The cars we buy
Make, age and condition rarely rule a car out. A high odometer reading, unrepaired dents and an APK that ran out months ago are things we price, not reasons to refuse.
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Most cars we buy are not broken, not crashed and not worn out. They are ordinary cars belonging to people whose circumstances changed. You are leaving, or a lease car turned up at work, or the second car has not moved since the spring.
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Dutch cars cover ground. A diesel estate that has done the Randstad commute for a decade can read three hundred thousand and still be mechanically sound. Private buyers stop reading at the odometer. We do not.
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Repairing damage to improve a sale price almost never works out. The bodyshop bill is nearly always larger than the amount the repair adds. Send photographs, tell us what happened, and the damage is already inside the figure we give you. In Dutch this is a schadeauto.
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The APK is the Dutch annual roadworthiness test. Without a valid one the car may not be used on public roads, apart from driving it to a booked appointment for the test itself. None of that stops you selling it. Paying for a test, and then for whatever the test finds, on a car you are getting rid of is money going in the wrong direction.
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The same form covers these too. Below are guides to what is different about selling one.
Questions about condition
Would you take a dented car, or one with very high mileage?
Both, and neither is unusual. Give us the exact reading or describe what the damage is, add a photograph if there is something to see, and it is built into the offer from the start.
Will you still buy the car if the APK ran out months ago?
Yes. The APK is the Dutch roadworthiness test and it does not need to be valid for us to buy the car. Tell us when it expired, or what the garage listed if it failed. A car without a valid APK may not be driven on public roads, so we collect it on a transporter.
It will not start. Do I say that now or on the day?
Say so in the request. It changes what the car is worth and not whether we want it. We then arrange a collection in which the car never has to move under its own power, which is an ordinary day for us.
Should I get the dent fixed and the car valeted before you see it?
No, and we would honestly prefer you did not. A repair done to lift a sale price hardly ever earns back what it costs. We price the car in the state it is in. A quick hoover is welcome and nobody is counting on it.
Ready to sell your car?
Your number plate is all we need to start.