Selling a car - test drive?

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Quick question...

Have a couple of people coming up to look at my car next week. Haven't really sold a car privately before so have never had to deal with test drives.

Whats the best way to handle them etc?

Atlantic Dawn

Best way is ask the buyer to produce their certificate of insurance to say they are covered to drive other cars. This won't cover your car if it is damaged but will cover anything they hit. It's a hard decision to let someone unknown to you drive the car but it's realistically not going to sell without a test drive.

goz83

Well, they will most likely be driving your car TPFT if they have "drive other cars" on their policy. You could insist they bring their insurance cert if they want to drive the car, but in reality, this never happens.

Sit in the car if someone is test driving it.

atlantic got there first

mgbgt1978

They will be driving it 'third party' only, not fire & theft.
Assuming they even have a 'driving other cars extension' on their policy.

But, it's very hard to sell a car without allowing a test drive. Would you buy one without driving it????

As it seems to be your 1st time selling privately, always remember you are selling a car, not looking to make friends with somebody.
Only answer what you are asked....don't waffle on about minor faults etc.

corktina

sure what harm, no one will steal a burning car.

BMJD

depending on what the car is worth, trust your instincts

i.e. if it's a €500 car, you can expect a different clientele to a €50k car if you know what I mean...

bladebrew

Sorry to jump on this thread, I need to buy a car soon, I don't have an insurance policy at all at the moment, So I basically can't test drive a private seller car? Would a dealer have insurance to cover test drives,
I cancelled my insurance when I got rid of my saxo last December and I just realised this problem now!

goz83

bladebrew wrote: »

Sorry to jump on this thread, I need to buy a car soon, I don't have an insurance policy at all at the moment, So I basically can't test drive a private seller car? Would a dealer have insurance to cover test drives,
I cancelled my insurance when I got rid of my saxo last December and I just realised this problem now!

They never ask for a licence, let alone insurance. Regarding a private car; unless the owner has open drive on their policy, you technically shouldn't drive it.

visual

bladebrew wrote: »

Sorry to jump on this thread, I need to buy a car soon, I don't have an insurance policy at all at the moment, So I basically can't test drive a private seller car? Would a dealer have insurance to cover test drives,
I cancelled my insurance when I got rid of my saxo last December and I just realised this problem now!

Ask a friend that has insurance to test drive the car
You'll need to have insurance to drive on the road be it only 3rd party you still need to have it.

Garages may have their cars insured and have trade insurance for them to drive other cars but its very unlikely it will cover you or could be extended to cover you.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Yep you can't test drive the car without a license. Illegal

goz83

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Yep you can't test drive the car without a license. Illegal

Of course you can. Just not on a public road

I was just pointing out that I was never asked to produce anything other than a glimmer of interest to test drive a car being sold by a dealer.

bladebrew

Cheers, I didn't even think of this problem and I need to start looking next week! My Dad test drove my first Car so that solved the problem the first time, I might rope my dad into test driving for me so!

Del2005

bladebrew wrote: »

Sorry to jump on this thread, I need to buy a car soon, I don't have an insurance policy at all at the moment, So I basically can't test drive a private seller car? Would a dealer have insurance to cover test drives,
I cancelled my insurance when I got rid of my saxo last December and I just realised this problem now!

Most garage policies require a person named on the policy to accompany the best drive for the policy to be valid. When I was looking only one garage sent someone to accompany me, which leads me to believe few garages have test drive policies anymore or don't want to risk a claim, so I was driving the others on my own policy.