Stress over selling my car...help :(

elís_teacher

Want to say first that I am not advertising my car - just looking for advice.

Here's the deal. I have just agreed to buy a 2nd hand ford Ka from a dealer. I have a 99 fiat seicento with 51,000miles. My 2 options are to trade in the car and pay €2,200 or buy the new car outright for €2,500 and try sell my car privately. any opinions on what I should do?

ChristyCent

sell it private mate even if you let it go for 500 its still a better deal than the garage is offering

elís_teacher

Do you reckon I would get €500??? I'm afraid I won't be able to sell it at all.

ChristyCent

Well ive seen a few 99 puntos sell for around 1500 recently. If they're still selling for that money I cant see why you wouldnt get 500 for your car

Senna

There's always a demand for small cars around the €500 price, does it have NCT. If there's even a years NCT you should sell it very quickly.

laura27314

I'd trade it in because it's a lot less hassle and stress, and I'd be scared I couldn't get rid of it, and because I can't think of a way of selling a car without letting the buyer have some contact detail of mine, and I don't wanna hear about it when it breaks down or fails it's NCT in a few weeks or months.

Delta Kilo

Id say to go for the deal from the dealer. It could take you ages to sell that car and god knows who would come knocking around trying to have a look at it (a cheap car always draws in a certain demograph, imo).

Save yourself the hassle of advertising and waiting and waiting over the sake of €200.

Just my 2 cents!

EDIT: The car is a 99, so the NCT is out sometime this year or has recently been done.

ChristyCent

I just checked carzone there and 99 siecentos are up for between 700 and almost 1150


http://www.carzone.ie/search/results?searchsource=finder&nParam=4294910885%2B200283%2B200307&channel=CARS&cacheBuster=1251076428266157

elís_teacher

Yeah that's what I was thinking too. I just love my car so hate to let it go for so little. NCT is up in jan but it's out of tax next week. The engine etc. is all in good nick but a lot of scrapes and scratches

dudara

Small cars are selling for decent money at the moment and the dealer knows this by only offering you 300 for the seicento. You probably would do better selling it privately.

Carstuck

Trade it. It could be hard to sell. Look for even another €100 from the garage.

biggus

Try and get a bit more out of the garage and be done with it. even cheap seicentos are hard to sell.