Selling a used car in Ireland guide

A legit motor trader will be able to do the change of ownership online these days. You don't send anything to Shannon when selling or trading a car to a dealer. Just make sure this guy has an official premises and not operating from a Aldi carpark or filling station forecourt, also get a proper letter headed receipt from him.

It will be their problem if the owner at that address rejects it and sends the logbook back to Shannon. Shannon may then restore the OP as the current registered keeper.

While that might be true, what happens after you send the change of ownership off to Shannon and they send the new logbook to a fake address? It more than likely will get returned to Shannon. What do they do with it then? While you are under no obligation to validate the buyer's address, it's in your best interest to know the car is no longer registered to you once sold.

Donedeal and Carzone

Some advice please. Thinking of selling a (what I consider anyway) a high value car in the €70k range privately. Reason is want to get a tesla and know there trade in will be horrible quote. Have submitted details to webuycars.ie, zucars.ie etc but again expecting poor enough quotes. Is it realistic to think I'll be able to sell it privately on carzone.ie/donedeal.ie with that pricing and how would I handle payment (thinking give bank details and when cash in back hand it over)?

You should check with the dealer but the last time I traded in a car they told me they don’t really mind as long as you come up with the balance in either car or cash

with the cost of petrol i'm thinking about selling my petrol turbo mitsubishi ralliart its been parked up for past few weeks- do you think they'd be a market for a turbo gas guzzler out there currently ?

Can anyone suggest some of these dealers

Looking get rid of 2007 Skoda Fabia saloon (essentially an Octavia body)

Shocked to see prices they are selling for but dont want the hassle of selling and willing forego some part of it for lack of hassle of selling

Of course it's a scam. The world is full of scammers and carsireland is not impervious to them.

Will probably be selling a car soon, value around 10k. The cars I sold most recently were for a couple of thousand and in cash.

Is it reasonable to only accept an EFT for that amount and only to hand over the keys when the money lands in my account? I would prefer this over cash/bank draft. Would a reasonable buyer have any valid reasons for not wanting to pay this way?

I didn't say I wouldn't accept cash, just that I would prefer a bank transfer. With cash, then I'm the one bearing all of the risk, even if that risk is small. The risk that the notes might be counterfeit, the risk of being robbed before I can lodge it in the bank. Plus, I've got the hassle of getting to the bank during opening hours and lodging it. The last time I was in a bank was probably 5 years ago.

I am trying to sell a 5 series BMW with 116,000km's. Carzone has them listed for €28,950 - €29,450. I was in a BMW dealer today and he offered me €24,000 (€23,500 if I went for a cheaper car). Is this a decent price from a dealer or should I push a bit more from him?

BMW dealers are notorious for giving low ball trade-in values. You can be sure the price of the car they are selling is on the high side too.

In saying that carzone is mostly dealer asking prices which are not selling prices or trade-in values. The important figure to focus on is how much a dealer wants from you to go from your existing car to their car, i.e. cost to change price. That is the only figure that matters as trade-in figures can be fudged to make a deal look attractive where the car you are buying is overpriced. My advice is to shop around for similar cars outside the BMW dealer network and compare the cost to change price.

If your trading the car then I wouldn't bother as your only saving the dealer money on having to do it themselves. If your selling the car privately and it's due a service then either have it serviced or drop the asking price to reflect the buyer having to get is serviced themselves. Personally I'd just get a basic service and sell it that way as a buyer will still want to knock down the price even if you reduce the price of a service from your asking price.

SCAM!!