Selling a car for Parts

GavMan

Hi all,

I was wondering does anyone know a decent spot for flogging a car for its parts. I'm driving a 98 startlet at the moment and i want to get something better.
Now the problem is that getting a new car is very much dependent on selling this bad boy for about 1500. I've not had much interest from a few ads i put out. Its in decent nick, runs really well, but there just doesn't seem to be a market for it. So i want to scrap it for its parts. Does anyone know where would do me a good deal. Cheers, Gav

AlanAhern

What would you consider a good deal?? I am in the market for a runaround. i dont want to spend mad money on one either. do you have a link to the car ad??

unkel

You should easily be able to get that kind of money for the Starlet if it is clean and in good working condition with half decent tyres and a valid NCT, unless it has a huge mileage on it. Stick it in adverts.ie, buyandsell.net and carzone.ie and it will be gone in a week

ballooba

AlanAhern wrote:

What would you consider a good deal?? I am in the market for a runaround. i dont want to spend mad money on one either. do you have a link to the car ad??

I'd say you could do worse than VolvoBoy's Carina. Probably had a fair bit of TLC.

RichyX

There isn't a market for 98 Starlets?
Where are you advertising? Home & Garden?

Those agricultural pieces of junk are worth a lot of money from what I've seen.

The girlfriend paid €4,500 for a 98 about a year and a half ago.

GavMan

unkel wrote:

You should easily be able to get that kind of money for the Starlet if it is clean and in good working condition with half decent tyres and a valid NCT, unless it has a huge mileage on it. Stick it in adverts.ie, buyandsell.net and carzone.ie and it will be gone in a week

its on carzone.
there's 110K on it. NCT till aug 08. Its actually in great nick

unkel

GavMan wrote:

its on carzone.
there's 110K on it. NCT till aug 08. Its actually in great nick

Mind linking to the ad? The good people here might have some advice for you on how to word the ad, etc.

Stick it up here on adverts.ie as well. It's free! And you can put a picture ad in the buy and sell for a tenner or so. Do that as well. Carzone is good, but not so good for low price cars...

gyppo

OP,

I dont know whats going wrong for you, but you should easily get your asking price for the starlet - I cant believe it has not been snapped up at that price.
I got 900E for a 92 one 5 months ago, and could have sold it 10 times over - mind you it did have a full 2 yrs nct.

GavMan

unkel wrote:

Mind linking to the ad? The good people here might have some advice for you on how to word the ad, etc.

Stick it up here on adverts.ie as well. It's free! And you can put a picture ad in the buy and sell for a tenner or so. Do that as well. Carzone is good, but not so good for low price cars...

http://www.carzone.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=760030

pics will go up tomorrow

RichyX

Put a few pics up there & I reckon you could get upwards of €3,000 for it if it's in good condition.
Hell, even I'd buy it at €2,000!

OldmanMondeo

Just read the ad, try advertising for a little less than 2k, as this will put a lot of people off. Where you are saying about the milage, I would change it to,
"Good runner, Handles well" remove saying that it is high milage, this will also put people off.

GavMan

RichyX wrote:

Put a few pics up there & I reckon you could get upwards of €3,000 for it if it's in good condition.
Hell, even I'd buy it at €2,000!

dont be afraid to make me an offer so

RichyX

GavMan wrote:

dont be afraid to make me an offer so

I already have a 98 Seat Ibiza that I'm very happy with tbh

GavMan

RichyX wrote:

I already have a 98 Seat Ibiza that I'm very happy with tbh

Well thats a shame