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Doing up a car/van to sell it.....

  • 14-07-2010 11:19am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭


    Hi I am selling my Citroen Xsara car van, and basically it has one or two aesthetic nicks and scratches on it and the tax and DOE are up though everything runs perfectly fine with it. Anyway a friend told me to get all the particulars sorted before I try to sell it, and then another friend basically said that this would be madness.

    I am really terrible when it comes to cars/vans and basically had my car before this one till it dropped. So I have never actually sold a vehicle before. Any suggestions???


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    Tax it for three months and doe it. Don't bother with the cosmetics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,100 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    I would suggest that you would be best to DOE the van before you try and sell it, in particular if its running well and you reckon there would not be a whole lot needing to be done to it. You would more than likely struggle to sell a vehicle witout some bit of a test on it, particularly given the amount of vans for sale privately at present. You should quite easily make back the cost of the test (if as you say its good mechanically) in the selling price as compared to selling without a test. As for tax, I wouldn't be inclined to bother if the veichle is going to be parked up on private ground until sold. It may not sell immediately so taxing it could end up being a bit of a waste. You would obviously need to tax the van if still in use and be careful if parking up the van on a public road where there is pay-parking if such should need to be the case. A traffic warden could and would issue you with a fine even if your tax is even a day or two out of date.

    As for the scratches and dents I would probably be inclined to leave them be as you could be pretty certain you won't make the cost of fixing them up back when selling. I was selling me oul hatchback corolla about 7/8 years back with a few unsightly dents and scratches on it. Took it to a few crash repairers to get quotes and they practically all told me not to bother as I wont make it back when selling the car. Now I think if them guys told me that and turned away work it kinda says something. If you have a pretty steady hand though you could pick up a touch up paint kit in Halfords for around 25 quid I think and touch up scratches and stone chips. Will by no means be an A1 job but might help a wee bit. Otherwise have the car as presentable and clean as possible when potential buyers are coming to look. Don't forget the engine bay but I would avoid steam cleaning it.

    I would look at Xsara vans of similar age and mileage on Donedeal/ Buyandsell/ Gumtree to arrive at a price and price the van at the lower end of the spectrum if you are serious about selling. Wouldn't be inclined to take too much notice of Carzone as it seems to me that prices on it are way out of whack with reality.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭population


    Cheers to all for the responses. A friend of my dad's is a retired panelbeater/sprayer and he said he will take a look and tell me if it is worth doing or not. I think I may go ahead and DOE it as the DOE only expired 7 weeks ago though I have not received anything to say that it is due but that is another matter. I know you cannot tax it without the DOE, but you can DOE it without tax yeah???

    Also don't know if this would help my chances of a sale much, but it had a brand new engine installed last year. Basically I got stranded on the motorway during the floods and the rods went in the engine so I had to fork out for a new one. I have all the paperwork though and it was all sorted through the insurance companies mechanic with no further issues. Should I say it is a new engine or could that info be more of a hinderance that a help???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,100 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    population wrote: »
    I know you cannot tax it without the DOE, but you can DOE it without tax yeah???

    I stand to be corrected but I would certainly think you can DOE test a van without an up to date tax disc on it. If for example you had the van of the road for some time to get repairs done to it for DOE it wouldn't make too much sense that you would need to tax it first if there was still a chance you could fail for emissions again. You don't need to have a car taxed to get it NCT'd. It may well be different with a DOE though and as I say I stand to be corrected. By the way, the last few times I taxed my car all I needed to supply was the application form and cash, no NCT cert, insurance cert or VLC required. A few years back I recall having to produce my NCT cert when taxing the car but not anymore. Perhaps its different when taxing a commercial vehicle though.
    population wrote: »
    Also don't know if this would help my chances of a sale much, but it had a brand new engine installed last year. Basically I got stranded on the motorway during the floods and the rods went in the engine so I had to fork out for a new one. I have all the paperwork though and it was all sorted through the insurance companies mechanic with no further issues. Should I say it is a new engine or could that info be more of a hinderance that a help???

    Speaking from my own point of view as a prospective buyer I would be well chuffed if a new engine was fitted only lately and it would be a good selling point as long as you had receipts to prove and done by a someway reputable garage. A secondhand engine fitted and I would be somewhat apprehensive as whos to know the mileage on it but as you say its a new engine fitted. From a buyers point of view I might be cautious though if the car was flooded. Do all electrics work ok and are there any warning lights on the dash on?


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