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Cheery_Daff

Gosh what a fiasco some of the rules are!

We've bought all our cars privately - Mr C won't go near a dealer 😬 i find it a bit stressful but actually it's always been fine. Bought one from a lovely woman who was a vicar and had a pet pygmy hedgehog,  and another from a lovely old man who had every single piece of paperwork since he bought it new. 

We've even bought a couple that weren't in the name of the person selling them. After lots of questions, checking all the paperwork, and paying for the RACs stolen car check thing,  we decided that they were more 'selling for grandma' situations than stolen, and actually both have turned out fine. We test drove all of them (I always wondered at people letting us drive it off without them, but then we'd left our own car outside their house so we're pretty easy to identify if we did steal it!)

Good luck if you decide to go down that route. I can quite understand if you don't want to do it, dealing with the public is stressful at the best of times. Do you have someone who could be with you for viewings? Or could you register it to you, tax it, then store it elsewhere for 6 months? What a palaver in any case, I'm so sorry xx

themadvix

I think buying privately and selling privately are two very different things. If you’re Cheery and reliable, you’re an easy person to sell to, but our experience of selling recently was extremely hard work with incredible numbers of rude people. In your situation Redo, I think I’d stick with selling to a company - much less stress all round.

Cheery_Daff

Sounds like selling to a company isn't possible though, not without Probate or transferring the name and waiting for 6 months 😕

Cheery_Daff

Sounds like selling to a company isn't possible though, not without Probate or transferring the name and waiting for 6 months 😕

greenbee

Fingers crossed there's a local dealer who will be able to help. It does mean dealing with people more than doing it online, but better than dealing with random idiots . It might also be worth checking whether any friends or relations are interested first - a quick 'before I send this off to a dealer is anyone interested at X price?' email might work. My brother successfully got rid of his FIL's car that way. 

KajiKita

greenbee said:

Fingers crossed there's a local dealer who will be able to help. It does mean dealing with people more than doing it online, but better than dealing with random idiots . It might also be worth checking whether any friends or relations are interested first - a quick 'before I send this off to a dealer is anyone interested at X price?' email might work. My brother successfully got rid of his FIL's car that way. 

That’s how I got my previous car - the second son of Mr KK’s best man needed a bigger car as they had just had twins! so I bought their little fiete 😊

KK

teapot2

Friend of a friend bought our old Skoda a few years ago after we put the word out about it.  Have to say though it was strange to see it parked up or being driven around so something to think about if you were to do this and it stayed local.  OH was quite sentimental about his cars and tended to keep them for a long time, 20 years was the longest!

Sun_Addict

What a lot of stuff to do, you just don’t realise! When Mr SA had to give up his driving license, we buy any car were going to buy his van but he had a last minute offer from a friend of his then carer so sold it to him, which I thought was a nicer option as Mr SA loved his van. 

LadyWithAPlan

You are doing amazingly, glad the basics are covered  with these pensions and that takes off some of your stress.

WelshmansDaughter

Wow that sounds like an overwhelming amount of admin and stuff to get rid of. Food for thought for all of us thinking about holding on to things.