Rotterdam
Sell your car in Rotterdam
Cars in Rotterdam get used. Shift work at the port, a commute down the A15, a run out to Botlek at six in the morning. The odometer reading that would worry a private buyer does not worry us, so give us the real one.
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Selling a car in Rotterdam
Rotterdam was rebuilt after 1940 with the car in mind, and it shows. Wide boulevards, a ring road, tunnels under the river, and a south bank where driving is simply how you get to work. The result is a city where people put proper distance on a car and do not think twice about it.
Two hundred thousand kilometres on a car offered for sale here is unremarkable, and we make offers on cars well past that. Where the kilometres came from matters more than how many there are. A diesel that spent its life on the A15 and the A16 is often in better mechanical health than a petrol car with half the reading that never left the city. Tell us which yours was.
Work around the port runs on contracts, and contracts move. You do not need a confirmed last day before you ask us for a figure. The offer sits on your own page with no expiry on it, and you choose the handover date at the point you accept. If the date shifts again, tell us and we move with it.
Worth knowing in Rotterdam
Rules at a local level can shift. For anything official, check the municipality's own site; each note below links straight to its source.
Nothing here keeps an older diesel out
Rotterdam no longer restricts passenger cars by emission class, so an older diesel can be driven here with no zone to worry about. That is not true of Amsterdam, Utrecht or The Hague, which still keep the lower emission classes out of their centres. Worth knowing if your commute, or the person buying your car next, is based in one of those.
Which cities have an environmental zone (milieuzones.nl, in Dutch)The reading has to be the real one
Garages recognised by the RDW log a mileage reading at every service and every APK test, and those readings sit in the register in sequence. We look at the sequence, not just at the dashboard. Giving us a rounded guess does not help anybody, because the figure that decides the offer is the one already on file.
Big repair quotes and what they are worth
A clutch, a turbo, a timing belt, a particulate filter. At the mileages that are normal in Rotterdam these come due, and the quote is sometimes close to what the car is worth. Send us the quote and the car. One of the two decisions becomes obvious once there is a figure next to it.
Collection
Where we collect around Rotterdam
We collect right across the city and the towns around it, on both banks. Kralingen, Katendrecht, a tower block car park in Prins Alexander, a yard in Schiedam. Two things change which vehicle we send: whether the car drives, and whether there is a barrier or a height limit between it and the street. Say so in the request and the collection takes one visit.
Not on either list? Ask for an offer anyway. We buy cars everywhere in the Netherlands, in all twelve provinces.
Neighbourhoods and areas
- Centrum
- Kralingen
- Hillegersberg
- Delfshaven
- Charlois
- Prins Alexander
- Rotterdam Noord
- Katendrecht
- Feijenoord
Towns nearby
- Schiedam
- Capelle aan den IJssel
- Barendrecht
- Vlaardingen
- Ridderkerk
- Spijkenisse
Questions from sellers in Rotterdam
There are 280,000 km on my car. Is there any point asking?
Yes. Give us the exact figure, say whether it was mostly motorway work, and tell us what service history exists. At that reading the history is doing more for the price than the number is doing against it.
The RDW has my mileage flagged as illogical. What does that mean?
It means two readings in the register do not sit in order. Usually that traces back to a typing error at a garage or a replaced instrument cluster. Tell us about it when you ask. It does affect the offer, and we would far sooner discuss it now than find it at the handover.
Can I get a figure before my contract end date is confirmed?
Yes, and most people here do. The offer has no deadline attached, so it waits on your page while your dates settle. You only pick a handover day once you accept it.
What happens on the day you come for the car?
You name the time and the place. We go over the car together against what you described, transfer it out of your name at the RDW while standing there, and pay you before it is loaded or driven off. The vrijwaringsbewijs stays with you as proof the car is no longer yours.
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