list on eBay as spares or repair
List on ebay and the make and model of car – detail the faults in the description. Don’t give potential buyers the excuse to skip past the add without reading it by putting ‘Spares or Repairs’ in the title, other wise it’ll only be bargain seekers like RNP that’ll actually read the listing 🙂
I’ve done well on ebay simply listing with as exhaustive a list / description of faults (not just engine issues but every niggle and gremlin). But never listed as ‘spares / repairs’
You can get a surprisingly good price that way. The market is different now but I used to buy my vans from various classifieds (where buyers haggle down) , with tax and mot for around £500 and sell them a year or two later, without tax or MOT for within £50 of what I paid for them simply by listing on ebay (where buyers bid up). Once managed a years motoring for £10
But – just now I’d look at used car prices at the moment (if thats what you’d replace it with) – they can be quite inflated. If you’d be buying used look at what the car you would be buying would cost and factor in that it may still require repairs, perhaps major ones. Is ‘a car you know the history of’ plus ‘know repairs’ better or worse value that ‘a car you don’t know the value of’ plus ‘any number of unknown faults’?]
Personally I’m uninterested in what a car is worth when considering repairs. If the car does what you need it to and you like it then repairs are the cost of ownership. The value is irrelevant if you’re not going to sell it. Selling and buying something pretty much the same doesn’t make sense to me.
