advice - selling car, rectify all faults?

kipperman

Hi, after 4 years the family Multipla is being sold ( nicknamed by my wife as the Arkinsaw chugabug (?wacky races)).

Question is - there are a few dings, and in particular some mild damage to a front bumper where a suicidal pheasant met a sticky end. Should I rectify all the faults and try to get full whack, or leave them but sell the car for a lower price.

The latter is, for me, the easier option but have not sold a car privately for yonks. Any advice would be gratefully received.

Conor_3

Look at the prices good ones are fetching over "lived in" ones and see how much the repairs are going to be. If the repairs are less than the difference in the values, get it done.

in2deep_2

I would do any mechanical stuff first (if needed) then as conor said if the price gain is worth the outlay get the dings done, other wise just give it a major clean and wax.
Despite a few carpark dings a clean tidy car will always sell before the same car dirty.

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

A car that looks as though its been cared for will be much easier to sell than one that hasn't.

michaels

I would never condone fraud but I'm kinda thinking that whenever we sell our multi (which for some reason has no nickname) I might switch to a zero excess insurance and then have an unfortunate accident with the garage door that scratches the side and back of the car...
By the way the annual multipla meet up (Ugly Bug Ball) is next Sunday (18th). Check out mulitplaOwners.co.uk for more details - you might also find someone there or on the forum who is interested in the Chugabug.

goldspanners

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers! wrote: »

A car that looks as though its been cared for will be much easier to sell than one that hasn't.

correct,imagine you are the buyer.

anewman

michaels wrote: »

I would never condone fraud but I'm kinda thinking that whenever we sell our multi (which for some reason has no nickname) I might switch to a zero excess insurance and then have an unfortunate accident with the garage door that scratches the side and back of the car...

What do you gain out of it? Zero excess will cost more, it will look suspicious swapping and *then* having an accident on your own property, and you'll lose NCD and have to notify any insurers of having made a claim which will increase premiums.

michaels

anewman wrote: »

What do you gain out of it? Zero excess will cost more, it will look suspicious swapping and *then* having an accident on your own property, and you'll lose NCD and have to notify any insurers of having made a claim which will increase premiums.

All true but it would be with a new insurer (on renewal) rather than a change with the current insurer, the ncb would be protected, and my wife and I both have full ncb and with only 1 car we maintain the entitlement by swapping the insurance between each other's names every 12 months anyway. Yes the named driver would have to disclose the claim on each renewal for 5 years but the claim for a three damaged panels plus a bumper would I am sure be considerably more.

All hypothetical tho as this would clearly be fraud.

Conor_3

michaels wrote: »

I would never condone fraud but I'm kinda thinking that whenever we sell our multi (which for some reason has no nickname) I might switch to a zero excess insurance and then have an unfortunate accident with the garage door that scratches the side and back of the car...
By the way the annual multipla meet up (Ugly Bug Ball) is next Sunday (18th). Check out mulitplaOwners.co.uk for more details - you might also find someone there or on the forum who is interested in the Chugabug.

Ugly Bug Ball...I love it. You certainly need a certain type of character to own one. As regards the insurance claim, yeah it may be zero excess but next years premium will go up and you'd have to declare it on any quotes.

kipperman

Cheers for your replies. Nice to see some other multipla owners out there. We did have a Fiat Punto some years back and it seemed to pick up carpark dings very easily, and I wonder if Fiat steel is perhaps thinner. We had to replace the darned spare tyre hoist after just ONE use- I took it apart out of curiousity and found that the worm drive in it had been made from the cheapest and nastiest alloy ever, and had literally disintegrated inside the hoist.

I probably will get the work done - probably avoids any aggro. Interestingly I could presumably claim for the damage done by the pheasant, but once you look at excess and the fact that they will stick you for a higher premium next year ( despite having no claims bonus protection) it will probably not be worth it