How to sell car with no nct

Storming

Anyone able to advise how to sell a Mercedes 02 with no NCT? Would like to know if garages/ private buyers will buy to do up or use for parts?

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Storming wrote: »

Anyone able to advise how to sell a Mercedes 02 with no NCT? Would like to know if garages/ private buyers will buy to do up or use for parts?

Honest add with fault(s) listed clearly stating no NCT
If there is a failed sheet from failed nct test that will help those thinking about repairing it.

If car is in good shape it's probably worth half of what it is worth with nct. So you'll need to consider would it be worth fixing and selling with new nct.

biko

Make a vague "promise" in the ad - "will fly through nct".

Joke aside, many car on adverts and donedeal have no NCT. Put advert up as usual with pics and what problems car has.

Foxhole Norman

Put it through the NCT. Who knows, it might pass but if it doesn't you'll have a fail sheet for the next owner who'll know exactly what it needs.

PBWXFORD

Better off putting it through the NCT as most buyers ( including myself) may often think there may be a serious problem with the car that it could cost alot of money to put through the NCT and that is why the current owner is selling with no NCT. I sometimes buy and sell a few cars and i always put them through NCT first before selling as 1. it will sell alot easier and 2. you can ask alot more for it that with no NCT. For the sake of €55 you might aswell put it through, you may be surprised it could pass first time

coylemj

I don't know about private sellers but there are literally dozens of cars out there with no NCT on indy car lots. The last time I phoned around looking at a particular model, I came across heaps of cars being sold by indy dealers where there was no mention of the NCT expiry date in the ad.

In almost every case when I asked the inevitable question: 'what's the story with the NCT?' the answers was either 'we will guarantee the NCT' or they claimed that their local testing centre had such a long waiting time that they weren't able to get a slot -very convenient.

For some bizarre reason your average mug punter is far more likely to take the word of a smoothie sales guy selling out of a portakabin than an honest private seller selling from his own home. There is a completely illogical system of reasoning which says that this sales guy I'm talking to is 'in the trade' so he must know what he's talking about and I should believe everything he says. There's no other explanation as to why people put down deposits on cars with no NCT or with engine warning lights flashing at them.