don't do private sales.  

sweetsand

Dear OP
For furture reference and anyone else reading, it's what's happened to you that makes us only sell our cars as p/x to main dealer or webuyyourcar etc - you may get a bit less money but once sold, you have not fear of some trouble maker knocking on your door.
We only buy from a main dealer even when via a borrker and as stated sell to main dealer via p/x but recent years sell to thos webuyyour car outfits then able to get a better deal.

Mercdriver

Here we go...
Anyone interested in car type bingo?