What is the best way to sell a used car?

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We have a second car that isn't getting used much at all and we want to sell it. I've never sold a car other than doing part exchanges. What is the best way so sell it? How do I make sure I'm not scammed?

It's not very valuable: 11 years old,

We buy any car? (.com obvs)

Parker's do a good online self valuation. The first and most important thing is the bodywork. Then a full service history, and if you're selling privately get it valeted. Webuyanycar will offer you the rock bottom trade price, it will be much lower than the online estimate, and they will nitpick everything.

If you sell privately, safety first. Always accompany prospective buyers on a test drive, insist on full ID, don't accept bank drafts. eBay can be a good tool for reaching customers, but study the pitfalls thoroughly. Sadly, if it's obvious the seller is female, the perverts will be out in force.

Hth

We've sold two cars this way. Have to be aware of scammers.

Both of ours had a particular market, so we advertised with their Facebook / online enthusiasts groups first. One sold and that was straightforward. The other didnt so we used gumtree. That was successful but needed a lot of filtering of replies to find the real ones.

Is your car likely to be good for a first time buyer? Low engine size etc? You could try local Facebook selling pages first to see if any local youngster is looking.

DD has just bought her 1st car. Saw it on the side of the road with a for sale sign up.

Do that or Facebook. Point out all the good things like MOT date, price of tax, mileage, engine Size, electric windows etc

Webuyanycar is fine if you want the absolute minimum OR you were going to part exchange (the only other system that pays less than webuyanycar.

Otherwise private sale through Autotrader . Always sold /bought through this system. Buyer gets a 30day warranty via many adverts.

We sold ours on AutoTrader. We had no problems with a bank transfer. I can see why there would be pitfalls but that’s my experience. Got a good price and it was easy.

Thanks all. It a fiat 500 so I reckon quite good for a young kid looking for their first car.