Moving back to UK - advice on selling car please!
#17
Joined: Sep 2008
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Re: Moving back to UK - advice on selling car please!
In BC, Aircare is a must for the lower mainland. Getting a BCAA inspection done can help with selling a used vehicle. The only govt. inspection is for commercial vehicles, and farm vehicles are exempt from all checks.
#18
Re: Moving back to UK - advice on selling car please!
Only a couple of people have asked if the vehicles we have sold have been safetied - that's negotiating room as not all insurance companies will require one if the car is relatively new. (Our insurance company have only ever asked on our old stuff).
#19
Re: Moving back to UK - advice on selling car please!
Sorry but that is crap. As long as the car is realistically priced and correctly described and hasn't got any scary stuff going on with it then it will sell.
Only a couple of people have asked if the vehicles we have sold have been safetied - that's negotiating room as not all insurance companies will require one if the car is relatively new. (Our insurance company have only ever asked on our old stuff).
Only a couple of people have asked if the vehicles we have sold have been safetied - that's negotiating room as not all insurance companies will require one if the car is relatively new. (Our insurance company have only ever asked on our old stuff).
#20
Re: Moving back to UK - advice on selling car please!
However if you bought a basket case in the first place and paid top dollar for it and are trying to sell it for top dollar you ARE going to have a problem selling it and you ARE going to P1$$ potential buyers off if you describe your basket case as something it is clearly not - especially if they have driven 5 hours to look at your basket case.
#21
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Re: Moving back to UK - advice on selling car please!
I would only buy from someone I know or a franchised dealer, regardless of how many owners. My daughter just bought a car from a reputable dealer, more than one owner, but don't how many. The dealer checked it out and told us it was OK and it is a great car. Why does it matter how many owners it has had? One owner can wreck a car or sell off a lemon.
#22
Re: Moving back to UK - advice on selling car please!
We have privately bought and sold dozens of cars both here and in the UK, we have also bought from auction and then sold on later with very little trouble, you do get the odd person concerned with how many owners and how long have you had it and why are you selling it, but as I have said, if it is priced well and clearly looked after your not going to have a problem selling it.
However if you bought a basket case in the first place and paid top dollar for it and are trying to sell it for top dollar you ARE going to have a problem selling it and you ARE going to P1$$ potential buyers off if you describe your basket case as something it is clearly not - especially if they have driven 5 hours to look at your basket case.
However if you bought a basket case in the first place and paid top dollar for it and are trying to sell it for top dollar you ARE going to have a problem selling it and you ARE going to P1$$ potential buyers off if you describe your basket case as something it is clearly not - especially if they have driven 5 hours to look at your basket case.
#23
Joined: Sep 2008
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Re: Moving back to UK - advice on selling car please!
People are concerned and ask questions, not necessarily because they're odd people, but because they heard and read about dealers selling flood cars:
http://www.jtcbiz.com/images/FloodedCars.jpg
http://www.jtcbiz.com/images/FloodedCars.jpg
#24
Re: Moving back to UK - advice on selling car please!
People are concerned and ask questions, not necessarily because they're odd people, but because they heard and read about dealers selling flood cars:
http://www.jtcbiz.com/images/FloodedCars.jpg
http://www.jtcbiz.com/images/FloodedCars.jpg
I don't even know how you check how many owners a car has had here as there is nothing on the title to tell you. The best thing to do is check the car over thoroughly - lift carpets etc and if you don't know what your looking at get someone who does know have a look.
Things that will put buyers off are things like a dirty car, a car that smells, flat tyres, non starting, a car full of rubbish, split seats (put a seat cover on) and then you've got the buyers that can actually tell if it's full of filler, so if you have a car that has been accident damaged and you know and the buyer asks about it then fess up and tell the potential buyer what has happened and what the repair was.
#25
Re: Moving back to UK - advice on selling car please!
It's not about the number of owners but about dealers buying these junks and moving them around to other states and even to Canada/Mexico and then getting new titles and selling them.
#26
Re: Moving back to UK - advice on selling car please!
There's a vehicle identification # on your car, and so you can check its history, but the problem with these dealers is that they know how to get around the system.
#27
Joined: Sep 2008
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Re: Moving back to UK - advice on selling car please!
#28
Re: Moving back to UK - advice on selling car please!
Anyhow I couldn't care less how many people have owned my car(s) as long as my car is a good one and my OH won't let me drive anything remotely dodgy and if we ever buy anything from a dealer it would be a trade in that my OH has seen before the traders have come along and nabbed it. Again not caring if it has been owned by one or one hundred previous owners. Just because a car has had one owner doesn't necessarily mean it has been looked after, we have looked at big money one owner cars that have been just trashed.
Last edited by Piff Poff; Sep 27th 2010 at 5:56 pm.
#29
Re: Moving back to UK - advice on selling car please!
Originally Posted by littlebob View Post
We even had to pay 300 dollars tax for buying a second hand car!
We even had to pay 300 dollars tax for buying a second hand car!
If you're not the first owner of your car, it's not easy to sell your car.