Groningen
Sell your car in Groningen
People in the north assume the rest of the country cannot be bothered to come this far. We collect in Groningen city and out across the province, on the same terms we use anywhere else, and we pay before the car is loaded.
Groningen
Selling a car in Groningen
Groningen is a student city with a hospital attached. The university, the Hanze University of Applied Sciences and the UMCG between them bring in tens of thousands of people, many of them for two or three years. The cars that follow them are bought cheaply, used hard around the province, and sold off the week the contract ends.
The city centre has been closed to through traffic since the 1970s. The ring is divided into sectors you cannot drive between through the middle, which was radical when it was introduced and is now simply how the place works. In town everybody cycles. The car is for the coast, the villages, and the long flat roads out to Delfzijl and Winsum.
Those roads, and the salt they get in January, age a car faster than a city commute does. Northern cars are often older, often rustier, and often standing on a drive with a dead battery and an expired APK. We still make offers on them. A car that will not start is worth something to the right buyer, and we are usually that buyer.
Worth knowing in Groningen
Rules at a local level can shift. For anything official, check the municipality's own site; each note below links straight to its source.
A winter spent standing still
Months without being driven flattens the twelve volt battery, leaves flat spots on the tyres and lets an APK date slip past unnoticed. All three are normal in this part of the country and none of them stops an offer. What they change is how we collect the car and what it is worth, which is not the same thing as whether we want it.
Student cars and cars bought from a flatmate
Cheap, old, and passed along between people sharing a house. That is fine as long as the handover was actually registered at the time. Check that the RDW register shows the car in your name and that you still have both halves of the registration code from the kentekencard. Without those, the person whose name is on it has to do the selling.
No environmental zone in the north
Groningen sets no emission class restriction on passenger cars, so an older diesel is unrestricted here. Nothing in the city's traffic plan affects a sale either, although it does affect which way we approach the street.
Which cities have an environmental zone (milieuzones.nl, in Dutch)
Collection
Where we collect around Groningen
Collection covers the city and the province, villages included. If the car has stood for months, will not start, or has no valid APK and therefore cannot legally be driven on a public road, say so in the request. We bring the right vehicle and the car does not need to move an inch under its own power. There is no extra charge for distance.
Not on either list? Ask for an offer anyway. We buy cars everywhere in the Netherlands, in all twelve provinces.
Neighbourhoods and areas
- Binnenstad
- Paddepoel
- Selwerd
- Helpman
- Beijum
- Vinkhuizen
- Oosterpark
- Zernike
Towns nearby
- Haren
- Zuidhorn
- Hoogezand
- Leek
- Winsum
- Delfzijl
Questions from sellers in Groningen
I bought it from a flatmate and there is barely any paperwork.
The only paperwork that has to exist is the registration. If the RDW register shows the car in your name and you have the kentekencard with both halves of the registration code, we can buy it. A service book is a bonus and plenty of cars up here do not have one.
It stood all winter and the APK expired in the autumn.
Tell us the expiry date and whether it starts. An expired APK means the car cannot be driven on a public road, so we collect it on a transporter. You do not need to pay for a test on a car you are selling, and you certainly do not need to pay for whatever the test would have found.
Do you actually come out to the villages?
Yes, and at no cost to you. The province is on the same footing as the city. Give us the address and whether the car is behind a gate or on a farm track, because that decides what we turn up in.
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.
Other cities we cover
Ready to sell your car?
Your number plate is all we need to start.